The Russian Defence Ministry says Tuesday’s strikes targeted the Islamic State and other militant groups./ MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russia used Iran as a base from which to launch air strikes against Syrian militants for the first time on Tuesday, widening its air campaign in Syria and ...
ussian bombers flying from an Iranian airbase have struck targets in Syria, in the first time the Islamic republic has allowed a foreign power to conduct military operations from its territory since the 1979 revolution. Tu-22М3 long range bombers and SU-34 strike fighters flying from Hamadan ...
A still image, taken from video footage and released by Russia's Defence Ministry on August 11, 2016, shows a Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3 long-range bomber dropping off bombs at an unknown location in Syria. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation/Handout via/ Russian bombers based in Iran on ...
A still image taken from video footage and released by Russia's Defence Ministry on August 14 shows a Tu-22M3 droppinh bombs near what the ministry said is the city of Deir ez-Zor, Syria./ The Russian military has conducted air strikes in Syria using warplanes based in Iran for the first time, ...
Russia has deployed Tupolev-22 bombers to an air base in the Iranian city of Hamadan where they will carry out air strikes against militants in Syria, Russia's state-backed Rossiya 24 channel reported on Tuesday. The channel, citing Iranian and Arab media, said it was unclear how many Russian ...
TASS/ The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that long-range Russian bombers based in Iran had struck a number of targets inside Syria. Russia's state-backed Rossiya 24 channel reported earlier on Tuesday that the Kremlin had deployed Tupolev-22 bombers at an air base near the Iranian city ...
Extremist groups Islamic State and Nusra Front are targeted, Russia’s defense ministry says/ MOSCOW—The Russian military said Tuesday it had launched an airstrike against targets in Syria from an air base in western Iran, marking new military coordination between Tehran and Moscow in support of ...
Sharif had reported extensively from northern Gaza, Al Jazeera said/ Five Al Jazeera journalists including prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif have been killed in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital. Al-Sharif and another correspondent, Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with ...
Meir Simcha agreed to talk, but he wanted to do it somewhere special, because for him, this is a special time. In a place where nation, religion and war are linked inextricably with politics and the possession of land, Simcha chose a patch of shade under a fig tree next to a spring of fresh ...
Gazans carry aid packages from a food distribution point in Zikim in the northern Gaza Strip/ A further 11 deaths resulting from malnutrition have been reported in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. That brings the total number of malnutrition-related deaths to 212, including 98 ...
About one million people still live in Gaza City, which has already seen widespread damage due to Israeli bombardment/ News of the Israeli government's decision to take over Gaza City is being met not surprisingly with despair in Gaza. Gaza City, its capital, is on a countdown to oblivion. ...
Demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday while the Israeli security cabinet convened/ has been met with concern in Israel, particularly by families of hostages still being held by Hamas. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum: Bring Them Home Now has said the plan "means abandoning ...
'Chilling' aerial video shows Gaza in ruins/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel intends to take control of all of the Gaza Strip, ahead of a key meeting where ministers are now deciding whether to back such a move. Netanyahu affirmed the intention in an interview with Fox ...
Twenty people have been killed and more than 30 injured in central Gaza after four trucks overturned on a crowd, the Hamas-run civil defence agency says. Crowds rushed to the vehicles on a road south east of Deir al-Balah on Tuesday evening. They climbed on top of the trucks, causing the drivers ...
Hezbollah has described the Lebanese government's plans for arms control as "a grave sin"/ Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militant and political movement, says it will disregard a decision by Lebanon's government to task the army with establishing a state monopoly on arms. "We will treat this ...
Scenes like these have led to condemnation of Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries/ After nearly two years of war, Hamas's military capability is severely weakened and its political leadership under intense pressure. Yet, throughout the war Hamas has managed to continue to use a secret ...
Netanyahu's plan reportedly faces opposition from military chiefs/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to propose fully reoccupying the Gaza Strip when he meets his security cabinet, Israeli media say. "The die has been cast. We're going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and ...