Tag: Strikes
Strategy devised to halt drone strikes: LHC told
The Government of Pakistan on Wednesday informed the Lahore High Court (LHC) that it had devised a strategy to halt US drone strikes in...
Errant bullet from Syria strikes Israeli side of border, wounds IDF...
An errant bullet shot from Syria struck near an Israel Defense Forces outpost in the Golan Heights on Thursday, grazing and lightly wounding an...
European workers stage austerity protests
Workers across the European Union are staging a series of protests and strikes against rising unemployment and austerity measures.
General strikes in Spain and Portugal...
Strong quake strikes off Guatemala
A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Guatemala on Sunday, US seismologists said, just days after a tremor in the same...
Greece faces shutdown amid massive strikes
Public transport and media workers have opened a week of strikes in Greece, contesting fresh austerity measures needed for a lifeline from creditors which...
Bombs, air strikes hit Syria after deadliest day in weeks
A car bomb blast shook the Damascus region early Tuesday, a day after nearly 250 people died in fighting and bombings in Syria’s worst...
Air strikes pound Syria rebels as China urged to help
Syrian warplanes pounded rebel bastions on Wednesday after a day of fighting that left more than 180 dead, as UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar...
Syria air force general killed as air strikes pound rebels
A Syrian air force general has been assassinated in Damascus, state television said Tuesday, as air strikes pounded rebel bastions and fighting raged for...
Doctor protest continue for 14th consecutive day in Balochistan
Adding to the miseries of patients, doctors of government hospitals across Balochistan including Quetta on Tuesday continued their strike for the fourteenth consecutive...
‘Heaviest’ air strikes yet shake Syria after failed truce
Damascus shook with loud explosions Monday as Syrian warplanes reportedly launched their heaviest air strikes yet after a failed bid to halt the country's...
Gaza strikes kill 4 militants as 68 rockets hit Israel
Tensions soared around Gaza on Wednesday after Israeli air raids killed four militants and Palestinian armed groups fired 68 rockets at southern Israel, seriously...
Hague being taken to court over drone strikes
British Foreign Secretary William Hague is being taken to court amid accusations of being an accomplice in drone strikes that are said to break...
US weighing drone strikes in north Africa
The White House may extend its campaign of drone strikes against Al-Qaeda to target the desert bases of the group’s north African arm, the...
US believes it has Pakistan’s ‘tacit consent’ for drone strikes
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) tells Pakistan in advance about “broad areas” where it intends to take aim at suspected terrorists with drone strikes...
US must immediately end drone strikes: Khar
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has called on the US to immediately end its “unlawful” and “counter-productive” assassination drone strikes in her country.
The foreign...
Drone attacks kill at least 15 militants in NWA
US drone strikes targeting three militant compounds on Friday killed at least 15 rebels in tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.
"The...
Syria army steps up Damascus, Aleppo strikes
Government forces stepped up blistering attacks in Damascus and Aleppo on Wednesday after the regime said it was ready to discuss President Bashar al-Assad’s...
