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 ...
Red Cross staff transferred the two coffins to Israeli forces in Gaza/ Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contain the bodies of deceased hostages, according to the Israeli prime minister's office. Israeli forces will now ...
Footage shows scale of ultra-Orthodox protest against conscription/ Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis are taking part in a protest in Jerusalem against changes to a legal exemption for religious students from conscription in the military. Almost all sects and factions of ...
The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to "dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure" (file photo)/ Israeli troops carried out an incursion into a south Lebanese town overnight, killing a municipal employee, state media report, amid an escalation of Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The ...
First responders say Israel's overnight strikes hit residential areas, schools and tents housing displaced families/ When is a ceasefire no longer a ceasefire? It depends on who you ask. According to US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, "nothing is going to jeopardise" the truce between ...
Four people were killed in an Israeli strike in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza/ At least 104 Palestinians were killed in a wave of Israeli strikes in Gaza on Tuesday night, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry says. The Israeli military said it struck "dozens of terror targets and ...
by the Israeli army three years ago alleges that new revelations from an American military officer who investigated her killing reveals a US cover-up. Tony Abu Akleh's comments come after the New York Times reported that a US colonel said he concluded in 2022 that Ms Abu Akleh, a ...
Efforts are continuing to find the bodies of the hostages that are still in Gaza/ Israel has received, through the Red Cross, a coffin that Hamas says contains the body of another deceased hostage held in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops had taken the coffin from Gaza back ...
Released Israeli hostage Evyatar David gestures to crowds as he returns to his home in Kfar Saba, central Israel/ The father of a released Israeli hostage who was forced to dig his own grave in a Gazan tunnel by Hamas has told the BBC his son's health is "improving every day". Avishai David was ...
Downing an Israeli drone is a rare action by the UN's peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as Unifil/ The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon says it shot down an Israeli drone that flew over a patrol operating in the south of the country on Sunday, in the latest incident involving the force ...
Would Jordan provide security inside Gaza? The country's king explains his answer to BBC Panorama/ Countries would reject being asked to "enforce" peace in Gaza if deployed under the Trump ceasefire plan, King Abdullah of Jordan has told the BBC. "What is the mandate of security forces inside of ...