Tag: #Airstrike
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Syria places blame on Israel for air strike on main port of Latakia
Syria: According to Syrian state media, Israel carried out a rare air strike on Syria’s main port of Latakia, demolishing shipping containers and starting a fire. Sana news agency was contacted by a Syrian military source, who told them that Israeli warplanes flying over the Mediterranean Sea fired several missiles at the port’s container yard.…
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Air Strike kills many in Afghanistan
Kabul, 22nd October: Airstrike in Afghanistan kills many. Baaghi TV: Airstrike kills 12 and injures 14 in Afghanistan’s Takhar province. According to Afghan media, an airstrike was carried out on a madrassa in Baharak district. A stampede outside the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, killed 15 people, including women. According to Afghan media, more than…
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Regime air raids kill 9 civilians despite Idlib truce: monitor
Idlib, Syria, Jan 15 (AFP/APP): Regime air strikes on Syria’s last major opposition bastion killed at least nine civilians Wednesday, striking bustling areas of Idlib city despite a fresh Russian-sponsored truce, a war monitor said. At least 20 other civilians were wounded in the raids that hit a vegetable market and repair shops in Idlib,…
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At least 28 dead in raid on Tripoli military school: ministry
Tripoli, Jan 5 (AFP/APP): At least 28 people were killed and dozens injured on Saturday in an air strike on a military school in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a ministry spokesman said. “An air raid on the military school of Tripoli killed 28 cadets and injured dozens more,” Amin al-Hashemi, spokesman for the health ministry…
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Washington says Baghdad failed to ‘protect’ Americans
Washington, Dec 31 (AFP/APP): Washington has accused Iraqi authorities of having failed to “protect” US interests, the day after deadly American air strikes against a pro-Iran group sparked anger. At least 25 fighters were killed in Sunday night’s attacks, which were in retaliation for the death last week of a US civilian contractor. “We have…
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US strikes kill 15 pro-Iran fighters in Iraq: Hashed official
Baghdad, Dec 30 (AFP/APP): Fifteen fighters, including commanders, were killed Sunday night in US strikes in western Iraq, an official told AFP. The official said several fighters were also wounded in the strikes, which the Pentagon said targeted the Iraqi Kata’ib Hezbollah in response to a barrage of 30 or more rockets that was fired…
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Regime bombardment kills 23 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor
Beirut, Dec 17 (AFP/APP): Syrian regime air strikes and artillery fire on Tuesday killed 23 civilians in the last major opposition bastion in the northwest of the country, a war monitor said. The militant-held region of Idlib is supposed to be protected by a months-old ceasefire deal to prevent a broad regime offensive, but deadly…
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Air strikes kill 12 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor
AlBara, Syria, Dec 7 (AFP/APP): Syrian regime and Russian air strikes on Saturday killed 12 civilians, half of them children, in the country’s last major opposition bastion, a Britain-based monitor said. The air raids in the jihadist-run northwest region of Idlib also wounded several others, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Air strikes by…
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Air raids in Libyan capital kill five: ministry
Tripoli, Dec 3 (AFP/APP): At least five civilians were killed and 10 wounded in overnight air strikes in a suburb of Libya’s capital, the unity government’s health ministry said on Monday. “Violent air raids on the residential area of al-Swani killed five civilians and injured 10 others, some of them seriously,” said spokesman Amin al-Hashemi.…
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Russia airstrikes kill 2 civilians in Syria’s Idlib
XI’AN, Nov 27 (XINHUA/APP):Two civilians were killed in Russian airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, according to an opposition aircraft observatory. Russian warplanes struck the towns of Kafr Nabl and Kafar Roma and several villages in the province Tuesday night, leaving two civilians dead, the observatory said. Regime warplanes, meanwhile targeted Al-Rawda Woman and Child…