Moscow warned the United States about “serious consequences” if Washington orders an attack on Syrian government troops in response to the alleged chemical attack on the Syrian city of Douma, as stated by Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at a meeting of the UN Security Council.

He said that there was no chemical attack in the city of Douma. According to him, Russian specialists on radiological, chemical and biological defense did not find any traces of …

The U.S. destroyer USS Donald Cook came within 100 km of the Syrian city of Tartus, reported the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.

A Russian naval base is located in this city. According to the newspaper, Russian military aircraft flew over the U.S. destroyer at least four times.

Earlier, USS Donald Cook, which is equipped with 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles, left the port of Larnaca in Cyprus and is now near Syrian territorial waters.

On Monday, April 9, U.S. President Donald Trump said that within …

In an interview with NTV channel, Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said that the Prosecutor General's Office (GPO) intends to publicly release materials from its correspondence with London that ostensibly indicate that the UK Interior Ministry had prior knowledge regarding a threat to the life of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. It also plans to release materials suggesting that information concerning businessman Boris Berezovsky is of a false nature.

"We will hold a press …