Brantley-6_20-12-2017

Trump denies being told about Russian bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan

President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was never briefed about the reported Russian efforts to pay bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, blasting a New York Times report on the bounties.

Kremlin calls reports of Russian bounties to kill U.S. troops ‘lies’

The Kremlin on Monday rejected as “lies” media reports that Russian forces had offered to pay Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan

West African instability risks gains against militants

Mali and Burkina Faso must guarantee at a summit this week that their domestic political problems do not reverse fragile military successes against Islamist militants in the Sahel region, a French presidential source said on Monday.

Kremlin is not aware of any alarms in regard to nuclear particles over the Baltics

Russia has not been informed of any emergency situation in regard to the nuclear particles detected over the Baltic Sea, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.

Floods in India’s Assam force a million from their homes

Heavy flooding triggered by monsoon rains has forced more than a million people to flee their homes in the northeast Indian state of Assam, authorities said on Monday, warning that the crisis was becoming more critical by the hour.