By Sputnik International MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Taliban* controls approximately 90% of Afghanistan’s border with neighboring countries, Zabiullah Mujahid, the movement’s spokesman, told Sputnik on…
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Live Updates: Eleven People Killed, Over a Dozen Hospitalised After School Shooting in Kazan, Russia
By Sputnik News An armed teenager who assaulted a school in the city of Kazan, Russia on Tuesday was arrested by the police. “We lost…
by Igor Kuznetsov The first deployment of American bombers at a Norwegian air base has been met with criticism from several parties, who warned that an…
WORLD by Rishikesh Kumar Despite having agreed to ease tensions after a violent face-off between troops in Ladakh last year, India and China have been beefing…
Prof: Norway May Become Battlefield for Russia-US Standoff as American Bombers Tipped for Deployment
MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE by Igor Kuznetsov Tormod Heier, a professor at the Norwegian Defence College, has argued that the US is in a new Cold War…
MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE by Tim Korso The Kremlin has repeatedly called on NATO countries to cease military activities in the Black Sea, arguing that they have…
MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE by Ilya Tsukanov Last week, US Indo-Pacific Command announced that a Navy carrier strike group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt had entered…
By Rishikesh Kumar The ongoing border stalemate started last April when Indian and Chinese soldiers engaged in a brief duel over a patrolling disagreement. Tensions,…
A consortium of powerful interests that include Visa and Mastercard, the International Monetary Fund, billionaire Bill Gates and the US Treasury have been slowly lobbying…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is accused of obtaining and disclosing US national defence secrets, spent seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, but…