Новости за 24.03.2017

Fierce fighting between Arab-Kurdish detachments SDF and Daesh terrorists is underway to the northwest of the city of Raqqa.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its International Military Cooperation Main Directorate Chief Sergei Koshelev and his German counterpart Geza von Geyr discussed the situation in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East.

Russia expressed readiness to participate in the project on the recovery of citrus fruit production in Cuba, the Russian Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

A video game created by supporters of the German Social Democratic Party allows users to drive a train conducted by candidate for German chancellor Martin Schulz over a shirtless Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.

London's Metropolitan Police Service stated that six people, detained after the terror attack in London's Westminster, have been released from custody.

An informed source at the scene said that the Syrian Armed Forces on Friday established control of the city of Dayr Hafir in the Aleppo province.

French lawmaker Yves Pozzo di Borgo claims that Marine Le Pen was hoping to boost her personal credibility ahead of the upcoming election in France by meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan talks about the strenuous process of repealing and replacing the Affordable Health Care Act (ACHA), commonly known as "Obamacare."

On March 24, a sailor arrested by Irish police on suspicion of sexually assaulting a female sailor was released back into the custody of the US Navy. The sailor is reportedly connected to the USS Donald Cook.

The Embassy of Saudi Arabia in the United Kingdom said that the perpetrator of the terrorist attack in London’s Westminster, Khalid Masood, had visited Saudi Arabia on multiple occasions in 2005-2009 and in 2015.

Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Didier Reynders says that the victory of French far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election would be a tragedy for the European Union.

Mass confusion reigns in Washington DC, the nation's capital, as lawmakers and politicians blasting President Barack Obama for seven years learn the hard way that healthcare legislation is not so easy as running smart TV ads and reciting clean talking points.

A Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) press release reported this week that the USS Montgomery’s Final Contract Trials have been completed. The fourth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) built in Mobile, Alabama, the Montgomery’s trials formally came to an end March 17, completing a construction period that began in June 2013.

The alleged “wiretap” of US President Donald Trump helps reveal the vastness of the US surveillance state, according to National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney.

Military strategists in Poland are torn as to whether to bolster the country’s aerial arsenal with more beleaguered F-35 Joint Strike Fighters or upgraded F-16 Fighting Falcons.

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A Congressional report released this week warned that Russian-Chinese military-to-military cooperation is moving toward a disturbingly high level. Commenting on the report, Radio Sputnik commentator Ilya Kharlamov suggested that its authors have a pretty superficial understanding of the causes behind the expanded cooperation.

Montenegrins in the town of Danilovgrad are shocked after they were banned from laying flowers on a memorial dedicated to Sasa Stojicin, the first victim of NATO's Yugoslavia bombings in 1999.

Moscow and Washington confirmed there have been no major incidents in Syria in connection with the actions of Russian and US-led coalition jets.

Over the past month alone 106 civilians were killed in Yemen, mostly by air strikes and shelling by Saudi-led coalition war ships, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Washington has "indications" that some Daesh and al-Shabaab terrorists are open to reconciliation, the AFRICOM commander said.

Eight Donetsk People's Republic soldiers lost their lives in the fight against Ukrainian troops over the past week.

Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang's recent statement in Canberra that construction work in the South China Sea is for civilian, not military purposes, is aimed at skeptics in Australia, Yang Mian of the Communication University of China told Sputnik.

Donald Trump's administration said it seeks maximum transparency regarding the vote on a new healthcare bill that is intended to repeal and replace Obamacare.

The Second Russian Military Robotics Conference took place at Patriot Park in Kubinka near Moscow, where Russian manufacturers showed off their last developments, such as unmanned tanks and automatic weapons.