Syria’s army said it shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone after they attacked a military position early in the country’s south early Tuesday. “Our air defenses blocked the attack and shot down the military aircraft in (the southern province of) Quneitra and a drone” in the province of ...
Dozens were killed in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Monday when militants of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group attacked a security headquarters in al-Rutba in western Iraq on the first day of Eid al-Adha, police sources said. “Three policemen were killed ...