BAGHDAD — The Iraqi army pressed ahead Tuesday with its operation to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul from the militant group, but Iraq’s Kurdish partner forces say they are pausing after capturing villages east of the city. Col. Khathar Sheikhan of the Kurdish peshmerga forces told the Associated Press...
TEHRAN (FNA)- A commander of the US Army Special Forces deployed in Northern Raqqa was killed by unknown assailants, local sources disclosed on Monday. "The commander of the US Special Forces in Tal Abyadh was shot in the head and killed by unknown assailants," the Arabic-language Sham Times said. The Arab media...
Damascus, Oct 14 (Prensa Latina) The Front for the conquest of the Levant, formerly Al-Nusra, threatens to kill anyone attempting to abide by the process of reconciliation in Aleppo, as reported by military sources. About two thousand armed men intend to cease hostilities and use the humanitarian corridors enabled in this city,...
Pentagon says radar sites were attacked after the destroyer USS Mason came under attack and notes ‘we will respond to any further threat’. Retaliating for days of attacks on a navy warship, the United States has launched its first strike on Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen, becoming an active combatant in a...
Coalition announces inquiry into strike that killed 140 people in Sana’a as US says its backing is not ‘a blank cheque’ The US said its security cooperation with Saudi Arabia was not a “blank cheque” as Riyadh agreed to mount an investigation into a widely condemned air raid on funeral in Yemen...
Another Israel-Lebanon War is due to happen any time soon, a top IDF commander. Speaking to Israel's Channel 2, Brigadier General Rassan Alian said that while he expects the war to occur, it "won't necessarily begin in Israel; events on other fronts are liable to spur it". Alian, who was recently appointed as...
The warning came as Syrian government forces captured a hill on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo under the cover of air strikes. intervention against the Syrian army "will lead to terrible, tectonic consequences not only on the territory of this country but also in the region on the whole". She said regime...
A US drone has crashed in the area, reports Amaq. The death cult claim they managed to shoot down the unmanned plane. The Pentagon are yet to comment on the reports. #USA combat drone downed by #ISIS south Shaddadi near #Syria|n #Iraq|i borders; Aamaq agency reporting.. The drone reportedly came down in south east...
Rebel officials and rescue workers said incendiary bombs were used in attack by Russian and Syrian government forces on the city, which defied US pleas to halt flights and salvage the ceasefire. BEIRUT — Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, as...
British drones were jointly responsible for the air strike that brought the Syrian ceasefire to a violent end. US and UK aircraft hit a Syrian government position near the eastern city of Deir el-Zour on Saturday, as well as aid trucks near Aleppo. It’s understood an unmanned RAF Reaper drone was involved. Russia –...
Syrian and Russian jets have attacked Daesh positions in Dayr al-Zawr following a US bombing which killed 62 government troops in the eastern town and allowed the Takfiri group to make gains. Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen TV said the attacks on Monday wiped out several Daesh positions and inflicted heavy losses. Two arms depots and...
Four British soldiers ‘forced’ an Iraqi boy into the canal where he died, an investigation has concluded. The Ministry of Defence has apologised for the death of Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, who was 15 when he drowned in Basra. Troops had detained him and three others on suspicion of looting in May 2003 after the UK and...