DUBAI (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition air strike in northern Yemen, residents said.
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He was killed by a U.S. air strike last September.
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Trump called off a retaliatory air strike minutes before impact.
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Sixteen service members faced disciplinary action over the air strike.
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The sources did not say when the air strike happened.
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The BBC said he was killed in an air strike.
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The coalition statement made no reference to any air strike.
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They have removed from that country after the air strike.
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Maghraoui was killed in September, in an American air strike.
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It did not identify the origin of the air strike.
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In all, 12 people were killed in the air strike.
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The coalition made no immediate comment on the reported air strike.
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"That last air strike was trying to damage it," he said.
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The spokesman could not confirm if it was an air strike.
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"Many Taliban fighters were killed in the air strike," said Naemi.
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An Israeli air strike was underway against Syria at the time.
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An air strike hit a wedding in Yemen, killing dozens of people.
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Trump called off the retaliatory U.S. air strike at the last minute.
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An air strike on Islamist rebels killed 11 government troops in May.
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Turkey blamed an air strike by Syrian government forces for the deaths.
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Shares of U.S. defense companies jumped on news of the air strike.
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After a US air strike in Baghdad on January 3 killed Gen.
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For instance, LO was not needed when the F-35A was called to carry out the first air strike in the Middle East, nor when the US Marine Corps F-35B carried out the first air strike in Afghanistan.
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Its leader, Zahran Alloush, was killed in an air strike on Dec. 25.
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Her husband, a militant, was killed in the air strike that wounded her.
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America killed 183 jihadists from al-Shabab in an air strike in Somalia.
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That followed a U.S. air strike on the outskirts of Sabratha on Feb.
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At least four people were hurt in the air strike, health officials said.
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A photograph of an ISIS fighter who was killed in an air strike.
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Warren said five other Islamic State fighters were killed in the air strike.
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There was no confirmation from American and NATO officials on the air strike.
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Two Hamas gunmen were killed in one Israeli retaliatory air strike in December.
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Palestinian witnesses said he was killed in an air strike on his car.
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The Pentagon later confirmed it was a US air strike that killed Soleimani.
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Last week U.S. officials said Shishani was likely killed in a U.S. air strike.
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The Pentagon said last month that a U.S.-led coalition air strike on Sept.
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When Fan was fined in October, however, he encouraged people to boycott Air Strike.
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A U.S. military spokeswoman said U.S. forces were not involved in Thursday's air strike.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - When a U.S. air strike hit Sabratha in western Libya on Feb.
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On March 22, an air strike hit a residential building in Rajm Hadid neighborhood.
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A few hundred meters away, a car bomb was hit by an air strike.
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We do not know whether it was U.S. air strike or our air defense.
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Washington in response conducted an air strike on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
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In 2009, a U.S. air strike riddled his legs with shrapnel and killed Kashmir.
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A ninth member, a Bahraini, was killed in an air strike in late May.
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The Pentagon later confirmed the deadly air strike, characterizing it as a defensive action.
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A major bridge leading into eastern Raqqa lies collapsed after a coalition air strike.
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In another province, officials said an air strike killed both Taliban fighters and civilians.
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A U.S. air strike killed Soleimani and an Iraqi militia commander at Baghdad airport.
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Intelligence indicated he died in an August air strike, though no body was found.
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The air strike on a mill on Wednesday had severely reduced bread supply, he said.
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The convoy was targeted in an air strike on Monday after it entered the territory.
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"We assess no civilians were killed in this air strike," Africom said in a statement.
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An air strike hit the village where the fighting was taking place, killing many civilians.
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An air strike on his village in June 2015 killed 33 civilians, including his niece.
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Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the air strike with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday.
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Adding to the strain on emergency services, a U.S. air strike in Kunduz on Oct.
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The air strike hit an area a few kilometers (miles) from the border with Iraq.
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His brother, who couldn't afford to join him, had been killed by an air strike.
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An air strike hit the house, killing eleven people, including Horan's cousin and her baby.
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At least one warplane carried out an air strike in the area, a resident said.
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"At any moment, an air strike could kill me and my children" there, he said.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Mitiga airport said it had halted civilian traffic following an air strike.
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Shares of U.S. defense companies jumped on news of the air strike that killed Soleimani.
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Shares of U.S. defense companies jumped on news of the air strike that killed Soleimani.
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CNN has not received official confirmation of whether "Air Strike" will be released in China.
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Twelve-year-old Abdullah lost his left leg in an air strike three years ago.
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Two months later, he fled following an air strike that killed several of his band.
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Kennedy decided on a naval blockade rather than an air strike, and Khrushchev backed down.
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Two militants were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza after a rocket attack.
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It comes months after Australia said he had been killed in a US air strike.
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"We currently assess no civilians were injured or killed in this air strike", Africom's statement read.
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In March 2016, a U.S. air strike killed more than 150 al Shabaab fighters in Somalia.
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"We currently assess no civilians were injured or killed in this air strike," Africom's statement read.
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A Saudi-led coalition air strike on al-Khoukha in March killed at least 22 civilians.
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But they will have to coordinate these decisions with other members of the air strike force.
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Islamic State said on Tuesday that Adnani was killed in an air strike in Aleppo province.
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The intention of Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, in ordering the original air strike was simple.
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Mr Trump was briefly persuaded to order an air strike on Iran under their belligerent guidance.
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Norida Manna's three-storey house was levelled by an air strike, but she's thankful she's alive.
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Helmand Governor Mohammad Yasin and government officials in Kabul said the air strike was being investigated.
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Riyadh has denied responsibility for Saturday's air strike, one of the bloodiest incidents of the war.
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A U.S.-led coalition has been providing air strike support, intelligence and advisers on the ground.
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In April, an air strike on a hospital in rebel-held Aleppo killed dozens of people.
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The Observatory said an air strike in rebel-held Idlib province killed at least 13 people.
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He said an air strike was then called in, killing 22 members of the militia force.
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Israel's military denied accounts by local residents that the militants were killed in an air strike.
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An aid worker told Reuters there had been an air strike on the market on Nov.
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Market participants also focused on an air strike on a Syrian air base over the weekend.
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But it's a very damaged area and we cannot definitely conclude that it's an air strike.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Friday that a U.S.-led coalition air strike on Sept.
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India launched an air strike on a suspected militant camp on the Pakistani side of the border.
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On April 9, an air strike killed seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members at a Syrian base.
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In Syria, an air strike hit an Islamic State building near Raqqa, the U.S.-led coalition said.
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Israeli newspapers cite intelligence that the chemical air strike was ordered by the "highest levels" in Syria.
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A Turkish convoy sent to resupply the Morek post was halted on Monday by an air strike.
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Medics who saw the wreckage said an air strike had destroyed a house in Ouled Amer village.
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Reporters saw an air strike hit Islamic State positions about 300 meters (yards) ahead on the frontline.
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The air strike hit the town of Injara some 15 km (9 miles) west of Aleppo city.
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The Israeli military Arabic spokesman, Avichay Adraee, questioned whether the baby was killed in an air strike.
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The Pentagon later said it had targeted the missing bundle in an air strike and destroyed it.
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In November, a U.S. air strike killed Islamic State's senior leader in Libya, known as Abu Nabil.
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Haftar's forces and the U.N.-backed government have blamed each other for the July 3 air strike.
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His son, Mao Anying, was killed in 1950 by an American air strike during the Korean war.
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The group announced on Twitter that Abu Omar Saraqeb died after an air strike in Aleppo province.
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At least one air strike hit a military airport in Syria, according to the country's state media.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The air strike hit Syria's eastern Ghouta on Wednesday, three days into a massive bombardment.
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Wednesday's air strike killed their father, Majid Santiha, and his body was carried away on a stretcher.
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Rebels have denied that there were any military positions in the area targeted in Tuesday's air strike.
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Russia said on June 17 its forces might have killed him in an air strike in Syria.
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Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said a U.S. air strike had killed 35 women, children and elders.
