The head of the Russian National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev said on Tuesday that Iranian defenses downed a U.S. spy drone last week while the aircraft was in Iranian airspace. Speaking at the opening of a meeting in Jerusalem with his U.S. and Israeli counterparts John Bolton and...

Britain's most advanced military aircraft, the Lightning F-35B, has flown its first missions over Syria and Iraq as part of ongoing operations against remnants of the Islamic State group, the U.K.'s defense secretary said. Defense Secretary Penny Mordaunt said in a statement released...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted a map Sunday showing a border incident with a "spy drone" encroaching its airspace in late May. Days after Iran shot down another U.S. drone it said had entered its territory, Zarif said the U.S.-made MQ9 Reaper - also widely used for...

 Syrian regime air strikes killed five civilians including two children Sunday in a northwestern bastion of the opposition, a war monitor said. The Idlib region of some three million people is supposed to be protected by a September buffer zone deal, but the jihadist-run enclave has...