The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will have little impact on the Islamic State (IS, banned in Russia) terrorist group's ability to rebuild, a Pentagon watchdog agency revealed on Tuesday

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper met with his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe on the margins of the ASEAN defense ministers' meeting in Thailand to discuss issues of bilateral concern, the Pentagon said on Monday in a readout of the meeting

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper warned on Friday that the looming termination of the intelligence sharing pact between South Korea and Japan would only play into the hands of Beijing and Pyongyang, urging the regional allies to resolve their differences and save the deal

Damascus will lodge a complaint with the United Nations on Washington's plans to control Syrian oil but does not believe that it will bring any results, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview with Sputnik and Rossiya 24 broadcaster

Russia is concerned about the Pentagon's activities aimed at placing laboratories, where biological weapons could be developed, in CIS countries, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said

Moscow and Yerevan plan to sign a memorandum on access of Russian experts to US-funded biological laboratories in Armenia soon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday at a press conference with his Armenian counterpart