Islamic State raised its flag on a building on the outskirts of the Syrian frontier town of Kobani on Monday after an assault of almost three weeks, but the town's Kurdish defenders said its fighters had not reached the city centre.

• Date: 06.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia said on Friday the mortar fire that killed a Swiss worker from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine was fired from territory controlled by Ukrainian government forces.

• Date: 03.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukraine accused Russian forces on Friday of helping separatists step up pressure on government troops holding the main airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, threatening a fragile ceasefire.

• Date: 03.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday it was essential that both Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists fully observed a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine clinched nearly a month ago.

• Date: 03.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Turkey signalled it may send troops into Syria or Iraq and let allies use Turkish bases to fight Islamic State, as coalition jets launched air strikes on Wednesday on insurgents besieging a town on its southern border with Syria.

• Date: 01.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

NATO's new leader offered an olive branch to Russia on Wednesday, saying he saw no contradiction between a strong alliance and building a constructive relationship with Moscow.

• Date: 01.10.2014  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The head of Syria's al Qaeda branch said militants will attack the West in retaliation for U.S.-led air strikes in Syria and Iraq, and President Barack Obama acknowledged U.S. intelligence had underestimated the rise of Islamic State fighters.

• Date: 29.09.2014  |  Published on EGF: 29.09.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

NATO's potential expansion to the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro could be seen as a "provocation", Russia's foreign minister was quoted as saying in a newspaper interview published on Monday.

• Date: 29.09.2014  |  Published on EGF: 29.09.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/