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Russia blames Israel after Syria, an ally, killed 15 by downing a Russian...
Russia blamed Israel after Syria shot down a Russian plane above the Mediterranean during an air battle on Monday night.Russian media said four Israeli F-16s carried out the attack in Syria and that...
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Putin backs off Russia's threats against Israel, and calls Syria downing a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin backed off the Russian Defense Ministry's threats to take "countermeasures" against Israel after Syrian air defenses shot down a Russian military plane over the...
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Syria's air defenses kill 15 Russian airmen in the latest embarrassing blunder
Syria's air defenses have again proven ineffective and in fact dangerous as they killed 15 Russian servicemembers flying aboard an Il-20 spy plane during an air battle over the Mediterranean on Monday...
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Armed by the Kremlin, Russia's national oil company could be the new force in...
In 2007, Moscow's parliament voted to allow its energy giants to create their own militaries, with weapons and technology supplied by the Kremlin.Following the Syrian Civil War, Syria signed an...
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The Russian military has backed down after the US Marine Corps called its...
Following a show of force by the US Marine Corps in Syria, Russia has backed off its earlier threats to conduct operations inside the deconfliction zone, an area of strategic significance for the...
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The loss of a Russian plane in Syria reveals how Putin is strangely powerless...
Russia's ally Syria shot down one of its planes on Tuesday, and it exposes how Russian President Vladimir Putin is strangely powerless to protect his own people or do much more than enforce the status...
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Trump is beating up on Iran — and it's making Obama look weak
President Donald Trump has outraged and defied establishment experts on Iran, but his policies are deeply hurting Iran without any tangible blowback to the US.President Barack Obama and his top...
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Moscow to arm Syria with advanced anti-aircraft missiles after a massive air...
Russia plans to immediately arm the Syria with S-300 anti-aircraft systems in response to the accidental shootdown of a Russian aircraft by Syrian forces during an Israeli airstrike last week.Russia...
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Trump now plans to keep US troops in Syria until Iran gets out, which means...
President Donald Trump is reportedly adopting a new strategy in Syria that will see US troops remain there indefinitely. The Trump administration won't consider withdrawing US forces until Iran leaves...
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Russian fighter pilot says he beat an F-22 in a mock dogfight and locked onto...
An unofficial account of a Russian pilot of the Su-35, Russia's top jet fighter, posted pictures claiming to show a US F-22 Raptor stealth jet flying above Syria as proof that his older, bigger jet can...
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Iran fires a barrage of ballistic missiles at Syria in response to parade attack
Iran has fired missiles at militants in Syria it blames for an attack in southwestern Iran on Sept. 22, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Monday.The Guards said the operation was a...
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Iran made a ridiculous excuse after shooting itself with a failed ballistic...
Iran on Monday fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at what it called terrorist militants in Syria, but Kurds in Iran's Northeast reported soon after that they had been struck by one of the...
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The Syrian asylum-seeker who was stranded in a Malaysian airport for six...
A Syrian man who had been stranded at Kuala Lumpur's International Airport 2 since March has been arrested.The story of Hassan al Kontar first took social media by storm in March, when he started...
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Russia claims it has killed 85,000 terrorists and zero civilians in Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say Russian air strikes and artillery shells have killed 18,000 people, including nearly 8,000 civilians.But Moscow said on Sunday it has killed 85,000...
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Russian missile defenses arrive in Syria — and US and Israeli fighters could...
Russia has delivered its powerful S-300 missile defense systems to Syria after losing 15 servicemembers and a spy plane to a friendly fire incident during an Israeli air raid.Syrian air defenses...
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Russia's submarines are showing they can strike deep inside Europe, and...
NATO officials have repeatedly warned about the rising threat posed by Russian submarines.A major concern is those subs' land-attack capabilities, which now allow them to strike deep in Europe.NATO...
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America's Syria policy is utterly incoherent and there's no sign it will...
The Trump administration's strategy in Syria is difficult to make sense of — it changes its stance over and over. When Trump entered the White House, he was focused on defeating the Islamic State, but...
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A US base in Syria is a huge thorn in Russia and Iran's side — but they can't...
Moscow, Tehran, and Damascus have repeatedly accused the US of training Islamic State fighters at the al-Tanf garrison in Syria, but all they've been able to do is complain about it. In reality, the...
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F-22 stealth jets got 587 enemy aircraft to back off in their first 'combat...
US F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets just completed their first "combat surge" in operations over Syria, and in doing so deterred almost 600 enemy aircraft.Russian, Syrian, and Iranian combat aircraft...
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ISIS smuggled around $400 million out of Syria to fund its reorganizing — and...
The Islamic State is ripe for a comeback in Sunni-majority areas of Iraq and Syria.Despite having lost nearly 98% of the territory it once controlled, the group may have smuggled $400 million out of...
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