(Reuters) -The United States carried out two air strikes in Syria against Iran and its aligned groups on Sunday, the Pentagon said, in the latest response to a series of attacks against American forces in Syria and in Iraq. In a statement, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd...
Flashback to 2018, when Israel attacked Syriausing the cover ofa Russian plane – whose presence was legal in Syria, having been invited by the Syrian government, contrary to the invading Israeli plane. Syrian air defense missiles responded to the threat, downing the Russian plane. Just last mo...
" McCain said. "Instead, they are shamelessly fueling Assad's killing machine. We need to deal with reality as it is, not as we wish it to be - and the reality in Syria today is largely a one-sided fight where the aggressor
A U.S. official said today that these latest strikes inside Syria targeting that destroyed four tanks were target-of-opportunity strikes. At a Thursday news conference, Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said the airstrikes in Syria have a strategic intent. "We are trying to remov...
Trump said the strikes were in the 'national security interest,' focusing on an airfield. Edward Hardy Apr 7, 2017 5:30 AM EDTStart Conversation Here is your summary of the financial news from around the world: 1. President Donald Trump on Thursday night ordered airstrikes in Syria followi...
"Like the Prime Minister today on the radio says about Syria is conducting chemical weapons, but there is no evidence to that at all. I don't think UK should involve in this issue, it is not our place to cut hands in," he said. ...
President Biden, who earlier Friday attended the dignified return of the three Army reservists killed in the Jordan drone attack, signaled more action is to come. "Our response began today," Biden said in his first statement on the strikes in Iraq and Syria. "This afternoon, at my ...
"Today the Syrian armed forces started a wide-scale attack aimed at uprooting terrorists' gatherings and liberating the areas and towns which have been suffering of the woes and crimes of terrorism," Syria's Chief of the General Staff of the Army and Armed Forces, Gen. Ali Abdullah Ayoub, ...
“Today’s strikes were necessary to protect and defend U.S. personnel,” Central Command spokesman Col. Joe Buccino said in a statement. The U.S. Treasury said the the Fatimiyoun has fought numerous battles in Syria, and is led by Iran’s elite Quds Force...
Today, theIslamic Resistance in Iraqoperates as a cohesive force rather than as a singular entity. That is to say, as a network its objectives often align with Iran’s goal of preserving its influence across the region, but on a national level – in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon ...