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US strikes may have killed 119 civilians in Iraq, Syria: Pentagon

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said Wednesday that US air strikes in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State group may have killed 119 civilians since...

Rebels in Aleppo attack, Putin cautious on new Russian raids

ALEPPO: Syrian rebels launched a major assault Friday aimed at breaking a months-long siege of opposition-held districts of Aleppo, as regime ally Russia held...

Syria announces surprise easing of Aleppo assault

ALEPPO: Syria's military announced Wednesday it was scaling back its bombardment of rebels in devastated Aleppo, in a surprise move nearly two weeks after...

3,800 civilians dead in year of Russian strikes in Syria: monitor

DAMASCUS: Around 3,800 civilians have been killed in one year of Russian air strikes in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad, a monitoring group said Friday.

Syrian army retakes Aleppo district as bombs rain down

DAMASCUS: Syria's army took control of a rebel-held district in central Aleppo on Tuesday, after days of heavy air strikes that have killed dozens and sparked allegations of war crimes.

Syria’s Aleppo reels from air strikes, UN chief ‘appalled’

ALEPPO: UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Saturday he was "appalled by the chilling military escalation" in Syria's battleground city of Aleppo where residents cowered indoors as air strikes toppled buildings and killed at least 45 civilians.

Syrian warplane downed during operation against Islamic State: army

DAMASCUS: The Syrian military on Sunday said one of its war planes had been downed in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor during an operation against Islamic state, where the militant group has been under intense air strikes in the past 24 hours.

U.S.-Russian Syria peace deal raises rebel doubts as fighting rages

AMMAN/GENEVA: The United States and Russia reached a breakthrough deal early on Saturday to try to restore peace in Syria, but air strikes hours later on a busy market place that killed and injured dozens added to rebels' doubts that any ceasefire could hold.

Eleven terrorists killed in Khyber Agency air strikes

RAWALPINDI: Eleven terrorists were killed and four others injured in precision air strikes and synchronized ground operation in Khyber Agency on Thursday, ARY News reported.

13 ‘terrorists’ killed, 6 hideouts bombed in Tirah air strikes

TIRAH VALLEY: At least 13 suspected terrorists were killed in military airstrikes in Tirah Valley on Thursday, ARY News reported.

US launches first anti-Islamic State air raids in Libya’s Sirte

TRIPOLI: US warplanes Monday carried out air strikes on positions of the Islamic State jihadist group in its Libyan stronghold of Sirte for the first time, the country's unity government announced.

US-led coalition raids kill 15 civilians in Syria: monitor

BEIRUT: At least 15 civilians were killed and dozens wounded in air strikes by a US-led coalition in Syria on Thursday, a monitor said.

US carries out first Taliban strikes under new rules

WASHINGTON: The US military has carried out its first air strikes against Taliban targets in Afghanistan under newly approved rules, the Pentagon said Friday.

Air strikes in Syria’s Idlib kill over 20

IDLIB: Air strikes carried out by Syrian or Russian warplanes killed more than 20 people in the northwestern city of Idlib on Sunday, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Islamic State hit by 150 US-led air strikes near Syria’s Raqa: monitor

BEIRUT: A US-led coalition has carried out at least 150 air strikes on the Islamic State group to back an offensive near the jihadists' northern Syria stronghold, a monitor said Friday.

Russia has special responsibility to push Syria to stop attacks: US

WASHINGTON: The United States said it was not discussing joint air strikes with Russia on Monday and called on Moscow to press Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to cease air strikes against opposition forces in Aleppo and the Damascus suburbs.

Heavy air strikes hit rebel road to Syria’s Aleppo – monitor, rebels

BEIRUT: Air strikes hit the only road into rebel-held areas of Aleppo city on Sunday in the heaviest bombardment since February, a rebel official and monitors said, jeopardising access to an area where around 300,000 Syrians live.

Air strikes hit camp in Syria, U.S. condemns Assad statement

AMMAN/BEIRUT: Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war killed at least 28 people near the Turkish border on Thursday, a monitoring group said, and fighting raged in parts of northern Syria despite a deal to cease hostilities in the city of Aleppo.

Air strikes pound Syria’s Aleppo, ‘calm’ farther southwest

BEIRUT: Nearly 30 air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, killing more people in a ninth straight day of bombardments by warring sides, and a temporary "calm" declared by Syrian military took hold around Damascus and in the northwest.

Air strikes on Aleppo hospital kill 27, U.N. declares catastrophe

BEIRUT/GENEVA: Air strikes destroyed a hospital and killed dozens of people in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo including children and doctors, and the United Nations called on Moscow and Washington to salvage a "barely-alive" cease-fire.
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