Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said the country is ready to take part in the following investigation into the tragedy of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which crashed in Ukraine's conflict-torn Donbass region in July 2014.
U.S. defense chief Ash Carter said on Tuesday the United States would not cooperate with Russia in the fight against the extremist group, the Islamic State (IS).
The suspected organizers of an attempted terror attack in Moscow may be of Syrian origin, and law enforcement agencies are now investigating their links to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Russian media reported Monday.
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.
Defense officials from the United States and Russia held a video conference Saturday to discuss safe flight operations over Syria, the Pentagon confirmed.
Russia and the United States are expected to hold military-to-military talks on Syria, where both countries have been conducting airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) militants, as soon as this weekend, the Pentagon said Friday.
Regime troops backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Russian air strikes advanced on Thursday in western Syria in a “vast offensive” against rebels, as NATO voiced alarm at Moscow’s escalating military activity in the country.
The Russian military has used high-precision weaponry in strikes against Islamic State (IS) positions in Syria, the Russian Armed Forces General Staff said Wednesday.
The reluctance of the United States to share intelligence on Syria will not hamper Russia's operations in the war-torn country as Moscow has sufficient information from other sources, a Russian official said Thursday.
Since Moscow launched airstrikes on the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria last Wednesday, Russian military actions have aroused different responses from Western and regional countries.
Russian military is willing to expand cooperation with the U.S.-led coalition in Syria, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Tuesday.
The United States is prepared to resume de-confliction talks with Russia on military operations in Syria, the State Department said Tuesday.
The White House said on Monday that the U.S. and its allies are "quite concerned" by Russia's incursion into Turkish airspace, calling the incident a "provocation."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed on Thursday that Russian airstrikes in Syria were conducted exclusively on targets connected to IS.
The Pentagon said Monday Russia's recent military buildup in Syria indicated that it intended to create a military base in Syria.
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Saturday shunned concerns of the United States about an alleged Russian military build-up in Syria, which U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said could lead to escalation of conflict in the war-torn country.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that China firmly sticks to the policy of developing its comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and broadening all-round pragmatic cooperation with Russia.
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