Russia and Pakistan will carry out their first joint military exercise this weekend, the Pakistani military said Friday, at a time of heightened tensions between Islamabad and nuclear-armed rival India. The exercise is being seen as a demonstration of closer defense ties between the two countries after they signed a ...
Syrian army began on Thursday a wide-scale offensive on militants’ positions in the neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo, the opposition UK-based Observatory reported, referring to the unprecedented participation of the Russian Air Force. “Russian warplanes carried out since Wednesday more than 100 raids on insurgent positions,” the monitor said, mainly in ...