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An air strike in Zakhil area killed 20 Taliban fighters including two commanders, Afghan security officials said.
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Iran's attack was a response to a U.S. air strike that killed Iran's top military commander, Gen.
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A Palestinian died following an overnight Israeli air strike Wednesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza reported.
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On April 9, an air strike killed seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members at the Syrian base.
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The decision comes days after the U.S. air strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military leader.
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A school was hit on Saturday in an air strike blamed on Haftar's forces, Tripoli officials said.
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An air strike featuring Su-35 fighter jets, a cornerstone of Russian-Chinese military interoperability, then followed.
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A Defense Department official in Washington confirmed an air strike was launched against the Taliban on Saturday.
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President John F. Kennedy's first reaction was that he must destroy them with a massive air strike.
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The Pentagon disclosed the air strike last week but was still assessing then whether Dhoore had been killed.
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Russia's Defence Ministry said Adnani's killing by the Russian air strike had been confirmed "through several intelligence channels".
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The alliance said in a statement it would investigate the air strike, which killed at least 12 civilians.
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As the fighting went on, an air strike was called in and killed around 25 insurgents, he said.
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On September 1, 2016, two months short of his 13th birthday, Hatf was hit by another air strike.
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America said it had killed Qari Hekmatullah, the leader of Islamic State in Afghanistan, in an air strike.
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A Russian air strike killed a civil defence volunteer in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, the Observatory said.
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She fled with her mother and sisters in 2014 after her home was destroyed in an air strike.
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When the first air strike hit al-Nour's neighborhood, he says, it killed eight people from one family.
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The American air strike was targeted at al-Shabab fighters planning another such attack, according to the Pentagon.
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Early this month, the U.S. military carried out its first air strike against Islamic State militants, killing several.
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On Monday, the U.S. military said it carried out an air strike against al Shabaab on July 2.
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And days after the air strike, Spicer declined to get into where US policy towards Syria was headed.
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A Russian air strike killed a civil defense volunteer in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, the Observatory said.
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Gatilov said he was referring to a strike on Wednesday May 17, not the air strike on Thursday.
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Ali's neighbor Abdo Hussein said more than 50 people were in the building when the air strike hit.
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An air strike hit that medical position later in the morning, the civil defense and the Observatory said.
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If there was fire from the cabin, we'd keep our distance, and I'd call in an air strike.
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None of the governments with armed forces operating in and over Syria took responsibility for the air strike.
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"That's an indicator that was where they were really focused," MacFarland said of an air strike targeting Shishani.
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A September 2016 air strike in Galkayo killed at least 10 pro-government fighters, the U.S. has acknowledged.
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On some streets, every building had been hit by an air strike, badly damaged if not completely destroyed.
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Moualem said a Syrian air strike had hit a store where the Nusra Front was storing chemical weapons.
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The operation of the port, controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthis, was not affected by the air strike.
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Mitiga airport was closed earlier in the day when residents reported an air strike on the Libyan capital.
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Qassem Soleimani, the revered commander of the Quds Force, in an air strike in Iraq on Friday morning.
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In response, India launched an air strike on the Pakistani side and Pakistan shot down an Indian aircraft.
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In response, India launched an air strike on the Pakistani side and Pakistan shot down an Indian aircraft.
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The attacks follow a U.S. air strike against al Shabaab militants in Haradere, a district in Galmudug region.
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The air strike killed two soldiers and caused damage near the town of Masyaf, an army statement said.
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The group has accused Israel of killing Qantar in an air strike in Syria, and vowed to retaliate.
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Seven Iranian military personnel were killed in Sunday's air strike on a Syrian air base, Iranian media reported.
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Witnesses said the air strike hit an empty building in Gaza City and the casualties were passers-by.
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"Iran's past and recent activities, coupled with intelligence at the time of the air strike, indicated that Iran's Qods Force posed a threat to the United States in Iraq, and the air strike against Soleimani was intended to protect United States personnel and deter future Iranian attack plans," the report reads.
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The fighting eased in the late morning, although a Reuters correspondent saw an air strike and rebel mortar fire.
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In front of her house, a huge crater with several charred cars indicated the aftermath of an air strike.
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Libya said last year that he was killed in a U.S. air strike, although fighters have repeatedly denied this.
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The military believes Abdullah was killed in an air strike in early August, but the body was not found.
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A Reuters reporter, standing within sight of the mosque, saw heavy smoke in that area after an air strike.
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A U.S. air strike targeted veteran Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar and other jihadists meeting in eastern Libya last June.
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Israel retaliated with an air strike that killed two militants from the armed Islamist group Hamas, which controls Gaza.
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Her upcoming film Air Strike, originally set to premiere on October 26, has been axed, according to Page Six.
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One detention center in Tripoli was hit by an air strike earlier this month, killing more than 50 people.
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Khorasani had previously been seriously wounded in a NATO air strike in eastern Afghanistan in 2015 but later recovered.
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Occasional rocket fire from Gaza and a retaliatory Israeli air strike broke the calm, but the ceasefire largely held.
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However, the U.S. Pentagon said on Monday that it had killed Dhoore in an air strike on March 31.
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Moualem also said the first Syrian air strike carried out in the area took place at 11:30 a.m.
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Houthi officials and residents said the air strike targeted a complex used as a detention center in the city.
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Hatay Governor Rahmi Dogan said none of the Turkish troops wounded in Thursday's air strike were in critical condition.
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It said in a statement that a weapons depot and two vehicles were also destroyed in the air strike.
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Washington said the United States carried out a "self-defense air strike" after Somali troops faced fire from militants.
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The U.N. envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, condemned the air strike as a "a serious violation of humanitarian law".
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Hassan Ali Dhoore was killed in a U.S. air strike targeting him on March 31, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.
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Islamic State said on Tuesday Adnani had been killed in what appeared to be an U.S. air strike in Syria.
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The bed in which an elderly woman was killed by shrapnel from an apparent coalition air strike in Wahijah village.
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Here is the video released by the IDF showing the air-strike against the building housing Hamas cyber forces. pic.twitter.
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A Houthi fighter crosses the site of an air strike on a parade square in Sanaa, Yemen, on Nov. 5.
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In July, the Iraqi Defense Ministry claimed a coalition air strike had killed him in Tal Afar in northern Iraq.
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Attorney General Brandis also announced the death of another Australian citizen in an air strike in Syria on April 22.
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The chief of a neighbouring village says his palace was destroyed in an air strike after the herdsmen had left.
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The turning point came at a special briefing prepared at his request on what an air strike would look like.
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An ambulance from an MSF-affiliated hospital rushed to the scene of a suspected Saudi-led air strike on Jan.
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Minutes later, Murad pulls up a tweet from a Syrian account confirming that an air strike has hit the city.
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It was unclear if the Sudanese man under U.S. sanctions was the same one reported killed in the air strike.
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Around 50 of Golani's bodyguards and 12 Nusra Front field commanders were killed in the same air strike, Konashenkov said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq launched an air strike on an Islamic State target inside neighboring Syria on Thursday, the military said.
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In October 2015, the Pentagon said Cuspert was killed in an air strike near the northern Syria city of Raqqah.
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Atlanta (CNN)The Pentagon said it conducted an air strike against the Al-Shabaab group in Somalia early Sunday morning.
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America launched an air strike at a camp belonging to al-Shabab, a terrorist outfit in Somalia, killing 150 fighters.
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Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said an air strike had put one of Aleppo's biggest hospitals out of service.
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Ten al Qaeda members were killed in an air strike on a building used as a meeting place on Feb.
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According to Reuters, the Houthis said they had targeted a warship in response to an air strike that killed civilians.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Eastern Libyan forces confirmed an air strike on Tripoli's only functioning airport, a spokesman said on Monday.
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Another bleak memory was an air strike which killed around 20 of his comrades sheltering in a cave in 2016.
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Iraq's prime minister condemned the air strike and said it would "light the fuse of a destructive war in Iraq".
