TEHRAN(Basirat): Donald Trump, the US President, has recently announced that his Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, would leave the Pentagon at the end of February. This announcement came amid the removal of US troops from Syria.

TEHRAN(Basirat): On December 10, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced two Russian Tu-160 planes landed at an airport in close proximity to Caracas, Venezuelan capital, after traveling some 10,000 km. The two Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers arrived a couple of days after Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro's meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, which ended with Russia's agreement to invest in Venezuela.