Tag: US airstrike

Islamic State says US-led strikes kill 40 in militant pocket in...

AMMAN: At least forty people, mostly women and children were killed on Saturday in the latest wave of US-led coalition airstrikes against the last...

US carries out air strike in Somalia, nine militants killed

NAIROBI: The US military said on Tuesday it had killed nine militants in an air strike in southern Somalia this week during a battle...

Top Islamic State commander in Afghanistan killed in airstrike

KABUL: A high-ranking Islamic State (IS) commander in Afghanistan has been killed in an airstrike, officials said Saturday, as Afghan and US forces dial up...

Four al-Qaeda militants killed in Yemen airstrike, says Pentagon

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said on Thursday that a US military strike in Yemen killed four al Qaeda militants, the seventh such strike in the...

Airstrike in Libya kills two ‘terrorists’, says US

TRIPOLI: US forces said they had killed “two terrorists” in an air strike in southwestern Libya on Saturday as part of efforts to deny...

Key Daesh member killed in Afghanistan airstrike

KABUL: A key member of the Daesh terror group was killed in an airstrike of the US forces in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan,...

US raid on Yemen kills 30 Qaeda suspects, 10 civilians: official

A US raid in Yemen at dawn on Sunday killed 30 suspected Al-Qaeda militants, including three prominent figures, and 10 civilians, a provincial official...

Russia under fire at UN as air strikes pound Syria’s Aleppo

Britain, France and the United States lashed out at Russia on Sunday over the worsening carnage in Syria as Syrian and Russian warplanes pounded...

Daesh commander killed in airstrike near Syria’s Raqa: monitor

A drone strike near the Daesh group’s de facto Syrian capital Raqa killed a militant commander heading to Aleppo province on orders from the organisation’s chief,...

Daesh second-in-command killed in US airstrike in Syria

Syrian army retakes Palmyra citadel from Islamic State