Russian Embassy officials are to meet with a Siberian gun rights activist jailed in Washington on charges of spying on the United States. The Embassy said in a Facebook post that consular officials will meet with Maria Butina on Thursday for the first time since her Sunday arrest, and...

 The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court on Wednesday to detain alleged Russian agent Maria Butina pending her trial, saying she poses a serious flight risk, has ties to Russian intelligence and will likely appeal to people in the Russian government to assist her in fleeing....

Unidentified air strikes have killed 18 civilians in a rebel-held pocket of southern Syria as regime ally Russia presses talks for Damascus to retake the area, a monitor and local activists said Wednesday. The deadly strikes late Tuesday hit Nawa, the last town under rebel control in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Iranian facility hit by Israel in northern Aleppo province on Sunday was severely damaged, according to fresh satellite images posted on Tuesday by the Israeli media. The regime-run media denied that the Israeli rockets had targeted Iranian base, saying Israel...