Iranian supreme leader threatens Israel with destruction for incursion into Syria
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 12/17/2024
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stressed that "Israel has invaded Syria to surround and destroy the Hezbollah forces"
In Russian newspapers
Fall of Damascus and hopes for free Syria: Assad makes first statement after stepping down
Bashar Assad insists that he remained in Damascus until the early hours of December 8 and did not leave the country (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/12/2024
EU won’t talk to Damascus unless Russian bases scrapped — Kallas
The EU High Representative for foreign affairs promised to convey this viewpoint to the new Syrian authorities (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/12/2024
Putin highlights need for more innovation in defense sector
The President specifically highlighted information exchanges between the units directly involved in Russia’s special (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/12/2024
Russia to maintain potential, balanced development of nuclear forces — Putin
The Russian leader called for keeping non-strategic nuclear forces on permanent alert
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/12/2024
Germany’s Chancellor Scholz asks President Steinmeier to dissolve Bundestag — DPA
Support for the current head of the Cabinet was expressed by 207 members of the Bundestag out of the 717 present, (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/12/2024
Special op's 'pivotal' year, nuclear deterrence: what Putin said at Defense Ministry
The Russian president stressed that the military and political situation in the world remains "uneasy and (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 16/12/2024
No place out of Russia’s ICBMs’ reach — Strategic Missile Forces commander
Colonel General Sergey Karakayev, the commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces also announced that (…)
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 17/12/2024
Chechnya Opens First Gender-Segregated Pharmacy
The new pharmacy in Grozny is the first of 15 locations that will soon open across the Chechen capital.
[The Moscow Times] - 16/12/2024
Syria’s Islamists Say Under Orders To Stay Away From Russian Forces
The Kremlin previously admitted that the fate of its remaining bases in Syria was unclear.
[The Moscow Times] - 16/12/2024
Seoul Korea slaps more sanctions on Russia, North Korea
The sanctions affected two North Korean generals as well as several entrepreneurs and their businesses in the DPRK
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 17/12/2024
Bomb that killed senior Russian general had capacity of 300 grams in TNT equivalent
Bomb experts and detector dog handlers have inspected the surrounding area
[TASS Russian News Agency] - 17/12/2024