BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia's military intervention in the Syrian war has all but destroyed a deal agreed last month to halt fighting between warring sides in two areas of the west, unpicking a rare success for foreign-backed diplomacy in the four-year-long conflict. Implementation of the ...
An unidentified ISIS fighter appears in a propaganda video released by the militant group./ Iran said Friday that one of its senior military officers, Quds Force commander Gen. Hossein Hamedani, was killed in Syria. He was officially in the country as an advisor to Syrian President Bashar ...
Islamic State group fighters advanced Friday on Syria's second city Aleppo despite more than a week of Russian air strikes that Moscow says is aimed at routing the jihadists./ The jihadist gains came as regime forces, backed by Russian bombing and fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militia ...
BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have seized Syrian villages on the outskirts of Aleppo from rival insurgent fighters, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite Russian air strikes that Moscow says have targeted the militant group. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said ...
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards general has been killed near Aleppo, where he was advising the Syrian army on their battle against Islamic State fighters, the guards said in a statement on Friday. The Guards said General Hossein Hamedani was killed on Thursday night and that he had "played an ...
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander has been killed in Syria, Tehran said Friday, and French warplanes carried out fresh airstrikes in the country, as the conflict continued to take on a complex international component. General Hossein Hamedani was killed by Islamic State fighters ...
BEIRUT (AP) — A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard was killed by Islamic State extremists on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, Iranian state media reported on Friday./ A state television report said that Gen. Hossein Hamedani was killed in the suburbs of ...
The reports could embarrass the Russian government./ The mistaken bombing, launched from a Russian warship in the Caspian Sea, was first , which received the information from two unnamed U.S. officials./ From the Caspian Sea, the clearest path for the missiles to reach Syria would be by crossing ...
In this undated file photo released by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave flags as they ride in a convoy, which includes multiple Toyota pickup trucks, through Raqqa city in ...
In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, a Russian navy ship launches a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea./ As many as four Russian long-range cruise missiles launched from warships in the Caspian Sea fell short of their ...
Iranian soldiers from the Revolutionary Guards march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the start of Iran's 1980-1988 war with Iraq, on September 22, 2015, in the capital Tehran (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Tehran (AFP) - Islamic State group jihadists have killed a senior ...
24M bomber dropping bombs during an airstrike in Syria (AFP Photo/-)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran on Friday declines to confirm or deny a claim by a US official that Russian missiles targeting rebels in Syria crashed in its territory this week. "We don't confirm" this information, foreign ministry ...
The sailors of Russia's Caspian fleet have seen little action over the last 300 years but now the war raging in Syria has thrust them into the forefront of Russia's largest military operation abroad since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Better known for oil drilling and sturgeon smuggling than ...
Four Russian cruise missiles aimed at targets in Syria crashed in Iran, a US official said Thursday, as regime troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah pressed a "vast offensive" against rebels in the war-torn country's west./ The missiles were thought to be among a salvo fired Wednesday from ...
Regime troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah and Russian air strikes advanced Thursday in western Syria in a "vast offensive" against rebels, as NATO voiced alarm at Moscow's escalating military activity in the country./ Russia has dramatically stepped up its nine-day-old air war against foes of ...
An image grab from a video released by the Russian Defence Ministry on October 7, 2015 reportedly shows a Russian warship launching a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea during a strike against Islamic State group positions in Syria (AFP Photo/)/ Moscow (AFP) - Russia's defence ministry denied a ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO talked tough Thursday about Moscow's expanding military activity in Syria, but the U.S.-led alliance's chief response to the Russian airstrikes and cruise missile attacks was a public pledge to help reinforce the defenses of member nation Turkey if necessary./ "NATO is able ...
Syrian troops and allied militia backed by a fresh wave of Russian air strikes and cruise missiles fired from warships attacked rebel forces on Thursday as the government extended an offensive to recapture territory in the west of the country. The assault focused on western areas where rebel ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon officials say several of the long-range cruise missiles that Russia fired at Syrian targets landed instead in Iran. Two officials say it's unclear whether the errant missiles caused any significant damage in Iran. One of the officials says the number of missiles that ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's top general on Thursday said Russian strikes had helped government forces launch a "wide-ranging" offensive in central and northwestern Syria, where al-Qaida's affiliate as well as other insurgents had advanced toward key government strongholds in recent months./ ...
