The United States shot down a pro-Syrian government drone that fired toward U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria on Thursday, a U.S. military spokesman said, in a major escalation of tensions between Washington and troops supporting Damascus.
A spokeswoman for U.S. President Donald Trump says sanctions against Russia for its interference in Ukraine would remain in place until the crisis is resolved.
The first-ever tanker with liquefied natural gas from the United States arrived in Poland on June 8 as part of the country's and the region's efforts to cut its dependence on Russia.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is ready to support any diplomatic efforts to resolve tensions between Qatar and other Gulf Arab states "if desired by all parties," his spokesman said on June 8.
The Reuters news agency reports that the self-proclaimed commander of ethnic Albanians fighting with the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq has been killed in the Middle East.
U.S. prosecutors on June 7 arrested and charged more than two dozen alleged members of a Russian organized crime gang working out of New York City with what they called a "dizzying array of criminal schemes."
Deputies from Russia's nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) have submitted bills that would restore the country's tsarist-era national anthem, God Save The Tsar!, and the calendar the country used before the 1917 communist revolution.
The autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq has scheduled an independence referendum for September 25, officials said.
U.S. President Donald Trump has appeared to change course, urging Saudi King Salman to work for Arab unity after having appeared to side with the Saudis and other Arab states in a dispute with Qatar.
The U.S. House of Representatives late June 6 unanimously called for U.S. criminal charges against members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail who attacked protesters in Washington last month.
China is poised to start creating a network of overseas military bases after establishing a first facility in Africa, the Pentagon has said in a report that predicts that Beijing will seek to locate a base in Pakistan.
The Pentagon says the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) group has launched a strike against what it describes as pro-government forces in Syria.
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