US military and intelligence officials have expressed alarm at the capabilities of Russia’s PAK-FA fighter jet, which some say is even superior to its US counterparts.  Last year former US Air Force intelligence chief Lt. Gen. David Deptula told The National Interest that “the analysis that I have …

US diplomat Daniel Russel made a remark calling on South Korea to speak up against China’s activities in the South China Sea.  A US diplomat called on South Korea to speak up regarding the dispute in the South China Sea. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel made the remark Wednesday during a seminar on Korea, …

England could host the football World Cup in 2022, if Qatar’s bid is found to be unethical, UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport John Whittingdale said Thursday. © AP PHOTO/ KEYSTONE, STEFFEN SCHMIDT MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The decision to hold the 2022 World Cup in Qatar “is obviously …

Kabul would welcome the admission of Afghanistan and its neighbors – Pakistan, India and Iran – to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani told Sputnik on Thursday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — At the moment, Afghanistan alongside Iran, India, Pakistan and Mongolia, has observer status in the SCO. “We …

The troubles in the Middle East sometimes seem to multiply by the minute as the conflict-ridden region grapples with terrorism and violence that Xinhua blamed on Obama’s “crippled” Middle Eastern policy.  “The Islamic State (IS) is gaining an ever stronger foothold that straddles both Iraq and Syria, and …

By Stephen Lendman Russia issued travel bans against 89 European Union political and military officials in response to imposed 2014 EU sanctions. Affected nations received a list of barred individuals. In 2013, 18 Americans were denied entry in response to US sanctions and visa bans on 18 Russian …

By Jerome Corsi More than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defense and Department of State documents implicate the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role Hillary Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS. The documents were obtained in a Freedom of …

Iraq has admitted that ISIS jihadists captured huge caches of US-made weapons, including thousands of Humvees seized from Iraqi forces retreating from Mosul last year. The spoils of war have since then been used by ISIS to gain ground in Iraq and Syria. “In the collapse of Mosul, …

The White House is determined to block the rise of the key nuclear-armed nations, Russia and China, neither of whom will join the “world’s acceptance of Washington’s hegemony,” says head of the Institute for Political Economy, Paul Craig Roberts. The former US assistant secretary of the Treasury for …