Syria

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen called for a regional coalition to halt the expansion of Syria's drug production and trafficking, at an international conference on drug trafficking on Friday.   Cohen was speaking at a conference called by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to address the growing global threat of synthetic…

1/2 At around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, local time in Syria, Russian fighter jets dropped flares in front of U.S. MQ-9 drones. Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force/Release July 7 (UPI) -- For the second time in less than 24 hours, Russian military aircraft harassed U.S. drones on mission in Syria,…

Riyadh: Implementing the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, the competent surgical team was able to separate Syrian Siamese twins Ihsan and Bassam at the King…

An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle comes in for a landing at Joint Base Balad, Iraq on November 20, 2008. File Photo by Erik Gudmundson/U.S. Air Force | License Photo July 7 (UPI) -- The Pentagon has called on Russia to stop its "reckless behavior" in Syria after Russian jets…

For the second time in less than a day, Russian fighter jets harassed U.S. hunter-killer drones operating over Syria, according to the U.S. military. At 9:30 a.m. local time Thursday, Russian planes flew close to U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones and dropped flares in front of them, an Air Force spokesman…

U.S. Central Command said U.S. drones operating in Syria were forced to take evasive measures in response to Russian jets dropping multiple parachute flares in front of them. Image courtesy of U.S. Air Force/Release July 6 (UPI) -- Three Russian fighters jets harassed U.S. drones in Syria, forcing the American…

The U.S. military said a group of three Russian fighter jets harassed three U.S. drones that were taking part in a mission Wednesday against Islamic State group targets in Syria. Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich, commander of the U.S. 9th Air Force in the Middle East, said the Russian jets dropped…

FILE – This Friday, Aug. 10, 2007, file photo, shows the logo of the Department of the U.S. Air Force at the United States embassy, in Berlin. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File) Three Russian fighter jets harassed U.S. drones that were conducting a mission against ISIS over Syria and forced the…

Russian jets harassed U.S. hunter-killer drones that were conducting a mission against ISIS targets in Syria on Wednesday, a U.S. commanding officer said. At about 10:40 a.m. local time, three U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones were conducting a mission against Islamic State targets in Syria when three Russian fighter jets began…

ANKARA — Following his visit to Damascus earlier this week, on Tuesday Jordan’s Ayman Safadi became the first foreign minister to be officially hosted by Turkey’s new Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. The two sat down in Ankara to discuss the Syria file as well as a series of bilateral and…