Iran Missile Strike Missed Target — Times of Israel

The White House also said it would work to keep lines of communication open with Russian Federation amid the new tensions.

However, the Pentagon states that the Syrian jet had dropped bombs near USA partner forces involved in the fight to extract Raqqa from Islamic State (ISIS) control.

The Russian military also said it would stop using the "deconfliction" channel that was established to avoid conflicts as coalition and Russian warplanes operated in Syria's airspace.

Lavrov said that the hotline has been efficient in the past, noting that "it's quite crowded both on the ground and in the air". "It was far from a direct hit or what they have said", he told the Herzliya Conference Tuesday evening.

"It was necessary that Iran gave such response to the IS after their recent terror attacks in Tehran".

"I'm sure that because of this, neither the US nor anyone else will take any actions to threaten our aircraft", he told the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency.

"As a precautionary measure, Australian defence force strike operations into Syria have temporarily ceased", Australia's Department of Defence said in a statement.

It was not known what was hit and Iran provided no details.

The risk of escalation is real, but this isn't a skirmish the US can easily avoid.

The Bahraini cleric wrote religious justifications for the enslavement of thousands of women from Iraq's Yazidi minority and helped establish the IS branch in Libya.

"The US position militarily is weaker and any sign of lack of unity within the global anti-ISIS coalition can only be good news for Russian Federation and the Syrian regime".

The Dutch government is sending a military refueling plane to Kuwait to assist the USA -led coalition carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

A Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the USA is moving toward a military confict with Russian Federation and Iran in Syria.

A defense official says the drone was approaching a military camp near the Syria-Jordan border.

It also raised questions about how U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, which had previously put Iran "on notice" for its ballistic missile tests, will respond. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. The drone was assessed to be armed and in firing range of US troops.

It said around 2 million children from Syria live as refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, adding pressure on already stretched support systems.

The announcement from Canberra came as a brief, two-day truce collapsed in the southern Syrian city of Daraa and nearby areas where government forces have gained ground.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syria's war, said government forces expanded their presence in Raqqa province by capturing from IS the town of Rasafa. The 48-hour truce that had started there at noon Saturday was supposed to be extended. He is blaming the government for the truce's collapse.

Daraa is where the March 2011 uprising against the Assad family's four-decade rule began.

Activists in Syria said they had no immediate information on damage or casualties from the strikes, launched from Iran's Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a June 7 attack in which six terrorists attacked Iran's parliament and a mausoleum dedicated to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leaving a total of 17 victims dead and more than 50 injured.

The missile operation "is just a very small part of the capability of Iran's punitive force against the terrorists and its enemies", the Islamic Students' News Agency quoted Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif as telling state TV.

Iranian officials threatened more strikes.

"Riyadh must know that all of its oil regions are within the range of Iranian missiles", he said. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the strikes highlight the benefits of Iran's missile program. "We will slap them", Khamenei says in the video, before it fades into a footage of the missile launch on Sunday night.

The missile attack on Syria was Iran's first strike outside its own territory in almost 30 years, the Times of Israel reported.

A bipartisan conceit has been that the USA can defeat Islamic State by ducking the larger conflict in Syria, and now we're finding out that may not be possible.

The staunch United States ally in September said it would widen the scope of targets in the air war against IS by allowing its pilots to strike jihadist support and logistics resources in Iraq and Syria.

The Guard described the missile strike as revenge for attacks on Tehran earlier this month.

The incident with the Syrian plane began after the USA -backed rebel fighters, called the Syrian Democratic Forces, were attacked by what the American military called "pro-Syrian regime forces".

The launch of surface-to-surface, medium-range missiles into Syria's Deir el-Zour province comes as Islamic State militants fleeing a USA -led coalition onslaught increasingly try to fortify their positions there.