An academic says President Putin of Russia has made a very strategic move not to expel US diplomats, and that new bans against Russia are last-minute attempt to ruin the process of restarting peaceful cooperation between the two countries.

An analyst says President Obama’s order to impose new sanctions on Russia will not only destroy Washington’s relationship with Moscow but will affect other areas of US foreign policy.

In a statement by the Pakistani Foreign Ministry on Thursday, the Indian diplomats were accused of causing instability in Pakistan’s Sindh and Baluchistan provinces.

Dozens of Turkish diplomats and their families have sought asylum in Germany since the failed July 15 coup attempt.

A military attaché is also among the diplomats, German media say.

The diplomats are suspected of links to a US-based opposition leader, Fethullah Gulen, himself accused of orchestrating July's failed coup.

Turkish officials remand 14 judges and prosecutors in custody over alleged links to opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen.

The United States delivers high-level complaints to Moscow about increasing intimidation of American diplomats in Russia and elsewhere.

A US daily unveils details of the still classified 28 pages of the 9/11 report on Saudi links to the terror events.

An analyst says the 9/11 Commission has been covering up Saudi and CIA involvement in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.