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In the worst recent attack, an air strike destroyed a hospital in a rebel-held area overnight on Wednesday-Thursday.
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It had dropped 1.4% the previous week after a U.S. air strike killed an Iranian commander and Tehran threatened revenge.
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Pompeo was instrumental in Trump's decision to launch an air strike last week that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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It had dropped 1.4% the previous week after a U.S. air strike killed an Iranian commander and Iran threatened revenge.
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Qasem Soleimani -- who was killed in an American air strike last week -- personally worked to keep those forces in line.
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One official described them as an air strike, while the other said the site was made "unusable through various means".
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He said the Taliban had also suffered heavy casualties including about 50 fighters killed by an air strike on Sunday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Two Palestinian teenagers were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Saturday, health officials said.
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A Turkish air strike hit Afrin's main hospital on Friday night, killing 16 people, the YPG and the Observatory said.
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The army pulled out of the hospital under heavy fire and called in an air strike on militants inside the complex.
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Russia, its ally, said a Syrian air strike had hit a rebel-held weapons stockpile, releasing deadly chemicals into the air.
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It said the shooting was followed by an air strike on a village in rural Qamishli, near the border with Turkey.
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Israel downed the aircraft and launched a retaliatory air strike on a trailer, where it said the drone was being operated.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday that a recent air strike in central Somalia killed 35 al Shabaab fighters.
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"This air strike targeted armed al Shabaab militants as they were transitioning between locations in a rural area," the statement added.
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Following an air strike, entire neighbourhoods would swarm over the rubble to look for survivors, often digging with their bare hands.
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Last month, Iranian air defense units, fearing a US air strike on Iran, accidentally destroyed a Ukrainian airliner killing 176 people.
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A rocket from Gaza, an air strike by Israel, a bullet from Hizbullah—any of these could ignite the next one.
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Modi ordered an air strike on a suspected militant camp in Pakistan, and doubled down on security as a campaign issue.
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The U.S. air strike against Syria, in retaliation for the chemical weapons attack, must be followed by intense diplomacy for peace.
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Russian officials said the gas had been released by an air strike on a poison gas storage depot controlled by rebels.
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Haftar's LNA said on Saturday its positions were attacked in an air strike south of Tripoli but there were no casualties.
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Separately, Turkey's military said it carried out an air strike in northern Iraq on Monday and that "four terrorists were neutralized".
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The US military's activities in Iraq ramped up significantly there since 2014, when the first air strike against ISIS was conducted.
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Belmokhtar's fate following the air strike has never been confirmed, though the group he leads, Al-Mourabitoun, claimed he had survived.
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Iran blamed it for an April 9 air strike that killed seven of its military personnel in Syria, and vowed revenge.
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His fighters regrouped in areas near the Jordanian border, where their base was hit in a Russian air strike last year.
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Five Turkish soldiers have been killed in the past week alone, three of them in a suspected Syrian government air strike.
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Lebanon's al-Mayadeen TV initially blamed an Israeli air strike, but Hezbollah said it was yet to determine who was responsible.
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We were shown video of their blackened, skinless corpses being carried away: 21 people had been killed in the air strike.
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An air strike hit a detention center housing mainly African migrants in Tripoli last Tuesday, killing dozens and wounding many more.
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Israel retaliated with an air strike, killing two civilian teenagers and injuring locals, as Palestinians forces fired rockets into Southern Israel.
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"Credible reports that at least 10 civilians killed in Kunduz Afghanistan air strike 4 Nov, UNAMA initial findings show," it said.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was outraged by the air strike and called for an independent investigation, his spokesman said.
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Global equities lost ground on Friday following the U.S. air strike, blindsiding markets coming off a bumper fourth quarter in 2019.
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A Syrian military source said Israeli planes launched the air strike at dawn, and the missiles fell on the Saboura area.
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The U.S. Military announced Tuesday that it had killed nine al-Shabaab militants in an air strike in Somalia on Monday.
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Human rights group Amnesty International called for an inquiry into the incident, saying those killed in the air strike deserved justice.
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Seven children were among 11 people killed when an air strike hit a school in northern Idlib on Tuesday, she said.
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Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, had been killed in an air strike at Baghdad's international airport. pic.twitter.
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The Afghan defense ministry said an air strike had killed a senior Taliban commander in northern Balkh province on Thursday evening.
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SANA said the shooting was followed by an air strike on the village in rural Qamishli, near the border with Turkey.
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Tehran has vowed retaliation for the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. air strike on Jan. 3.
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Officials in eastern Libya contacted by Reuters on Monday said they had no information about an air strike by their forces.
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A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said he was not aware of an air strike on the Omar al-Aswad mosque.
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On Friday, the United States carried out an air strike on a suspected IS training camp in Sabratha, killing nearly 50 people.
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The government wrongly reported in 2016, based on U.S. intelligence, that Prakash had been killed in an air strike in Mosul, Iraq.
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However, he disapproved of Modi talking up the air strike in Pakistan, which led to aerial clashes between the nuclear-armed rivals.
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The YPG and the Observatory had said a Turkish air strike on the town's main hospital killed 16 people the night before.
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Syrian sisters find each other alive following an air strike on Hamouria in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area on Jan. 9.
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They appear to have scored a coup in April with an air strike in Yemen that killed the Houthis' second-in-command.
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Doesn't the air strike at least send a message to other countries that Trump will use unilateral force more quickly than Obama?
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WARSAW, April 7 (Reuters) - The Polish government supported a U.S. air strike on a Syrian airfield, a cabinet spokesman said on Friday.
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The Saudi-led coalition denied targeting the family home after a health official said nine civilians were killed in an air strike.
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Gaza militants have also fired rockets into Israel, and two gunmen were killed in an Israeli air strike after one such attack.
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In July, more than 50 migrants were killed in an air strike on a center in Tajoura, close to where Dembele disembarked.
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The Russian military is reportedly providing air defenses for Assad, meaning that any air strike in Syria could run into Russian opposition.
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But amid mounting doubts about the success of an Indian air strike on an alleged JeM camp in Pakistan's northeast on Feb.
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Fighting erupted after Israel carried out a targeted air strike killing Islamic Jihad's top field commander in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
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More than 50 people were killed and 130 more injured when a July air strike hit a migrant detention center in Tripoli.
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An air strike on a school bus that killed scores of children was just one incident in which civilians were caught up.
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Iran vowed retaliation after an Israeli air strike last month killed seven of its military personnel in a desert airbase in Syria.
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No air strike was called - and the propaganda coup Islamic State would have reaped from the deaths of innocent people was averted.
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The Israeli retaliation that came right after was the largest air strike by the Israeli Air Force in the region since 1974.
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A U.S. air strike in a suburb of Derna in November killed Islamic State's previous leader in Libya, known as Abu Nabil.
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One Gaza resident living near one of the targets was slightly hurt by fragmentation from the air strike, Gaza medical officials said.
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The town struck in Monday's air strike is close to an air base which Nusra Front and other groups captured last September.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the air strike and called for a investigation, which the coalition said it would conduct.
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A Saudi-led coalition air strike that hit a bus earlier this month killed dozens of children, sparking outrage from U.N. officials.
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Reports also emerged on Wednesday that the US targeted a top al Shabaab commander in Somalia in a May 27 air strike.
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Asked about the damage caused by Indian warplanes in Tuesday's air strike, Kapoor said it was premature to provide details about casualties.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian air strike in Pakistani territory killed 300 suspected militants, a senior Indian government source said on Tuesday.
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In the Sheikh Zayed neighborhood of northern Gaza, residents were in shock a day after an Israeli air strike killed six people.
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Last month a U.S. air strike in a town held by Somali Islamist insurgents killed a telecommunications worker, the man's employer said.
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S. trade deal and upbeat industrial data, while traders kept a close watch on the Middle East following a U.S. air strike.
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The United States killed Iran's top military commander, General Qassem Soleimani, in an air strike next to Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.
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Iraq's parliament called on Sunday for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave amid a growing backlash against the U.S. air strike.
