Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has apologized to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over Ankara's shooting down of a Russias military jet last year which shattered ties between the two countries. In a statement released on Monday, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Putin had received a letter from Erdogan "in which the Turkish leader ...

The Pentagon says a US Air Force reconnaissance plane has been intercepted by a Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet in an "unsafe and unprofessional manner" while flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea. "The US aircraft was operating in international airspace and at no time crossed into Russian territory," Laura Seal, a Defense Departmentspokeswoman,...