If president-elect Donald Trump keeps his promise, surplus military grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles and high-powered firearms and ammunition will once again be available to state and local U.S. police departments. National police organizations say they'll hold...

Iran signed a $16.6 billion deal for 80 Boeing (BA.N) passenger jets on Sunday and was said to be close to another for dozens of Airbus (AIR.PA) planes to complete what would be the biggest package of firm contracts with Western companies since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. The deal...

Russia’s President arrives in Japan on Thursday for a two-day summit meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the premier’s hometown of Yamaguchi in western Japan. For Japan, anything less than a breakthrough in a long-running dispute over ownership of four islands north of Hokkaido,...

(The Guardian)- The fall of Aleppo will neither end the conflict nor bring more stability to the country. The continuing offensive by the Syrian regime to capture the rest of the eastern side of the city has led to the capture of about 75% of the rebel-held area. But the regime’s swift...