BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia's military intervention in the Syrian war has all but destroyed a deal agreed last month to halt fighting between warring sides in two areas of the west, unpicking a rare success for foreign-backed diplomacy in the four-year-long conflict. Implementation of the ...
An unidentified ISIS fighter appears in a propaganda video released by the militant group./ Iran said Friday that one of its senior military officers, Quds Force commander Gen. Hossein Hamedani, was killed in Syria. He was officially in the country as an advisor to Syrian President Bashar ...
Islamic State group fighters advanced Friday on Syria's second city Aleppo despite more than a week of Russian air strikes that Moscow says is aimed at routing the jihadists./ The jihadist gains came as regime forces, backed by Russian bombing and fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militia ...
BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have seized Syrian villages on the outskirts of Aleppo from rival insurgent fighters, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite Russian air strikes that Moscow says have targeted the militant group. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said ...
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards general has been killed near Aleppo, where he was advising the Syrian army on their battle against Islamic State fighters, the guards said in a statement on Friday. The Guards said General Hossein Hamedani was killed on Thursday night and that he had "played an ...
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander has been killed in Syria, Tehran said Friday, and French warplanes carried out fresh airstrikes in the country, as the conflict continued to take on a complex international component. General Hossein Hamedani was killed by Islamic State fighters ...
BEIRUT (AP) — A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard was killed by Islamic State extremists on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, Iranian state media reported on Friday./ A state television report said that Gen. Hossein Hamedani was killed in the suburbs of ...
The reports could embarrass the Russian government./ The mistaken bombing, launched from a Russian warship in the Caspian Sea, was first , which received the information from two unnamed U.S. officials./ From the Caspian Sea, the clearest path for the missiles to reach Syria would be by crossing ...
In this undated file photo released by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave flags as they ride in a convoy, which includes multiple Toyota pickup trucks, through Raqqa city in ...
In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, a Russian navy ship launches a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea./ As many as four Russian long-range cruise missiles launched from warships in the Caspian Sea fell short of their ...
Iranian soldiers from the Revolutionary Guards march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the start of Iran's 1980-1988 war with Iraq, on September 22, 2015, in the capital Tehran (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Tehran (AFP) - Islamic State group jihadists have killed a senior ...
24M bomber dropping bombs during an airstrike in Syria (AFP Photo/-)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran on Friday declines to confirm or deny a claim by a US official that Russian missiles targeting rebels in Syria crashed in its territory this week. "We don't confirm" this information, foreign ministry ...
The sailors of Russia's Caspian fleet have seen little action over the last 300 years but now the war raging in Syria has thrust them into the forefront of Russia's largest military operation abroad since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Better known for oil drilling and sturgeon smuggling than ...
Four Russian cruise missiles aimed at targets in Syria crashed in Iran, a US official said Thursday, as regime troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah pressed a "vast offensive" against rebels in the war-torn country's west./ The missiles were thought to be among a salvo fired Wednesday from ...
Regime troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah and Russian air strikes advanced Thursday in western Syria in a "vast offensive" against rebels, as NATO voiced alarm at Moscow's escalating military activity in the country./ Russia has dramatically stepped up its nine-day-old air war against foes of ...
An image grab from a video released by the Russian Defence Ministry on October 7, 2015 reportedly shows a Russian warship launching a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea during a strike against Islamic State group positions in Syria (AFP Photo/)/ Moscow (AFP) - Russia's defence ministry denied a ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO talked tough Thursday about Moscow's expanding military activity in Syria, but the U.S.-led alliance's chief response to the Russian airstrikes and cruise missile attacks was a public pledge to help reinforce the defenses of member nation Turkey if necessary./ "NATO is able ...
Syrian troops and allied militia backed by a fresh wave of Russian air strikes and cruise missiles fired from warships attacked rebel forces on Thursday as the government extended an offensive to recapture territory in the west of the country. The assault focused on western areas where rebel ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon officials say several of the long-range cruise missiles that Russia fired at Syrian targets landed instead in Iran. Two officials say it's unclear whether the errant missiles caused any significant damage in Iran. One of the officials says the number of missiles that ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's top general on Thursday said Russian strikes had helped government forces launch a "wide-ranging" offensive in central and northwestern Syria, where al-Qaida's affiliate as well as other insurgents had advanced toward key government strongholds in recent months./ ...
