DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's foreign minister warned Saturday that Saudi or other foreign troops entering his country would "return home in wooden coffins" and asserted that recent military advances put his government "on track" to end the five-year-old civil war./ Walid al-Moallem's comments ...
Thousands of Syrians braved the cold and rain Saturday at the Turkish border after fleeing a Russian-backed regime assault on Aleppo in northern Syria that threatens a fresh humanitarian disaster./ Syria's government, meanwhile, warned that any foreign soldiers who enter the country would go ...
Saudi Arabia's fresh public willingness to send ground troops into is drawing ridicule from the kingdom's chief regional rival./ The commander of Iran's revolutionary guard on Saturday mocked Saudi Arabia's declaration that it is prepared to commit ground troops to fight ISIS in war-torn Syria. ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Latest on the fighting in Syria, where government forces are waging a massive offensive around the northern city of Aleppo, once the country's largest. (all times local):/ Iran has held a funeral for six soldiers, including a senior Revolutionary Guard commander, who ...
Saudi Arabia wouldn't dare send ground troops to war-torn Syria, the chief of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said Saturday, after Riyadh opened up the possibility of such a deployment./ The Sunni-ruled kingdom, Iran's regional rival, has said it could "contribute positively" if the US-led ...
Syria's government warned Saturday that its forces would resist any foreign ground intervention after reports that Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which both support rebel forces, could send in troops. "Any ground intervention on Syrian territory without government authorisation would amount to an ...
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu arrives to take part in a EU foreign ministers meeting in Amsterdam, on February 6, 2016 (AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand)/ Amsterdam (AFP) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Saturday his country would keep its "open border policy" for refugees, ...
Iran's Revolutionary guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari speaks during a conference to mark the martyrs of terrorism in Tehran September 6, 2011./ The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday Saudi Arabia lacked the courage to go through with a plan to send ground troops to ...
With rebel forces facing the prospect of a crushing defeat by Syria's Russian-backed regime, their allies Saudi Arabia and Turkey may send in limited numbers of ground troops, analysts say./ Riyadh on Thursday left open the possibility of deploying soldiers, saying it would "contribute ...
Saudi Arabia announced Thursday their willingness to commit ground troops to the fight against Islamic State in Syria. Rumors suggest Turkey will follow suit. Why the escalation?/ Saudi Arabia has announced its willingness to commit ground forces to the conflict in Syria, while Russia has ...
Syria's mainstream rebels risk total collapse after a Russian-backed regime advance that severed their main supply line to Aleppo city and threatens to leave them completely besieged there./ Analysts said rebels and their international backers were left with few options to prevent fresh ...
Syria will resist any ground incursion into its territory and send the aggressors home "in coffins", its foreign minister said on Saturday, in comments clearly aimed at Sunni Arab countries that have said they were ready to join such an operation. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem also told a ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of Syrians rushed toward the Turkish border Friday, fleeing a fierce government offensive and intense Russian airstrikes near Syria's largest city of Aleppo./ Turkey, an ally of the Syrian opposition, promised humanitarian help for the displaced civilians, including food ...
Iranian media reported on February 5 that Revolutionary Guard Corps Brigadier-General Mohsen Ghajarian was killed in fighting in Syria, along with six Basij militia volunteers. The news agencies said the deaths occurred in the northern province of Aleppo, where the Syrian government, backed by ...
The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday Saudi Arabia lacked the courage to go through with a plan to send ground troops to Syria, and warned they would be wiped out if they went in. Mohammad Ali Jafari's blunt words on the Fars news agency were Iran's first official ...
GENEVA (AP) — The main Syrian opposition group is unlikely to return to Geneva to take part in indirect peace talks because of Syria and Russia's "arrogant" and "merciless" bombardment campaign, the opposition's chief negotiator said./ Mohammed Alloush, who represents the powerful Army of Islam ...
Tens of thousands of Syrians fled an intensifying Russian assault around Aleppo on Friday, and aid workers said they feared the city which once held two million people could soon fall under a full government siege. Iran reported one of its generals was killed on the front line assisting ...
BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on Syria (all times Syria local):/ Iran's supreme leader says Iranian forces must fight Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq to prevent the militant organization spreading to Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments, which were reported by Tasnim news agency Friday, ...
Thousands of Syrians were stuck on the Turkish border Friday after fleeing a major regime offensive backed by Russia near Aleppo where a new humanitarian disaster appeared to be unfolding./ Tens of thousands of civilians are reported to have joined the exodus after fierce fighting by advancing ...
BEIRUT/MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it suspected Turkey was preparing a military incursion into Syria, as a Syrian army source said Aleppo would soon be encircled by government forces with Russian air support. Turkey in turn accused Moscow of trying to divert attention from ...
known Iranian religious singer recently traveled to war-torn Syria, where he performed for Iranian fighters deployed there to bolster Tehran's regional ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Saeed Haddadian, a popular singer among hard-line segments of Iranian society, said in a February 3 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talks are under way about a ceasefire and humanitarian access for civilians in the five-year-old Syrian civil war and it will be clear within days whether that is possible, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday./ "The modalities of a ceasefire itself are also ...
A high-ranking member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and six Iranian Basij militia volunteers have been killed in fighting in Syria, semi-official Iranian media said on Friday./ The Islamic Republic says it has military advisers and volunteers in Syria to help President Bashar ...
In this photo provided by Turkey's Islamic aid group of IHH, Syrians fleeing the conflicts in Azaz region, wait at the Bab al-Salam border gate, Syria, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. Turkish officials say thousands of Syrians have massed on the Syrian side of the border seeking refuge in Turkey. ...
The countries which have claimed to be considering on-ground military intervention in Syria should be warned that the “resistance movement” will not stand idle and will give them a harsh response, member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Saleh ...
Iran has no plan on deploying massive military forces in Syria, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced, Feb. 6. “Our policy is not dispatching massive forces to Syria, though there is an enthusiasm and very much willingness among ...
known Iranian religious singer recently traveled to war-torn Syria, where he performed for Iranian fighters deployed there to bolster Tehran's regional ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Saeed Haddadian, a popular singer in conservative segments of Iranian society, said in a February 3 ...
ranking member of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and six Iranian Basij militia volunteers have been killed in fighting in Syria, semi-official Iranian media said on Friday. The Islamic Republic says it has military advisers and volunteers in Syria to help President Bashar Al ...
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, ...
Donald Trump CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images/ This is the second week of former president Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in Manhattan for allegedly engaging in a hush-money scheme to conceal his sexual encounter with adult film actress . (Legal scholar Norman Eisen has more ...