Russia's defense ministry said Thursday that its forces in Syria had set up a "hotline" with Israel's military to avoid clashes in the sky over the war-torn country. An "information-sharing" mechanism "has been established through a hotline between the Russian aviation command centre at the...

The death toll of Russian air strikes on rebel-held towns north of the city of Homs on Thursday has reached 58, activists told Zaman Al Wasl as regime troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets launch major assault on long-held and strategic enclave of Syrian rebels. Activists said at...

The Hungarian government announced Thursday it had completed its construction of a fence alongside its southern border with Croatia, to stem the massive daily influx of migrants. "We are ready to close the border. The security closure has been completed on the Hungary-Croatia border, the...

Russian and Turkish planes had 13 dangerous encounters between Oct. 3 and Oct. 10, Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Kemal Aydin was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies during a visit to Moscow. He added that the encounters happened close to the border with Syria.