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Five Dead, Seven Injured After Terrorist Attack in Aleppo

30 October 2016

Jabhat Fatah al-Sham militants attacked government forces in Aleppo. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, at least five people were killed and seven injured as a result of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (also known as al-Nusra Front, or Jabhat al-Nusra) attack on government forces in Aleppo. […]

Mosul Civilians Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

30 October 2016

Mosul residents have been caught between the devil and the deep blue sea following the beginning of the US-led coalition’s military operation against Daesh in Iraq. UN human rights organizations warn that the situation may turn into a “displacement catastrophe.” People walk along a street […]

Unlike Moscow, Washington ‘Couldn’t Care Less About Civilian Casualties’

30 October 2016

Washington has traditionally focused on completing combat missions with minimal US losses and paid no attention to non-American civilian casualties, political analyst Oleg Glazunov of the Moscow-based Plekhanov Russian University of Economics told Radio Sputnik. Mosul, he added, will be no exception. Glazunov explained that […]

Russia-Turkey Intelligence Sharing in Syria Signifies Major Changes in Relations

30 October 2016

Commenting on the recent reports that Russia has started exchanging intelligence data with the Turkish Army to ensure the effectiveness of Ankara’s Euphrates Shield operation in Syria, retired Turkish Air Force Lt. Gen. Erdogan Karakus told Sputnik that the move signals major changes in Turkish […]

Lebanon bids farewell to Melhem Barakat

30 October 2016

Family and friends filled the Saint Nicolas Church in Beirut’s Ashrafieh area Sunday as they said their final goodbyes to one of Lebanon’s most beloved singers and composers, Melhem Barakat, who passed away two days ago

US Air Force Jet Struck Girls’ School in Iraq’s Mosul – Russian Military

30 October 2016

A US warplane hit a girls’ school in the south of the Iraqi city of Mosul on October 21, the Russian General Staff’s chief said Tuesday. “On October 21, a US Air Force plane carried out an airstrike against a girls’ school in the southern […]

Washington Making ‘Extremely Weird Mistakes’ in Syria

30 October 2016

Washington is making “extremely weird” mistakes in Syria and Iraq, Russian defense analyst Konstantin Sivkov, President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, told Radio Sputnik, adding that what some describe as errors are in fact “planned” steps aimed at helping US-backed radical forces. Sivkov mentioned […]

NASA’s New ‘Intruder Alert’ System Spots An Incoming Asteroid

30 October 2016

A large space rock is going to come fairly close to Earth later tonight. Fortunately, it’s not going to hit Earth, something astronomers are sure of thanks in part to a new tool NASA is developing for detecting potentially dangerous asteroids. The tool is a […]

Shi’ite Militias Join Battle for Mosul

30 October 2016

Iraqi forces advanced into a town south of Mosul Saturday as an Iraqi Shi’ite militia joined the offensive by opening up a new front to the west. Iraqi troops approaching Mosul from the south advanced into Shura after a wave of U.S.-led airstrikes and artillery […]

New Desert Camps Surrounding Mosul Start to Receive Fleeing Villagers

30 October 2016

KHAZIR CAMP, KURDISH IRAQ — As Iraqi families speed away from the frontlines of the battle against Islamic State in trucks, the thousands of tents in the desert countryside surrounding Mosul are slowly being occupied by fleeing villagers. Some say the militant group appears to […]

Airstrikes, Fighting Continue in Aleppo

30 October 2016

Syrian government forces and their allies launched a counteroffensive Saturday under the cover of airstrikes trying to regain control of areas they had lost to insurgents the day before in the northern city of Aleppo, activists and state media said. The government had reported it […]

The transition from daylight saving time to standard time leads to depressions

30 October 2016

“The year has 16 months: November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, November, November, November,” writes the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt in a disheartening comment on the month we are about to enter. And Nordbrandt is not the only […]