Alwaght- The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday the Russian warplanes conducted Tuesday night 206 sorties against sites of terrorist organizations in Syria.
According to military sources, the Russian airstrikes were carried out all over Syria in coordination with the countrys armed forces. In a related development, Syrian armed forces on Wednesdaykilled ...
The tide is turning in favor of the Syrian Army which began to push ISIL and other jihadist groups away from key areas in Syria, including the crucial Kweiris airbase in the Aleppo province, Dr. Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian political expert on American Studies from the University of Tehran, told Radio Sputnik.
The Kweiris airbase was under ISIL ...
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said during Republican presidential debate that he supports Russian aerial campaign against the Islamic State militant group.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) According tothe Russian military, all their targets are chosen based onintelligence collected byRussia, Syria, Iraq and Iran. High-precision weapons are ...
If a change of power in Syria is staged, the whole region will be virtually left on the edge of an abyss, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) Unlike Russia, the West, primarily the United States and its European allies, do not see President Bashar Assad asthe country's legitimate leader, and support the Syrian ...
Alwaght- One of the most important issues that have recently received wide international attention is Russias entry into the war in Syria and the country's air strikes against the positions of Bashar al-Assads enemies.
Decision of Kremlins politicians to intervene in the Syrian crisis could be traced back into Ukraine crisis.Ukraine crisis in 2014 ...
Damascus-led forces assisted by Russian military aircraft have secured control over the main highway to Aleppo essentially freeing the strategic Syrian city which had been besieged for two weeks, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
A team has already finished disarming explosive devices alongthe road. On Wednesday, authorities opened the highway ...
Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said that Russian Aerospace forces do not hit targets linked to so-called "moderate" opposition in Syria.
KUALA LUMPUR (Sputnik) Russian Aerospace forces do not hit targets linked toso-called "moderate" opposition inSyria, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Wednesday.
"Aviation and other means ...
It is becoming evident that Russian President Putin has come out on top in the most recent phases of a geopolitical chess match, US author Michael Payne points out, adding that Russia and the US should join together in coordinated military actions to eradicate terrorism in the Middle East.
Russian President Putin has long been promoting negotiations ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) A Syrian member of parliament says the United States decision to send troops into to Syria is an aggression because it does not have the government's agreement.
Sharif Shehadeh told The Associated Press on Saturday that the troops will have no effect on the ground, but Washington wants to say that it is present in Syria.
American ...
Moscow, Oct 24, IRNA Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov underlined Iran's role in the resolving the ongoing crisis in Syria, and said that the international efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis without Iran's presence will be futile.
'The international efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis without Iran's participation is useless,' Russian state ...
The Syrian President Bashar Assad has agreed to hold preliminary elections in the country, on the condition the move has the backing of the population, a member of Moscow's Parliamentary delegation has told the TASS news agency.
Russian Communist party MP Aleksandr Yushenko mentioned from Syria that the president is ready to discuss amendments ...
There have been countless attempts to resolve the crisis in Syria up to now. Some countries support a solution with Syrian leader Bashar Assad staying in power and others do not. Russia and Iran want Assad to lead a transition period. The plan currently on the table is for Assad to continue as president, without any tangible authority or influence,...
Despite officially denying any cooperation, Russia and the US secretly coordinate their air campaigns in Syria through Tel-Aviv to avoid collisions of aircraft, according to intelligence sources speaking to Israeli media.
Last Thursday, Russias Ministry ofDefense announced the creation ofa "hot line" betweenthe Russian and Israeli militaries. That ...
Russia can strike positions of Islamic State militants in Syria from its ships based in the Mediterranean Sea anytime should the command decide to do so, a senior Russian general said.
Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov said the Russian warships in the Mediterranean can definitely be used to deliver strikes in Syria the way the Russian fleet in ...
Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah and Iranian fighters launched an offensive south of Aleppo on Friday, expanding their counter-attack against rebels across western Syria with support from Russian air strikes.
The assault means the army is now pressing insurgents on several fronts near Syria's main cities in the west, control of which would secure ...
Syria's army along with Iranian and Hezbollah allies will soon launch a ground attack supported by Russian air strikes against insurgents in the Aleppo area, two senior regional officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
Control of Aleppo city and the surrounding province in the area near the Turkish border is divided among the Syrian government, insurgent ...
Alwaght- Backed by Russian airstrikes, the Syrian army has advanced in recent days in the central province of Hama.
On Sunday, Syrian troops engaged on multiple fronts in the northern part of Hama as well as the adjacent Idlib province.
The AP news agency quoted an anonymous Syrian military official as saying that army forces have seized ...
Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled Al-Obeidi and a Russian military delegation held an official meeting in Baghdad yesterday, the first of its kind for joint security coordination purposes in the context of the quadrilateral coordination between Russia, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
The Iraqi defence minister's office said in a statement that Al-Obeidi chaired ...
Two rockets struck the Russian embassy in Damascus on Tuesday sparking panic as several hundred people gathered to express their support for Moscow's air war in Syria, an AFP photographer said.
According to the photographer at the scene, some 300 people had begun to gather for a demonstration thanking Russia for its recent intervention in Syria when ...
T-shirts depicting Russian air strikes on Islamic State targets are currently on sale in Moscow, according to media reports.
Moscow has impressed the world bystepping into back Syrian President Bashar Assad's effort todestroy the Islamic State and put an end toits efforts tocreate a fundamentalist caliphate that practices slavery and ethnic cleansing....
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