The Syrian authorities demanded that Turkey immediately withdraw its military units from the north of the country, reports the Syrian state news agency SANA with a reference to an official source in the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry states that "the current [Turkish] aggression has nothing to do with the Astana arrangements between the guarantor countries", SANA reports.

According to Syrian authorities the deployment of Turkish troops in Idlib showed a close …

The Norwegian government intends to significantly strengthen the defense of their northern border, especially in the county of Finnmark which borders the Murmansk region, as stated on Friday by the Minister of Defense of the country, Ine Eriksen Soereide, while presenting the plan for Army and the Norwegian Home Guard (Heimevernet) reforms.

It is planned to strengthen the border garrison in the municipality of Sør-Varanger, which is responsible for protecting the nearly 200-kilometer land …

Washington is not afraid of a possible build-up of the Russian military presence at the borders of NATO countries after the Zapad 2017 exercises, as indicated by the Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, in response to questions from The Washington Post.

"I cannot say for sure, but our people have been closely watching and they have no fears," the diplomat said. She added that the exercises were a "big show." "We watched it as much as we could," …

Polish specialists have managed to repel the hacker attack from Russia, stated Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz during the Polish radio broadcast.

"This is the third time that we have encountered a cyber-attack from Russia; fortunately, Poland has managed to repel it. The attack was committed against enterprises in Ukraine that have offices in other countries. In other European countries, they had to be blocked, but not in Poland. We managed to make sure that the attack did not …

The Chervonozavodskiy District Court of Kharkiv granted the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office access to documents and contracts from the state-owned Centrenergo company regarding the import of Donbas contraband coal from Russia under the guise of South African coal, as reported by the news website Liga.net, citing the court's decisions on October 2nd – 5th.

Criminal proceedings regarding the illegal coal operations began in April 2017 in accordance with the "Abuse of power or official …

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has forbidden banks, their branches, and offices to conduct operations with banknotes and coins issued by the Russian Central Bank, which depict objects located on the annexed territory, as reported on the NBU website.

The ban applies to the monetary units of the Russian Federation with maps, symbols, buildings, monuments, archeological monuments, architecture, history, landscapes and any other objects located on the territory of Ukraine occupied by Russia; …

Six employees of the Main Military Construction Department No. 6 (formerly Dalspetsstroy of Russia), which built the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Khabarovsk, have launched a hunger strike beginning October 13.

The builders are demanding payment for outstanding wages that they have not received since April, writes local newspaper Vostok-Media.

The employees notified law enforcement, as well as supervisory bodies and the management of the company, of the protest in advance.

"Pavel Buianovsky, …

The United States’ deployment of missile launch systems at the anti-missile defense base in Romania violates the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Georgiy Borisenko, Director of the North America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti in an interview.

He noted that the US “has been making such claims against us for four years already, but they have presented no real evidence that we are violating anything anywhere”. “Only some pictures from Google Earth, …