At least 56 martyred including children as Israel intensifies relentless air strikes in Gaza
- 12-May-2021
The relentless airstrikes started by Israel late on Monday have wounded at least 320 Palestinians in the territory, Gaza's Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
Iraq condemns U.S. air strikes as unacceptable and dangerous
- 31-Dec-2019
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Monday condemned U.S. air strikes on Iranian-backed Iraqi militia bases, a move that could plunge Iraq further into the heart of a proxy conflict between Washington and Tehran.
Israeli air strikes kill 23 in Syria: monitor
- 21-Nov-2019
Israel said its warplanes carried out a "very intense" attack against Iranian forces and Syrian army targets in Syria Wednesday, in raids a monitoring group reported killed at least 23 people.
Eastern Libyan forces conduct air strikes on Tripoli as U.N. fails to reach truce
- 08-Apr-2019
Eastern Libyan forces carried out air strikes on the southern part of Tripoli on Sunday and made progress toward the city center, residents said, escalating an operation to take the capital as the United Nations failed to achieve a truce.
In Syria strikes, U.S. blurs red line for intervention
- 15-Apr-2018
WASHINGTON: With the latest U.S. missile strikes, President Donald Trump appears to have reset America’s red line for military intervention in Syria over the use of chemical weapons. What’s unclear is where that red line now stands. The United States said its strikes were a response to President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons attack on April […]
OPCW continuing mission into Syria gas attack despite air strikes
- 14-Apr-2018
THE HAGUE: Experts from the world’s global chemical arms watchdog are continuing their mission to probe a gas attack in Douma despite Western air strikes in Syria, the body said Saturday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been “working in close collaboration” with UN security experts “to assess the situation and ensure […]
Russia’s US ambassador warns of consequences for Syria strikes
- 14-Apr-2018
WASHINGTON: Russia’s ambassador to the United States on Friday warned that there would be consequences for the US-led military strikes on Syria, adding that it was not acceptable to insult Russia’s president. “A pre-designed scenario is being implemented,” Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said on Twitter. “Again, we are being threatened. We warned that such actions […]
US and allies launch air strikes on Syria chemical weapons sites
- 14-Apr-2018
WASHINGTON: U.S., British and French forces pounded Syria with air strikes early on Saturday in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the military action from the White House late on Friday. […]
Rescuers say cannot keep up with air strikes battering Syria’s Ghouta
- 24-Feb-2018
BEIRUT: Rescuers in Syria’s eastern Ghouta said the bombing would not let up long enough for them to count the bodies, in one of the bloodiest air assaults of the seven-year war. Warplanes pounded the rebel enclave on Saturday, the seventh day in a row of a fierce escalation by Damascus and its allies, an […]
US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria acknowledges more civilian deaths
- 28-Dec-2017
WASHINGTON: The US-led coalition fighting the IS group in Syria and Iraq acknowledged on Thursday the deaths of 16 more civilians in air strikes, increasing the toll of civilians killed in three years to at least 817. The coalition said in a statement that it had completed a review in November of 101 reports of […]