Israel will dispatch top diplomatic official Major General Amos Gilad to Russia for meetings with high ranking military and diplomatic figures in an attempt to halt a rumored sale of its S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. The highly advanced system would make...
It was announced earlier today that Russian forces had withdrawn from the disputed village of Perevi along the border between Georgia and the separatist enclave of South Ossetia. The European Union said the pullback came at their behest, but Georgian Foreign Minister...
NATO foreign ministers today praised America's planned missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic as making a "substantial contribution" to protecting Europe from long-range ballistic missiles. The United States insists that the shield is primarily...
NATO foreign ministers led by Germany managed to forestall fast-track membership for Georgia and Ukraine, and likewise reached an agreement to resume limited ties with Russia. The move was described as "conditional and graduated re-engagement" by NATO Secretary...
After a reported shooting near a motorcade taking Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and visiting Polish President Lech Kaczynski to the Ossetian border, the Georgian government issued a statement claiming Russian soldiers fired the shots from 30 meters away....
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an agreement today allowing Spain to use its territory to send supplies to Afghanistan for NATO's military operation there. The Russian Foreign Ministry has also reported that it will allow Germany to use Russian railroads to...
After previously announcing his intent to deploy Iskander missiles in the exclave of Kaliningrad, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took a more hopeful tone, saying he believes negotiations with the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama may be able...
A senior Russian military diplomat is quoted as saying that if NATO grants Membership Action Plans to Georgia and Ukraine, the Russian government will ultimately pull out of the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty. The CFE is a treaty first put in place in the...
After a NATO meeting in Estonia, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates condemned Russian President Dmitry Medvedev over a plan announced last week to deploy missiles to Kaliningrad to counter an American missile defense base being constructed in Poland. Secretary Gates...
In his first State of the Nation speech, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced his nation's plan to counter America's missile defense system being built in Poland and the Czech Republic. Iskander missiles will be deployed to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad,...
