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Turkey launches fresh airstrikes on PKK after Ankara blast
Ankara: Turkish forces carried out a fresh round of airstrikes on the targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said. The airstrikes destroyed 16 targets…
- Middle East
Turkey carries out airstrikes against PKK targets in Iraq
Ankara: The Turkish military carried out two airstrikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said. The air operations, conducted on Wednesday and Friday, targeted…
- Middle East
Syria says Israeli airstrikes on military sites in Damascus
Damascus: Israeli warplanes launched an overnight attack on military sites in Damascus, causing damages, the Syrian military said in a statement on Monday. The strike was made from over the Israeli-occupied Golan…
- Middle East
Gaza: Senior Islamic Jihad militant killed in Israsli airstrike
Gaza: A senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s armed wing Al-Quds Brigades was killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in Gaza city, the Gaza-based health ministry said…
- Middle East
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kills 21 Palestinians
Gaza: At least 21 Palestinians were killed and 64 were injured in the continuing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, said the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza. Ashraf Al-Qedra, the ministry’s spokesman…
- Middle East
Israel launches airstrikes in Syria after rocket attacks
Tel Aviv: Israel carried out artillery strikes in southern Syria, in response to six rockets that were launched from its Islamic neighbour, The Times of Israel reported citing Israel Defence Force. The…
- Middle East
UN peacekeepers launch probe into rocket fire, air strikes in Lebanon
Beirut: The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has opened an investigation into the rocket launches and air strikes that took place in the southern part of the country in the past…
- Middle East
Tensions mount in Gaza after Israel intensifies airstrikes
Gaza: Israel on Friday intensified airstrikes on military posts in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, in response to rockets fired at several parts in the Jewish state, escalating tensions with Palestine over…
- World
Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza post raid on Al-Aqsa
Jerusalem: Israel on Wednesday carried out intensive airstrikes on military facilities in the Gaza Strip. Security sources in Gaza said that the airstrikes targeted two military posts of Hamas in the southwest…
- Middle East
Airstrikes in Iraq kill three IS terrorists
Baghdad: Three Islamic State (IS) terrorists were killed in airstrikes in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a security source said on Saturday. Iraqi warplanes on Friday carried out airstrikes on IS hideouts…
- Middle East
5 IS militants killed in airstrikes in Iraq’s Salahudin province
Baghdad: Five Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in airstrikes in Iraq’s central Salahudin Province, the Iraqi military said. Their bodies were founded at dawn near an IS hideout bombarded by Iraqi…
- Middle East
5 killed in airstrike on IS militants in Iraq: Military
Baghdad: The death toll from Saturday’s airstrike on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq’s Salahudin province rose to five, the Iraqi military said. Soldiers found the bodies of two IS militants and…
- Pakistan
Pakistan rejects reports of carrying out airstrikes against TTP in Afghanistan
Islamabad: The Foreign Office (FO) in Islamabad has categorically rejected reports claiming that Pakistan had carried out airstrikes against the terror outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in eastern Afghanistan, terming such claims “utterly…
- Middle East
11 Islamic State militants killed in airstrikes in Iraq
Baghdad: Eleven Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in airstrikes in western and eastern Iraq, the Iraqi military said. Seven militants including a local leader were killed and a hideout was destroyed…
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Russian strikes on Syria’s Idlib province kill 120 rebels
Damascus: Russian airstrikes on positions of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in northwestern Syria has reportedly killed 120 rebels. The Russian warplanes attacked a Nusra Front training camp in the Sheikh Youssef area…
