A weapons facility near a Russian air base in a coastal Syrian city was destroyed on Thursday, according to a monitoring group.

Israeli conducted strikes near the Syrian coast this morning, with explosions reported in the vicinity of the Russian-operated Khmeimim Air Base, near the city of Latakia. Three hours ago, Israel struck and destroyed a weapons depot at the Hmeimim base on the Syrian coast,

Israel is suspected of launching missiles overnight into Syria, striking close to a Russian air base believed to house weapons for Iran.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations had been "taken at the highest level", the state TASS news agency reported.

Russia reported Friday that a "principal decision" had already been made to remove Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban from Moscow’s list of terrorist organizations. Zamir Kabulov, the Russian presidential envoy for the South Asian nation,

Ukraine could potentially join NATO even if parts of its territory remained occupied by Russia, the alliance's former Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview on Oct. 4. One of the main arguments against granting Ukraine membership at the current time is that NATO's Article 5 mutual defense clause would immediately draw the alliance into a direct war with Russia.

A scenario in which Ukraine becomes a member of NATO despite some of its territories remaining occupied is quite realistic. In Ukraine's case, there are ways to address the issue of applying the mutual defense clause,