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U.S. pair's airstrike warning app helps Syrians dodge death from the skies
A Russian military aircraft thunders into the sky at 4:47 p.m. from Russia's air base at Hmeimim in western Syria, veering to the east. An observer takes note of all three details, opens a phone app and enters the information into three designated fields. Fourteen minutes ...
Syria regime, Russian bombings and air raids kill at least four civilians in rebel-held Idlib
Syrian government and Russian warplanes on Saturday targeted the southern edge of Idlib province with the "most intense" airstrikes in weeks, according to activists and a war monitoring group, ratcheting up military pressure on the densely populated rebel-held bastion. More than 60 air raids killed ...
Possible war crimes committed by all parties in Yemen: U.N. experts
U.N. human rights experts said Tuesday the governments of Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia may have been responsible for war crimes since Yemen's conflict intensified 3½ years ago, including rape, torture, arbitrary detention and use of child soldiers. Their report — the ...
Islamic State leader killed in French airstrike in Mali: army
A top jihadi leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara group, an aide and two civilians have been killed in northeastern Mali by a French airstrike, the French command center in Paris said Monday. "Commandos deployed on the ground (after the airstrike) confirmed ...
Syria says it hit Israeli jet during airstrikes targeting base in Homs
Syria on Sunday accused Israel of targeting an air base in the central Homs province, saying its defenses hit a jet involved in the attack. "Our air defenses are responding to an Israeli aggression and intercepting a number of missiles targeting the airport, hitting one ...
Regime-allied airstrikes kill five civilians as southern Syria assault looms
Airstrikes on rebel towns in southern Syria killed five civilians and damaged two hospitals on Sunday, a monitor said, in fresh signs of a looming government assault. Russian-backed regime forces have for weeks been preparing an offensive to retake Syria's south, a strategic zone that ...
Nearly 5,000 families displaced in Yemen's Houthi-held Hodeida: U.N.
Nearly 5,000 families have been displaced in Yemen's flash-point Hodeida province this month, the U.N. said Sunday, as violence escalates in the rebel-held Red Sea region. After nearly a month of sporadic clashes, the Yemeni government — backed by Saudi Arabia and its allies — ...
Civilians flee as Arab coalition bombards Houthi-held Yemen port of Hodeida
Arab warplanes and warships pounded Houthi positions in Yemen's Hodeidah on Thursday as a Saudi-led alliance tried to seize the main port in the largest battle of a war that has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Apache attack helicopters bombed a strip of coastal ...
Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket fire resumes, fights off incendiary kites
The Israeli military struck Hamas militant sites in Gaza early Sunday in response to the resumption of rocket fire toward Israel, which threatened to unravel an informal cease-fire that had held since a flare-up of violence last week. Israel has also been battling fires caused ...
Hamas militants in Gaza fire barrage at Israel, drawing wave of retaliatory airstrikes
Palestinian militants bombarded southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortar shells Tuesday, while Israeli warplanes struck targets throughout the Gaza Strip in the largest flare-up of violence between the sides since a 2014 war. The Israeli military said most of the projectiles were intercepted, ...
Afghan gunships killed and wounded 107 boys and men at religious ceremony in attack last month: U.N.
Rockets and heavy machine guns fired from Afghan government helicopters killed and wounded at least 107 boys and men attending a religious ceremony near the northern city of Kunduz last month, according to a United Nations report on Monday. Last month, villagers in Dasht-i Archi ...
Iraq says it killed 36 Islamic State 'terrorists' in Syria airstrike
Iraq said Sunday its forces had killed "36 terrorists" belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group, including senior members, in air raids this past week in Syria. A video of Thursday's operation showed two F-16 fighter jets destroying a house in eastern Syria. "The Iraqi air ...
