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 ...
A school sheltering for displaced people in southern Gaza City was struck by Israeli forces overnight/ Israel's defence minister has said its forces are "tightening the siege" around Gaza City by extending its control of a military corridor across the territory towards the coast. Isael Katz also ...
Donald Trump's framework agreement for ending the Gaza war and reconstructing the devastated territory has momentum behind it. Much of it comes from the president himself. Momentum comes too from leading Arab and Islamic countries who have supported the plan, including Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, ...
A senior Hamas figure has told the BBC that the group is likely to reject Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, saying it "serves Israel's interests" and "ignores those of the Palestinian people". The figure said that Hamas is unlikely to agree to disarming and handing over their weapons - a key ...
He promised total victory for Israel, but standing next to Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, it was Benjamin Netanyahu who looked defeated. Israel's prime minister was saying all the right things about the peace deal he had just agreed to, but he seemed deflated, his voice hoarse and ...
Trump and Netanyahu outline peace plan to end war in Gaza/ European and Middle Eastern leaders have welcomed a US peace plan for Gaza, as President Donald Trump warned Hamas to accept it. The plan, agreed by Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposes an immediate end to ...
It will be Netanyahu's fourth visit to the White House since Trump returned to office in January (file photo)/ US President Donald Trump will push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the framework of a new peace plan to end the Israel-Gaza war during White House discussions on ...
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, alongside her French and German counterparts, urged Iran against "escalatory action"/ Sweeping UN economic and military sanctions have been reimposed on Iran - 10 years after they were lifted in a landmark international deal over its nuclear programme. The new ...
Residents of Gaza City are still evacuating as the fighting intensifies/ More than 35 people have been killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire since the early hours of Saturday morning, hospital sources in Gaza say. A strike on a house in central Gaza left at least 11 people dead - more that half ...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke at the UN General Assembly/ The United Nations' sweeping economic and military sanctions look set to be reimposed on Iran a decade after they were lifted in a landmark international deal over its nuclear programme. last month, accusing Iran of failing to ...
British soldiers escort a group of Arab prisoners from Jerusalem after a revolt against the British Mandate in Palestine. Photo: 26 October 1938/ Palestinians pursuing an apology from the UK over colonial-era war crimes allegations have urged the government to respond in light of its recognition ...