Military

Three rockets fired from territory held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria injured seven people in Turkey's southern border province of Kilis early on May 1, according to local security sources.

Regime aircraft pounded rebel areas of Syria's second city of Aleppo on April 29, hitting a clinic just days after a strike destroyed a hospital, killing two doctors and sparking an international outcry.

BELGRADE – NATO is stepping up intelligence activity against Russia and Belarus, the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Nikolai Bordyuzha, said on Thursday. “The North Atlantic Alliance states have been stepping up intelligence activity against Russia.

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group seized five villages from Syrian rebels close to the Turkish border April 27, further weakening the rebels' foothold in the Aleppo area.
     

David Goldfein, whose service record includes getting shot down over Serbia during NATO's bombing in 1999, has been nominated to head the U.S. Air Force.

Serbia is committed to remaining militarily neutral, Zoran Djordjevic, the defense minister in Serbia's outgoing government, said in Moscow on Tuesday.

He made the remark in a conversation with Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha.

Two missile launchers belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group were destroyed in an artillery strike on April 26 that reportedly killed 11 ISIL militants, marking the second such initiative by the Turkish Army in the past two days.

U.S. President Barack Obama said April 25 that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was trying to undermine European unity, which he sees as a threat.

Speaking to CBS News in an interview set to air on April 26, Obama said Europe's migrant crisis was also a problem for the United States.

During their meeting on Monday, Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev and his Croatian counterpart Josip Buljevic agreed to consolidate the regional and transborder cooperation between the two countries.

The meeting was part of Nenchev's two-day official visit to Croatia which is continuing on Tuesday.

Turkish government has demanded the U.S. Army use its unmanned aerial vehicles loaded with Hellfire missiles more effectively against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as a part of a new strategy to end deadly rocket hits in the border province of Kilis.