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Pakistani police say a group of militants armed with assault rifles attacked a police post in the country's restive northwest ...

He was widely regarded as a builder of bridges between Muslim societies and the West despite his reticence to become involved ...

Residents in Astrakhan have complained about the smell after a reported Ukrainian drone strike on a natural gas facility.

A series of drone attacks by Ukraine on Russia's energy facilities have sparked fires in recent days at a major oil refinery in the Volgograd region, as well as at the Astrakhan gas processing plant.

Ukraine strikes energy facilities in southern Russia, inclduing Astrakhan, with dozens of drones. Video credit: Social Media ...

Astrakhan power plant hit by Ukrainian drone, Astrakhan, Russia, 03.02.2025.

Ukrainian forces fighting around Velyka Novosilka claim its Russian takeover will amount to nothing more than a flag-raising ...

Chief Oppositionist Lev Davidovich Trotsky, famed “father of the Red Army,” chief disciple of Lenin, was reported banished to remote Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea, whence comes caviar.

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