People's Council

Kyiv officials have taken credit for the killing of former Ukrainian politician Illia Kyva, a 46-year-old pro-Russian politician whose body was found in a suburb near Moscow.

BELGRADE - Damascus has a recording of conversations between the American military and Islamic State terrorists ahead of the US-led coalition airstrike that hit Syrian troops near Deir ez-Zor on September 17, the speaker of the People's Council of Syria said.

"Special status" bill in danger of being scrapped

LUGANSK -- Officials of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Lugansk are not concerned about Petro Poroshenko's intention to scrap a law on their special status.

The law would have given that status to the region of Donetsk and Lugansk.