RUSSIA

What would Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, do as commander in chief? His comments on torture, NATO and other foreign policy issues have military leaders speaking out.

NATO could pursue a greater presence in Eastern Europe, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned Tuesday.

Adm. John M. Richardson’s comments came after Russian jets recently intercepted a U.S. warplane and a destroyer.

The rover, part of the second phase of the ExoMars Mission that was originally scheduled to begin in 2018, will now be launched in 2020.

As Aleppo is rocked by airstrikes — about 250 people have been killed recently — Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov meets this week with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura.

Finland has historically remained militarily neutral, but Moscow’s Arctic ambitions may change that.

Syria's army announced late on Friday a "regime of calm", or lull in fighting, which applied to Damascus and some of its outskirts, and parts of northwestern coastal province Latakia; but it excluded Aleppo.

The surge in fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo has led to the collapse of a two-month ceasefire which was brokered by the U.S. and Russia.

An estimated 20 airstrikes in the Syrian city were believed to have killed some 250 civilians, reports said.

The Pentagon said Friday the interception in international airspace was made in an "unsafe and unprofessional manner," CNN reported.

Though Valeant settled many lingering questions in its postponed earnings report Friday, the drugmaker disclosed a few new legal proceedings.

Cheese inventories in March were the highest for the date since 1984, USDA statistics show.

After days of fierce fighting in Syria’s largest city, more regime airstrikes may have devastating humanitarian consequences.

“If this is how Trump supporters swing into action, what happens when the press looks into corrupt dealings, for example, or is critical of [the candidate's] policies?” Julia Ioffe worries.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Moscow would take “military-technical action” if Sweden joined NATO.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly met with the founder of Telegram, a messaging app with over 100 million users, to discuss a $1 billion acquisition.

Chinese state media has questioned the GOP front-runner’s desire for friendly relations, terming his foreign policy “inconsistent.”

It will spend 725 million euros on defense in 2017, about 1.8 percent of its economy and almost as much as it spent from 2011 to 2013.

American officials have warned that the Islamic State group has cells operating in Germany, Britain and Italy.

The increase comes as European nations debate whether to continue their economic sanctions against Russia over the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine.

Russia believes the rebel groups, Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham, are conducting terrorist activities and not observing the cessation of hostilities.