Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said that Russian warplanes carried out Aleppo strikes at Tehran’s request. Shamkhani, the top official coordinating security and political affairs between Tehran and its allies, Moscow and Damascus, was quoted by state television as saying Iran called in Russian strikes “next ...
Russia on Friday denied that one of its air raids hit a dazed and bloodied Syrian boy whose heart-wrenching photograph has drawn worldwide attention. The defense ministry issued an official denial that it carried out a strike on eastern Aleppo on Wednesday evening when the images of four-year-old Omran were ...