Iran supports a Russian-led effort to impose Syrian government control over the south of Syria, a senior Iranian security official was quoted as saying on Saturday, amid reports that Damascus is preparing a major military offensive in the area. Russia said last week that only Syrian army troops ...
Syria's foreign minister says Iranian military advisers are embedded with Syrian troops but Tehran has no combat forces or fixed bases in the country./ Walid al-Moallem told reporters Saturday that Iran's presence is legitimate and based on an invitation of the government. Israel has repeatedly ...
Iran's withdrawal comes in response to Israeli demands and a prelude to a Russian deal that could allow Assad's forces to control the southern border . (Reuters)/ Well-informed military sources said on Friday that Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah militias have begun withdrawing from areas ...
's foreign minister said Saturday Iranian military advisers are embedded with Syrian troops but Tehran has no combat forces or fixed bases in the country. Walid al-Moallem's comments came amid rising tension in the region as Israel has repeatedly warned against any permanent Iranian military ...
One conflict held them together. Now it’s ending, and Iran may suffer./ Photographer: Ivan Sekretarev/AFP, via Getty Images/ Since Iran and Russia reached an agreement in the summer of 2015 to coordinate a military campaign to save the regime of Syria's dictator, that war has held together an ...
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman visited Moscow on May 31 for talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, on Israeli concerns about Iran's military presence in Syria. Israeli leaders have expressed concern about the Syrian government's announced plans to try to recapture ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses at the French National Assembly before his address to lawmakers, Friday, June 7, 2024 in Paris. Switzerland’s president says 90 countries and organizations, half from Europe, have registered to take part in a Ukraine peace summit on June 15 and 16, ...
Umm Hudaifa, the first wife of the late IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is now in prison in Iraq/ In a rare interview from prison, a widow of the Islamic State group’s leader has shared her account of their life. Umm Hudaifa was the first wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and was married to him while ...
) – One person was killed in a crash along a busy Lower Valley corridor on Sunday afternoon, June 9, police said. The crash happened shortly before 1 p.m. at Americas South at Zaragoza, fire dispatch said. El Paso Police said one person was killed in the crash./ Fire dispatch said two people ...
Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has quit the emergency government in a sign of deepening divisions over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's post-conflict plans for Gaza. Speaking during a news conference in Tel Aviv on Sunday where he announced his resignation, Mr Gantz said the ...
right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party members react after the polls closed during the European Parliament elections, in Paris/ PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron rolled the dice on his political future on Sunday, calling snap legislative elections for later this ...
Almog Meir Jan embraces a family member after his rescue from Gaza/ The father of an Israeli hostage rescued during a military operation in Gaza died a day before he could be reunited with his son, a relative has said. Almog Meir Jan, 22, was held in Gaza for eight months after being kidnapped ...
The MAKS 2021 air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow/ KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces have for the first time hit a latest-generation Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet at an air base inside Russia, Kyiv's GUR defence intelligence agency said on Sunday, showing satellite pictures which it said ...
run health ministry has so far named 86 people it says were killed as Israeli forces fought Hamas in and around the Nuseirat refugee camp/ Palestinians living in the densely populated area where Israeli hostages were being held by Hamas have described the terror of coming under intense ...
ATHENS (AP) — The body of missing British TV presenter Michael Mosley was found on a Greek island Sunday morning after a days-long search, his family said. A police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of an ongoing investigation, said a body was found on a rocky coast by a ...
Reunions after four Israeli hostages freed in IDF raid/ Four hostages have been rescued by the Israeli military from central Gaza, in an operation that was weeks in the planning. For Israelis it brought celebration and relief. For Palestinians it brought more suffering, with hospitals saying ...