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Russia seeks jail for student accused of trying to join ISIS

Russian prosecutors on Thursday demanded a five-year jail sentence for a 21-year-old female student accused of trying to join ISIS in Syria. Varvara Karaulova is on trial in the high-profile case after she was detained last year as she tried to cross into war-torn Syria while still a...

Russia says close to reaching understanding on Aleppo with US

Russia and the United States are close to reaching an understanding on Syria's Aleppo, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday. "In the past several days an intensive document exchange on the situation in Aleppo has taken place,"...