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Iran's attack was in response to a U.S. air strike last week that killed Qassem Soleimani – Iran's top military commander – in Baghdad.
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"A coalition air strike hit a residential street last Friday and destroyed at least 30 houses," a police civil defense official said.
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The school was damaged last year in an air strike during fighting between the Saudi-backed government forces and the Huthi rebels.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's military denied on Saturday an air strike had taken place on a medical convoy in Taji, north of Baghdad.
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Qassem Soleimani, the 62-year-old commander of Iran's elite Quds Force, was killed in the U.S. air strike in Baghdad overnight.
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Trump at the last minute halted an air strike on Iran last week in retaliation for its downing of a U.S. drone.
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It was not immediately clear whether the confrontation described by the sources had taken place in the same area as the air strike.
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Relations between Russia and Israel have been strained since Syria mistakenly shot down a Russian plane in response to an Israeli air strike.
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At least 20 pro-government Sunni tribal fighters were killed in an air strike in Iraq after being mistaken for Islamic State militants.
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Many were demoralised by the death of Saleh al-Sammad, the head of their political council, in a Saudi air strike in April.
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Mustafa Gunes, an Islamic State operative from Turkey, was killed in an air strike in Mayadin, Syria, on April 27, the statement said.
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The Libyan government blamed an air strike by forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar, a warlord who controls much of eastern Libya.
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The air strike comes amid a summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and will add a new dimension to their talks.
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A U.S. air strike in the eastern city of Derna in November killed Islamic State's previous leader in Libya, known as Abu Nabil.
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More than 1,100 people, mostly rebels, were killed in the battle and air strike have leveled the heart of the city of 200,000.
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GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike targeted the office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Hamas radio reported.
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A Borno State official involved in planning the evacuation told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the air strike killed over 85033 civilians.
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On Thursday, three Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike which the army believed was carried out by the Syrian air force.
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The ministry said the air strike was part of an ongoing operation to destroy militants who had launched an offensive on Sept. 18.
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The Australian government wrongly reported in 2016, based on U.S. intelligence, that Prakash had been killed in an air strike in Mosul, Iraq.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike killed an al Qaeda leader in Syria on Tuesday, the Pentagon said in a statement on Thursday.
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A spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve confirmed on September 10 that a weapons cache was found on the island after the air strike.
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Two Syrian rebels said an Israeli jet had been seen circling the area and carried out an air strike on a military position.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Twenty people were killed in an air strike by a Saudi-led military coalition in southwestern Yemen on Friday, residents said.
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At least two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike and at least three Israelis wounded by Palestinian rockets fired into Israel.
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Turkey's change in policy came after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Russian-backed Syrian government forces in an air strike in Syria.
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That in turn has pushed yields on euro zone government bond down from multi-month highs reached just before Friday's U.S. air strike.
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When he was a boy, his father was killed by Russian soldiers, and his mother's leg was mangled in a Russian air strike.
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A spokesman at the hospital in Kafr Takharim in Idlib told Reuters an air strike hit its courtyard killing 14 people, including patients.
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Hezbollah said it was investigating whether the explosion at the base was caused by an air strike, a missile attack or artillery bombardment.
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The militias were in disarray after a U.S. air strike killed Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on Jan. 3.
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That in turn has pushed yields on euro zone government bond down from multi-month highs reached just before Friday's U.S. air strike.
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The attack was in response to a U.S. air strike that killed Iran's top military commander, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad the week before.
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During the June 2014 air strike that Ziada was trying to claim damages for, his family's home in the Gaza strip was bombed.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A United States air strike targeted an Iraqi militia late on Friday on Taji road north of Baghdad, state TV said.
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The violence came amid mounting tensions in the region following the U.S. killing of Tehran's top general in an air strike inside Iraq.
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The gains extended Friday's more-than-3% surge after a U.S. air strike in Iraq killed top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani on Friday.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Friday it killed 11 suspected al Qaeda militants in an air strike in Libya's southwestern desert.
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At least 30 people were killed in an air strike that hit a small hotel north of Sanaa on Wednesday, the Houthis said.
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"Iran's past and recent activities, coupled with intelligence at the time of the air strike, indicated that Iran's Qods Force posed a threat to the United States in Iraq, and the air strike against Soleimani was intended to protect United States personnel and deter future Iranian attack plans against United States forces and interest in Iraq and threats emanating from Iraq," it said.
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A Hamas spokesman said that, as part of a policy of "bombardment for bombardment", the barrages were retaliation for an earlier Israeli air strike.
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The U.S. military command in Kabul said an American air strike had killed a commander, Quari Tayib, and eight other Taliban on April 17.
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A small armed pro-Hamas group in Gaza, the Protectors of Al-Aqsa, said one of its men was killed in another air strike.
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A senior Syrian rebel official said Adnani was most probably killed in the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab in an air strike.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An air strike near the Somali town of Afgoye killed four people, a relative of one of the victims said on Tuesday.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Several senior members of Islamic State's central Asian affiliate were killed in a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.
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A representative from the Taliban leadership council based in the Pakistani city of Quetta was visiting when the air strike took place, he said.
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An American air strike, launched on March 5th, which may have killed as many as 150 fighters, was a serious blow to the militants.
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But one senior official said it was significant that Russia suspended, and did not cancel, cooperation with the United States after the air strike.
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The effect of air strike could wane in a fortnight or month unless there is further escalation between the nuclear armed rivals, Dehejia said.
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In June, Iran's downing of a U.S. drone prompted preparations for a U.S. retaliatory air strike that Trump called off at the last minute.
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The United States launched an air strike on an IS training camp last month and France has conducted surveillance flights and sent military advisers.
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The anti-Islamic State U.S.-led coalition said last week it was investigating another report of civilian casualties in an air strike near Manbij.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the overnight air strike near Damascus killed at least 15 people, including eight Iranians.
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In one case an air strike targeting 16 bridges likely killed a civilian driving a truck with a trailer, a Central Command statement said.
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The U.S. official said they did not have the breakdown of the toll of people killed by the Taliban and in the air strike.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based organization that reports on the war, said the air strike had targeted a military installation.
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The United States killed Iran's top military commander Qassem Soleimani and Iran-backed in an air strike next to Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.
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The United States killed Iran's top military commander Qassem Soleimani and Iran-backed in an air strike next to Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.
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Qasem Soleimani was killed by a US air strike in Iraq, which has sparked concerns about the possibility of World War III breaking out.
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Then came Thursday's air strike, ordered by Trump, that killed arguably the most important commander in the Middle East, the Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.
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On Monday, the European Union's humanitarian service reported an air strike on a "hangar" in Sanaa that damaged civilian houses and a neighboring school.
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There was speculation her latest film, "Air Strike," could be pulled in China after its director appeared to make a resigned statement on Weibo.
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Ground forces were not aware of any civilians in or near the compound when they called in an air strike, the statement said. Nov.
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They moved in with his uncle nearby but on a September night, just before the Eid al-Adha religious holiday, an air strike hit.
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In 2010, WikiLeaks published video of US military forces launching an air strike in Baghdad that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters journalists.
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A Turkish air strike on Kurdish separatists caused severe damage to the 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple of Ain Dara in northwest Syria.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan authorities on Monday closed the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli after an air strike, an airport security official said.
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Among them was a 2007 air strike that destroyed a suspected Syrian atomic reactor and assassinations and cyber-sabotage targeting Tehran's nuclear scientists and technologies.
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Sarah, 26, is a fellow patient who also lost a leg in an air strike that sent her flying off her roof in early 2013.
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The same facility was targeted by Israel in an air strike in Syria in February after an Iranian drone was shot down inside Israeli territory.
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In June, Iran's downing of a U.S. surveillance drone triggered preparations for a U.S. retaliatory air strike that Trump called off at the last minute.
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Relatives identified it from the sock the man wore when an air strike crushed him to death beneath his own home, a morgue worker said.