President Obama has said that Russian air strikes in Syria won't draw the U.S. into a "proxy war," but Russia's involvement still poses major implications for the U.S. military./ Image shows a Russian warship in the Caspian Sea launching missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria. Photo is from ...
Smoke rising after a Russian airstrike hit buildings in the town of Latamna in the area of Hama in Eastern Syria, Oct. 7, 2015./ Russia is adding to its barrage on rebel forces in Syria, sending in more firepower in the form of an additional Russian battalion armed with advanced tanks and ...
After a week of intense bombing in Syria Russia says it has struck over 100 targets in the war-torn country, almost all belonging to Islamic State jihadists./ As troops supporting President Bashar al-Assad forces reportedly launch a major ground operation under Russian air cover, what do we know ...
Russian cruise missiles that were fired from warships in the Caspian sea and were intended to hit Syrian targets crashed in Iran, instead, a U.S. official tells NPR's Tom Bowman. CNN, which first reported the story, said it is still unclear where the missiles landed or if they caused any damage ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia fired cruise missiles at Syrian targets this week without giving any advanced notice, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday, describing a trend of unpredictable military action that has put the United States and its allies on edge. "We've seen ...
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday the four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea had reached their targets, Interfax news agency reported. U.S. officials and media said the missiles had crashed in Iran. "In contrast to CNN we do not talk with reference to anonymous ...
Russia's military intervention in Syria has jolted NATO and provoked frustration in Washington. On Wednesday, Russia launched cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea./ NATO's chief today described a “troubling escalation” of fighting in Syria a week after Russia entered the four-year ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from a Russian ship in the Caspian Sea on Wednesday crashed in Iran, U.S. officials said on Thursday. A U.S. government source said Russia had been flying cruise missiles over Iran into Syria in attacks on rebels fighting Syrian ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The latest developments as Syrian troops and other nations battle militants in Syria. All times local in Syria. confirms the U.S. has indications that four Russian cruise missiles crashed in Iran rather than Syria, suggesting there were malfunctions. It's the first public ...
Russia says cruise missiles launched from the Caspian Sea Wednesday were aimed at Islamic State sites, but anti-Assad rebels say they, not jihadists, are Moscow's primary target./ Russia stepped up its military strikes against anti-regime rebels in Syria Wednesday, launching 26 cruise missiles ...
U.S. officials said at least four Russian missiles launched from the Caspian Sea toward Syria landed in Iran, reports Russian officials deny. U.S. military and intelligence reports, as well as unnamed U.S. officials, said Thursday at least four missiles aimed at Syrian targets crashed in Iran ...
Iranian military commander Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani (seen) was killed in Syria on Thursday./ Iranian military commander Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani has been killed in Syria, where he was giving military advice to the Syrian army in its fight against Takfiri militants in the Arab ...
At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his Russian hosts how a series of defeats for President Bashar al-Assad could be turned into victory – with Russia’s help./ Major General Qassem Soleimani’s visit to Moscow was the first step in planning ...
At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his Russian hosts how a series of defeats for President Bashar al-Assad could be turned into victory — with Russia's help. Major General Qassem Soleimani's visit to Moscow was the first step in planning ...
Iranian defense ministry believes reports on "fallen Russian cruise missiles" are part of the intensified western propaganda war, according to a source, Tehran has denied US reports that four of Russia's cruise missiles targeting ISIL actually fell to the ground in Iran, with the country's ...
Russia's defence ministry denied a claim by a US official Thursday that four Syria-bound Russian cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea had crashed in Iran. "Any professional knows that during these operations we always fix the target before and after impact. All our cruise missiles hit ...
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 ...
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency./ But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged to terror groups./ Some of ...
An Uber driver from Southern California is looking to spread the word on the potential risks associated with being a rideshare driver after he was violently assaulted by a passenger over the weekend. that he comes to the L.A. area from his home in the Antelope Valley on the weekends since there ...
Donald Trump won’t be getting his way in his New York hush money trial—at least, not without consequences. Presiding Judge Juan Merchan decided Monday that prosecutors can cross-examine the former president on prior judgements and gag order violations. This is only relevant if Trump takes the ...
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with ...
A premature baby was saved when doctors performed an emergency caesarean in Rafah, after the city was hit by Israeli air strikes on Saturday night. Her mother, Sabreen, could not be saved, and died along with the baby's father and sister. Medics said the baby was born in respiratory distress and ...