TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Syrian military analyst underlined the army's secret high capabilities, and said any Turkish warplane violating Syria's airspace will face the same fate of the Israeli aircraft which were shot downed earlier this month. "Syria will confront the Turkish fighter jets like the Israeli...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — The spotlight will be on Syria when world leaders gather at the United Nations next week as the United States and Russia try to shore up a fragile truce deal and President Barack Obama pushes for a boost in global refugee aid. Some 135 heads of state and government and dozens of ministers will...
Fresh humanitarian aid is on its way to the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo — as the death toll of the five-year civil war is said to have reached 300,000. Around 20 trucks carrying food, children's clothes and toys crossed into northern Syria from the Turkish border town of Cilvegozu earlier, as the ceasefire appeared...
The US sent two nuclear-capable supersonic bombers streaking over its ally South Korea in a show of force aimed at North Korea after its recent nuclear test. The B-1B bombers, escorted by US and South Korean jets, were seen by an Associated Press photographer as they flew over Osan Air Base, which is 75 miles from the border...
Turkey aims to send more than 30 trucks of food, children’s clothes and toys to the Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, with a truce negotiated between the United States and Russia due to come into effect at sundown, officials said. Speaking after attending Eid Al-Adha prayers, President Tayyip Erdogan said the initial...
North Korea has dismissed as "laughable" moves by the United States to impose fresh sanctions following its fifth nuclear test. Pyongyang said the US must recognise it as a "legitimate nuclear weapons state" and that it would continue to strengthen its nuclear power "in quality and quantity"...
Algerians launched a campaign to help break the siege on Gaza yesterday. Activists held a demonstration calling for the end of the siege and launched an online media campaign to support their action. The move came in support of a women’s flotilla which will set sail for Gaza later this month in the hope of breaking the...
Abd al-Muhsen Hassuneh, 21, was shot and killed by Israeli forces on 14 December last year. On Thursday,in the early morning, more than 250 days later, Israel returned the young man’s body to his family, Maan News reports. Hassuneh after he attacked a bus stop in East Jerusalem by ramming his car into it. The...
A woman who was fighting Isis who bears remarkable similarities to Angelina Jolie has been killed in Syria, it has been reported. Asia Ramazan Antar, 22, is believed to have been killed in fighting in northern Syria. She was part of the all-female Women’s Protection Units which is based near the border with Turkey and...
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested he and the US are ready to drive so-called Islamic State (IS) from its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. Mr Erdogan said US counterpart Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action against the militants when they met at the G20 summit in China. He said Turkey would have...
Activists claim government warplanes have dropped bombs laced with chlorine gas on a rebel-held area in the Syrian city of Aleppo. A volunteer rescue group called Syrian Civil Defence said they fell in the al-Sukkari neighbourhood and at least 80 people were sent to hospitals suffering from asphyxia. There were no...
As the U.S. and Russia struggle to negotiate terms of a cease-fire in Syria, the five-year civil war has unleashed such an array of fighters that some forces are both allies and enemies, depending on which groups they encounter on the battlefield. To understand the complexities of a war involving more than a dozen local...