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Russia is seeing their international plans come to fruition by employing a nuanced, yet bold approach to foreign policy — while the world watches.

GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Russia say they have resolved a number of issues standing in the way of restoring a nationwide truce to Syria and opening up aid deliveries, but were unable once again to forge a comprehensive agreement on stepping up cooperation to end the brutal war that has killed hundreds […]

The warning follows what defense officials described as an ‘unusual’ incident Thursday when President Bashar al-Assad’s regime deployed warplanes to attack an area near where US special operations forces were operating.

A newly-formed governing council in Yemen could work with Russia to “fight terrorism” by allowing Moscow use of the war-torn country’s military bases, Yemen’s former president said on Sunday. Ali Abdullah Saleh, a former counter-terrorism ally of the U.S. who was toppled by mass protests in 2011, told state-owned channel Russia 24 that Yemen was […]

By any standards, the drumbeat of growing tensions between Russia and Ukraine this month has been especially ominous. It began as Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Kiev of embracing the “tactics of terror,” after Russia claimed to have caught Ukrainian saboteurs in Crimea. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko put troops on alert and warned that the country might […]

Iran’s Ministry of Defense said it will negotiate with Russia on the purchase of the Sukhoi aircraft. Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan told Iran’s state TV on Sunday evening. Coming on the heels of acquiring the S-300 system from Russia, Iranian officials are looking to beef up their armament in other ways. In addition […]

The U.S. military on Friday dispatched two F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets to intercept a pair of Syrian Su-24 Fencer aircraft that flew in the vicinity of Hasakah, Syria, according to news accounts citing an unnamed Pentagon official. On Friday, U.S. defense officials stated US F-22 Raptors flew within a mile of two Syrian Su-24 fighter jets […]

There’s something afoot in the Black Sea basin. Last week Moscow accused Ukraine of attempting a terrorist attack in Crimea, alleging that a firefight took place on August 7 and 8 between a supposed team of infiltrators and border guards of the FSB, Russia’s internal security service. The details of the incident remain murky. It was clear […]

Heightened military presence on frontier comes amid new tensions over contested Crimea

Russia is delivering components of the advanced S-300 Surface to Air Missile (SAM) system to Iran.  Proliferation of this system from Russia to Iran will fundamentally alter the strategic balance of power in the Middle East according to Senior Naval Analyst Chris Harmer. FighterSweep sat down with Chris Harmer, Senior Naval Analyst (nonresident) for the Institute for […]

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A few years ago, relatively early on in the war against ISIS, I was smuggled into Northern Syria along a PKK re-supply route.  Taking a small inflatable boat across the river which acted as the border between Syria and Iraq, my first stop in the Kurdish held areas of Syria (known as Rojava) was a […]