A new video featuring Raman Pratasevich has sparked a fresh outcry, with the opposition and the parents of the Belarusian journalist saying he had been coerced into making the statements and urging the international community to apply further pressure on strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Marine Corps Systems Command is in the process of fielding a modernized version of an intelligence system that provides critical information to commanders on the battlefield.
Iran's Guardians Council will review its decision to exclude several prominent candidates for this month's presidential election after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized the electoral vetting body.
Iran's Constitutional Council says no erroneous information was used in its vetting of presidential hopefuls, rejecting speculation that some of the hopefuls may have been disqualified based on untrue reports.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on all Iranians to not only participate in the upcoming presidential election but also encourage others to do so, saying the key to solving the country's problems is "making the right choice" at the ballot box.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran is stronger than ever as the country marks the 32nd anniversary of the passing away of its revolutionary founder Imam Khomeini.
A senior Iranian diplomat has blasted the unprofessional behavior of certain countries in dealing with the 2020 Ukrainian plane crash near Tehran, expressing the Islamic Republic's readiness for negotiation and cooperation on the matter.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi says Baghdad has over the past months managed to expel more than 60 percent of American occupation forces amid unwavering calls for the pullout of foreign troops from the country.
A boat carrying 81 Rohingya from Myanmar was found stranded in Indonesia's Aceh province on Friday after four months at sea and after India and Malaysia had turned it away, officials and state media said.
The volunteer militiamen of Myanmar's Chin state have outgunned their better-equipped antagonists in the military in recent weeks of fighting with little more than decades-old rifles and say their hunting traditions and natural "spirit of resistance" will lead them to victory over the junta.
Foreign ministers from ASEAN countries and China are set to meet in person next week for the first time in more than a year, amid a political crisis in neighboring Myanmar and as a new administration in Washington looks to deepen American engagement with Southeast Asia.
Russia has reportedly scrambled a MiG-31 fighter jet to chase away a US military plane over the Barents Sea, amid escalating tensions between Moscow and the West over the recent military build-ups along its borders.
Less than two weeks prior to his meeting with his American counterpart, Russian President Vladimir Putin says although the US is trying to hold back Russia's development, the Kremlin needs to find ways to "regularize" deeply damaged relations with the administration of President Joe Biden.
Moscow has warned against any exaggerated expectations from the upcoming meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden, stressing that there is a lot of dispute between the two sides over a range of issues.
The Kremlin crackdown continued apace as State Duma elections expected at the end of summer draw closer, with the head of a civil society group that dissolved itself in a bid to spare members from possible prosecution being targeted anyway, among others. Meanwhile, Moscow dismissed Western criticism as Alyaksandr Lukashenka pursued his own harrowing clampdown in Belarus.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the completion of the first line of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany despite US attempts to prevent the project.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that laying the pipes for the first of two lines of the prospective Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany has now been "successfully completed."
A court in Moscow has upheld the Justice Ministry's move to designate the Latvia-based independent Meduza news outlet as a "foreign agent" -- a move that requires it to label itself as such and subjects the media outlet to increased government scrutiny and regulation. a move that requires it to label itself as such and subjects the media outlet to increased government scrutiny and
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that would ban supporters and members of organizations deemed by authorities as "extremist" from being elected to any post -- a move making it virtually impossible for anyone connected to jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny from gaining public office. a move making it virtually impossible for anyone connected to jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announces that funding shortages have forced it to cut its food assistance for thousands of Syrian refugees living in Jordan.
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