MOSCOW: It sounds like a thriller: nearly half a ton of cocaine was hidden in bags at the Russian Embassy's school in Buenos Aires before being loaded on a Russian government plane bound for Moscow. Yet that's exactly what happened in a recent sting run by Russia and Argentina to nab a...

Syrian regime forces aim to advance into the eastern Ghouta region one "bite" at a time, a pro-government commander said Friday, as a war monitor said the army had seized new ground from rebels. In one of the deadliest offensives of the war, government air strikes and bombardment have...

A German security official says the immediate threat posed by a cyberattack on the government's secure computer network was averted soon after it was detected. Following a report by news agency dpa Wednesday, the government acknowledged its network had been infiltrated but downplayed...

As many as 674 civilians have been killed in nearly two weeks by the continuous air attacks on the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, a Syrian volunteer group has said. The Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said on Friday that more than 670 people have been killed...