Tag: airstrike

Airstrike Hits Busy Market in Opposition-Held Northwestern Syria and Kills at Least 9 People

JISR AL-SHUGHUR, Syria—An airstrike early Sunday over a busy vegetable market in northwestern Syria killed at least nine people, activists and local first responders said. Activists and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia, a top ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched the strike over the strategic opposition-held…


Sudan Officials Say Airstrike Killed 17 People, Including 5 Children, in Capital Khartoum

CAIRO—An airstrike in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Saturday killed at least 17 people, including five children, health officials said, as fighting continued between rival generals seeking to control the country. The attack was one of the deadliest of the clashes in urban areas of Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan between the military and a powerful…


Air Strike on Playground Kills 7 in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region: Hospital

NAIROBI—An air strike on a children’s play area killed at least seven people in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on Friday, medical officials there said, the first such attack after a four-month old ceasefire collapsed this week. The officials said three children were among the dead but a a federal government spokesman denied…


Israeli Airstrike Kills 2nd Top Commander of Islamic Jihad Terrorist Group

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip—Israel said Sunday that it killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza, the second such targeted attack since it launched its high-stakes military offensive against the terrorist group just before the weekend. The Iran-backed terrorist group has fired hundreds of rockets at Israel in response. Gaza’s ruling Hamas terrorist group, which…


US Says It Kills 2 Al Shabaab Terrorists in Somalia Airstrike

NAIROBI—The U.S. military said it had killed two fighters from the al Shabaab terrorist group in an airstrike in a remote part of Somalia’s southern Jubaland state on Sunday. The United States has been carrying out air strikes in Somalia to try to defeat al Shabaab, an al Qaeda franchise seeking to implement its interpretation…


Ukrainians Search for 20 Missing After Russia Strikes Mall

KREMENCHUK, Ukraine—Russian forces battled Wednesday to surround the Ukrainian military’s last stronghold in a long-contested eastern province as shock reverberated from a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 people in the center of the country a day earlier. Moscow’s battle to wrest the entire Donbas region from Ukraine saw Russia…


Pentagon Concludes No Laws Broken in 2019 Syria Strike That Killed Civilians

A Pentagon investigation of the 2019 U.S. military airstrike in Baghuz, Syria, has concluded that U.S. troops did not violate any laws of war. The strike on March 18, 2019, had been launched in support of Syrian partner forces who were under fire from the ISIS terrorist group near Baghuz. Civilians, including women and children, died…


Ukraine Says 300 Killed in Mariupol Theater Attack

Ukrainian authorities said Friday that about 300 people died when a Russian aircraft bombarded a theater in the besieged city of Mariupol nine days ago, where hundreds of civilians were said to be seeking shelter from the hostilities. The Mariupol City Council cited eyewitnesses in providing the casualty count in a statement on its Telegram channel,…


Pentagon Releases First Footage of Botched Kabul Airstrike

Department of Defense officials have made public for the first time footage of an airstrike that left 10 civilians dead in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 29, 2021. Military officials initially said the strike targeted a member of the ISIS terrorist group after the group was accused of having attacked the U.S.-held Kabul airport with suicide…


US Won’t Discipline Troops Over Airstrike That Killed Afghan Civilians: Pentagon

U.S. military personnel involved in the August drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed 10 civilians will not be disciplined, defense officials said on Monday. John Kirby, chief Pentagon spokesman, said on Monday that based on the findings of an independent probe released last month, no recommendations were made for discipline. The review was endorsed…