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A few streets away, Um Russil said she had also recently returned to the area, where her husband had been wounded in an air strike.
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In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Syrian media reported a second suspected Israeli air strike within the country in little more than a week.
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The air strike had completely destroyed a four-storey apartment block where his relatives had been living in the Tariq al-Bab neighborhood, he said.
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In October last year, 42 people, including 12 aid workers, were killed when MSF's hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan was hit in a U.S. air strike.
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An air strike carried out by U.S. forces on Thursday in Idlib, Syria, killed several al Qaeda militants, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
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"At 6:30 in the morning there was an air strike," he said, in the same way others might tell you it was cold outside.
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Everything about Sentry hinges on a simple fact: The more time someone has to prepare for an air strike, the greater their chance of survival.
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A Turkish air strike in Ras al Ain killed 14 people including 10 civilians on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
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The United Nations said last week it had information that guards had shot at migrants at Tajoura as they tried to flee the air strike.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya has closed Tripoli's only functioning Mitiga airport after residents reported an air strike on the capital, the airport's website said on Sunday.
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The United States launched an air strike on an Islamic State training camp last month and France has conducted surveillance flights and sent military advisers.
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Abdullahi Haji Da'ud was targeted in a U.S. air strike on May 27 in south Central Somalia, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres said an air strike on Monday hit one of its hospitals northwestern Hajja province and killed 11 people and wounded several others.
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The Turkish air strike hit a checkpoint on the road to Afrin, where Turkey is waging an offensive against the Kurdish YPG militia, he said.
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Israel triggered the exchange of fire by killing the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad's top Gaza commander in an air strike, deeming him an imminent threat.
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North Korea even started building a nuclear reactor for the Assad regime, only to see it be destroyed by an Israeli air strike in 85033.
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"There was an air strike near us, in the middle of an area packed with residents between Hael and Raqas (streets)," Abdulrazaq Mohammed told Reuters.
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Iranian state media quoted a foreign ministry spokesman saying members of embassy staff had been wounded in an air strike in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan officials said on Tuesday seven civilians, including an infant, were killed in an air strike in the country's northern province of Baghlan.
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Mattis told Trump he would "get right on it," but instead developed a plan for a limited air strike that did not threaten Assad personally.
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The missile attack comes days after an apparent Saudi-led air strike killed 140 mourners at a funeral in Sanaa attended by powerful tribal leaders.
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Farhad Jilani, a spokesman for the Herat provincial governor, said 13 civilians had been killed and seven wounded in the air strike in Shindand district.
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Air traffic was halted on Sunday at the Libyan capital's only functioning civilian airport, also at Mitiga, after what was described as an air strike.
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Soon after we returned to the second floor of the school, an air strike from a coalition jet produced a tremendous blast across the clearing.
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On August 18th, Omran Daqneesh, who is five years old, survived an air strike on the apartment building where his family lived, in Aleppo, Syria.
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Oil prices rose more than 3% and stock markets around the world fell after a U.S. air strike killed Iran's top military leader, Qassem Soleimani.
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The views expressed are his own LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Even before Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was killed by a U.S. air strike on Jan.
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New York (CNN Business)Iran has vowed revenge after a US air strike ordered by President Donald Trump killed the country's top general Qasem Soleimani.
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Yemeni officials said in August 2018 that al-Asiri had been killed in a U.S. air strike, but Trump's announcement marks the first U.S. confirmation.
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The recent declines came as investors unwound bullish positions built after the killing of a senior Iranian general in a U.S. air strike on Jan.
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Earlier, eastern Libyan forces who took control of the ports in September carried out an air strike against vehicles in the area, security officials said.
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The March 30 air strike in the northern Syrian town of Latamneh injured around 70 people who suffered nausea, foaming at the mouth and muscle spasms.
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Dimitris Legakis/Splash News After Zarqawi was killed by an American air strike in June 2006, AQI rebranded itself as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI).
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Medical sources told Reuters nine civilians were killed and 11 wounded when an air strike hit a bus in the town of Zabid, in southeast Hodeidah.
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The Pentagon said on Tuesday that a U.S. air strike on an AQAP training camp had killed dozens of fighters but it gave no further details.
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A drone air strike on Monday by Haftar's forces on the southern Libyan town of Murzuq has killed at least 43 people, a local official said.
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Underlining the tensions, Israel killed seven militants in an overnight air strike on the Syrian-held part of the Golan Heights, Israeli radio said on Thursday.
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On Wednesday, medics and a Reuters witness said an air strike carried out by the coalition killed 26 people at a hotel and an adjoining market.
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Thursday's air strike did not on its own suggest a shift in the U.S. military's focus in Syria, which has been on battling Islamic State militants.
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Saba reported at least seven members of the same family killed in an air strike on their house in Nihem district outside Sanaa, including three children.
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An air strike on the Turkish military convoy on Monday killed three civilians as it was heading south towards the observation point, Turkey's defense ministry said.
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Turkey and Syrian rebels are carrying out an operation to push the jihadists from the border after an air strike on Thursday killed three Turkish soldiers.
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On April 24, a coalition air strike killed Syrian-based Islamic State member Munawwar al-Mutayari in Operation Inherent Resolve, the coalition said in a statement.
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The Islamic State (Isis) has admitted that a senior commander, who was in charge of the group's propaganda operations has been killed in an air strike.
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In a statement, the Taliban said one air strike hit a minibus and a second followed quickly, killing a total of 12 people and wounding six.
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It also said warplanes on Friday mounted the first air strike against the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus since the start of the cessation.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - United States forces conducted an air strike in coordination with Somalia's army that killed three al Shabaab fighters, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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On Monday, a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was hit in an air strike in northern Yemen, killing 19 people and injuring 24 others.
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Abdel Hamid, whose group Ansar al-Islam claimed the attack and hailed him as one of their leaders, was later killed in a retaliatory air strike.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libya's eastern government said they had carried out an air strike against opponents in the central Jufra region on Monday.
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The air strike comes after the Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for an attack which killed at least 40 Indian police in Kashmir earlier this month.
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In a sign of escalating regional tensions Iran, an ally of the Houthis, criticized Saturday's air strike, which ripped through a wake attended by tribal leaders.
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The July 3 air strike on Tajoura detention center killed 53 people and injured 130, according to the latest death toll from the World Health Organization.
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The spurt of fake news comes after New Delhi this week launched an air strike inside Pakistan, the first such move in over more than decades.
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BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it had carried out an air strike against Islamic State militants in northeast Somalia, killing one person.
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"We heard a huge crash of air strike in the hilly areas of Dasaan remote area behind Qandala town this afternoon " Abdi told Reuters from Dasaan.
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Munter, who said India's air strike inside Pakistan did not lead to any casualties, pointed out it was a sign of restraint on New Delhi's part.
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Investor sentiment turned bearish Friday morning in the wake of the U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to launch a military air strike against a Syrian airfield.
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The air strike, on July 3, killed 53 people and injured 130 others, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest death toll on Twitter.
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The air strike is the closest yet to an oil and gas facility since eastern forces started an offensive on the capital Tripoli a week ago.
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Abdullah Ali's burns were still raw from an air strike that brought down his building and killed his entire family a week ago in central Raqqa.
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Prior to that, tensions between Washington and Moscow spiked over a lethal air strike on Syrian government troops by the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State.
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The Britain-based war monitoring group said an air strike killed at 33 people near Raqqa when it hit a school sheltering displaced people on Monday.
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In addition, a Russian air strike killed 12 people, including a local commander of the group, in the northwestern province of Idlib, the monitoring group said.
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The air strike took place at Hanida, some 30 km (20 miles) west of Raqqa on the southern bank of the Euphrates River, the Observatory said.
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A number of Islamic State commanders were killed in an air strike on a position in Hay al-Tanak, a stronghold of the group, they said.
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The Colombian government has tried several times to assassinate him, most recently in 2014, when an air strike on his camp killed three of his comrades.
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Russia has said the deaths were caused by a gas leak from a depot where rebel groups were storing chemical weapons, after a Syrian air strike.
