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Putin pledges to send Syria missiles, enraging Israel and US
Relations between Russia and Israel have frayed since a Russian military plane was shot down over Syria a week ago, killing 15 Russian service members.
- by Andrew E. Kramer
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Syria
Turkey risks US anger with plans to expand Syria campaign eastwards
Expanding Turkey's military campaign into the larger Kurdish-held territory east of the Euphrates would risk confronting troops of NATO ally the United States.
- by Daren Butler
Iran
Iran fears plot by US and its Gulf allies as pressure grows
The shooting attack in Iran and Rudy Guiliani's speech in the US fuel Iranian fears that America and its Gulf Arab allies plan to overthrow the theocracy.
- by Jon Gambrell
Extremism
Iran summons Western diplomats over parade attack killing 25
The attack in Ahvaz killed at least 25 people and wounded over 60 and was the deadliest terrorist attack to strike the country in nearly a decade.
Iran
Members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards gunned down in attack on parade
Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused US-backed Gulf Arab states of carrying out an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, almost half of them members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards.
Mass shooting
Gunmen kill dozens in attack on military parade in Iran
Gunmen fired on a military parade in south-western Iran on Saturday in one of the worst attacks on the elite Revolutionary Guards.
- by Michael Georgy
Pakistan
Ousted Pakistan PM Sharif freed from jail
The dramatic release comes almost two months after Sharif's party lost the election in a vote that his party claimed was rigged.
- by Asif Shahzad & Saad Sayeed
Syria
'Accidental': Putin seeks to defuse downing of Russian plane off Syria
A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by Syria forces responding to an Israeli airstrike.
- by Nataliya Vasilyeva
Syria
Syria's Idlib spared attack, Turkey to send in more troops after deal with Russia
The deal will create a new demilitarised zone from which "radical" rebels must withdraw by the middle of next month.
- by Tulay Karadeniz & Suleiman Al-Khalidi
War
Russian aircraft with 14 on board disappears off Syria's coast
The military said the plane disappeared as four Israeli fighter jets were attacking targets in the area.
- by Christian Lowe
Syria
Syrian TV reports suspected Israeli strikes on state company
Loud explosions shook Syria's coastal province of Latakia late on Monday, sending orange flames into the sky.