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(Eagle News) – The Israel government press office (GPO) said the Palestine militant group Hamas which is currently occupying and ruling Gaza was “responsible for the death and injury of tens of thousands of Israeli and Palestinian civilians.” In a statement issued Wednesday, May 19 by the State of Israel’s Prime Minister’s office and the GPO, it said that Hamas — a Palestine Islamist group tagged as a terrorist organization by the United […]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — An Israeli air strike Saturday flattened a 13-floor building housing Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and the US news agency the Associated Press in the Gaza Strip. Israel “destroyed Jala Tower in the Gaza Strip, which contains the Al Jazeera and other international press offices,” Al Jazeera said in a tweet, with an AP journalist saying the army had warned the tower’s owner ahead of the strike. AFP journalists, […]
by Delil Souleiman Agence France Presse TAL TAMR, Syria (AFP) — Deadly Turkish air strikes Friday shattered an hours-old US-brokered deal to stop Ankara’s military offensive against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. The ceasefire announced late Thursday was meant to provide a pause for the evacuation of Kurdish fighters from the battleground border town of Ras al-Ain and other areas Turkey wants to control along its border with Syria. The five-day suspension looked designed […]
by Maher al-Mounes with Tony Gamal-Gabriel in Beirut © Agence France-Presse ADRA, Syria (AFP) — Air strikes killed dozens of civilians in Eastern Ghouta on Friday and forced thousands more to flee, as Syrian troops pressed their blistering assault on the last rebel stronghold near Damascus. The latest deaths brought the toll for the nearly month-old offensive to 1,350, with world powers still unable to stop one of the devastating conflict’s worst crises. Syria’s war enters […]
by Hasan Mohammed Agence France Presse DOUMA, Syria (AFP) — Heavy air strikes and clashes shook the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta ahead of an urgent UN Security Council meeting Wednesday on the escalating violence. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 805 civilians — including at least 178 children — have been killed since Russia-backed regime forces launched an assault on the besieged enclave outside Damascus on February 18. Russia suffered its own […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Air strikes by a US-led coalition killed 23 civilians Wednesday in a village held by the Islamic State group in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province, a monitor said. “At least 23 civilians, among them eight children and six women, were killed Wednesday before dawn by air strikes carried out by the US-led coalition, targeting a village controlled by IS on the eastern banks of the Euphrates river,” the Britain-based Syrian Observatory […]
(Agence France Presse) — Snipers in high-rise buildings are the main problem facing forces battling to crush pro-Islamic State fighters who have occupied Marawi for more than a month, a military spokesman said Saturday. Lieutenant Colonel Jo-ar Herrera said this was the reason the government was using air strikes against the militants. “If we do not use air strikes, we will incur more casualties of our troops,” he told reporters in Marawi, which was overrun […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine Air Force (PAF) used its air assets as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) resumed its airstrikes against the remaining Islamist militants in Marawi City. It is now the 43rd day after President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao following the Maute Group attack on May 23. At past 6 a.m., fighter jets of the PAF started dropping bombs in Maute-held territories in Marawi City.
Iraq said on Monday (January 11) that its air force targeted and destroyed Islamic State targets in the provinces of Salahuddin and Anbar. A statement by the Ministry of Defence said that Iraqi fighter jets conducted air strikes against the Islamic State near and in the city of Falluja in Anbar province. The statement did not say when the air strikes were carried out, but it said that it caused Islamic State heavy losses in […]
(Reuters) –Forces allied to one of two rival governments vying for power in Libya launched an air strike near Tripoli on Thursday, officials and residents said, in a struggle that began when one group seized the capital in August and set up its own cabinet. Libya is caught in fighting between two sides, each with its own government and parliament. One is a self-declared government created after fighters from a group known as Libya Dawn […]
United States president Barack Obama approved the use of targeted missile strikes against Islamist militants if they threaten Americans stationed in Iraq.
