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 ...
Gunmen at a funeral on Wednesday for people killed in clashes between Syria's Druze community and security forces/ Israel's military chief has said his force struck "operatives" who attacked civilians from the Druze community on the outskirts of Damascus, after an outbreak of deadly sectarian ...
For generations Sherwen Sergeli and his family have made a living from his village's land, but that's now under threat/ Nestled in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan sits the picturesque village of Sergele. For generations villagers have made a living growing pomegranates, almonds and peaches and ...
The Palestinian Red Crescent posted a video showing Assad al-Nassasra being greeted by colleagues after 37 days in detention/ The Israeli military has released a Palestinian paramedic detained when Israeli troops killed 15 other emergency workers in southern Gaza last month, the Palestine Red ...
Firefighters were still working to extinguish blazes at the port on Monday, two days after the blast/ Iran's interior minister has said negligence was a factor in the massive explosion and fire at the country's largest container port, as the death toll rose to at least 70. Eskandar Momeni said ...
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar said he intended to leave his role on 15 June/ The head of Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency has resigned. Ronen Bar made the announcement that he would leave his position on 15 June at a memorial event for Shin Bet members who have died in service. It came ...
Dozens of countries are expected to give evidence across five days of hearings/ The UN's top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has begun hearings for an opinion on whether Israel must co-operate with the UN's Palestinian refugee agency - Unrwa - after it severed ties with it last ...
run media released images of the aftermath of a US strike on a port earlier this month/ The US military says it has hit more than 800 targets since launching sustained air and naval strikes against the Houthi movement in Yemen on 15 March. In a statement on Sunday summarising recent operations, ...
A giant plume of smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs following Israel's strike on Sunday/ Israel carried out an air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday, after ordering an evacuation of a building that it said was being used by the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah. The attack ...
Israel's military offensive in Gaza resumed after a ceasefire collapsed in March/ Qatar's prime minister says there has been "a bit of progress" in efforts to broker a new ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, but that there was still no "answer for the ultimate question: how to end this ...
Thick black smoke was still towering above the port on Sunday/ In Iran, mourning is turning to anger after a huge blast at its largest commercial port killed at least 40 people and injured more than 1,000. The explosion happened on Saturday morning at Shahid Rajaee port. Many people rushed to ...