Putin classifies information on deaths of Russian troops on special missions
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday declared all deaths of Russian soldiers during special operations to be classified as a state secret, a move that comes as Moscow stands accused of sending soldiers to fight in eastern Ukraine. Putin, who has repeatedly denied any involvement of Russian troops in a pro-Russian rebellion there, amended a decree that had previously classified only deaths of servicemen during war time as secret. Asked to
By David Alexander ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday Pentagon officials have begun to examine how the U.S. military could better equip and train Iraqi troops after the recent fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Islamic State insurgents. Carter told reporters on his plane to Asia that he had convened a group of defense policy officials and military officers from
By David Alexander ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday Pentagon officials have begun to examine how the U.S. military could better equip and train Iraqi troops after the recent fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Islamic State insurgents. Carter told reporters on his plane to Asia that he had convened a group of defense policy officials and military officers from
A rebel coalition led by Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate edged into the last remaining government-held city in the northwest province of Idlib on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The lightning offensive saw the Army of Conquest, or Jaish al-Fatah in Arabic, enter outer districts of Ariha within a matter of hours, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. “There was heavy shelling and rocket fire, then they stormed the city,”
A rebel coalition led by Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate edged into the last remaining government-held city in the northwest province of Idlib on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The lightning offensive saw the Army of Conquest, or Jaish al-Fatah in Arabic, enter outer districts of Ariha within a matter of hours, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. “There was heavy shelling and rocket fire, then they stormed the city,”
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hospital officials say a German citizen whose body was severely burned in an explosion that destroyed his and several other apartments in a Rio de Janeiro building has died.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hospital officials say a German citizen whose body was severely burned in an explosion that destroyed his and several other apartments in a Rio de Janeiro building has died.
BERLIN (AP) — The mystery of Swiss cheese and its disappearing holes has been solved: The milk’s too clean.
BERLIN (AP) — The mystery of Swiss cheese and its disappearing holes has been solved: The milk’s too clean.
PARIS (AP) — The Latest from the French Open:
