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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to Japanese Nippon Television and Yomiuri newspaper at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 7, 2016. Sputnik/Kremlin/Alexei Druzhinin via REUTERS

Putin: Russia Hopes to Broaden Cooperation with US

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 19, 2017 | World

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he hoped Moscow could cooperate with Washington in a broader range of fields. “We have dialogue at the work level and on the level of the special services, the defense ministries, the foreign ministries. We...

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An army soldier secures the area of a blast site in the Baytara traffic circle near the Old City of Damascus, Syria July 2, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Suicide Attacks Hit Damascus Police Center

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 11, 2017 | Middle East

Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the police headquarters in central Damascus on Wednesday, Syrian state media said, in the second such attack to hit the capital this month. Terror group ISIS later claimed that attack. The blasts killed one person and...

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Children hold pigeons at the Atme refugee camp that emerged due to the Syrian conflict along the Turkish border in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib. AFP PHOTO

Russia Supports ‘Federal Syria,’ National Dialogue

by Ibrahim Hamidi | Oct 11, 2017 | Middle East

London- The head of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units Siban Hamo visited Moscow last week and met with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, who both affirmed that they see a...

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Saudi King Salman meets with President Ramzan Kadyrov of the Chechen Republic. SPA photo

King Salman Meets with Presidents of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Tatarstan in Moscow

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 7, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

Moscow- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz held on Friday separate talks with President Ramzan Kadyrov of the Chechen Republic, President Yunus-bek Yevkurov of the Republic of Ingushetia and President Rustam Minnikhanov of the Republic of...

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AP file photo: A wounded person stretchered away to an ambulance in Moscow.

At Least 19 Dead in Russia Train-Bus Collision

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 6, 2017 | World

At least 19 people were killed on Friday when a train slammed into a passenger bus that had broken down at a level crossing east of Moscow, regional authorities said Friday. The accident occurred during the night near the city of Vladimir, some 110 kilometers east of...