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The Iranian downing of a US drone also elicited no military response, with Trump calling back an air strike after planes were already in the air.
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There was no immediate word of casualties in the air strike on Al-Aqsa Television, which destroyed the premises in Gaza City and damaged nearby buildings.
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The volunteers taught Omayya's six grandchildren, three of whose fathers have died, what to do if they are told an air strike may hit their school.
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The move comes four days after the iconic Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was killed by a US air strike on Friday, near Baghdad in Iraq.5.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The U.S. air strike killed eight suspected Islamic State militants in southern Libya near the town of Murzuq, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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Early on Thursday, Turkey's Defense Ministry said two of its soldiers were killed and two others wounded in an air strike on Turkish forces in Idlib.
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Ankara says it will no longer contain hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers after an air strike on Idlib in northwestern Syria killed 33 Turkish soldiers.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Kurdish-led force that controls northeast Syria said a Turkish air strike on Wednesday hit a prison which holds detained Islamic State militants.
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Safe-haven assets such as gold surged after the air strike, boosting shares of miners Newmont Goldcorp, Kirkland Lake and Barrick Gold between 523% and 1.1%.
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On October 16th the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights put this toll at 71, along with 15 killed in an air strike on a humanitarian convoy.
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Mahmoud told me that his parents had lived across from him in Aden, and that their house, too, had been hit by the coalition air strike.
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The recent declines followed investors unwinding bullish positions built following the killing of a senior Iranian general in a U.S. air strike in Iraq on Jan.
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Last week, Syria's government said an Israeli air strike killed at least two people in Damascus including the son of Islamic Jihad leader, Akram al-Ajouri.
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Brent crude futures jumped close to $13 on Friday to their highest since September after a US air strike killed key Iranian and Iraqi military personnel.
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The center is close to a military base and an air strike on nearby Libyan government forces on May 7 injured two people in the center.
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The Observatory said one air strike killed four medical workers and at least nine rebel fighters in the insurgent-held town of Khan Touman south of Aleppo.
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Russia's defense ministry said earlier this year it might have killed Baghdadi in an air strike on a gathering of IS commanders on the outskirts of Raqqa.
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The incident came after an air strike halted a Turkish military convoy and killed three civilians on Monday as the convoy headed south towards another observation post.
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Trump ordered an air strike on a Syrian air base last month in retaliation for a deadly poison gas attack on civilians he blamed on Assad's government.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it had conducted a precision air strike near the Libyan town of Bani Walid, killing four Islamic State militants.
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An Israeli air strike targeted a hill in Khan Arnabeh village in Quneitra province without causing casualties, a commander in the pro-Damascus regional alliance told Reuters.
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The coalition said that on June 12 an air strike killed Simak, identified as an Islamic State intelligence officer linked to a cell plotting attacks in Sweden.
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"At this time we assess no civilians were injured or killed in this air strike," the U.S. military's Africa Command said in a statement late on Monday.
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America's armed forces often don't know how many civilians are killed in its air-strike campaigns—but that's changing, thanks to pressure from the Pentagon's loudest critics.
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Their most serious flare-up in recent years was in 2015 when Hezbollah guerrillas killed two Israeli troops in retaliation for a deadly air strike in Syria.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said four of them were among a single family of nine killed by an air strike.
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Another official, Uruzgan deputy police chief Mohammed Qawi Omari, put the death toll at six but also reported the police were killed by a foreign air strike.
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Israel was on high alert after Iran threatened retribution for an Israeli air strike on a Syrian air base in which seven Iranian military advisers were killed.
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Earlier reports by the Syrian state news agency SANA and the pro-Damascus al-Watan newspaper accused the U.S.-led coalition of carrying out the air strike.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An air strike carried out by U.S. forces on Thursday in Idlib, Syria, killed several al Qaeda militants, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
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The air strike struck a Hezbollah position in eastern Homs province, where the Iran-backed Lebanese group is fighting Islamic State alongside the Syrian and Russian militaries.
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On February 19th an American air strike on an IS base in Libya killed two Serbians associated with the country's embassy who had been kidnapped in November.
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The incident came shortly after Syria said it had thwarted an Israeli air strike in its south, a statement that the Israeli military declined to comment on.
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The United States, Britain, and France pounded Syria in a coordinated air strike in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed approximately 60 people last week.
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The U.S. military on Sunday conducted an air strike in Somalia that killed 13 fighters from al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabab, U.S. Africa Command (Africom) said Wednesday.
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Inside the computerized room where the group executes an air strike, McDonell surveys the protagonists, putting a human face on a general and his subordinates (and contractors).
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"One of the soldiers told us they were five minutes away from calling in an air strike because of the resistance coming from our house," he said.
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On March 15 an air strike hit a market in north west Yemen, not far from where we were in the fall, killing an estimated 120 people.
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CNN Philippines reported that 10 people taken hostage while fleeing Marawi had escaped their Maute captors during an air strike on Monday and were in safe hands.
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Baghlan provincial council member Assadullah Shahbaz said the civilians killed in the air strike were farmers and had no connection with the Taliban or other militant groups.
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Last month an air strike, which Turkey's military initially assessed to have been carried out by the Syrian air force, killed three Turkish soldiers in the region.
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On Friday the Houthi group said 40 children were among those killed in an air strike on a bus in north Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition.
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At least 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike in Idlib last week, the deadliest attack suffered by the Turkish military in nearly three decades.
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AIR STRIKE Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody headline this action film set during World War II and focusing on the Chinese military response to Japanese bomber strikes.
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Ankara began using drones to strike at President Bashar al Assad's forces after the death last Thursday of 33 Turkish soldiers in an air strike by Damascus.
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Late on Thursday, Governor of Turkish southern province of Hatay bordering Syria, said 22 soldiers were killed in an air strike by Syrian government forces in Idlib.
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A U.N. report issued this week repeated previous findings that the air strike was likely carried out by a foreign aircraft, but failed to name the state.
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On July 3, an air strike killed eight members of the same family in Taiz province, including the wife and 8-year-old daughter, the organization said.
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The announcement in a statement from the agency followed a U.S. air strike early on Friday in Baghdad that killed Iran's most prominent military commander, Qassem Soleimani.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said that the top Iranian commander killed in a U.S. air strike, Qassem Soleimani, was planning to kill Americans.
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With both sides exchanging threats of retaliation, a senior Tehran official said on Tuesday Iran had been considering 13 "revenge scenarios" in retaliation to the air strike.
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Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of paramilitary groups had said earlier on Saturday said that an air strike targeting its fighters hit a convoy of medics.
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The United States killed Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force and architect of Iran's growing military influence in the Middle East, in an air strike.
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Three years ago, Rana was sitting at home when an air strike killed her husband, father, brother, and brothers-in-law within the span of ten seconds.
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India's foreign secretary said "a very large number of JEM terrorists" had been eliminated in what was the first Indian air strike on Pakistani territory since 1971.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike last week killed a senior leader of the al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabaab in Somalia, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, one of the ultra-hardline Islamist group's most prominent leaders, is thought to have been killed in a U.S. air strike there this week.
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The burnt corpses of two militants and the motorcycle from which they had fired at Iraqi forces were lying under a tree, apparently hit by an air strike.
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He said an air strike on Sunday hit a warehouse that stocked aid delivered earlier this month, worsening the plight of civilians, and that Douma faced "catastrophic conditions".
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Israel said troops resorted to live fire and an air strike after explosive devices and rocks were thrown at them and to prevent breaches of the border fence.
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Hussain, who officials have said was active in encouraging sympathizers to carry out "lone wolf" attacks, was killed in Syria by a U.S. air strike in August 2015.
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In in one he posted on Wednesday, Najem is joined by Saleem, a younger boy, who tells how he raced inside his house to avoid an air strike.
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"We currently assess no civilians were injured or killed in this air strike," which occurred approximately 40 km southwest of Mogadishu, U.S. Africa Command said in a statement.
