Former President of Syria Bashar al-Assad said Monday that he fled Syria only after Damascus had fallen, and claimed that Moscow “requested” he be evacuated to Russia.

An Islamist-led rebel alliance, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a lightning offensive from its northwest Syria bastion on November 27, swiftly capturing major cities from

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More than 3,000 metric tons of oil products may have leaked into the Kerch Strait after two aging Russian oil tankers were caught in a storm, the state-run TASS news agencyreported Monday, citing satellite imagery.

Together, the tankers were carrying around 9,000 metric tons of mazut, a low-grade heavy fuel oil used in power plants in the former

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Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, urged Moscow on Monday to get rid of Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from its list of terrorist and extremist organizations.In a post on Telegram, Kadyrov called for Russia to eliminate HTS from its list of terrorist organizations, established contact groups with HTS and
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Leaders of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), a Nordic-Baltic military coalition that can act individually in its own right, are meeting in Tallinn as European security concerns stay heightened due to Russia's war on Ukraine.The JEF meeting follows NATO head Mark Rutte released a stark warning to alliance members to turbo-charge defense
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Brussels on Monday targeted Russian military intelligence agents with its first-ever sanctions over so-called "hybrid" attacks said to be aimed at destabilizing Europe.

Western officials have accused the Kremlin of masterminding a string of incidents, including cyberattacks and arson, which they claim have been undertaken to undermine support for U

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Russia’s largest state-owned lender Sberbank has opened its first full-service branches in southern Ukraine’s occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, the bank’s press servicetold state media Monday.

Sberbank now operates branches in the Kherson region city of Henichesk and the Zaporizhzhia region city of Melitopol, according to the state-run

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