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At least 15 killed in east Libya air strike

At least 15 killed in east Libya air strike

At least 15 people have been killed in an air strike in Libya’s besieged eastern jihadist stronghold of Derna, a medical source said on Tuesday. Most of the victims, including women and children, are from the same family, the source at the Harish hospital said, adding that three people were left critically wounded by the […]

October 31, 2017 | By | Reply More
US-led air strike kills 21 civilians fleeing Syria’s Raqa

US-led air strike kills 21 civilians fleeing Syria’s Raqa

A US-led coalition air strike killed 21 civilians on Monday as they tried to escape the Islamic State group’s Syrian bastion of Raqa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “The civilians were boarding small boats on the northern bank of the Euphrates River to flee southern neighbourhoods of Raqa,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel […]

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Air strike on prison in Syria’s Idlib kills 16- monitor

Air strike on prison in Syria’s Idlib kills 16- monitor

At least 16 people were killed overnight in air strikes on a prison in the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Saturday. It said the dead included prisoners and prison guards, but did not have an immediate breakdown of the toll. The strikes were believed to […]

March 25, 2017 | By | Reply More
US claims Syria strike, denies targeting mosque where 46 killed

US claims Syria strike, denies targeting mosque where 46 killed

The US said it carried out an air strike in Syria against an Al-Qaeda meeting but denied deliberately targeting a mosque where a monitor said on Friday 46 people were killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of the dead in the Thursday evening raid on Al-Jineh, in the northern province of Aleppo, […]

March 17, 2017 | By | Reply More
Nigerian Air Force mistakenly bombed refugee camp, kills at least 100

Nigerian Air Force mistakenly bombed refugee camp, kills at least 100

Nigeria’s air force killed at least 52 people and injured 120 in an air strike on a refugee camp in the country’s northeast on Tuesday, a spokesman from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said after the military earlier disclosed the strike was meant to target Boko Haram militants. MSF said the strike occurred in Rann in […]

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Five killed after air strike hits near northern Yemen school

Five killed after air strike hits near northern Yemen school

An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition near a school in rebel-held northern Yemen on Tuesday killed five people including two children, a medical and local official said. “The deputy principal of the school was moving around to call students for attending morning queue but he faced his fate,” resident Mohammed Ali told. A medical […]

January 10, 2017 | By | Reply More
Air strikes ‘kill 22 civilians near Yemen capital’

Air strikes ‘kill 22 civilians near Yemen capital’

Sep 12, – The first strike hit a site where locals were digging an aquifer in Beit Saadan, a village of the Arhab region north of the capital, on Saturday afternoon killing and wounding several people, they said. At least 22 civilians have been killed in air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition near Yemen’s […]

September 12, 2016 | By | Reply More
Saudi-led coalition air strike kills nine Yemeni civilians

Saudi-led coalition air strike kills nine Yemeni civilians

Aug  16, – The attack outside the capital hit the home of a local leader of Yemen’s armed Houthi group while he was out, killing his father and eight members of the family, residents added. An air strike by the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen killed nine civilians east of Sanaa on Tuesday, residents said, […]

August 16, 2016 | By | Reply More
UK teen girl who went to IS area of Syria reported killed

UK teen girl who went to IS area of Syria reported killed

Aug 12, – Tasnime Akunjee told the BBC that Kadiza Sultana’s family had been told that she died in the IS stronghold of Raqqa several weeks ago. He said the family was “devastated.” One of three London schoolgirls who traveled to an area controlled by the Islamic State group in Syria to become “jihadi brides” […]

August 12, 2016 | By | Reply More
Air strike on Syrian hospital kills 10 – Observatory

Air strike on Syrian hospital kills 10 – Observatory

Aug  07, –  The hospital, in the town of Meles, is about 15 km from Idlib city in rebel-held Idlib province. An airstrike on a hospital in northwestern Syria on Saturday killed 10 people, including children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syrian government and allied Russian military planes operate in Syria but it […]

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