A gunner checks his sights at a Syrian government artillery position between Talbiseh and Rastan in the northern countryside of Homs (AFP Photo/)/ Damascus (Syria) (AFP) - Syrian air defence shot down missiles over the central province of Homs, the state news agency said Tuesday, with the ...
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that US President Donald Trump's administration was seeking to assemble an Arab force, including troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to replace a US military contingent in Syria (AFP Photo/FAYEZ NURELDINE)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Foreign ...
BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local): Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says the kingdom is in talks with the Trump administration about sending forces into Syria, and that this proposal has been under discussion since the Obama administration. Adel al-Jubeir told ...
Iran has threatened to punish Israel for its airstrikes in , after reports emerged that an unnamed Israeli military official had confirmed his country was behind an attack on an Iranian drone base in Homs province. Foreign Ministry, has now warned “Tel Aviv will be punished for its aggressive ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian media said international chemical weapons inspectors on Tuesday entered the town of Douma, where an alleged poison gas attack was carried out earlier this month, but a Syrian diplomat said later that only a U.N. security team visited the Damascus suburb. The ...
Chemical weapons experts are due to arrive in Douma on Wednesday to probe the alleged poison gas attack, Russian officials said, as the US voiced fears Moscow may already have "tampered with" evidence at the site. Following weekend missile strikes on Syria by the US, France and Britain, Russia ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel maintained its official silence on Monday over its possible involvement in an April 9 air strike on a Syrian airbase after the New York Times quoted an unnamed Israeli military source as saying Israel had carried out the raid. Syria and its main ally Russia blamed ...
Syrian anti-aircraft defenses shot down missiles fired at the Syrian air base of Shayrat in Homs province late on Monday and another base northeast of the capital, Damascus, Syria's state television and pro-Iranian Hezbollah media said. State television showed pictures of a missile that was shot ...
Chemical weapons experts are due to arrive in Douma on Wednesday to probe an alleged poison gas attack, Russian officials said, as the US voiced fears Moscow may already have "tampered with" evidence at the site. Following weekend missile strikes on Syria by the US, France and Britain, Russia ...
People stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 16, 2018. Faisal Mekdad, Syria’s deputy foreign minister, said on Monday that his country is "fully ready" to cooperate with the fact-finding ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel released details on Tuesday about what it described as an Iranian “air force” deployed in neighboring Syria, including civilian planes suspected of transferring arms, a signal that these could be attacked should tensions with Tehran escalate./ FILE PHOTO - An Israeli ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns over Iran's present in Syria at the weekly cabinet meeting on April 15, 2018 (AFP Photo/GALI TIBBON)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday over Iran's presence in Syria after Western strikes in response to the ...
DAMASCUS/THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The United States accused Russia on Monday of blocking international inspectors from reaching the site of a suspected poison gas attack in Syria and said Russians or Syrians may have tampered with evidence on the ground. Moscow denied the charge and blamed delays ...
A false alarm led to Syrian air defense missiles being fired overnight and no new attack on Syria took place, Syrian state media and a military commander said on Tuesday. Syrian state TV reported overnight that anti-aircraft defenses had shot down missiles fired at an air base in the Homs area, ...
The UK will join the US and France in a push for a peaceful path forward to the The three allies have produced a draft resolution that will be debated by the Security Council in New York, although it remains unclear when the vote will take place. , said new sanctions would be imposed on Russian ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Nada Tawfik in New York explains what happened when Netanyahu spoke/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fiercely defended his country's military campaigns in Iran, Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East in a speech to ...
Reconstruction has yet to begin in Gaza almost a year after a ceasefire came into force/ US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has announced a $2.45bn (£1.85bn) Gaza recovery plan at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The funding will be spread across 66 programmes over ...
President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran will never "bend the knee" after almost seven months of war with the US and Israel, but is ready for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. Responding to US President Donald Trump's threat to "annihilate" the Islamic Republic if a deal is not reached ...
Iran must "end its arming of and support" for the Houthis in Yemen, the foreign ministers of G7 nations have said in a joint statement. The G7 also condemned "in the strongest terms" Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, adding that the recent escalation in fighting against Saudi-backed pro-government ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Watch: Thick black plumes of smoke rise from near Riyadh's international airport/ Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen say they carried out drone and ballistic missile attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh, as well as energy sites ...
Locals said 10 families had been living in the building despite warnings that it was unsafe/ At least 12 people have been killed, including children, and dozens are missing after a war-damaged building collapsed in the Gaza Strip, according to local rescue teams. Video footage shows the search ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ FILE - Fighters from the Badr Brigades Shiite militia clash with an Islamic State militant group at the front line on the outskirts of Fallujah in the Anbar province of Iraq, June 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)/ FILE - ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ President Donald Trump greets Lee Greenwood at the Republican convention, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)/ on Monday nominated the wife of "God Bless the USA" singer Lee Greenwood to ...
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor were given the Special Jury Award at the Venice International Film Festival/ Israel's culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli co-directors of Naza, a documentary that accuses the Israeli army of mass civilian killings in Gaza, to be stripped of ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ How Houthi gains in Yemen could drive up oil prices/ Saudi Arabia has closed a critical oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones launched from Iraq, as conflict in the Middle East widens. Iraq said it had fired a military ...