President Obama has said that Russian air strikes in Syria won't draw the U.S. into a "proxy war," but Russia's involvement still poses major implications for the U.S. military./ Image shows a Russian warship in the Caspian Sea launching missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria. Photo is from ...
Smoke rising after a Russian airstrike hit buildings in the town of Latamna in the area of Hama in Eastern Syria, Oct. 7, 2015./ Russia is adding to its barrage on rebel forces in Syria, sending in more firepower in the form of an additional Russian battalion armed with advanced tanks and ...
After a week of intense bombing in Syria Russia says it has struck over 100 targets in the war-torn country, almost all belonging to Islamic State jihadists./ As troops supporting President Bashar al-Assad forces reportedly launch a major ground operation under Russian air cover, what do we know ...
Russian cruise missiles that were fired from warships in the Caspian sea and were intended to hit Syrian targets crashed in Iran, instead, a U.S. official tells NPR's Tom Bowman. CNN, which first reported the story, said it is still unclear where the missiles landed or if they caused any damage ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia fired cruise missiles at Syrian targets this week without giving any advanced notice, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday, describing a trend of unpredictable military action that has put the United States and its allies on edge. "We've seen ...
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday the four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea had reached their targets, Interfax news agency reported. U.S. officials and media said the missiles had crashed in Iran. "In contrast to CNN we do not talk with reference to anonymous ...
Russia's military intervention in Syria has jolted NATO and provoked frustration in Washington. On Wednesday, Russia launched cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea./ NATO's chief today described a “troubling escalation” of fighting in Syria a week after Russia entered the four-year ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from a Russian ship in the Caspian Sea on Wednesday crashed in Iran, U.S. officials said on Thursday. A U.S. government source said Russia had been flying cruise missiles over Iran into Syria in attacks on rebels fighting Syrian ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The latest developments as Syrian troops and other nations battle militants in Syria. All times local in Syria. confirms the U.S. has indications that four Russian cruise missiles crashed in Iran rather than Syria, suggesting there were malfunctions. It's the first public ...
Russia says cruise missiles launched from the Caspian Sea Wednesday were aimed at Islamic State sites, but anti-Assad rebels say they, not jihadists, are Moscow's primary target./ Russia stepped up its military strikes against anti-regime rebels in Syria Wednesday, launching 26 cruise missiles ...
U.S. officials said at least four Russian missiles launched from the Caspian Sea toward Syria landed in Iran, reports Russian officials deny. U.S. military and intelligence reports, as well as unnamed U.S. officials, said Thursday at least four missiles aimed at Syrian targets crashed in Iran ...
Iranian military commander Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani (seen) was killed in Syria on Thursday./ Iranian military commander Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani has been killed in Syria, where he was giving military advice to the Syrian army in its fight against Takfiri militants in the Arab ...
At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his Russian hosts how a series of defeats for President Bashar al-Assad could be turned into victory – with Russia’s help./ Major General Qassem Soleimani’s visit to Moscow was the first step in planning ...
At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his Russian hosts how a series of defeats for President Bashar al-Assad could be turned into victory — with Russia's help. Major General Qassem Soleimani's visit to Moscow was the first step in planning ...
Iranian defense ministry believes reports on "fallen Russian cruise missiles" are part of the intensified western propaganda war, according to a source, Tehran has denied US reports that four of Russia's cruise missiles targeting ISIL actually fell to the ground in Iran, with the country's ...
Russia's defence ministry denied a claim by a US official Thursday that four Syria-bound Russian cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea had crashed in Iran. "Any professional knows that during these operations we always fix the target before and after impact. All our cruise missiles hit ...
معاون سیاسی وزیر امور خارجه کشورمان گفت: ایران و تاجیکستان باید بیش از پیش از ظرفیت های سازمان های منطقه ای نظیر شانگهای، سازمان همکاری اسلامی، اکو و عدم تعهد بهره برند./ ، دومین دور رایزنی های سیاسی جمهوری اسلامی ایران و جمهوری تاجیکستان به ریاست مشترک علی باقری معاون سیاسی وزیر امور خارجه ...
