The commander leading Ukraine’s drone war says his country’s recent strikes in Crimea are the first phase of a campaign aimed at rendering the peninsula — illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 — unusable as a staging ground for Russian forces.

Syria’s new leadership has aimed to maintain strong bilateral ties with Moscow since ousting President Bashar Assad, who fled into exile in Russia.

MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that its forces had carried out overnight strikes on military-related transport and logistics centres in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and on a major iron and steel works it said was helping Ukraine's war effort in Zaporizhzhia.

A Ukrainian drone strike has killed at least 13 people and injured 39 others in Nizhnekamsk, a city deep inside Russia, local authorities said Monday, marking the deadliest attack to hit the country in more than two years.

German government talks of a ‘new level of danger’ but declines to say who it thinks was responsible for device

House lawmakers are working across the aisle to pass legislation honoring late Sen. Lindsey Graham that would hold buyers of Russian oil accountable and extend sanctions restricting funding for Iran.