Russia’s defense ministry said Monday that the country was poised to transform its naval facility in the Syrian port city of Tartous into a permanent base. “In Syria we will have a permanent naval base in Tartous,” Russian news agencies quoted deputy defense minister Nikolai Pankov as saying. The defense ...
The US navy said on Monday that two missiles fired by Yemeni rocketry force fell short of one of its warships patrolling the Red Sea off the coast of the war-torn country. The USS Mason “detected two inbound missiles” within an hour of each other from around 7:00 pm (1600 ...