A US contractor was killed on Thursday in Syria after a suspected Iranian-affiliated drone struck a facility housing US personnel in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said in a statement Thursday.
Iran-backed militants launched another rocket attack on a US military base in Syria on Friday, in a tit-for-tat retaliatory exchange after President Biden ordered "precision airstrikes" on their positions.
The US has conducted an airstrike in Syria against what it said were Iranian-affiliated facilities after a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility housing US personnel in the country, killing an American contractor and wounding five US service...
CNN's Fareed Zakaria says the latest attack on facilities housing US troops by suspected Iran-backed drones in Syria makes him very concerned about escalating tensions with Tehran.
President Joe Biden on Saturday notified Congress of his decision to authorize an airstrike in Syria this week against what the US said were Iranian-affiliated facilities.
Roughly 13 hours passed before Congress was informed Thursday evening that a US contractor had been killed and five troops had been injured in an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps drone attack in Syria.
Most of those killed by U.S. strikes in the rebel-held Idlib province over the past years were members of al-Qaida offshoot Horas al-Din, which is Arabic for “Guardians of Religion.”
Israeli warplanes and artillery struck targets in Syria following rare rocket fire from the northeastern neighbor, as Jewish-Muslim tensions reached a peak Sunday at a volatile Jerusalem shrine with simultaneous religious rituals.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan told TRT Turk television in an interview that the IS leader, code-named Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, was killed in a strike conducted on Saturday.
The new law prevent foreign entities and officers from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and Syria from buying any property within 10 miles of military installation.
Dramatic new footage has shown Russian fighter jets making dangerous maneuvers around US drone flight paths over Syria. US Air Forces Central, which released the dramatic video Wednesday, excoriated Russia for harassing the three American MQ-9 Reaper...
"These actions against a manned aircraft represent a new level of unsafe and unprofessional actions by Russian aircraft operating in Syria," a US official said.
Dramatic video shows the Russian aircraft approaching the Reaper drone, coming so close that the American craft's camera captured images of the pilot in the cockpit.
A pair of US military bases in Syria were attacked by drones this week, raising concerns that Iran-backed proxies are using the Israel-Hamas war to strike at American forces.