The Russian Defense Ministry said late on Thursday that senior British military officials had met with their Russian counterparts in Moscow to discuss how best to avoid incidents between the two countries' armed forces at sea and in the air. Britain has complained of increasingly having to...

France has used cruise missiles for the first time against the Islamic State during strikes in Iraq on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry said. SCALP long-range missiles were launched from French fighter jets based in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan as part of a bombing raid that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime helicopter gunships have struck a suburb of the capital, Damascus, a day after airstrikes on nearby areas killed at least 70 people.  Two activist groups - the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees -...

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday brushed off what a Germany magazine said was a request from the United States to provide more military help in the fight against Islamic State. "I believe Germany is fulfilling its part and we don't need to talk about new issues related to this...