A Taliban offensive to conquer the city of Ghazni in Afghanistan, the capital of a province of the same name, reportedly killed about 100 Afghan security forces and at least 20 civilians since it began last Friday.
Forces loyal to the Russian- and Iranian-backed regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad launched nearly 1,270 airstrikes on rebel-held territory near Israel’s Golan Heights on Sunday alone, marking the latest move in an offensive to clear insurgents out of southern Syria, according to a monitor group.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military says it has carried out airstrikes on militant sites in Gaza overnight in response to machine gun fire that hit a building in the Israeli city of Sderot.
Russian Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi stated on Wednesday that Moscow will supply Syria with “new missile defense systems soon.” He did not specify the equipment involved, but other reports in the Russian press suggest he was referring to the vaunted S-300 surface-to-air missile launcher.
Military leaders in Iran threatened to “annihilate” Israel in remarks made over the weekend as tensions between the two countries increase over the ongoing civil war in Syria.
TEL AVIV – The IDF on Monday distanced itself from an unnamed senior official who admitted to the New York Times that Israel was behind an airstrike on an Iranian military facility in Syria in which at least seven Iranians were killed.
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s bloody efforts to stamp out the remaining rebel enclaves near Damascus resulted in what observers are describing as the wholesale massacre of civilians on Monday and Tuesday, with a bombing campaign that deliberately targeted seven hospitals and killed over a hundred people, including at least 20 children.
TEL AVIV – Stop the violent protests or Israel will respond harshly, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) warned Gazans demonstrators in an Arabic-language video Tuesday, adding that they might consider protesting against their oppressive Hamas government instead.
TEL AVIV – In what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deemed a “serious” incident, four IDF soldiers were wounded when a bomb was detonated by their jeep during a patrol along the Gaza Strip border on Saturday.
In a thinly veiled threat directed at Syria, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned that any future provocation against Israel from its northern neighbors would end “very badly” for them.
President Donald Trump’s administration has ramped up the American air war in Afghanistan, dropping 1,634 bombs on terrorists so far this year, a figure that represents an increase of more than 65 percent from the 545 airstrikes launched during the same period in 2016, military data shows.
On Friday afternoon, Egyptian warplanes attacked militant camps in eastern Libya to retaliate for the slaughter of 28 Coptic Christians by masked gunmen.
American airstrikes targeted a group of Syrian militia vehicles after they ignored U.S. warnings and violated a “de-confliction zone” on Thursday.
The Turkish military has launched a series of airstrikes against the U.S.-allied Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) in Syria and the U.S.-designated terrorist group Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq, which Ankara considers the same organization.
Early Tuesday morning, a wave of Turkish airstrikes reportedly struck a headquarters building used by the Kurdish YPG militia in northeastern Syria. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 18 YPG fighters and media officials were killed in the attack.
The evacuation of more than 3,000 Syrians that was scheduled to take place Sunday from four areas as part of a population transfer has been postponed, opposition activists said, a day after a deadly blast that killed more than 120 people, many of them government supporters.
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Public support for Donald Trump’s decision to launch airstrikes against the Syrian regime is low compared to support for previous foreign actions, according to the latest Gallup poll.
President Donald Trump’s decision to authorize airstrikes in Syria in retaliation for an earlier chemical weapon attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was spurred by his daughter Ivanka, the Daily Express reports.
Hollywood celebrities took to Twitter Thursday to weigh in on the airstrikes in Syria authorized by U.S. President Donald Trump in retaliation for an earlier chemical weapon strike by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
The government of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has condemned U.S. airstrikes on a Syrian airbase in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack by Assad troops that killed dozens of civilians, including children.
In response to President Donald Trump’s order for airstrikes on dictator Bashar al-Assad’s military assets in Syria on Thursday night, the Bolivian government asked for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the developments.
President Donald Trump ordered Tomahawk missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Thursday evening — then sat down to dinner with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago.
On Friday, the Pentagon announced it would investigate claims of up to 200 civilian casualties after airstrikes in Mosul, Iraq.
BEIJING — Russia has not changed its policy on coordination with the Israeli air force in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, denying reports that Moscow had told Israel to end airstrikes in the war-torn country and vowing to continue attacking weapons convoys.
TEL AVIV – The IDF Chief Of Staff on Sunday warned Beirut that the army would strike Lebanese strongholds – and not just those affiliated with Hezbollah – were the terror group to attack Israel.
The number of U.S. military airstrikes against al-Qaeda in Yemen so far this month have surpassed those that occurred during any year under former President Barack Obama’s presidency.
Lt. General Stephen Townsend, the top American commander for anti-ISIS operations in Syria and Iraq, said on Wednesday that Russian and Syrian planes bombed villages held by U.S.-backed forces.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Friday that Iraq’s air force conducted its first strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria.
The Pentagon is strongly disputing Russia’s claim of a joint combat mission against Islamic State targets in Syria.
The post-Obama power axis in the Middle East continues taking shape. On Tuesday, President Obama’s respected negotiating partners in Tehran declared the U.S. would not be welcome at Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan next week.
At least 50 Islamic State operatives were reportedly killed and dozens more wounded by Egyptian army artillery attacks in the Sinai Peninsula.
Dozens of prisoners and security personnel were feared dead after Saudi-led airstrikes on Saturday battered two prisons inside a security headquarters in a western port city, security and medical officials said.
After the latest news of horrible civilian carnage in Aleppo, Syria, including an airstrike that killed 20 members of the same family, Russia has announced it will temporarily suspend airstrikes. The move has been presented as an opportunity for rebel forces to pull out of the city, but the rebels refuse to leave.
Russia has announced that Russian and Syrian warplanes are halting airstrikes on the besieged city of Aleppo.
Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) — also known as Doctors Without Borders — has announced it will withdraw from northern Yemen, in the wake of an airstrike by the Saudi coalition that struck one of its hospitals on Monday, killing 19 and wounding 24.
Russian warplanes flew bombing missions into Syria from the Hamedan airbase in western Iran on Tuesday, in a significant step toward closer Russian-Iranian cooperation.
Government air raids struck at least five medical facilities in the northern province of Aleppo, where violence has intensified in recent weeks amid a siege by government forces, Syrian opposition activists said Sunday.
The Taliban reacted to news of expanded authority for U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan by claiming that the American air campaign against them never really ended, it has done nothing to break their resolve, and they will deliver “harsh” retaliation for intensified bombing.
An Egyptian actor and comedian has reportedly accused victims in Syria’s city of Aleppo of using makeup to “fake” the slaughter wrought by Bashar al-Assad regime airstrikes.
