Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford says he is working to re-open the incident-prevention phone hotline between the US and Russia (AFP Photo/JIM WATSON)/ Washington (AFP) - The United States wants to re-establish a military hotline that Russia said it had severed after an ...
A handout picture provided by Iran state TV and released on June 18, 2017 shows Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps launching a missile from an undisclosed location in western Iran, towards Islamic State group bases in Syria (AFP Photo/HO)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran has targeted jihadists in Syria with ...
War Game Shows Importance of Critical Bit of Eastern Europe; Israel Backs Syria Rebels; Final Days of U.S. pacific Commander?/ a Syrian Su-22 bomber near Raqqa on Sunday, throwing down an unambiguous new marker for forces who attack U.S.-backed fighters in the country: Washington will defend its ...
The warnings come a day after a U.S. jet downed a Syrian regime bomber./ Russia warned Monday that any U.S. or coalition aircraft flying west of the Euphrates River in Syria will be tracked by Russian warplanes and anti-aircraft batteries, a swift reaction to Sunday’s shoot-down of a Syrian ...
18E Super Hornet takes off from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, Oct. 29, 2016./ : Referring to the launch of several midrange missiles by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps on Sunday in Syria, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called it an act of self-defense. : After a U ...
This April 30, 2017, file photo provided by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) shows fighters from the SDF looking toward the northern town of Tabqa, Syria. The U.S.-led coalition headquarters in Iraq said in a written statement that a U.S. F-18 Super Hornet shot down a Syrian government SU-22 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter jet for the first time. Syria attacks America's allies against Islamic State militants. Iran fires missiles into Syria. Russia threatens to target U.S. coalition planes. As Syria's complex war ramps up, the Trump administration is ...
In this Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, file photo a Ghadr-F missile is displayed next to a portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a Revolutionary Guard hardware exhibition marking the 36th anniversary of outset of Iran-Iraq war, at Baharestan Sq. in downtown Tehran, Iran. Iran's ...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it launched a series of missiles into Syria on Sunday in revenge for deadly attacks on its capital that were claimed by the Islamic State group. It was the first missile attack by Iran outside its own territory in 30 years, since the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, ...
government fighter jet accused of attacking Kurdish-led troops, prompting a furious response from Damascus as tensions increase. US Central Command said the SU-22 dropped bombs near the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who are being supported by the US-led coalition as they advance on the ...
Iraqi forces launched an offensive to recapture Mosul in October 2016 (AFP Photo/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)/ Baghdad (AFP) - Key dates in the Iraqi offensive to recapture Mosul, the country's second biggest city, from the Islamic State group (IS) jihadists who seized it in June 2014. - October 17, 2016: ...
Iraqi forces, consisting of the Iraqi federal police and the elite Rapid Response Division, patrol in the Shifa neighbourhood, on the west bank of Mosul, on June 17, 2017 (AFP Photo/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)/ Baghdad (AFP) - Iraqi forces on Sunday started their assault on Mosul's Old City as they press ...
Russia gave a warning to the U.S. after a Syrian warplane was downed by the U.S. military. The Russian Defense Ministry threatened it will treat U.S.-led coalition planes over Syria as targets.
TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the Syrian government was “informed” of the missile attacks at Islamic State strongholds in eastern Syria. Late on Sunday, Iran fired missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria in retaliation for the jihadists’ deadly attacks in Tehran on ...
TEHRAN – Late on Sunday Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps fired six missiles into eastern Syria, targeting Islamic State strongholds in retaliation for the recent ISIS-claimed terrorist attacks in Tehran. The national TV showed footages of missile attacks being launched from western Iran ...
Islamic State claimed responsibility for June 7 incidents/ Revolutionary Guard claims ‘crushing blows’ to Syrian targets/ Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it fired a number of missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria in response to recent attacks in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency ...
- Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Sunday it launched missiles into eastern Syria targeting Islamic State militants in response to an attack on Iran's parliament and a shrine in Tehran, warning that it would retaliate in like manner on anyone else carrying out attacks in Iran. The paramilitary ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Iraqi forces captured Saturday a border crossing point to Syria from the Islamic State group, increasing pressure on the extremists and getting closer to meeting up with Syrian troops and their allies who reached the border earlier this month for the first time in years. Tribal ...
Russia on Monday threatened aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition in Syrian-controlled airspace and suspended a hotline intended to avoid collisions in retaliation for the U.S. military shooting down a Syrian warplane. The U.S. said it had downed the Syrian jet a day earlier after it dropped ...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it launched missiles into eastern Syria targeting Islamic State militants./ This comes in response to an attack on Iran's parliament and a shrine in Tehran./ The assault marked an extremely rare direct attack from the Islamic Republic amid its support for ...
In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in ...
Bettersten Wade speaks to the attendees of her son Dexter Wade's funeral service in Jackson, Miss. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Looking on are the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, who delivered the eulogy, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, background, and one of her son's daughters, Jaselyn Thomas. Bettersten ...
A mother will search anywhere for her missing child. And while she has the strength, she will never stop./ For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the mass graves at Nasser hospital./ She is the mother of 21-year-old Ahmed, who was killed on 25 ...
This undated photo provided by University of Wisconsin Marketing & Communications, shows UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan has started the process in late March 2024, to strip Gow, the former chancellor who was fired over his ...
Satellite images show two new tent encampments in southern Gaza as reports suggest Israel's military is preparing for an offensive in the city of Rafah./ Rafah, by the border with Egypt, is the only city in Gaza it has not yet entered. Well over a million people have been sheltering there for ...
Activists of Jammu and Kashmir Dogra Front shout slogans against Chinese President Xi Jinping next to a banner showing the logos of TikTok and other Chinese apps banned in India during a protest in Jammu, India, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)/ NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular ...
More than six months into the devastating Gaza war, its impact on the Israeli and Palestinian economies has been huge./ Nearly all economic activity in Gaza has been wiped out and the World Bank says the war has also hit Palestinian businesses in the occupied West Bank hard./ As Israelis mark ...
Megan Thee Stallion arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. A photographer who worked for the hip-hop star said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, April 23, 2024, that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was ...
HELENA, Ga. (AP) — Someone using a magnet to fish for metal objects in a Georgia creek pulled up a rifle as well as some lost belongings of a couple found slain in the same area more than nine years ago. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says driver's licenses, credit cards and other items ...
A man killed his wife and three of his children in an apparent murder-suicide mass shooting at a home in Oklahoma, according to police. Oklahoma City police said they were notified around 9:35 a.m. Monday and responding officers found the five bodies inside the house. Jonathon Candy, 42, ...