Iran’s parliament is considering a proposal to spend nearly $550 million to bolster security and expand the country’s missile program. The proposal follows an Iranian rocket strike on Islamic State in Syria that analysts called retaliation for twin terror attacks in Tehran and a warning to regional rivals. The bill would raise the Islamic Revolutionary […]
WHITE HOUSE — Australia announced Tuesday it has temporarily suspended airstrikes by its forces in Syria. The move comes days after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Syrian jet, and Syrian ally Russia responded by threatening to treat planes from a U.S.-led coalition operating in the skies over Syria as targets. Australia is part of […]
Russia says it will now treat all U.S.-led coalition planes in the air over Syria, west of the Euphrates, as targets after an American fighter jet for the first time in the six-year conflict shot down a Syrian military plane. In a statement Monday, the Russian military also said it is suspending use of a […]
WHITE HOUSE — President Donald Trump met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Wednesday at the White House. Trump and Lavrov said they discussed the need to work together to end the conflict in Syria and Trump stressed the administration’s commitment to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. It was Trumps’ first face-to-face meeting with a top-level […]