Tag: Airstrike

Three women, four children killed in Pakistan strike on Iran: state media

TEHRAN, Jan 18, 2024 (AFP) – At least three women and four children were killed on Thursday in a missile attack by Pakistan on Iran’s southeast border region, Iranian state media reported. “Pakistan attacked an Iranian border village with missiles,” state television said, quoting Alireza Marhamati, deputy provincial governor of Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province. “Three women and four children children were killed in this incident. All non-Iranian nationals,” he added. The attack targeted a village near […]

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Two children killed in Iran air strike on Pakistan

By Emma CLARK ISLAMABAD, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – Pakistan said Wednesday that Iran carried out an air strike on its territory that killed two children, after Tehran launched attacks in Iraq and Syria against what it called “anti-Iranian terrorist groups”. Pakistan denounced the strike, near the nations’ shared border late on Tuesday, as “completely unacceptable”, saying it was unprovoked. Iranian news agency Mehrnews said the “missile and drone response” targeted the Jaish al-Adl group’s […]

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Israel army says rocket misfired by Gaza militants hit hospital

JERUSALEM, Oct 18, 2023 (AFP) – The Israeli army said Tuesday a strike that hit a Gaza hospital, killing at least 200 people according to Hamas officials, was a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad Palestinian militants. “The hospital was hit as a result of a failed rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization,” it said in a statement. Arab governments immediately blamed Israel, 11 days into a war between Israel and Gaza-based Hamas militants […]

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US launches airstrikes as Taliban attack Afghan city

by Zakeria Hashimi Agence France Presse GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AFP) — US forces launched airstrikes Friday to counter a major Taliban assault on an Afghan provincial capital, where terrified residents cowered in their homes amid explosions and gunfire as security forces try to beat the insurgents back. Officials said Afghan special forces were also being deployed to the southeastern city of Ghazni after the latest attempt by the Taliban to capture an urban center, with the […]

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Amid ongoing missile strikes in Syria, PHL gov’t issues security advisory for Filipinos there

(Eagle News)—-The Philippine government is advising the around 1000 Filipinos in Syria to stay in their homes “until further advice.” Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Elmer Cato made the statement amid the ongoing Western missile strikes  on supposed Syrian chemical facilities. “So far, the embassy has not received any reports of Filipino casualties in the attacks that appear to have targeted military installations in and around Damascus,” he said. He said the personnel of the Philippine Embassy in […]

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Civilians stay put despite ‘pause’ in Syria Ghouta bloodshed

by Rim Haddad Agence France Presse WAFIDEEN CHECKPOINT, Syria (AFP) — Civilians in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta shunned Russia’s offer to quit the besieged enclave for a second day Wednesday, as rebels and Moscow blamed each other for the humanitarian deadlock. The bombardment that killed 600 civilians in 10 days has quietened since the Kremlin ordered a daily “humanitarian pause”, but not one of the battered region’s 400,000 residents left to board buses provided by the […]

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Air strikes kill 28 civilians in Syria safe zone: monitor

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 28 civilians were killed in air strikes on northwestern Syria where a planned safe zone has been overshadowed by a bombing campaign against jihadists, a monitor said Saturday. Four children were among the dead in the overnight strikes on the town of Amanaz, in Idlib province near the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based watchdog had earlier reported 12 dead in the strikes on […]

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FA-50 fighter jets, hindi na muna gagamitin sa mga operasyon sa Marawi

(Eagle News) – Itinigil na muna ng Armed Forces of the Philippines ang paggamit ng FA–50 fighter jets matapos muling magmintis ang airstrike ng militar na ikinasawi ng dalawang sundalo at ikinasugat ng 11 iba pa. Ayon kay AFP Spokesman Brigadier General Restituto Padilla, hindi na muna paliliparin sa Marawi ang 12 na ganitong fighter jets ng Philippine Air Force habang gumugulong ang imbestigasyon sa sanhi ng pumalpak na airstrike. Aminado si Padilla na ngayon lang […]

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Airstrikes appear to target Damascus suburbs

(Reuters) — Videos uploaded to social media websites on Monday (July 3) appeared to show air strikes targeting neighborhoods close to the Syrian capital, Damascus. The videos showed smoke rising from explosions in what was said to be the the outer suburbs of Erbin and Jobar, located to the north-east of Damacus. In one of the videos a warplane is briefly seen flying overhead before a large explosion in the distance. The Syrian Observatory for […]

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Israel strikes Hamas bases in Gaza after rocket: officials

GAZA CITY, Israel (AFP) — Israeli airstrikes hit a series of targets in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip overnight Monday, officials said, hours after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave landed in the Jewish state. Strikes were recorded in at least three locations in Gaza, Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said, with Hamas bases struck near the southern city of Rafah and Gaza City, as well as open land southeast of Gaza City. The Palestinian health […]

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Board of Inquiry completes probe into “friendly fire” incident that killed 10 soldiers in Marawi

AFP spokesperson says he has not read report, but that it contains recommendations that stem from the June “accident” (Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines has finished its probe into the incident that saw “friendly fire” kill at least 10 government troopers in Marawi weeks ago. Brigadier General Restituto Padilla, AFP spokesperson, said at the Mindanao Hour briefing on Wednesday that the report of the Board of Inquiry led by General Raffy Valencia has been […]

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AFP to investigate gov’t airstrike that killed 11 soldiers

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will conduct an investigation into the bungled government airstrike in Marawi City that resulted in the death of 11 soldiers and injured several others. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana ordered the investigation, which will be headed by AFP Chief of Staff General Eduardo Año. The AFP has already recovered the bodies of the dead soldiers. The government’s failed airstrike was part of the […]

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