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Mullah Javed, a Taliban military commission chief, and three aides were killed in an air strike in the Zawul district, said a police official in Herat on Tuesday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke separately with the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan and urged them to avoid "further military activity" following Tuesday's air strike.
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Despite ISIS firing toward advancing Iraqi forces from that same position, there was no counter air strike because the full-motion video made it clear civilians were present.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Mitiga airport in Libya's capital Tripoli re-opened to air traffic on Tuesday after an air strike, according to a post on the its Facebook page.
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He said the air strike had most likely been carried out either by the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State or Iraqi forces that are working with it.
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In an email to Reuters, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said it carried out the air strike on Monday and that three militants had died in the attack.
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The Observatory said the air strike took place on Monday at dawn, hitting a building in the town of al-Mayadeen that was being used as a prison.
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WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S. military is investigating reports that an air strike near Manbij, Syria, on Thursday caused civilian casualties, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - An air strike carried out by an unidentified warplane killed seven Hezbollah fighters in eastern Syria, three sources familiar with the incident told Reuters on Monday.
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On Tuesday, the United States launched an air strike against Iranian-backed fighters who it said posed a threat to U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in southern Syria.
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An air strike in the village of Deir Sharki killed seven members of one family, most of them children, on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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SANAA (Reuters) - Twelve Yemeni civilians were killed by a Saudi-led air strike while riding in a pickup truck in the country's northwest early on Wednesday, residents said.
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A Pentagon spokesman said a U.S. air strike on Sunday hit a meeting of high-level al Qaeda officials in northwest Syria at which Abu Firas was present.
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When Abu Rami returned 11 days later, the fighting had ended and the militants had slipped away, but his two-storey house was destroyed by an air strike.
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Last month the United States came as close as it has ever come to bombing Iran, when President Donald Trump aborted a retaliatory air strike minutes before impact.
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" Wahida, 19, of Nadir Khil village, Nangarhar province, who lost 12 members of her family in an air strike "I lost two brothers, eight sisters, and my parents.
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The views expressed are his own By John Kemp LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Even before Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was killed by a U.S. air strike on Jan.
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Pompeo has been one of the administration's top public defenders of the decision in recent days, appearing on every Sunday show this week to discuss the air strike.
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With both sides exchanging threats of retaliation, a senior Tehran official on Tuesday said that Iran had been considering 13 "revenge scenarios" in retaliation to the air strike.
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Iraq's parliament has called for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave amid growing a backlash against Washington's air strike, which also killed a top Iraqi militia commander.
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A U.S. Defense Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Wa'il was targeted by the air strike while he was on a motorcycle outside his house.
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In June 2015, Belmokhtar was targeted by a U.S. air strike in the eastern Libyan city of Ajdabiya, but his group declared shortly afterwards that he had survived.
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Australia said in May that Neil Prakash, who was linked to several Australia-based attack plans, was killed in an air strike in Mosul, Iraq, on April 29.
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The Syrian government has strongly denied responsibility and blamed the deaths on leaks from a rebel chemical arms store it says was hit by a Syrian air strike.
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It was the first confirmation of Shishani's death, which the Pentagon said in March had probably occurred as a result of a U.S. air strike in eastern Syria.
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The strike came weeks after the United States targeted an al Shabaab training camp in Somalia in an air strike that the Pentagon says killed more than 150 fighters.
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RIA earlier cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as confirming that Russian war planes had accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in an air strike that went wrong in northern Syria.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A drone air strike by eastern Libyan forces on the southern Libyan town of Murzuq has killed at least 43 people, a local official said on Monday.
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In southern Yemen, residents said two women died in an air strike on the home of a merchant in the Qubaita district, located between the Taiz and Lahej provinces.
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A local official in the village of Bilad al-Rus outside Sanaa said a prominent local journalist, Almigdad Mojalli, was killed in a Saudi-led air strike on Sunday.
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Concerns about developments in Syria also weighed on market sentiment after Ankara said on Monday an air strike on a Turkish military convoy in northwest Syria killed three civilians.
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Turkey insists it has no plans to abandon or move any of the military posts it set up in Idlib, despite Monday's air strike and the fighting around Morek.
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A member of the Syrian civil defense (known as the White Helmets) is wounded in an air strike on the rebel-held besieged town of Arbin on Jan. 2.
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LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A transparent investigation must be held into an air strike in Yemen which killed dozens of children, a British Foreign Office minister said on Friday.
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Soufiane Makouh, a Belgian foreign fighter who traveled to Syria to plan attacks against the United States and its interests, was killed by an air strike on June 2.
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Marwa, a 19-year-old Iraqi woman, said she had come to Syria after her father had been arrested and her brother killed in an air strike in Iraq.
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A Saudi-led coalition air strike last month killed the Houthis' top civilian leader in Yemen, Saleh al-Samad, the most senior official to be killed by the alliance .
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Soon after Islamic State quit their area, locals pooled money to repair their pipeline, only to watch it destroyed in an air strike the same day the work finished.
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Damascus and Moscow denied Syrian forces were behind the gas attack but Western countries dismissed their explanation that chemicals leaked from a rebel weapons depot after an air strike.
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Residents on Sunday, however, said a coalition air strike overnight killed 12 Yemeni civilians in one family in the northern province of Saada, the home territory of the Houthis.
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A Syrian news agency said that the country's air strike defenses confronted the incoming attack on the base and managed to shoot down eight missiles, The Associated Press reported.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike killed a facilitator for an Islamic State-aligned militia in northern Somalia, a statement from the American military's Africa Command said on Sunday.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Eight Syria Civil Defence workers died on Saturday when an air strike hit their office in northern Hama province, the rescue service said on its Twitter page.
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The head of the Houthis' supreme revolutionary committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, hailed Friday's call by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres for an independent investigation into the air strike.
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Israel said the air strike was launched in response to a bomb attack on a military vehicle on the Gaza border on Wednesday, in which there were no casualties.
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The ministry said Baghdadi and as many as 330 other fighters had been killed as a result of an air strike on the city at the end of May.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The U.S. military launched an air strike in Somalia on Saturday, killing 52 Islamists who had attacked a Somali military base earlier in the day, it said.
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After Tuesday's air strike by the Indian air force, the prime minister said at a rally in Rajasthan that the country is in "safe hands" as his supporters cheered.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A Saudi-led coalition air strike on Yemen's city of Sanaa killed two leaders of the armed Houthi group, Saudi state TV Ekhbariya said early on Saturday.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said on Saturday Pakistan had "plenty to hide" by preventing journalists from accessing the site of an air strike by Indian fighter jets inside Pakistan.
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Medics and a civilian who saw the wreckage said the air strike had destroyed a house in the al-Hali district, where displaced civilians from other provinces were settled.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Africom said the U.S. military had conducted an air strike on a vehicle they said was strapped with explosives some 65 km southwest of Mogadishu.
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The air strike was conducted for "the elimination of the enemy" in the KutobKhel district of the city of Pul-e-Khumri, the defense ministry said in a statement.
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Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Thursday that Turkey would retaliate after three of its soldiers were killed in what the military said was a suspected Syrian air strike.
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Trump will arrive in Japan's western city of Osaka just a week after calling off a retaliatory air strike on Iran after it shot down an unmanned U.S. aircraft.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian air strike on Iraq in 2017 "may have" killed up to 18 civilians, the Australian government confirmed late on Thursday, following a year-long investigation.
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In an air strike in the southeastern province of Mardin, the Turkish military killed five PKK militants preparing an attack on an army base, a general staff statement said.
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Turkey's Defence Ministry said early on Thursday that two of its soldiers were killed and two others wounded in an air strike on Turkish forces in Syria's Idlib region.
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Earlier, Syrian and Turkish media said one person was killed in the shooting at the checkpoint and that U.S. warplanes had carried out at least one air strike subsequently.
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Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad killed Qassem Soleimani, Tehran's most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East.
