A recently-released satellite image showed that an active air defense base in Syria equipped with the most advanced S300 and S400 air-defense systems is ready to give harsh response to any possible assault. The satellite picture showed that what appears to be a battery-sized detachment of either highly-modernized S-300 or newer S-400 model strategic anti-aircraft…
It started two weeks ago, when Turkey warned publicly it was preparing for military intervention in Syria, while accusing the US of creating a “terrorist army” (it wasn’t referring to[U.S. Israeli backed] ISIS, but U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia YPG) [that have broken away from the dominant pro Assad Kurdish forces]. Turkey Warns U.S. Of Creating ISIS…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) 4/19/2017 — Ayrault held phone talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov focusing on the situation in Syria and intra-Syrian reconciliation talks in Geneva. “He [ Ayrault] voiced France’s readiness to cooperate with Russia in the fight against terrorism and called for an early resumption of negotiations on a political transition [in Syria] in line with the Geneva communique and UN Security Council Resolution 2254,” the…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Asa’eb al-Haq Movement affiliated to the Iraqi popular forces of Hashd al-Shaabi said that the US forces have carried out a rapid heliborne operation and evacuated two commanders of ISIS terrorists from Western Mosul in Northern Iraq. Javad al-Talaybawi said that the US forces carried out the heliborne operation in one…
A parliamentarian from the State Duma lower house said on Thursday that terrorist forces have numbered days in Syria, and that ISIS will not take control of Palmyra again following its liberation for the second time. “We can say definitely now that with the fall of such a city as Palmyra, days of the terrorist…
As part of the epic, multi-year criminal investigation into the doomed IPO of Spain’s frankenbank Bankia – which had been assembled from the festering corpses of seven already defunct saving banks – Spain’s national court called to testify six current and former directors of the Bank of Spain, including its former governor, Miguel Ángel Fernández…
Moscow and Ankara are carrying out their first joint military operation against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in the Syrian province of Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced. “Today, Russian and Turkish Air Forces are carrying out their first joint operation to target ISIL in the suburbs of the town of al-Bab in the…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Sources in the Russian Defense Ministry disclosed that the country’s aircraft carrier group is ready to launch a strike targeting terrorists in the province of Aleppo in the next 24 hours. The source told Russia’s Gazeta that the attack, which will likely engage Kalibr cruise missiles, will target militants outside Aleppo, and not…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari underlined the importance of the ongoing battle to retake the strategic northern city of Mosul from the [U.S. Israeli Proxy Army] ISIS terrorist group, saying that the country is defending the entire world against terrorists. “We are not only doing this to defend ourselves; we are doing this…
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Russian Air Force has significantly increased its anti-terrorism operations in Hama and Aleppo to pave the way for the government forces faster advance in battlefield, military sources said. “Battlefield and diplomatic developments in recent days, have been the root cause of Russia’s intensified airstrikes against terrorists across Syria, mainly in Hama and…
