Moscow has never received any evidence from Berlin regarding Russia's alleged involvement in the killing of a Georgian national in the German capital last August, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday after talks with his German counterpart, Heiko Maas

Twenty-six militants have been killed and 15 others injured in Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktika, the local police chief told Sputnik on Monday

Washington is likely to seek new ways of pressuring Lebanon to weaken the radical Islamist Hezbollah movement, even though its involvement will probably only serve to strengthen the militants, Russian Ambassador to Beirut Alexander Zasypkin has told Sputnik in an interview