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Russia has conducted its first airstrike against ISIS in Syria, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
The airstrike targeted ISIS military equipment, communications centers, vehicles and ammunition, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said, as part of pinpoint strikes against ISIS ground targets.

Vujacic, who was involved in forming the Serbian caucus in the US in 2004, downplayed the importance of the letter sent on the eve of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Washington.

He told BIRN on Thursday that such caucuses are transparent informal parliamentary groups of US Congressmen or Senators who gather in relation to a country or a specific issue.

US President Barack Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Nov. 9 -- their first meeting after a deep row over the Iranian nuclear deal.

A US warning that it would use its air power to defend Pentagon-trained rebels against Syrian troops was met with scepticism by officials in Damascus on August 4.

The US-backed Division 30 was also left reeling when the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra front captured at least five of its members in overnight raids, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.    

There is no agreement with Ankara to establish a no-fly zone in Turkey, a senior US administration official has said, the CNN reported on Monday.

The United States and Cuba abolish one of the last vestiges of the Cold War on July 20 when, in a move unimaginable just a few months ago, they restore diplomatic ties frozen for half a century.

For the first time since 1961, the Cuban red, white and blue flag will fly over Havana's newly upgraded embassy in Washington, just a stone's throw from the White House.    

During his working visit to the USA, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov called for more US investments and tourists to Bulgaria as well as the waiver of visas for Bulgarian citizens traveling to the USA.

“I would like to publicly thank the US administration and President Obama, given that without their help and persistence that an agreement should include the issue of debt, we may not have achieved one,” Greek government Deputy PM Yannis Dragasakis reiterated on Wednesday.

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has stated the official position of the US administration regarding the Greek financial crisis Wednesday.

"There's a lot of unknowns if this goes to a place that completely melts down in Greece," Lew said, as quoted by the Economic Times. Such an action would be, in his words, "geopolitically a mistake." 

Talks towards a historic nuclear deal between Iran and major powers go into overtime on July 8 after stumbling over what one Western diplomat called "very, very, very tough" remaining issues.