Allegedly, Russia wants to use the Syrian Tartus Port as permanent naval station.   The Kommersant newspaper published in Russia claimed the Moscow administration wants to establish the Tartus Port in southern Syria as a permanent naval station. A spokesman for the Russia Defense Ministry, however, refused the claim.

A Russian embassy worker has been killed and four others kidnapped when gunmen attacked their vehicle in Baghdad, highlighting continuing lawlessness in Iraq that also saw 21 people killed by a car bomb in the southern city of Basra.  

An official of the Military Committee of the State Committee for Defense – Majlisul Shura of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI) informed the Kavkaz-Center Agency on new combats burst out in different regions of the country. According to information of the source 23 kafirs (Russian invaders) and munafigs (collaborationists) …