Time for Colombia to change its tactics in the CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifiers. Colombia is in trouble. After blowing home-field advantage and losing to Argentina 1-0, the team fell to seventh in the CONMEBOL standings and is currently two points out of the final playoff spot in what is looking like a rather complex qualifying battle.
The next episode of "Madam Secretary" will see Elizabeth McCord navigating the ruffled domestic waters following an escalation in tensions with Russia. See the details and watch the preview here.
Russia's chief intelligence officer confirmed Tuesday that last month's Metrojet plane crash was the result of a terrorist attack, as widely speculated.
A video was recently released from the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group, announcing a message for Russia that they will soon be attacking Kremlin. The video comes after a bombing incident occurred last Oct. 31, killing 200 people in Russia which is suspected to be an ISIS activity.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has recommended banning Russia from participating in athletic competitions due to evidence of extensive doping practices.
Russia and Egypt have dismissed claims from U.S. and U.K. officials that a bomb was the likely cause of the Metrojet plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, calling it "speculation."
A Metrojet official said Monday that neither mechanical failure nor human error was to blame for the plane crash in Egypt over the weekend, pointing to an "external influence" as the cause.
Seventy Kurdish hostages were rescued after special U.S. forces, working with Kurdish commandos, attacked an Islamic State outpost located near the Iraqi town of Hawija. One U.S. soldier was killed in the raid.
Embattled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad left his war-torn country for the first time in years on Tuesday to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin, a close ally propping up his regime, in Moscow.
Russia's increased military support for Bashar al-Assad, which in recent weeks has expanded to a campaign of airstrikes, has not significantly improved the dictator's strategic outlook in the Syrian civil war, the U.S. intelligence community believes.
The U.S. and Russian government are reportedly in the talks of possibly signing an agreement for some air safety procedures in light of the current Syria conflict, wherein the aircrafts of the two countries flew too close with each other last Saturday.
A new report conducted by the Dutch Safety Board has determined that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which crashed in July 2014 and resulted in the deaths of all 298 people on board, went down because a Russian-made Buk missile exploded just outside the left side of the airplane's cockpit.
Russian security forces said on Monday that militants trained by the ISIS terror group had planned to strike Moscow's public transport system, but police forces successfully prevented the plot.
Militants from the Islamic terror group ISIS are encroaching on Aleppo, Syria's largest city, and have already taken control of large parts of homonymous province surrounding the highly symbolic locale.
Days after Russia commenced its attack on ISIS targets in Syria, a number of their cruise missiles, launched from a Russian ship, have crashed in Iran.
