Category: airstrikes

US Conducts Airstrikes in Syria After 1 Killed in Suspected Iranian Drone Attack on Base

The U.S. military carried out an airstrike in Syria on Thursday after a drone attacked a U.S. base, killing one and injuring six more, including service members, according to the Department of Defense (DOD). In a late Thursday night statement, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced that he had authorized U.S. Central Command forces to carry out…


Iraqi Airstrikes Kill 9 ISIS Terrorists, Including 4 Lebanese

BAGHDAD—Iraqi airstrikes killed nine suspected ISIS terrorists, including four Lebanese, in retaliation for an ISIS attack on Iraqi army barracks earlier this month, officials said Sunday. ISIS gunmen in Iraq broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district outside the town of Baqouba on Jan. 21, killed a guard and shot dead 11 soldiers…


8 Wounded in Houthi Drone Strikes on Saudi Abha Airport

ABHA, Saudi Arabia—At least eight people were wounded on Monday in Houthi drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport that also damaged a civilian airplane, Saudi officials said. Earlier, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen said it intercepted a Houthi drone that was targeting Abha International Airport. Shrapnel was scattered in the…


Israeli Fighter Jets Strike Launch Sites in Response to Lebanese Rocket Attack

Israel on Thursday launched rockets at an artillery launch site in Lebanon as a response to attacks from the Lebanese earlier this week, officials said. The Israeli military said fighter jets targeted the launch sites from which the Lebanese rocket attacks originated on Wednesday. A separate infrastructure used in past terror attacks on Israeli territory…


Strike From Gaza Kills 2 as Israel Topples 6-story Building

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip—A strike launched from Gaza killed two Thai workers inside a packaging plant in southern Israel on Tuesday, police said, hours after Israeli airstrikes toppled a six-story building in the Palestinian territory. With the war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers showing no sign of abating and truce efforts apparently stalled, Palestinians…


Syria Airstrikes Sent ‘Very Strong Signal,’ Pentagon Says

The airstrikes launched against militants in Syria last week sent a “very strong signal,” the Pentagon said Monday, rebutting claims by militant groups that the strikes had no real effect on them. “I haven’t seen those comments, I would go back to what I said last week: that this was really designed to do two…