Russian and French presidents on Thursday agreed to step up cooperation in fight against terrorism, while promising that the incident like the recent downing of Russian fighter jet near the Turkey-Syria border should never happen again.
Russia is ready to cooperate with all opposition groups in Syria that do not embrace terrorism in order to speed up a political solution to the crisis in the war-torn country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
Portugal's center-right ruling coalition led by incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho won Sunday's general election but fell short of an absolute majority in the parliament.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday strongly defended his country's bombing campaign in Syria, saying it is targeting terrorist groups and not aimed at keeping President Bashar Al Assad in power.
Warplanes of Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite Houthi rebels bombed weapons depots in several military locations across Yemen's capital Sanaa on Thursday, residents and witnesses said, as explosions rocked the city from dawn until noon.
Egypt expressed support for Russia' s proposal for creating an international coalition to combat terrorism in the Middle East, where the extremist group Islamic State (IS) has occupied large swaths of territories in Iraq and Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
The Saudi-led coalition forces bombed Houthi targets in several provinces in Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, despite a U.N.-brokered truce, sources said.
The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq was a main reason for the expansion of the Islamic State (IS) militant group as well as the general chaotic situation in the Middle East region, said Egyptian political experts.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced on Monday that his party will not join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, which he said will not serve "national interests."
Saudi-led coalition has been bombing the Shiite Houthi fighters in Yemen for about three weeks, and experts believe that the military offensive would head nowhere if political solutions are left untried.
The U.S. and coalition forces continued their air raids on the Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria and Iraq over the past two days, the coalition announced on Saturday.
The United States and its partners continued their air raids on the Islamic State targets inside Syria and Iraq in the past two days, the coalition said on Saturday.
United States and coalition forces have made good progress in recent months against the Islamic State (IS), but the campaign will be "a long and difficult struggle," U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.
The United States on Monday met with coalition partners over how to integrate and increase joint efforts to fight the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and Syria.
A one-day strike enforced by a coalition of several Islamist parties demanding arrest and punishment of a sacked minister was observed peacefully in Bangladesh on Sunday.
Turkey's parliament granted the government the authority to send its troops to foreign territories for cross border operations and open its bases to foreign troops on Thursday.
As world leaders gather this week in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), U.S. President Barack Obama is stepping up his efforts to build a wide coalition to dismantle what he calls the " network of death."
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