Syria bombing

Syrian pilot confessions reveal centralized bombing orders during war

One pilot, who had held senior leadership positions, noted that certain officers were granted special trust by the leadership and were assigned intensive bombing missions.

ABANDONED MILITARY jets are seen at the Aleppo airport on December 14, 2024 in Aleppo, Syria. Aleppo was the first major city to fall in last week's lightning offensive by rebel forces as they toppled Syria's Assad regime.
 A TURKISH soldier waves a flag on Mount Barsaya, northeast of Afrin, Syria, in January 2018

Turkey’s airstrikes go beyond ‘anti-terror’ campaign - analysis

 A Firefighter douses flames after Syrian state media reported an alleged Israeli missile attack in a container storage area, at Syrian port of Latakia, Syria

Syrian FM: Israel 'playing with fire' after overnight airstrikes

 Smoke rises after airstrikes on a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, Syria, June 15, 2017 (illustrative).

Alleged Israeli strike targets sites near border in Syria


Military source: Israel conducted April 9 strike on Syrian airbase

Israel, which has often struck Syrian army locations during its neighbor's seven-year civil war, has neither confirmed nor denied mounting the raid.

An Israeli air force F-15 fighter jet flies during an exhibition as part of the graduation ceremony of air force pilots at Hatzerim air base in southern Israel

Olmert Unbound: Former PM's book pulls no punches

The former prime minister reflects on the 2007 attack in Syria and hits back at his critics.

STUDENTS BURN a picture of former American presidents, along with another featuring Olmert (right) in front of the former US embassy in Tehran in 2009

US priority is to ensure Iran does not ‘take over’ Syria, Haley says

Haley acknowledged regional concerns and said, “We all know our work in Syria is not done.”

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Karen Pierce, UK Ambassador to the United Nations vote against a Russian resolution condemning 'aggression' against Syria by the U.S. and its allies during an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting on Syria at the U.N. headqua

Roger Waters slams Syria intervention, attacks ‘White Helmets’ as 'fake'

Waters claimed that listening to “propaganda” of the White Helmets about the chemical weapons attack would lead to bombing of Syria.

Roger Waters

Syria's Assad to Russian lawmakers: Western strikes were act of aggression

Russia, which is helping Assad fight rebel forces opposed to his rule, immediately condemned the strikes.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as seen in Damascus, Syria November 14, 2017.

Trump and Putin prepare for face-off in Syria

Russians awoke on Wednesday to doomsday headlines claiming that Trump was teasing a third world war.

Donald Trump (L) and Vladimir Putin (R)

In Ghouta's shelters, terrified Syrians await the next bomb

Under cracked ceilings that bulge downwards from the force of previous strikes, 400,000 civilians tremble from the ceaseless bombs.

Smoke rises from eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria March 10, 2018.

First aid convoys reach Syria's Ghouta, stripped of medical supplies

"The convoy is not sufficient."

A man runs amid dust after an airstrike in the besieged town of Douma in eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria

UN Rights Council to demand aid enter Ghouta

Smoke rises from the rebel held besieged town of Hamouriyeh, eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria, February 21, 2018

Erdogan tells 6-year-old girl she’ll be honored if martyred

"She is ready for everything, isn't she?"

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at an event near Ankara, January 2018