DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will help oppressed people in the region, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, days after Gulf Arab leaders met U.S. President Barack Obama and expressed concern about Iranian expansionism. Khamenei also denounced Saudi Arabia for its role leading a...
At least 48 civilians, including nine children, were killed on Saturday in regime air raids on Syria's northwest province of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. "Air strikes by regime aircraft on Idlib city and the towns of Saraqeb and Kafr Awid," all controlled by rebel...
U.S. commandos mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria overnight, killing dozens of militants and a senior ISIS commander in a firefight, capturing his wife and rescuing a Yazidi woman held as a slave, the Pentagon said Saturday. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the raid, identifying...
Turkish military jets Saturday shot down a Syrian aircraft that had violated Turkey's airspace, television channels reported. It was not immediately clear what kind of aircraft it was. It subsequently crashed into Syrian territory, NTV news channel reported. (Reuters)
