Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 26, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/ MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday it hoped all sides involved in Syria ...
has boasted it is practising shooting down missiles as the country's parliamentary hardliners demanded a military response to any US air strike on The Russian defence ministry said that naval jets from its Pacific fleet had conducted exercises to “intercept and destroy a low-flying long-range ...
The guided missile destroyer USS Porter launches a Tomahawk missile toward Iraq during the initial stages of US-led invasion in 2003 (AFP Photo/HO)/ Washington (United States) (AFP) - US President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday that missiles would be launched at Syria following a suspected ...
Threats by some Western states to attack Syria are “based on lies after the liberation of eastern Ghouta”, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Thursday, Syrian state media reported. His comments were made during a meeting with Syrian President Bashar ...
Russian ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin (L) stands with the head of Lebanon's Higher Relief Council (HRC) Ibrahim Bashir upon the arrival of a Russian aeroplane carrying humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, at Beirut international airport April 3, 2013. REUTERS/Sharif Karim/ ...
The Trump administration appears to have officially come to a conclusion on whether to respond to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, with the US president suggesting Wednesday that a missile strike is eminent. “Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria,” Trump wrote ...
has in recent days raged against Syria and the regime of President Bashar Assad for a suspected chemical attack that killed dozens on Saturday. Trump on Wednesday even went as far as suggesting that missiles aimed at Syria “will be coming,” though no such strike has been publicly announced./ ...
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Iran vowed to retaliate for the recent attack on a military base in Syria, blaming Israel for the strike. Speaking in Damascus at a two-day conference on Jerusalem Tuesday, a senior advisor to Iran's ...
Mayadeen/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - The top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Tuesday described a strike on a military air base in Syria as “Israel’s crime” and said it would “not remain without response”, the Lebanese al-Mayadeen channel reported. Ali Akbar Velayati was speaking on ...
TEHRAN, April 10 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian deputy foreign minister on Tuesday condemned the alleged Israeli attack on a Syrian air base. By striking Syria's Homs air base, Israel is seeking to increase tension in the region, Abbas Araqchi said. Araqchi praised the Syrian government for what it ...
ANKARA, April 11 (Reuters) - The top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said on Wednesday that Tehran would support Damascus against any foreign aggression, state TV reported, in an apparent response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about a possible military strike on Syria. Trump and his ...
The top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said on Wednesday that Tehran would support Damascus against any foreign aggression, state TV reported, in an apparent response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about a possible military strike on Syria./ Ali Akbar Velayati smiles as he listens ...
A Russian warplane this weekend flew over a French warship at low altitude in the eastern Mediterranean, a deliberate breach of international regulations, a French naval source said on Tuesday. The incident, first reported by Le Point magazine, comes as tensions mount between Russia and Western ...
TV/ ANKARA (Reuters) - The top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said on Wednesday that Tehran would support Damascus against any foreign aggression, state TV reported, in an apparent response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about a possible military strike on Syria. “We will stand by ...
Seven Iranian military personnel were killed in Sunday’s air strike on a Syrian air base, Tasnim news agency said, almost double the number originally reported. Syria’s government and its ally Iran have accused Israel of carrying out the attack on the Tiyas, or T-4, air base near Homs - ...
The U.S. is working with France and Britain on options for a military operation in Syria after a suspected chemical attack on civilians. ABC News' Molly Hunter reports.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on U.S. policy on Syria (all times local): Trump administration officials are consulting with global allies on a likely military response to Syria's suspected poison gas attack near Damascus. President Donald Trump has canceled a foreign trip to manage the crisis, ...
Four Iranian military personnel were killed in an air strike on a Syrian air base on Sunday, Iran’s Fars news agency said, as Syria and its main allies Iran and Russia blamed Israel for carrying out the attack. Israel has not confirmed or denied mounting the raid, but Israeli officials said the ...
Russia and the Syrian military blamed Israel for a missile attack is Syria, while international condemnation grows over a suspected poison gas attack that was blamed on the Syrian government.
TEHRAN — A senior Iranian foreign policy official warned Israel on Tuesday that its strike on an air base in Syria that killed several Iranians would “not remain without a response,” the Lebanese news channel Al Mayadeen reported. Seven Iranian military personnel were killed on Monday in the ...
America faces two grave consequences if the president unilaterally attacks Assad. Striking Syria Again Would Be a Grave Mistake for America (and President Trump) The first day of a new job is always rough. But pity incoming National Security Advisor John Bolton, who will probably not even have ...
Russia and the Syrian military blamed Israel for a pre-dawn missile attack Monday on a major air base in central Syria that reportedly killed 14 people, including Iranians, while international condemnation grew over a suspected poison gas attack over the weekend that was blamed on the Syrian ...
Iran is fully defending Syria’s territorial integrity and its sovereign government, a senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said on Tuesday. Defenders of the holy shrines are still standing by the Syrian people and government and will continue their fight against the enemies of ...
Helicopters seen parked at the T-4 military airport , Homs/ Three Iranian fighters were killed Monday in a strike attributed to Israel on a Syrian airbase in the central province of Homs, Iran's Fars news agency said. Blaming the "Zionist regime", the news agency said "three defenders of the ...
Lynda Carter, the original Wonder Woman actor, denounced her sister’s campaign for a competitive seat in the Arizona House, telling on Friday that she wouldn’t support her for any elected position. The actor’s statement was included as part of Mother Jones’ exposé on her sister, Pamela Carter, ...
U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., listens during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)/ GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Former University of Florida president ...
Bonds are becoming more appealing again, but don't abandon your trusty bank accounts./ With the Fed poised to cut interest rates next week, the ripple effect will show up in certificates of deposit and high-yield savings accounts, which currently offer rates of more than 5%. They aren’t likely ...
People riding bicycles and motorbikes wait in traffic, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Shanghai/ HONG KONG (Reuters) -China's top legislative body has approved a proposal to raise the country's retirement age, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday, accelerating an overhaul of ...
Details are emerging of an apparent raid by Israeli special forces on a "Hezbollah missile production facility" in Syria. Israel's government has said nothing about the operation which, according to US media reports, took place at the beginning of the week. Syrian state media say 18 people were ...
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, a move he said would alter the nature and scope of the conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has ...
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The Postal Service’s new delivery vehicles aren’t going to win a beauty contest. They're tall and ungainly. The windshields are vast. Their hoods resemble a duck bill. Their bumpers are enormous. “You can tell that (the designers) didn’t have appearance in mind,” postal worker ...
As new details emerge about the 34-year-old man from Riverside County accused of starting the now 36,500-acre Line Fire, as well as how he came to the attention of authorities, neighbors of Halstenberg, who lives in Norco, nearly 50 miles away from where the Line Fire started, was arrested on ...
The logo of Stellantis is seen on the company's building in Velizy-Villacoublay near Paris/ (Reuters) - Automaker Stellantis told its U.S. dealers on Wednesday that its August sales were up 21% from July, and its dealer inventory was reduced for two consecutive months by approximately 10%. ...
The UN said the strike was the fifth on al-Jaouni school since the start of the war/ At least 14 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a UN-run school housing displaced families in the central Gaza Strip, hospital officials and the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency say. The Israeli ...