U.S. officials have developed specific and highly credible intelligence suggesting that an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died, the man’s daughter said Saturday. Source link
WASHINGTON — A U.S. airstrike in Syria in May 2023 that was targeting an al Qaeda leader killed an innocent civilian instead, U.S. Central Command said Thursday, confirming early reports from residents and family members shortly after the attack. U.S. Central Command said an investigation into the May 3 strike concluded that U.S. forces misidentified […]
The mother of American reporter Austin Tice told a congressional panel on Tuesday that she is convinced her son is still alive, nearly 12 years after he was abducted in Syria at a checkpoint in a contested area west of Damascus. Debra Tice told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that her information about […]
Israel carried out a missile strike targeting an air defense unit in southern Syria, causing material damage, state-run SANA news agency quoted a military statement as saying Friday. The warplanes were seen around the time loud noises and drones were reported near a major Iranian air base and nuclear site early Friday. That area of […]
Iran stepped up its threats to avenge a suspected Israeli airstrike last week that killed a number of senior commanders, warning Sunday that Israeli diplomatic posts around the world are now “legitimate” targets for a retaliatory attack. A senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iran‘s official news agency Sunday that none […]
DAMASCUS, Syria — An Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran’s embassy in Syria, killing a senior Iranian military adviser and roughly a handful of other people, Syrian state media said Monday. The strike on the Iranian consulate building could mark an escalation of the Israeli military’s ongoing targeting of Iranian military officials […]
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army says Israeli airstrikes early Friday near the northern city of Aleppo killed or wounded “a number of” people and caused damage. An opposition war monitor said the strikes killed 42, most of them Syrian troops. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said Israeli strikes […]
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces accused Turkey of launching airstrikes against civilian targets in the northeast part of the country, including oil facilities that underpin much of the local economy. Gen. Mazloum Abdi briefed journalists in Washington on Thursday about the U.S.-backed force’s operations alongside coalition allies to prevent a resurgence of […]
Pentagon officials won’t say how long they intend to continue striking Iran-backed proxy forces in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, but insist they haven’t planned for an open-ended campaign and don’t want to see the fighting escalate. On Monday, Air Force Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters at the Pentagon that nearly 85 targets in Syria […]
BEIRUT — British forces on Saturday joined their American allies in new attacks against militia in Yemen. The U.S. military earlier launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in western Iraq and eastern Syria in retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in late January that killed three U.S. service members and […]
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