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Syria's government has agreed to attend a U.S.-Russian-brokered peace conference, according to Moscow.

By Don Kraus OtherWords columnist President Barack Obama's recent announcement that he believes Syria has used a small amount of chemical weapons ignited a debate.

Phillip Dean Kaltenbach, age 59, of Lynn St., Russia, Ohio, died 10:50 p.m. on Monday, May 20, 2013, at his home.

A Russian drunken driver who sparked a nationwide debate after killing seven, including five orphan children, in a road accident last year has been sentenced to prison.

The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are in an espionage battle with secret tactics, spying devices and training that sometimes can't prevent capture.

President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan projected a united front Thursday on Syria , keeping stark differences about how much the U.S. should intervene behind closed doors as they looked to Russia and the global community to close ranks behind efforts to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad .

A Russian security services operative -- his features bathed in shadows -- went on state television Wednesday to claim that the U.S. diplomat who was ordered out of the country was the second American expelled this year over spying allegations.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador to Russia today to submit a formal protest over Moscow's claim that it caught a U.S. diplomat disguised in a blond wig trying to recruit a counterintelligence officer for the CIA.

The Cold War is long over, but espionage is forever. Russian spies still operate in the U.S. and American ones in Russia.

Russia's security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA agent in a red-handed attempt to recruit a Russian agent.

Nearly 700 elementary students got to experience the Versailles FFA's 38th annual Farm Day on Friday.

Investigators say a 23-year-old Russian man was brutally beaten and left to die by his companions after drunkenly telling them he was gay.

Secretary of State John Kerry departed for Russia on Monday, as the conflict in Syria heads into a new and potentially more dangerous phase, and the Obama administration tries to pin down who used chemical weapons.

The first time I met the legendary Sam Jameson we had tea in Tokyo in 1979. He told me with unwavering assurance why he was dedicating his life and talents to Japan.

The police department made the announcement in a tweet Wednesday morning, saying more details would follow.

Russian special forces killed two members of a jihadist group in an early morning raid this weekend in the semiautonomous republic of Dagestan, two Russian police sources told CNN on Monday.

U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press.