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Turkey launches start of ‘Operation Peace Spring’ targeting SDF in Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of a long-anticipated military operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast…

Joanne Stocker

US airstrikes on Afghanistan drug factories killed at least 30 civilians, UNAMA finds

US airstrikes on drug-production centers in Afghanistan's Farah province led to the deaths of at least 39 civilians and the facilities…

Joanne Stocker

Trump approval for Turkey’s attack on Syria’s Kurds was ‘waiting to happen,’ Western official says

Trump’s approval for Turkey to attack Kurdish-led fighters in Syria vindicated European allies' refusals to send new troops, a diplomat…

Jared Szuba

Isolated Manbij faces rival Syrian factions on two fronts

Forces loyal to the Syrian government and Turkey-backed rebels mobilized near Manbij ahead of an expected Turkish incursion into Syria

Jared Szuba

India receives first of 36 Dassault Rafale fighter jets

India received the first of 36 Rafale fighter jets ordered from France in 2016 in a multi-billion-dollar deal tainted by…

Staff Writer With AFP

US Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashes in Germany

A US Air Force F-16 fighter jet belonging to the 480th Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem Air Base jet crashed near…

Staff Writer With AFP

Afghanistan airstrike killed Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent leader, NDS says

The leader of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent was killed in a joint US-Afghan operation last month, Afghanistan's intelligence agency…

Staff Writer With AFP

Fourth Senegalese UN peacekeeper dies after Central Africa helicopter crash

A fourth Senegalese United Nations peacekeeper has died after he was injured in a combat helicopter crash in the Central…

Staff Writer With AFP

Niger soldiers killed in ‘terrorist’ attack in southwestern Dosso region

Two soldiers were killed and five others wounded in a "terrorist" attack in the in the Dogondoutchi department of the…

Staff Writer With AFP

US Democrats subpoena Pentagon documents in Trump impeachment inquiry

Congressional Democrats subpoenaed the Pentagon for documents tied to President Donald Trump's withholding of military aide to Ukraine

Staff Writer With AFP