RF-4E, Turkish Air Force The Turkish foreign minister says the military jet shot down by the Syrian military on Friday was not spying on Syria. It was testing a domestic radar system and was fired upon without warning upon leaving Syrian airspace, he said. ­The jet was unarmed, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in an interview with TRT TV channel on Sunday. The minister confirmed that... 

Secretary of State discusses potential of nuclear Tehran with seasoned diplomat James Baker; says attack would unify Iranian public, legitimize regime. ‘US is only country in world that can stop Iran,’ says Baker US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed on Wednesday the top priorities of US diplomacy around the world, saying that Iran wants to be attacked by somebody because it would unify... 

Saying that Finland will surrender its right to act independently in the event it joins the western military alliance, Putin added that Moscow will respond to deployment of any NATO attack missiles based in the Nordic country. “The involvement of any country in a military bloc deprives it of a certain degree of sovereignty, and some decisions are made at a different level,” the Russian... 

Two US drone attacks have killed at least 39 people near the Somali capital, Mogadishu. At least 39 people have been killed in two US drone attacks in Somalia, the latest of Washington’s non-UN-sanctioned airstrikes in other countries, Press TV reports. The attacks occurred on Friday when two US drone pounded al-Shabab’s Harweyne training base in Elasha Biyaha, the group’s stronghold on the... 

F-4E 2020 Terminator Damascus has apologized for shooting down a military plane, which went off Turkish radars earlier in the day, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan said. The plane was taken down by Syrian forces, an official Turkish source confirmed to Hurriyet daily. The plane crashed into Syrian territorial waters earlier today, according to reports. A missile shattered it to pieces after which... 

A Turkish F-4 fighter jet A Turkish fighter jet has crashed in Syrian territorial waters with some reports suggesting that it was shot down by Syria. According to Turkish sources, the military lost radar and radio contact with the F-4 plane on the Mediterranean after it took off from Erhac Airport in the eastern province of Malatya, which borders Syria. Turkish officials say there had been no border... 

Britain came alarmingly close to a dangerous clash with Moscow when David Cameron was asked to consider giving an order to forcibly board a ship headed towards the English Channel carrying three Russian-made helicopters for delivery to the regime in Syria, it emerged today. Any seizure would have been carried out by members of the Special Boat Service, SBS, the only military unit authorised to performing... 

American secret service operatives are distributing illegal assault rifles, anti-tank rocket launchers and other ammunition to Syrian opposition, the New York Times reports. But due to some rebels’ links to Al Qaeda, the CIA’s task is precarious. ­The paper reports that for weeks now, officers based in southeast Turkey have supervised the flow of illegal arms to numerous opposition factions ready... 

On Wednesday, a rapporteur of the United Nations Organization (UNO) condemned the drone attacks carried out by U.S. forces that have killed thousands, and has questioned the legality of such aerial assaults. The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary executions, Cristoff Heyns, in his report of 28 pages submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, has sued the U.S. Government in order to clarify... 

German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere Germany has strongly opposed military intervention in Syria, adding voice to the calls for a political solution to the country’s prolonged crisis. German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Wednesday warned that military action — strongly supported by Britain, France and the US — could easily lead to an all-out war in Syria. “We must... 

A highly disturbing report prepared by the Foreign Ministry on yesterdays nearly 3 ½ hour meeting between President’s Putin and Obama at the G-20 Summit in Mexico states that Russia’s leader was “shocked” after he told the US leader that America’s Middle East policies were bringing the world to brink of total war to which Obama replied… “I don’t care, maybe that’s what we all... 

Russian warship, Tsezar Kunikov Russia is deploying two warships to the Syrian port of Tartus on the Mediterranean coast amid the ongoing turmoil in the Arab country, a report says. According to a Russian Interfax news agency report on Monday, Moscow is preparing to send two amphibious assault ships to the port city. Interfax quoted an officer from the Russian naval headquarters as saying, “Two major... 

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber aircraft A delegation from Syrian opposition is reportedly in talks with US officials over the targets they want to attack to weaken the Syrian government and the arms they want America to provide to do it. A “Libya lite” operation in Syria may be imminent. The unnamed US official reportedly said that “the intervention will happen. It is not a question of ‘if’... 

Officials with the US Department of Defense have confirmed that the Pentagon has finalized procedures that outline how American forces could soon combat the government of war-torn Syria and officially involve itself in that state’s bloody uprising. After months of rumors suggesting that the US has unofficially made efforts to weaponize rebel forces fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, officials... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with personnel at a Russian air base Russia has every possibility to provide a proper response to the projected deployment of a U.S. missile shield in Europe, though Moscow would like to see the U.S. plans revised, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “We should look forward and give response [to these plans] in a timely manner,” Putin told...