WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Russian leaders have approved an additional $1 billion loan to Venezuela to cover the costs of purchasing Russia's advanced, short-range TOR-M1 anti-aircraft and anti-missile system, along with Igla-S portable SAM systems, Il-78 aerial tankers and Il-76 military cargo aircraft.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Venezuela has bought $4.4 billion worth of weapons from Russia over the past four years. And despite the collapsing global price of oil, Venezuela's weapons planning top general has announced it is going to buy lots more.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A buoyant Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez boasted Sunday that his air force could sink the U.S. Fourth Fleet in the Caribbean now that it had received 24 Russian Sukhoi Su-30MK2 combat aircraft equipped with missiles capable of sinking ships.

WASHINGTON, April 18 (UPI) -- The evolution of land weapons systems appears more like life in a tropical jungle.

WASHINGTON, April 16 (UPI) -- What matters most with weapons systems is whether the systems will actually work reliably, and how much punishment they can take.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Why is Russia doing so well in the global arms sales market when its economic resources are only a fraction of the United States,

BERLIN, June 28 (UPI) -- AK-47 inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov is calling for strict international regulation of the small arms trade.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A woman killed by peacekeeping troops in Bosnia was shot after she and her 11-year-son fired on soldiers seeking the arrest of her husband.

TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Gazan gunmen Monday kidnapped veteran CNN producer Riad Ali.