Section: The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
Officials search for cause of plane crash over Egypt’s Sinai
Deadly attack: In this image released by the Prime Minister’s office, Sherif Ismail, right, looks at the remains of a crashed passenger jet in Hassana Egypt, Friday. A Russian aircraft carrying 224 people, including 17 children, crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous region in the Sinai Peninsula about 20 minutes after taking off from a...
IS says it brought down Russian plane
Egyptian emergency workers unload bodies of victims from the crash of a Russian aircraft carrying 217 passengers and 7 crew members over the Sinai Peninsula from a police helicopter to ambulances at Kabrit airport in Suez, some 20 miles north of Suez, Egypt, Saturday. (AP/Amr Nabil)The Islamic State group is claiming responsibility for bringing...
Syria mission demonstrates Russia’s new prowess
In this photo taken on Thursday, Russian air force technicians service a Russian fighter jet at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria. (AP/Vladimir Isachenkov)Sleek combat jets loaded with precision bunker-buster bombs roar into the skies as soldiers in mint desert-style uniforms march past rows of neat housing at this Russian military base at one of...
Russia shows military might in Syria, also pushes diplomacy
A ground crew member reports to pilots that their jet is ready for a combat mission at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria, on Thursday. (AP/Vladimir Isachenkov)As Russia unleashed waves of warplanes Thursday from this air base in western Syria to pound militant targets, President Vladimir Putin pushed diplomatic efforts with the West, stressing the need...
Russia puts its air operations in Syria on display
A Russian Su-30 fighter jet takes off on a combat mission with a Su-30 bomber in the foreground, at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria, on Thursday. (AP/Vladimir Isachenkov)Russian combat jets streak into the sky from this base in western Syria for yet another day of the heavy bombing runs that have allowed Moscow to again portray itself as a major global...
Your letters: World should join Russia in fight vs IS
I agree completely with Russian Embassy’s press attache, Ilya Perenkov (“Give up old biases, global community told,” Opinion, 10/9/15). Let us not lose sight of the actual political situation in the world. Russia, as a global player, is important and our companion in fighting terrorism. It is good that the Russian Army is now active in...
Senior US Navy officers visit Chinese aircraft carrier
An aerial photo taken through a glass window of a military plane on May 11 shows China’s alleged on-going reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. (Ritchie B. Tongo/Pool Photo via AP)China this week hosted a visit to its sole aircraft carrier by senior US Navy officers amid tensions over reported plans by...
NATO launches biggest military exercise in 13 years
Chairman of NATO Military Committee General Petr Pavel, center, boards an Italian helicopter during the opening ceremony of NATO Trident Juncture exercise 2015, in Trapani, Italy, Monday. (AP/Antonio Calanni)NATO is launching its biggest military exercise in 13 years, mobilizing 36,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen from more than 30 countries to...
Ukraine to sit alongside Russia on UN Security Council
Sitting round a table for talks on Ukraine, with from left to right, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and French President Francois Hollande, during an informal meeting in Paris, France, Oct. 2, in a revived European push to bring peace to eastern Ukraine. (AP/Mikhail...
‘Stop blaming Russia for MH17’
A picture taken on October 15, 2014 shows the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near the village of Rassipnoe. (AFP/Dominique Faget) Russia ambassador to Malaysia says KL should focus instead on finding out the perpetrators behind the tragedyRussia has called for a stop to accusing it in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17,...
