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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
which sparked settler rampage/ A Palestinian man has been arrested over the murder of a 14-year-old Israeli boy, whose disappearance from an outpost in the occupied West Bank sparked a deadly rampage by settlers./ Benjamin Achimeir went missing on 12 April after going to herd sheep near the ...
Trump Organization civil trial in New York State Supreme Court in New York/ tried to convince a judge on Monday that the insurer that provided the former U.S. president with a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case was empowered and strong enough to issue the guarantee. The bond ...
North Korean illustrators and graphic designers appear to have helped produce work for US animation studios unbeknownst to those companies, suggesting that unreleased episodes of a few popular American cartoons could include work from one of the most closed-off economies in the world. The ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and ...
Joey Jackson is a criminal defense attorney and a legal analyst for CNN and HLN. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more It was a little more than a year ago, on April 3, 2023, that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg against former President Donald J. Trump. Now the ...
The youngest Trump kid is about to make his first big step in life: where he’ll attend college. For quite some time now, people have wondered if will be following in one of their footsteps during his collegiate years. Would he go to the Wharton School like his dad and siblings, or go to a ...