US spy chiefs have informed Donald Trump that Russian operatives claim to possess deeply compromising personal and financial information about him, US media reported Tuesday on the eve of the president-elect’s first press conference. Trump denounced a “political witch hunt” after CNN reported that intelligence officials briefing him last week ...
Russian military officials on Tuesday slammed US-led coalition action against ISIL ‘jihadists’ in Syria as having had “less than zero” impact, and added that a US air strike killed 20 Syrian civilians this month. Russia’s involvement in that country since September 2015 had “changed the course of fighting terrorism in ...