RUSSIA

The program, to be conducted by troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, will involve military exercises and instruction for as many as five battalions.

The police are expected to take on a more prominent role in the country as tensions with Russia ease.

With involvement in both Syria and Ukraine, Russia has the Pentagon rethinking its budget allocations.

Russia has the longest Arctic shoreline in the world.

The military agreement is one of many that Sweden has signed with its neighboring countries over the last year as it looks to compensate for not being part of NATO.

The Syrian civil war has killed more than 250,000 people since it began in the spring of 2011 and prompted more than 4 million refugees to flee the country.

The U.S. is preparing sanctions against individual Chinese hackers, though their crimes haven't conclusively been tied to Beijing.

The U.S. tech company ran afoul of Russian anti-monopoly laws by preinstalling services on its Android operating system, officials said.

The move comes shortly ahead of a meeting of European nations seeking to establish a binding quota for the resettlement of refugees among E.U. member nations.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts in Berlin on Saturday that "significant progress" had been made toward a resolution of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow.

The arrival of military planes in Syria fanned concerns that Russia is increasing its support of the war-torn country's government.

Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists by and large have observed the latest ceasefire agreement reached Sept. 1.

Supplying the tank, which costs around $4.5 million per unit, would be the latest defense contract signed between the two countries over the last year.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced an increase in contract servicemen amid tension over Russia's role in Syria and Ukraine.

Mamuka Mamulashvili has fought four wars against Russia. Now he needs help from the United States.

Russian hackers spreading a piece of Android malware disguised as a porn app are targeting users in the U.S., demanding a ransom of $500.

The Vladivostok moved from the port of Saint Nazaire in the south to the small town of Concarneau in the north over the last 24 hours.

Last weekend, 22,000 people arrived in Germany by train, but less than a third will gain official refugee status and be allowed to stay.

A combination of spiraling inflation and falling wages have pushed millions of Russians into poverty this year.

The Turla hacking group is exploiting satellites to hide its presence on high-profile targets in government, military and research institutions in the U.S. and China.

Premier Li Keqiang sought to reassure the world with a speech that paid scant attention to global unease about the implications of a slowing China.