The Russian air force has killed 35,000 fighters in Syria during its air campaign since September 2015, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday. Russian warplanes made 71,000 strikes and “liquidated 725 training camps, 405 weapon factories and workshops, 1,500 pieces of terrorist equipment, and 35,000 fighters, including 204 field commanders,” ...
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday bade farewell to Andrei Karlov at a packed memorial ceremony in Moscow for the diplomat who was assassinated in Turkey by an off-duty policeman. Dozens of colleagues and relatives attended the ceremony for Karlov, the ambassador to Turkey whose death was labeled by Moscow as ...