BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, attacked rebel-held towns north of the city of Homs on Thursday, targeting a long-held and strategic enclave of opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. The offensive that began before dawn expands on over a week of ...
A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard holds a poster of Gen. Hossein Hamedani during his funeral ceremony in Tehran. (AP)/ Hundreds of Iranian troops are reportedly being deployed in northern and central Syria, dramatically escalating Tehran’s involvement in the civil war as they join ...
The arrival of the troops may fuel the country's bloody civil war./ Credit: Alexander Kots, Komsomolskaya Pravda/ASSOCIATED PRESS Syrian army rocket launchers fire near the village of Morek in Syria./ BEIRUT (AP) — Iran has sent hundreds of troops into northern and central Syria in the first ...
Fighting was also reported on the ground in the northern city of Aleppo, where jihadists from the Islamic State group were advancing against rebels. Talks by videoconference Wednesday came after US and Russian planes passed within kilometres (miles) of each other at the weekend. Russia's air ...
Joining Hezbollah fighters in an offensive against Syria's anti-Assad rebels, Iran has sent hundreds of troops into northern and central Syria under the cover of Russian air power./ Alaeddin Boroujerdi (right), Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, ...
Iranian men carry portraits of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani during his funeral in Tehran on October 11, 2015 (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday that two of its senior officers have been killed in Syria, just days ...
The United States and Russia were to hold new talks Wednesday on avoiding incidents in the skies of Syria, as regime forces launched heavy attacks against rebels near Damascus./ Fighting was also reported in the northern city of Aleppo, where jihadists from the Islamic State group were making ...
A group of Iranian Revolutionary Guard members mourn during the funeral ceremony of Gen. Hossein Hamedani in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. Hamedani, a senior commander of the Guard, was killed by ISIS extremists last week near the Syrian city of Aleppo, according to a state TV report./ -- ...
Iran has sent hundreds of fighters to Syria over the past few days, a regional official and Syrian activists claim. The Iranian and Hezbollah fighters, bolstered by Russia’s airstrike campaign, are launching an offensive against militants in those regions. Iranian and Syrian officials have long ...
A delegation of Iranian lawmakers arrived in Damascus on Wednesday in the build-up to a joint operation against insurgents in northwest Syria, and said U.S.-led efforts to fight rebels had failed. The visit, led by the chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy ...
Islamic State militants battled rival insurgent groups on Wednesday north of the city of Aleppo, where officials say the Syrian army is preparing an offensive of its own backed by Iranian soldiers and Russian jets. A rebel fighter and a group monitoring the war said Islamic State fighters took ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Iranian top parliamentarian says his country's cooperation with Russia, Syria and Iraq have proved "successful" in fighting terrorism in the region. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's parliament, is due to meet ...
Two Iranian military commanders were killed in Syria amid reports that Iran has sent troops to join a planned offensive against insurgents by the Syrian army. Colonel Farshad Hasounizadeh and Brigadier Hamid Mokhtarband, both commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), were ...
Iranians follow a vehicle carrying the coffin of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani during his funeral procession in Tehran on Oct. 11./ Iran's Revolutionary Guards back new offensive by Syrian chief/ Russia provides air support as 4 1/2-year war enters new phase/ Two ...
A rebel fighter from the Free Syrian Army's Fajr al-Hurriya Brigades mans a position during battle on a frontline north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on September 25, 2014 (AFP Photo/Baraa al-Halabi)/ Beirut (AFP) - American-made anti-tank missiles are turning the tide against the Syrian regime ...
Moscow said Tuesday it had carried out its most intense day of air raids yet in Syria, as jihadists called for revenge attacks and rockets hit the Russian embassy in Damascus./ With Russia's involvement having an increasingly dramatic effect on Syria's conflict, President Vladimir Putin slammed ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Insurgents fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital on Tuesday as hundreds of pro-government supporters gathered outside the compound to thank Moscow for its intervention in Syria./ An Associated Press reporter was outside the embassy when the first ...
A leading Iranian parliamentarian has said his country's cooperation with Russia, Syria, and Iraq hasproved "successful" in fighting terrorism in the region. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's parliament, was speaking ahead of talks with ...
A delegation of Iranian lawmakers arrived in Damascus on Wednesday in the build-up to a joint operation against insurgents in northwest Syria, and said U.S.-led efforts to fight rebels had failed. The visit, led by the chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy ...
Two senior officers from Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported, ahead of a planned offensive by Syria's army backed by Tehran. Major General Farshad Hasounizadeh and Brigadier Hamid Mokhtarband, commanders in the ...
BEIRUT — Iran has sent hundreds of troops into northern and central Syria in the first such open deployment in the country’s civil war, joining fighters from its Lebanese ally in an offensive against rebels and taking advantage of cover from Russia’s air campaign, a regional official and Syrian ...
Posters of the general with his thin gray beard and forceful gaze lined the streets as mourners gathered outside the sprawling base of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a key pillar of the Islamic Republic. Brig. Gen. Hussein Hamedani, killed in Syria last week during a mission advising ...
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi has dismissed allegations of Iran’s military presence in the Arab country, saying the Islamic Republic only provides military consultations to the Damascus government. There are no Iranian troops fighting in Syria, Zoubi said in an interview with the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good. An Associated Press analysis found their numbers ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US lawmakers in Washington DC on 24 July, congressional leaders announced on Thursday. He will speak to both chambers of Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives - as the Israel-Gaza war continues. Republicans and Democrats ...
The US has told Israel it must be fully "transparent" over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the ...
The average rate on a 30-year loan declined to 6.99% this week, according to Freddie Mac./ The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.99% from 7.03% a week prior, Rate drops, even marginal ones, are generally welcomed by homebuyers sensitive to rates, yet buying activity has stayed ...
Israeli missiles hit classrooms on upper floors of the building in the overnight strike/ In a classroom-turned-bedroom at a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children clamber through rubble and blood-stained mattresses. Just hours earlier, at least 35 people were ...
Lamees Altalebi, Ahmed Nour, Abdirahim Saeed, Paul Cusiac/ More than a million Palestinians - almost half of the total population of Gaza - have been displaced from the south of the territory over the past month, sharply worsening the already dire humanitarian situation, according to the UN. The ...
West of Maryland, was arrested in the 7200 block of Fairchild Drive in Groveton. Police say he was served a warrant for violation of conditions of release and charged with resisting arrest./ The former point guard played for Eleanor Roosevelt High School in , Maryland before starring at St. ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, is launched, Cape Canaveral/ (Reuters) -Boeing's new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew neared final approach to the ...
The strike took place on the Nuseirat refugee camp, seen here on Monday/ An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed ...
Russian President Putin meets international news agency editors in St Petersburg/ ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the United States and its European allies if they allowed ...