In 2020, the International Youth Summer School will celebrate its 10th anniversary.

According to the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation has ordered to send specialists of the International Mine Action Centre to Syria for humanitarian mine clearance in the city Palmyra, which had been liberated from ISIS terrorists by the Syrian Army.

A Kurdish representative in Russia told TASS on Thursday that Syrian Kurds proclaimed the creation of a "democratic system of Rojava and northern Syria", a federated district in Syria, at a conference held in the town of Rumeila (Syria’s Al-Hasakah province).

Chancellor Angela Merkel, caught in a bind by Turkey’s bid to silence a German satirist who lampooned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Friday that her government would allow the case to go forward, but that the outdated law that permits it would be repealed with effect from 2018, The New York Times informs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Syria Bashar Assad on March 27.

Another group of Russian aircraft departed from the Hmeymim airbase and headed to the permanent bases in the territory of the Russian Federation on March16,Russian Federation Defence Ministry reports.

Three boats carrying the first migrants being deported from Greece have arrived in Turkey on Monday as part of an EU plan aimed at easing mass migration to Europe.

The US Defence Secretary Ashton B. Carter has announced on Friday that The United States has killed a number of leading Islamic State (IS) militants in the past week, including a top Islamic State commander in Syria as part of a spate of military actions targeting the terrorist group’s leadership and explosives caches.

The Russian Defense Ministry has announced on Tuesday that the first groups of Russian warplanes flew home from Syria as Moscow started to withdraw forces that have tipped the war President Bashar al-Assad's way, and the U.N. envoy said he hoped the move would help peace talks in Geneva.

The media have reported that the United States intends to evacuate the families of US military and civilian personnel from Turkey due to the high level of the terrorist threat. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova was asked to comment this information on April 1.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been convicted of genocide and war crimes in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail, BBC informs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu to start the withdrawal of forces from Syria starting on March 15.