airstrikes

Nigerian Air Force targets Islamic State base at Magari near Lake Chad

Airstrikes "significantly degraded" an Islamic State West Africa province base at Magari in the Lake Chad area of Borno state

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Israel begins airstrikes in Gaza after rocket hits house near Tel Aviv

Israel launched airstrikes in the Gaza Strip hours after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave hit a house and wounded seven Israelis

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Afghanistan: Airstrike kills 10 children in Kunduz, UN says

At least 13 civilians, including 10 children, were killed in an airstrike by "international forces" in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, the UN said

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US Africa Command disputes rights group’s allegations of civilian casualties in Somalia

Amnesty International has accused U.S. forces of killing several civilians in Somalia as they “dramatically increased” the number of air strikes in the volatile country, but the U.S. military denied the deaths. U.S. Africa Command said it had carried out 110 strikes by drones and manned aircraft in the past two years in Somalia, killing over 800 people, but insisted every death was that of a “terrorist.” But Amnesty researchers who investigated five air strikes in detail reported at least 14 civilians had been killed, raising fears the total dead in the scores of attacks may be far higher. “The attacks appear to have violated international humanitarian law, and some may amount to war crimes,” Amnesty said in a Wednesday, March 20 report, titled “The Hidden U.S. War in Somalia.” The study is based on 150 interviews including witnesses, family members of those killed and security experts. Their reports were corroborated by satellite imagery, photographs of the deep craters of the explosions, as well as munition fragments collected from the sites. U.S. strikes, which included missiles fired by manned aircraft as well as drones, targeted Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked jihadist insurgent group, Al-Shabaab. Amnesty said that since April 2017, the U.S. …

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Israel strikes 100 targets in Gaza after rockets fired at Tel Aviv

Israel said it struck dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza in response to rockets from the Palestinian enclave, including rare fire toward Tel Aviv

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SDF resumes offensive on final ISIS territory in eastern Syria

The SDF pounded the last scrap of land held by ISIS, a scattering of tents and destroyed buildings near the Syrian town of Baghuz

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Israeli warplanes strike Gaza after ‘explosive balloon’ damages house

Israeli aircraft targeted military sites in Gaza after an "explosive balloon" damaged a house in Israel, the army said

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India claims ‘large number’ of JeM militants killed in Pakistan airstrike

An Indian airstrike on a militant camp in killed "a very large number" of JeM fighters preparing to attack India, a foreign ministry official said

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Mali: France airstrike kills 15 in Mopti as EU training base in Koulikoro attacked

French forces with Operation Barkhane and Malian forces killed 15 suspected members of Katiba Macina in an airstrike in Mopti

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French ISIS fighter Fabien Clain targeted in overnight airstrike in Syria

A French ISIS fighter who became notorious after claiming responsibility for the November Paris 2015 attacks was killed in an airstrike

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