The Syrian anti-aircraft in the province of Homs came into action due to technical malfunctions on the night from Monday to Tuesday. Military sources contradicted earlier reports that at least three air bases, Shayrat, Dumayr and a base at Damascus, had been bombarded with missiles.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense said it intervened on Monday night after a rocket attack aimed at Shayrat Air Base near the city of Homs.
In an attack on a base of French and UN forces in Timbuktu, a blue helmet was killed on Saturday. The attackers fired dozens of mortar grenades on the base and detonated two cars with explosives. They were close to approaching because they disguised themselves as UN soldiers.
The attack by the US, the United Kingdom and the French on targets in Syria was a huge logistical operation. The costs run into hundreds of millions, says defense specialist Peter Wijninga. There may even have been a bomber in America to fire rockets on Syria.
The Syrian anti-theft aircraft intercepted 71 of the 103 missiles that fired western countries in the night from Friday to Saturday. This is what the Russian armed forces have admired for the thirty-year-old anti-Soviet anti-air defense from the Soviet Union that at a base in Dumayr, northeast of Damascus, all twelve onrushing missiles would have fired.
Iran has sharply condemned the rocket attacks of Americans British and French on Syria. Tehran called it a gross violation of international law and the sovereignty of Syria.
It was an attack twice as big as last year when 59 Tomahawks missiles were fired at a remote Syrian air base.
Russian naval vessels have left their base in the Syrian port city of Tartous on the Mediterranean. The news agency Interfax was told by parliamentarian Vladimir Shamanov on Thursday.
A jet fighter from the Greek Air Force was thrown into the Aegean Sea on Thursday. The pilot died. That was announced by the Minister of Defense Panos Kammenos. The cause of the crash is not yet known.
The United States is conducting feverish consultations with France and Great Britain about military action against Syria. After the harsh words of Donald Trump yesterday, who warned that the 'missiles are coming', America has left the door ajar for a diplomatic solution. 'We study all options,' said the spokeswoman for the White House. But it is expected that the diplomatic door will be slammed quickly and hard.
The cracked argument between the US and Russia is the worst fear.
The online research platform Bellingcat considers it plausible that if poison gas is used in East Ghouta, the Syrian army has carried out that attack. It is 'very likely' that on Saturday dozens of people were killed by a poison gas attack with helicopters that came from a support center of the Syrian Air Force in the neighborhood.
The United States seems to be heading for a new attack on the Assad regime in Syria. What does American President Donald Trump hope to achieve in the conflict-torn country? America expert Willem Post from the Clingendael Institute: 'This does not solve the situation in Syria. But it shows that Trump can not be scoffed. '
The air raid on a Syrian air base has cost the lives of three Iranians. This is reported by the Iranian news agency Fars, which stated that the attack was carried out by 'fighters of the Zionist regime'. Israel has not confirmed to be responsible for the bombing.
US President Donald Trump once again condemned the possible poison gas attack in Syrian Douma. 'We can not tolerate such atrocities,' the president said. He announced that 'important decisions' are being taken in the next '24 to 48 hours'.
While America and France are campaigning for military action against Syria, Israel has made use of the increasing tensions for an attack on a military base of the Bashar al-Assad regime.
The rocket attacks on a large Syrian air base were carried out by two Israeli fighter planes. The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced this on Monday. According to the Kremlin, eight missiles were fired, five of which were intercepted by the Syrian anti-aircraft forces.
Certainly two blue helmets were killed in Mali by attacking a UN base at Adjelhoc, in the northeastern Kidal region. Ten others were injured. Nothing has yet been published about the nationality of the victims.
The Chinese space station Tiangong-1 has returned to the atmosphere in the night from Sunday to Monday at 2:15 am (Dutch time). According to Chinese space authorities, the drifting space station was for the most part destroyed when it sank through the atmosphere over the Southern Pacific Ocean.
In an attack not far from a military base in the southeast of Turkey, five Turkish soldiers were killed. According to sources, the attack was carried out within the Turkish security service by militants of the banned Kurdish PKK.
The Russian armed forces have again started flights for the purpose of fighting submarines along the North American coast for the first time since the time of the Soviet Union. This is what the Defense Minister Sergei Sjojgoe said on Wednesday according to Russian media.
In a plane crash of an F-18 fighter near Key West in Florida, both pilots were killed. This has been confirmed by the US Navy via Twitter.
The left wing in France immediately frowned when they heard the proposal to baptize Front National in Rassemblement National. The new name looks suspiciously like a French party that was raving against the German Nazis during the Second World War. The symbol of the old Rassemblement National Populaire, founded in 1941 and disappeared in 1944, was a variant of a swastika.
A Russian plane crashed on the landing at an air base southeast of the Syrian port city of Latakia on Tuesday. As a result, all 32 occupants were killed, reports the Russian Ministry of Defense.
A woman in Miami, Miami, was perfectly unharmed when a Canadian military helicopter lost an inflatable boat. The vessel, which had not been inflated, flew through the roof of the house and landed beside the bed where the woman lay.
In the course of next year, it should also be possible to send an app on the moon. Vodafone, Nokia and car company Audi will work together to make moon-wide 4G coverage possible. This should make it possible to stream HD video to the earth.
On a military base in Arlington, Virginia, eleven people became unwell after a letter was opened. Three people were taken to the hospital, the fire brigade and a spokeswoman told the base.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has begun an investigation into attacks in the Syrian rebel stronghold East Ghouta. That is what sources in diplomatic circles say to Reuters news agency. The investigation must show whether prohibited ammunition has been used.
Four Russians have been convicted of tampering in the construction of an important new space base. A businessman was sentenced to twelve years in prison, his son had to go to jail for 5.5 years and a regional politician was sentenced to six years in prison. Another businessman heard a sentence of seven years in Khabarovsk.
Because of four attacks on security forces in Afghanistan, at least 29 people were killed on Saturday. The attacks were in the capital Kabul and the provinces Helmand and Farah.