کاندیداهای مرحله دوم ائتلاف انتخاباتی امناء در اطلاعیه ای اعلام کردند که در صورت ورود به مجلس تلاش خواهند کرد تا شعار تغییر به نفع مردم را جامه عمل بپوشانند و برای اصلاح وضعیت اقتصادی و فرهنگی، تمام تلاش خود را به کار گیرند./ ، بنابر آنچه ایسنا نوشته است، متن اطلاعیه کاندیداهای مرحله دوم ائتلاف ...
«لوید آستین» وزیر دفاع آمریکا با تکرار ادعای ضد ایرانی واشنگتن مبنی بر تهدید بودن جمهوری اسلامی ایران برای منطقه مدعی شد که ارسال تسلیحات به اسرائیل به دلیل حمله اسرائیل متوقف شد./ ، لوید آستین وزیر دفاع آمریکا روز چهارشنبه به وقت محلی افزود که ارسال تسلیحات به اسرائیل به دلیل عملیات رفح متوقف ...
خبرگزاری هرانا – حکم هشت سال حبس، تحمل ضربات شلاق، پرداخت جزای نقدی و ضبط اموال محمد رسول اف، کارگردان ایرانی توسط شعبه سی و شش دادگاه تجدیدنظر استان تهران عینا تایید شد. به گزارش خبرگزاری هرانا، ارگان خبری مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر در ایران، محمد رسول اف به حبس، شلاق، جزای نقدی و ضبط اموال محکوم ...
اعضای شورای عالی هماهنگی اقتصادی با تمدید مصوبه کمیته مداخلات ارزی بانک مرکزی برای کنترل نوسانات بازار ارز موافقت کردند./ ، جلسه شورای عالی هماهنگی اقتصادی عصر امروز چهارشنبه به ریاست آیت الله سید ابراهیم رئیسی برگزار شد و دو مصوبه به تصویب رسید. در این جلسه با توجه به لزوم تمدید مصوبه کمیته ...
اعضای تیم ملی فوتسال ایران که در روز های گذشته برای سیزدهمین بار قهرمان جام ملت های آسیا شدند، ظهر امروز (۱۴۰۳/۲/۱۹) با رهبر انقلاب اسلامی دیدار و گفتگو کردند.
ما متعهد به حمایت از حق اسرائیل برای دفاع از خود هستیم. ارتش اسرائیل نباید عملیاتی را آغاز کند که امنیت و ایمنی غیرنظامیان را درنظر نمی گیرد. ما درحال بازبینی تعدادی کمک امنیتی به اسرائیل در زمینه تحولات کنونی در رفح هستیم./ «لوید آستین» وزیر دفاع آمریکا با تکرار ادعای ضد ایرانی واشنگتن مبنی بر ...
«بنجامین هاموند هگرتی» رپر سرشناس آمریکایی با نام هنری «مک کلمور» با خواندن شعری تحت عنوان «مردم بی گناه در غزه با دلار های ما کشته می شوند» به انتقاد از حمایت های آمریکا از جنایات رژیم صهیونیستی علیه مردم غزه پرداخت و خواستار توقف فوری جنگ علیه فلسطینیان شد. این رپر آمریکایی با اجرا در «Hind’s ...
دو قانون گذار آمریکایی اعلام کردند که به اعتقاد آنها مجوز امنیتی نماینده ویژه آمریکا در امور ایران، به دلیل ارسال اسناد طبقه بندی شده به حساب ای میل شخصی وی و سپس دانلود آن در تلفن شخصی اش، تعلیق شده است./ به گزارش ایلنا به نقل از واشنگتن پست، سناتور «جیمز ای ریش» عضو ارشد کمیته روابط خارجی سنا ...
عملیات حمله به اچ ۳ هنوز در بسیاری از دانشگاه های نظامی دنیا به عنوان یک عملیات هوایی بسیار پیچیده و منحصر به فرد تدریس می شود. طی کردن مسافت بسیار زیاد با جنگنده اف ۴، انجام سه مرحله سوخت گیری هوایی و انهدام بیش از ۵۰ فروند هواپیمای عراقی روی باند در دورترین نقطه خاک عراق از مرزهای کشورمان، این ...