(Zaman Al Wasl-Agencies)- Turkmen forces in Syria shot dead the two pilots of a Russian jet downed by Turkish warplanes near the border with Turkey on Tuesday as they descended with parachutes, a deputy commander of a Turkmen brigade told reporters. "Both of the pilots were retrieved dead. Our...

Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, saying it had repeatedly violated its air space, one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a century. Russian President Vladimir Putin said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian helicopter hit in Syrian coastal province of Latakia by rebel group was struck with anti-tank missile, a monitoring group said.  Activists and  the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say rebels have hit the Russian helicopter with the U.S.-made TOW...

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman on Tuesday called the downing of a Russian Su-24 warplane in Syria a "very serious incident", but said it was too early to draw conclusions. "It is just impossible to say something without having full information," Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, told...