ISLAMABAD - Russian air defenses have repelled a drone attack launched by unidentified militants on the strategic Hmeimim airbase in Syria's western coastal province of Latakia. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday, "With the standard anti-aircraft missile systems deployed ...

ANKARA - Turkey’s president said late Tuesday that Ankara was pressured to halt its counterterror operation in northern Syria but was not worried over sanctions as the government was determined to eliminate the terror corridor near its borders. Speaking on his way home from the 7th Summit of ...

ISTANBUL: Eight civilians were killed and 35 injured in a mortar attack by Kurdish forces on a Turkish border town on Friday, the local governor´s office said. The attack hit the town of Nusaybin in Mardin province, according to the officials, quoted by Turkish agencies DHA and ...

WASHINGTON - The White House demanded that the military draft plans for strikes on Iran after attacks in Iraq last year, sparking concern at the Pentagon and State Department, the *Wall Street Journal link* reported on Sunday. The report said the move followed a mortar attack launched by an ...

ISLAMABAD – The Yemeni Army and popular committee have shot down the Saudi drone in Saada Province, northern Yemen. According to Arab media 'Al Mayadeen', the Yemeni air defense system downed the Saudi drone on Sunday. The Saudi media have showed no reaction yet. Meanwhile, the Yemeni ...

GHAZNI: Taliban militants have launched an attack on an Afghan provincial capital and heavy fighting is underway as security forces try to beat them back, officials and witnesses said Friday. At least one Afghan soldier has been martyred and seven others wounded in the fighting in the southeastern ...

*TEHRAN – Syria’s army and its allies recently managed to foil a major US-Israeli plot for facilitating the transfer of thousands of terrorists to the Arab country’s Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, a Syrian military source said.* Speaking to Tasnim on Saturday on condition of ...

DAMASCUS - Syria says the coincidence of Israel's latest airstrikes and 1,000 rocket and mortar attacks carried out by militants in various locations in the Arab country is proof of the Tel Aviv regime's collaboration with terrorists. In a Wednesday letter sent to the United Nations Secretary ...

ISTANBUL:One Turkish soldier was killed and five were wounded on Monday in a rocket and mortar attack by militants as the Turkish forces were setting up a military post in northwest Syria, Turkey’s armed forces said on Tuesday. The statement said the Turkish forces responded with retaliatory ...

KABUL: An Afghan official says a mortar attack in northern Faryab province has killed five people. Karim Yuresh, the provincial police chief's spokesman, says the attack took place during the weekly bazaar in Khwaja Sabz Push district, which was hit by three mortar shells on Tuesday morning. He ...