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Afghan and foreign soldiers inspect the site of a bomb attack that targeted several armored vehicles belonging to forces attached to the NATO Resolute Support Mission, in downtown of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi, the Kabul city police chief, said that three Afghan civilians were wounded in the attack that damaged one of the vehicles but caused no fatalities. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

NATO: Helicopter crash at Kabul base kills 5

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Bodies of victims are covered with flags and banners as a police officer secure the area after an explosion in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. Two bomb explosions apparently targeting a peace rally in Turkey's capital Ankara on Saturday has killed many people a news agency and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey peace rally targeted: Suicide bombings kill 95 people in Ankara

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

As the U.S. military maintains a presence in the Baltic states and Poland, a propaganda war is raging in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to reach Russian minorities. (Associated Press)

L. TODD WOOD: Britain deploys troops to Baltics, boosts Ukrain presence

By L. Todd Wood

Russian naval ships launched cruise missiles Wednesday as President Vladimir Putin's military bombarded parts of Syria by air, land and sea, claiming Islamic State militants were the targets. (Associated Press)

Putin’s motives in Syria questioned as Russia targets pro-Western rebels, not Islamic State

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A Russian Navy ship named 'Caesar Kunikov' passes through the Dardanelles strait in Turkey en route to the Mediterranean Sea, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. Russia began launching military operations in Syria on Wednesday. (Photo/Burak Gezen/DHA via AP) TURKEY OUT

NATO denounces Russia for violating Turkish airspace

By SUZAN FRASER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Illustration on the dangers to Europe from the refugee wave by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

JED BABBIN: Why Europe is losing the refugee war

By Jed Babbin

Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen) ** FILE **

Joe Biden offers support for NATO expansion in Balkans as Montenegro is considered

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Vladimir Putin. (Associated Press)

Russia calls on world to back Syrian military

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Afghan security forces and British soldiers inspect the site of a suicide attack in the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. The suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy traveling through a crowded neighborhood in Afghanistan's capital Saturday, killing at least 10 people, including three foreign contractors, authorities said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini

Afghan car bombing kills at least 12, including 3 Americans

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Soldiers with Battery C, 1st Battalion, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 18th Fires Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, fire 155 mm rounds using an M777 Howitzer weapons system, on Forward Operating Base Bostick, Afghanistan, 2009. The Army is now looking for a canon with much longer range — 1,000 miles. (U.S. Army)

Marine Corps ships tanks, heavy artillery to Eastern Europe to deter Russia

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

U.S. Army helicopters transport soldiers during the NATO Noble Jump exercise on a training range near Swietoszow Zagan, Poland, Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

NATO refutes report on active preparations for war with Russia

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, March 11, 2015, file photo, pro-Russian rebels line up in front of their commander during a military training exercise near Yenakiyeve, eastern Ukraine. AP reporting, based on dozens of conversations with rebel fighters and visits to their training grounds, has revealed the extent of the involvement of Russian troops in the yearlong conflict. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)

Russia and NATO ‘actively preparing for war’: report

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media during a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, in this Thursday, March 12, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, file)

NATO holding rare emergency meeting at Turkey’s request

By John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press

About 1,000 Kurdish activists from Istanbul who arrived in response to a call for mass mobilization by the imprisoned leader of the PKK rebel group, Abdullah Ocalan, gather at the border near Suruc, Turkey, on Sept. 25, 2014. (Associated Press)

Obama denies gaining Turkey’s help in Islamic State fight means sacrificing Kurds

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as he visits the National Defense Control Center in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 17, 2015. (Alexei Nikolsky/ RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Vladimir Putin’s plans may post ‘existential’ threat to NATO, General Joseph Votel says

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

An F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft takes off for a night mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Oct. 30, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo by Val Gempis) ** FILE **

U.S. airstrikes destroy Islamic State branch, Afghanistan says

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Unlike Germany and Japan that were converted to friends from enemies after World War II, Russia has not followed a similar model. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Russian nuclear threat grows

By Bill Gertz

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Monday as the Greek debt crisis deepened. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Greece debt crisis could give Russia opening to expand influence in region

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 11, 2013 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, visits the new headquarters of the &quot;Russia Today&quot; television channel in Moscow, Russia. Major brands in the export division of Russian media include RT, the RIA Novosti news agency and its English-language arm Sputnik, and the Voice of Russia radio station. Despite the pounding Russia’s economy is taking from the slump in the price of crude oil and the West’s Ukraine-related sanctions, the annual government budget allocation for RT alone has been hiked by 30 percent since 2014, to the ruble equivalent of $289 million. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Europe seeks to counter Kremlin success pushing world view

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG and NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, right, listens to NATO Response Force soldiers during his visit to the I. German-Dutch Brigade in Muenster, Germany, Monday, June 22, 2015. The troops are part of NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF). (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Ashton Carter: ‘We continue to hope that Russia will change course’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times