DAMASCUS - Gunmen killed an Iranian commander in Syria and rebels shot down two fighter jets and overran a town on Thursday, dealing further setbacks for forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.The ambush that killed the Revolutionary Guards commander, the downing of the aircraft in the northwest ...

Six US fighter jets were destroyed and two significantly damaged when Taliban attackers stormed a heavily fortified Afghan base where Britain's Prince Harry is deployed on Friday, a NATO spokesman said.Lieutenant Colonel Hagen Messer conceded that the scale of damage, carried out by more than a ...

TWO air force pilots in Brazil are in trouble after their low-level fly past shattered the windows of the country’s Supreme Court.Crowds cheered as the Mirage jets performed a deafening low-level fly past during a monthly changing of the flag ceremony in Brazilia.The roar of the jets’ ...

ORAKZAI AGENCY - At least 17 militants were killed and their nine hideouts were destroyed after jet fighter planes pounded their positions in Orakzai Agency on Thursday.According to details, jet fighter planes targeted militant hideouts in Khadezai, Bara Mela, Sama Bazaar, Jandari Killi, Chapar, ...

NAIROBI - Kenyan fighter jets killed at least 60 Islamist Shebab insurgents in southern Somalia in the latest assault by regional countries to heap pressure on the extremist rebels, officials said Saturday."Levels of casualties were very high in air strikes on Friday," Kenyan army spokesman Colonel ...

SANAA (AFP) - Four explosions rocked an airbase in Sanaa on Sunday, setting two fighter jets on fire and prompting the closure of the Yemeni capitals international airport, aviation officials said. There were four explosions at the air force base alongside the international airport and two fighter ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will introduce an advanced fighter jet it is building with Russia in 2018, a move that will bring sophistication to its air power but could also spark unease among neighbours China and Pakistan. New Delhi has watched warily as China has made rapid strides in defence. ...

YANGCUN AIR BASE, China, (Reuters) - Four Chinese J-10 fighter jets banked and sported in perfect formation in the blue skies near Tianjin on Tuesday, before executing a neat landing, their braking parachutes billowing out just in front of a viewing stand filled with military attaches. Many of the ...

US fighter jets were on Saturday seen flying over Mohmand tribal region bordering Afghanistan for almost two hours, local residents and officials said, reported Indian news agency PTI. The jets, which were flying at low altitude, intruded almost 50 kilometers into the Pakistani airspace. They were ...

PESHAWAR (AFP) - Security forces on Sunday killed 33 alleged militants in the lawless northwest Khyber district, the military said, in a fresh push against insurgents in the border region. The military launched an offensive in the tribal district, home to the fabled Khyber pass into neighbouring ...

GAZA CITY (Agencies) - Israeli warplanes killed three young brothers and demolished a mosque in Gaza on Friday as Hamas vowed to avenge the deadly week-long offensive on its embattled stronghold. Israeli PM Ehud Olmert met with senior ministers as tanks and troops waited on the Gaza border where a ...

PESHAWAR - Seven soldiers and 47 militants were killed in fresh round of action in different parts of Bajaur Agency on Wednesday whereas two civilians were killed and around nine others injured as a result of an explosion in Ghakhi area just close to Pak-Afghan border on Wednesday. Warplanes ...

FARNBOROUGH  - Gulf countries, rich from record-high oil prices, announced deals here Monday worth 15 billion dollars (9.4 billion euros) for the latest fuel-efficient aircraft and other passenger planes made by Boeing and Airbus. Deals involving the UAE and Saudi Arabia were revealed on ...

LONDON - Three British Pakistanis accused of plotting a series of suicide attacks on transatlantic jets on Monday pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause explosions. Abdullah Ahmed Ali, 27, Assad Sarwar, 28, and Tanvir Hussain, 27, admitted the offence at Woolwich Crown Court, in southeast ...

BAGHDAD - An Iraqi website has claimed that Israeli warplanes have been using Iraqi airspace to practice for possible bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities. Nahrainnet.com, quoting unnamed sources in the Iraqi Defence Ministry, said that for the past month Israel has been using US bases in Iraq ...