If Trump implements his threat against Iran, this would be gravest crime — UN - World - TASS

If Trump implements his threat against Iran, this would be gravest crime — UN - World - TASS

US decision to help Israel will protect Western civilization, Netanyahu is confident

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday thanked the American Congress for passing a bill to help Israel, which he said was aimed at protecting “Western civilization.”

EU country wants ‘mental quarantine’ on Russian culture, Zakharova: Lithuanian official “a lack-of-culture minister” – SANA

Lithuanians should not enjoy Russian culture as long as a conflict is raging in Ukraine, its culture minister, Simonas Kairys, told national broadcaster LRT this week. The minister was echoing the ideas of his Ukrainian counterpart, Aleksandr Tkachenko, who earlier called on the West to boycott Russian culture altogether.

Russia to talk with West when progressive leaders emerge

Russia will be ready to conduct a serious dialogue with Western countries when forward-thinking people rise to power there, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Primakov Readings forum on Wednesday.

EU approves visa-free travel for Ukrainians. Ukraine was gradually "becoming part of a common European civilization"

The European Union approved visa-free travel for Ukrainians Thursday, fulfilling a key promise to cement ties with Kiev as it remains embroiled in a deadly conflict with pro-Russian insurgents.

US missile strikes leave huge damages to Syrian airbase but no white smoke signalled chemical ammunitions

The U.S. missile strike that targeted a Syrian airbase in Homs province at dawn Friday left big damages, Homs governor Talal Barazi told Xinhua.

Iranian President Congratulates Greece on National Day

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a message to his Greek counterpart President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Saturday congratulated him on Greece National Day.

UN 'appalled' by escalation in battles in Aleppo

The United Nations said it was "extremely appalled" by the escalation in fighting in Syria, particularly in Aleppo, according to a statement sent to Xinhua on Saturday.

Drones fly over ancient Nimrud to help secure Assyrian ruins

Iraqi soldiers began painstaking work on Monday to secure the remains of the 3,000-year-old city of Nimrud, a day after driving out ISIS "militants" who overran and ransacked the ancient Assyrian capital.

Merkel rejects reversing refugee policy after attacks

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday "firmly" rejected calls to reverse her welcoming stance towards refugees following a series of brutal attacks in the country.

Brexit could start destruction of EU, western political civilization: EU President

A Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the European Union, but also of the entire western political civilization, warned European Council President Donald Tusk in an interview published on Monday.

Over 4,700 killed in Syria by international coalition bombing in 19 months. At least 391 were civilians, including 99 children and 67 women

More than 4,700 people, mostly jihadists, were killed in Syria in the United States-led international coalition bombing, which began 19 months ago, according to data released on Saturday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Islamic states vow to defeat terrorism, extremism

Foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) pledged here on Tuesday to defeat terrorism and extremism.

Azeri provocation

The facts that are taking place in Artsakh are not neutral and are consequences of Azeri provocation. Every time we see the Azeris making such attacks to change the facts vainly, but we realize that alongside the armenian strategy tries to explain for years now that there are no problems and that we are very far from the war in 1994.

Finnish court sentences Iraqi man publishing head of enemy soldier for war crimes

An Iraqi man was given by a Finnish court a one-year-and-four-month suspended prison sentence on Friday for publishing on the internet photos of the head of a killed soldier.

Kerry, in Paris, says world must hit ISIL at its core

The civilized world must boost its efforts to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by going after the group at its core, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, as he met in Paris with President Francois Hollande to show solidarity with France in the wake of last week's attacks.

Syria’s Christians grateful to Russia for support in fight against terrorism

Syria’s Christians are grateful to the Russians for their support in the fight against terrorism and in political settlement of the crisis, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Mor Ignatius Aphrem II said on Wednesday at a meeting with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Exporting democracy by military means only aggravates chaos and tensions (Lavrov)

Forcing on peoples, including by military means, transformations foreign to them will only aggravate chaos and tensions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday at the 13th annual session of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations".

Extremists ‘terrified of history,’ UNESCO chief says, deploring destruction of Arch of Triumph in Palmyra

 UN, 5 October 2015 – Extremists will “never be able to erase history,” the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, said today, condemning the destruction of the Arch of Triumph in Palmyra.

IS Reportedly Destroys Another Ancient Syrian Site in Palmyra

Islamic State militants have reportedly destroyed another irreplaceable ancient artifact in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.