Tehran is not in favor of the U.S. military participating in guarding de-escalation zones in Syria, said Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani.

“No,” he said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant in answer to a question about whether Iran would have agreed to America participating in guarding de-escalation zones.

Shamkhani stressed that “Syria has a government, and only it can decide who has the right to be present in their territory….The Americans, who …

The North Atlantic Alliance will maintain its presence on the eastern flank at least until 2022, said Polish President Andrzej Duda at the briefing at the end of the NATO summit.

“Currently we’re talking about 2022,” he pointed out in response to the relevant question. “NATO’s activity there is needed. The situation in the area of security is changing,” he stressed.

According to Duda, nobody is calling into question the principle of collective defense. “There was no vote to stop supporting …

The commander of U.S. air operations in the Middle East said that the United States and Russia are now more actively exchanging information through an established “hotline,” as the airspace over the territory controlled by ISIS is becoming more crowded.

“We had to increase the amount of work to eliminate conflict situations, which we are doing together with the Russians, given the limited airspace in which we are now operating,” U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigan told the media …

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko gave instructions to issue Ukrainian passports to the residents of the Crimea and the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR. He said this during a meeting on the preparation for the entry into force of the visa-free regime with the European Union, 112 Ukraine TV reports.

"If problems with issuing passports are objectively raised to those who are in the occupied territory (the territory of the Donbas which is not controlled by the authorities of Ukraine – Ed.), or in …

Nadiya Savchenko’s political party will run in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine. The Ukrainian politician stated this in an interview with the Polish edition of Krytyka Polityczna.

"My political party will participate in the parliamentary elections... The party will be called "Nadiya Savchenko's Public Platform," she said. Describing her party, Savchenko said that it "will help dismantle the unhealthy political system that was created 25 years ago, rebuild the architecture of the state, …

Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group said that the number of deaths of civilians in the Donbas increased 120 percent over the last year, Interfax reports.

"It is very sad that the number of civilians killed during the year increased by 120 percent," Sajdik said in Minsk, having provided the relevant data. He noted that "this is the result of the continued use of heavy weapons and the delaying of mine clearance." …

Russia tested almost all kinds and types of weapons during the special operations in Syria, not only ones currently in use, but also promising ones, those under development and testing, Russian Deputy Defense Minister, Yury Borisov said.

Armed confrontations have continued in Syria since March 2011. Since September 30, 2015, at the request of Bashar Al-Assad, Russia has been conducting air strikes against targets in Syria. With the support of Russia, Damascus has managed to reverse the …

The commander of the separatist battalion Hooligan, Vladimir Tsvyah, with the call sign Commander, has been killed in the Donbas, as reported by the journalist from the Russia-1 television channel, Alexander Rogatkin, on his Facebook page. 

"Volodya Tsvyah, the legendary battalion commander, has died on the front line together with the battalion intelligence chief," wrote Rogatkin.

The authorities of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) have not officially confirmed the death of …