The second Turkish military officer has been killed in the country's ongoing offensive in Syria's north, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Friday

Russian journalist Yulia Yuzik, who was released from her detention in Tehran, told Sputnik that her invitation to Iran was a pre-planned provocation and that she had no faith that she would be released

Americans fear that they or a family member will be a victim of a mass shooting nearly as much as they fear becoming victim of a terrorist attack, a new Gallup poll revealed on Tuesday

UK-Russian business ties are positively developing despite uncertainty over the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the Westminster Russia Forum's head told Sputnik on Friday

US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Clarke Cooper will travel to Riyadh, Amman and Doha over the weekend to strengthen regional security partners faced with "Iranian aggression," Department of State said in a release on Friday

The European Union has called on Turkey to end its military operation in Syria's north as individual member states have vocally condemned the offensive, and intends to address the situation, as well as the possible introduction of sanctions on Ankara next week

Russia is disappointed with Kiev's failure to withdraw its forces from the separation line in conflict-hit eastern Ukraine and hopes that the Ukrainian side will make efforts to fulfill its obligations in the framework the Contact Group and the Normandy Four format, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday

Nearly half of potential voters in Poland are ready to cast their ballots in favor of the country's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, according to a recent IBRiS poll conducted before parliamentary elections on October 13

Russia's renowned Mariinsky Ballet has already received an offer to return to Washington, DC in the next two seasons, Acting Director of the Mariinsky Ballet Yuri Fateev told Sputnik

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev will visit Cuba on October 15-16 to hold consultations on security issues, the council's press service said on Friday