A senior commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has been killed by Islamic State extremists on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo,...
Several of the cruise missiles that Russia fired at Syrian targets landed instead in Iran, say US defence officials.
It is unclear whether the missiles,...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has spent his 63rd birthday on the ice, playing hockey with NHL stars against Russian officials and tycoons.
Earlier Mr Putin...
Heavy fighting has broken out in central Syria as government troops backed by Russian air strikes battle insurgents, activists have said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory...
Nato’s secretary-general has rejected Moscow’s claim that its military incursion into alliance airspace over Turkey was not intentional or important, saying there were two...
Turkey's foreign ministry claims a Russian warplane strayed into Turkey's air space for a second time yesterday.
It follows a similar incident the day before,...
Pentagon officials have urged the Russian military to focus its airstrikes in Syria on Islamic State (IS) fighters rather than opponents of Syrian President...