The Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army troops refrained from retaliating and continue controlling the situation on the contact line.

The last round of talks between Israel and the Palestinians came to an end amid acrimony in April 2014.

The Rim of the Pacific exercise, billed as the world's largest int’l maritime exercise, is held every two years in Hawaii in June and July.

Washington has been leading an international campaign of air strikes against Islamic State for two years in both Syria and Iraq.