Nato has ruled out sending ground troops to fight against Islamic State militants in Syria, Nato General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg told a Swiss newspaper, stressing the need to bolster local forces in the conflict.

Turkey has expressed outrage at images showing a Russian serviceman apparently holding a rocket launcher as his ship passed through Turkish waters.

Thai police say they were warned by Moscow that 10 Syrians working for the so-called Islamic State (IS) entered Thailand in October to target Russians.

A video released online by Islamic State purportedly showed the beheading of a man the group said was a Russian spy its fighters had captured and who had been in Syria and Iraq since last year, the SITE monitoring group reported.

Turkey has challenged Russia to prove its claim that Ankara shot down a Russian plane in order to protect its oil trade with Islamic State (IS).

World War I was once thought of as 'the War to End All Wars'. But the hypothesis that “violence can be extinguished with greater violence” has since been thoroughly disproved and should have no place in modern statecraft. Yet it is the bedrock of anti-terrorism.

What is the best way to avoid getting eaten? Well this genius goat unraveled the answer his ancestors were looking for. Timur the goat, became Amur, the Siberian tiger’s friend instead of his dinner.

Russia has announced a package of economic sanctions against Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian jet on the Syrian border on Tuesday.

Russia strengthens its anti-aircraft defences in Syria by moving a cruiser closer to the coast and deploying new missiles at an air base.

Russia rejects Turkey's claims that it did not know the plane it shot down on the Syria border was Russian.

In a move raising the potential threat of a Russia-NATO conflict, Russia said Wednesday it will deploy long-range air defense missiles to its base in Syria and destroy any target that may threaten its warplanes following the downing of a Russian military jet by Turkey.

Turkish aircraft fire has brought down a Russian Su-24 near the Turkish-Syrian border on November 24. It has generated a war of words between Russia and Turkey...

Did the Turks overreact to a Russian incursion? Or was Ankara itching for an opportunity to send a robust message to Moscow?

The surviving pilot of a Russian plane shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border says no warning was given, and the plane was inside Syrian airspace.

Bone chilling pictures of the notorious Rasputin have been colourised to vividly bring to life the so-called ‘Mad Monk’- almost a century after he was poisoned, shot, beaten and drowned by Russian nobles fearful of his growing influence, reports Daily Mail.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam says the government is not bothered by today’s statement issued by HRW over the trial of death row convict war criminals Mojaheed and SQ Chy.

The Islamic State group has released a photo of the bomb it says was used to bring down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.

Russian scientists display the remains of two ancient cave lion cubs that were found preserved in permafrost. The cave lion species became extinct some 12,000 years ago.

Russia's security chief says a "terror act" brought down the Russian A321 airliner in Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board.

Senior Iraqi intelligence officials warned coalition countries of imminent assaults by the Islamic State group just one day before last week's deadly attacks in Paris killed 129 people, according to reports.