Tag: #Airstrike
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Russia air raids, regime strikes in Syria kill at least 21: monitor
Beirut, Nov 21 (AFP/APP): Attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and air raids by his ally Russia killed at least 21 civilians including 10 children in rebel-held Idlib province on Wednesday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in an updated toll, said a ground-to-ground missile fired by regime forces that…
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Israel says it strikes Iranian targets in Syria
JERUSALEM, Nov 20 (XINHUA/APP):Israeli fighter jets attacked “dozens” of sites in Syria in “a wide-scale” airstrike on Wednesday, retaliating rocket fire from Syria a day before, the Israeli military said. The military issued a statement saying the predawn strikes targeted sites belonging to the Iranian Quds Forces and the Syrian army near Damascus and in…
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UAE drone attack killed 7 in Tripoli
TRIPOLI, Nov 18 (AA/APP):Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) on Monday accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of carrying out an airstrike that killed seven people south of Tripoli. The GNA’s Health Ministry said the airstrike targeted a biscuits factory in Wadi Rabie area, killing two Libyans and five foreign workers and injured 15…
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Israel carries out fresh strikes on Gaza after rocket fire: army
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, Nov 16 (AFP/APP): Israel carried out fresh strikes on Gaza targeting Hamas early Saturday after rockets were fired towards it from the Palestinian enclave, the army said, despite a ceasefire that began two days ago. Unlike earlier operations, the army said the strikes did not target Islamic Jihad, but Hamas, which…
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Russian airstrikes kill one civilian in Syria’s Idlib
IDLIB, Nov 7 (XINHUA/APP):A civilian was killed in northwestern Idlib city of Syria following airstrikes conducted by Russian fighter jets on residential areas, the Syrian civil defense agency (White Helmets) said on Thursday. The civil defense agency reported that a civilian in Kafarruma was killed due to airstrikes. According to the Syrian opposition aircraft observatory,…
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Eight civilians killed in NW Syria: monitor
AlSahaara, Syria, Nov 7 (AFP/APP): Air strikes by the Syrian regime and its ally Russia killed eight civilians in an embattled anti-government bastion in northwestern Syria Wednesday, a Britain-based war monitor said. A Russian strike killed seven civilians and wounded at least 20 others in an attack in the village of Al-Sahaara in the jihadist-run…
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Russian air strike kills six civilians in Syria
Beirut, Nov 2 (AFP/APP): An air strike Saturday by key Damascus ally Russia killed six civilians including a child in the embattled opposition bastion of Idlib in northwestern Syria, a war monitor. The strike hit the village of Jaballa in the south of the Idlib region, taking the lives of all six from the same…
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U.S. airstrikes kills 7 IS militants in Southern Libya
TRIPOLI, Oct 1 (XINHUA/APP):The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Monday it carried out an airstrike that killed Islamic State (IS) militants in southern Libya, in coordination with the UN-backed government. “In coordination with the Libyan Government of National Accord, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike targeting ISIS-Libya terrorists in southern Libya, September 29, 2019,”…
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U.S. launches strike in southern Libya as U.N. warns of escalation
CAIRO (Reuters) – U.S. forces said on Wednesday they killed 11 suspected militants in their second air strike in a week near the southern Libyan town of Murzuq, as the U.N. envoy warned of a growing risk of armed escalation and rights abuses in the country. The strike comes as rival factions have been locked…