Alwaght - The signs of growing chill in the US-Russia relations are on the rise, and the range of challenges troubling bilateral ties of the two powers is broadening day by day. The challenges play out in a range of conflict of views over the ways to deal with the deep-rooted West Asian crises, the American Strategic Air Defense project, and Washington's ...

Despite the "mythical" Iranian nuclear threat becoming a thing of the past, ballistic missile defense is still being built in Eastern Europe, President Vladimir Putin said. MOSCOW (Sputnik) A "mythical" nuclear threat posed byIran has become a thing ofthe past, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "A mythical Iranian nuclear threat,...

TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA) A former vice president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations has downplayed US missile shield in Romania as being a direct threat to Russian or Iranian national security. After a decade of US plans to meet Iranian missile threats, and despite Russian threats still in place, on Thursday, a missile shield was erected in ...

Alwaght-Russian President Vladimir Putin and his United States counterpart Barack Obama have engaged in a war of words the deployment of the NATO military alliance anti-missile shield in Europe In reaction to the deployment of a NATO missile defense site in Romania on Thursday, President Putin said Russia is being forced to look for ways to neutralize ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin on Friday described the development of NATO's U.S.-led missile defense program as a threat to global security and vowed that Russia will take the necessary steps to maintain a strategic parity. Putin, speaking at a meeting with military officials, scoffed at U.S. claims that the shield isn't aimed against Russia ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A US missile defense site in Romania became operational, angering Russia, which opposes having the advanced military system in its former area of influence. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg tried on Thursday to reassure Russia as he spoke at a ceremony attended by US, NATO and Romanian officials at the Soviet-built base,...

The Unites States will keep working on a regional missile defense system in Persian Gulf despite progress on the Iran nuclear deal, current and former U.S. military officials said on Thursday while warning that Iran has the largest inventory of short- and medium-range cruise and ballistic missiles in the region. The comments came as a Republican-...

Iranian commander of the Army's Ground Forces said that deploying of US missile shield in the region was based on Iranphobia policy by US government propaganda. IRNAquoted commander of the Iranian Armys Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan as saying onWednesday night in a ceremony to mark the Army Day, the stationing of US missile ...

By UPI ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 1 (UPI) --As tensions swell in the Persian Gulf, the United States is pressing its fractious Arab allies to accelerate efforts to establish an integrated missile defense network to counter the threat of Iran's growing ballistic arsenal. That would add considerable weight to U.S. anti-missile defenses ...