TASS - According to his statement, the killing of the commander will lead to an escalation of military-political tensions in the Middle East, negatively affecting the global security system The Russian Defense Ministry has highlighted the contribution of Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US strike ...

Press TV - US Special Forces are aiding Syrian militants to engage in chemical attack provocation via chlorine gas to provoke Western airstrikes on Syrian forces, says the Russian Defense Ministry. Our intelligence confirmed by three independent Syrian sources says that commanders of the so-called Free Syrian Army, backed by the American Special ...

Financial Tribune- Iran has confirmed participation in Russia's Army-2018 international military and technical forum, Russia's Defense Ministry announced on Saturday. "Participation of eight foreign displays has been confirmed to date: these are Armenia, Belarus, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Pakistan and Turkey," TASS reported, citing an official ...

Sputnik - The Russian Defense Ministry has commented on a joint US, British and French missile strike on Syria, which took place on the day, when the OPCW experts are set to start a probe into allegations of a chemical attack in Douma, a claim denounced by Damascus as a provocation. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that most missiles ...

SANA New aerial photos published by the Russian Ministry of Defense on Saturday showed the scale of the massive destruction caused to Raqqa city by the airstrikes carried out by the illegal Washington-led international coalition during the second half of 2017. In a statement, the Ministry said that the aerial photos show the full-scale devastation ...

Press TV- Russia says more than 40,000 civilians have returned to Eastern Ghouta afterthe Syrian capitals countryside was almost fully liberated from militants. The Russian Defense Ministry made the announcement on Tuesday. The returnees had initially left the Damascus suburb using four humanitarian corridors set up to enable their safe exit ...

AP The Latest on Syrian president Assads visit to Moscow (all times local): 3 p.m. Russias defense ministry says top military chiefs of Russia, Turkey and Iran have agreed to coordinate their efforts in Syria to defeat the Islamic State group. The presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran are meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday ...

TASS- The Turkish party has registered no cases of ceasefire violations, the defense authority added Russian observers registered six ceasefire violations in Syria in the past 24 hour, the situation in the de-escalation zones remains stable, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a bulletin on Sunday. "Control groups continue monitoring the ceasefire ...

Sputnik News- The Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday that a total of 19 ceasefire violations were registered in Syria in the past 24 hours. The Russian side to the Russian-Turkey Commission on the Syrian truce registered 10 ceasefire violations over the past 24 hours, while Turkey recorded 9 cases, most of them in the territories under the ...

Sputnik- Russian Defense Ministry's Tu-154 carrying some 91 people has disappeared from radars after departing from Russia's southern city of Sochi, a source in the country's Emergency Ministry told RIA Novosti. The jet withsome 91 people onboard, including journalists, military personnel, musicians fromAlexandrov Ensemble, lost contact withland ...

Moscow, Oct 14, IRNA Two Russian warships departed for Iran and Kazakhstan coasts on Friday in the framework of 15-day friendship expedition. Russian Defense Ministry announced that the planned expedition of Tatarstan missile-carrier warship and another logistical warships have begun on Friday. The Ministry said that the expedition of the warships ...

Five major arms depots destroyed by Russia's Tu-22M3 and Su-34 were used to supply Daesh militants near Aleppo, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Russia's Ministry ofDefense confirmed Tuesday that it had deployed Tu-22M3 bombers and Su-34 strike fighters inIran and these have already carried outairstrikes againstterrorists inSyria. "On August ...

Egyptian, Iranian and Venezuelan paratroopers will use Russian parachutes for the first time during the Airborne Platoon 2016 contest, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) The parachuting championships involving military service personnel fromRussia, Egypt, Iran, Venezuela, Belarus, Kazakhstan and China, are due tokick offin ...