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In a sign of the threat militant groups posed, the U.S. military said on Tuesday an air strike killed 60 militants from the Islamist al Shabaab group in Somalia.
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The members were killed in connection with the assassination of senior Islamic State figure Abu Hija al-Tunisi, who died on Wednesday in an air strike, the Observatory said.
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A March 17 air strike in Mosul killed more than 100 civilians but a Pentagon report in May concluded ISIS had booby trapped the building and put snipers there.
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The air strike on the town of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province also wounded a large number of people, many of whom were in critical condition, it said.
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An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition targeted the Sahar district of the northwestern city of Saada on Monday, injuring several people, residents and Al Masirah TV said.
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KABUL (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday carried out its first air strike on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan since the two sides signed a troop withdrawal agreement on Saturday.
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The United States and the Taliban signed an agreement on Saturday to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops, but Washington carried out an air strike on Taliban fighters on Wednesday.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Bahrain said on Friday it is following the developments in Iraq and called for de-escalation after a U.S. air strike, according to the state news agency.
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Oil prices jumped as producers and service companies were evacuating foreign staff from Iraq for safety reasons after a U.S. air strike killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq.
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When it comes to even more complex activities like anti-submarine warfare, long-range air strike coordination and ballistic missile defense, Stavridis said that repetition and rehearsals are indispensable.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday mourned the death of Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani, killed by a U.S. air strike in Iraq.
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They said an air strike had hit a public square about 700 meters away from the embassy and that some stones and shrapnel had landed in the embassy's yard.
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Local officials in Faryab province, on the north west border said an air strike killed at least 12 civilians, including eight children but the defense ministry denied the report.
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When the US Air Force could not assure him that that was all the Soviets had on the island and that even what they had might not be taken out in an air strike, Kennedy realized that the cost of miscalculation -- a sudden Soviet decision to launch whatever nuclear missiles they had left -- was to high to consider an air strike as the opening move in this game of Cold War chess.
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Syria's army general command said in a statement that the air strike was "conclusive evidence" of U.S. support for Islamic State, noting that the strike was "dangerous and blatant aggression".
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Also over the weekend, an American air strike in southern Afghanistan killed at least three Afghan policemen and wounded several during a joint operation by Afghan and U.S. special forces.
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They said an air strike had hit a public square about 700 meters (yards) away from the embassy and that some stones and shrapnel had landed in the embassy's yard.
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More recently, after an astrologer reportedly warned of an imminent American air strike, the capital was relocated from Yangon to a half-finished outpost in the middle of a jungle.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Air traffic was halted on Sunday at the Libyan capital's only functioning airport, Mitiga, after an air strike, according to a post on the airport authorities' Facebook page.
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Palestinian health officials said earlier that two teenagers had been killed by one air strike in what was one of the worst flare-ups since the 2014 Israel-Gaza war.
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The air strike took place near Raqqa, IS's de facto capital in northern Syria, and targeted al-Fayad while he was on a motorcycle outside his house, the Pentagon said.
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Warplanes also hit and disabled Ansar hospital in Kafrnaha, 15 km (10 miles) from Atareb, marking the third air strike on that facility in the past month, the Observatory said.
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Mohamad Abboush, an east Aleppo resident, told Reuters an air strike killed two of his relatives, a 45-year-old uncle and a 12-year-old cousin, on Friday morning.
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A Saudi-led coalition air strike killed 22 people and wounded dozens when it struck a market in western Yemen near the Red Sea fishing town of Khoukha in March.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S. military killed six Islamist militants in an air strike in Somalia on Sunday in the vicinity of Dheerow Sanle, in the Lower Shabelle region, it said.
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In one interview, when asked about a cross-border air strike conducted by the Indian army in February, he claimed that he "went to Pakistan and killed the terrorists" himself.
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AFRICOM said it had killed three militants in an air strike on Monday, adding it was aware of reports alleging civilian casualties and would review the information about the incident.
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The March 30 air strike in the town of Latamneh, in the northern Syrian Hama area, injured around 70 people who suffered nausea, foaming of the mouth and muscle spasms.
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An air strike by the U.S.-led military coalition destroyed an Islamic State chemical weapons factory on Friday near Qayyara, the second attack against a chemical arms facility this month.
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KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An Afghan forces air strike on a suspected Taliban gathering in the northern province of Kunduz on Monday caused dozens of casualties, including many civilians, officials said.
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It was the largest American air strike in Somalia in recent years—before now, American attacks have mostly used drones, not jets, and have targeted leaders rather than foot soldiers.
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They said an air strike had hit a public square about 700 metres (yards) away from the embassy and that some stones and shrapnel had landed in the embassy's yard.
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If confirmed to be inside Pakistan, the air strike would be the fourth drone attack on Pakistan's side of the border since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January.
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The U.S. drones often carry out strikes against the Somali militants, with the U.S. military saying it killed one militant in an air strike in southern Somalia over the weekend.
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"Even if some rebels had been present, that would not justify an air strike that targeted more than 600 civilians," he told Reuters, referring to the size of the gathering.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An air strike by Turkish warplanes "neutralized" at least 12 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the military said on Twitter on Wednesday.
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The air strike carried out on Tuesday targeted the Hakurk region of northern Iraq, Turkish military said adding that the militants were believed to be in preparations for an attack.
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The orders were loud and clear: focus the rifle sights on the acid, discard all the "airy fairy bollocks," call in some chattering machines and an air strike of echo.
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Lavrov also told reporters following a meeting with his Tajik counterpart in Moscow that an air strike carried out on Sunday on a Syrian air base was a dangerous development.
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If confirmed, the air strike, which happened on Wednesday, would only be the second drone attack inside the nuclear-armed nation since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January.
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Russia's Defence Ministry said earlier on Friday it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may have killed al-Baghdadi in late May.
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Eastern on Friday, the United States, Britain, and France pounded Syria in a coordinated air strike, in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed approximately 60 people last week.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Air traffic was halted on Wednesday at the Libyan capital's only functioning airport, Mitiga, after an air strike, according to a post on the airport authorities' Facebook page.
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Alex is talking about Omran Daqneesh, a 5-year-old boy who was injured in an August air strike in Aleppo, the worst-hit city in the Syrian civil war.
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Last week, an MSF-supported hospital in Tafas, in the Deraa region of southern Syria, was hit by an air strike, killing three people and wounding six, including one nurse.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - At least 16 people were killed on Wednesday in an air strike that hit a factory for vegetable packaging in Yemen's Hodeidah province, medical workers and residents said.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - One of Islamic State's top commanders in Syria has been killed in a U.S.-led coalition air strike, the coalition's spokesman said on Thursday, corroborating an earlier report.
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The ministry said an air strike killed 30 field commanders and up to 300 militants during an ISIS "meeting council" on May 28, near to the southern outskirts of Raqqa.
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"The main reason that caused the unfortunate air strike near the IDP (internally displaced person) camp at Rann, was lack of appropriate marking of the area," the military statement said.
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The Iran-aligned Houthi group said they had targeted a warship of the coalition in the Red Sea in response to an air strike in Yemen's Hodeidah province on Monday.
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Russia's Defense Ministry said earlier on Friday it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may have killed al-Baghdadi in late May.
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Mr Netanyahu, however, has taken to extolling Israel's intelligence-gathering and operational successes in surprising detail, as well as openly saying it carried out the latest air strike in Syria.
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The air strike in the Adeliyah region outside Damascus targeted what the Israeli military called "a hub of Islamic Jihad's activity in Syria," including the research and development of weapons.
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The United States military last week conducted an air strike in somalia that killed eight fighters from al-Shabab, an affiliate of al Qaeda, U.S. Africa Command (Africom) said Monday.
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Turkey said on Thursday it would stop keeping hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in its territory after an air strike on Idlib in neighboring Syria killed 33 Turkish soldiers.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that Iran should refrain from any provocation, speaking after a U.S. air strike that killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq.
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An air strike at Baghdad airport killed Major-General Qassem Soleimani, architect of Iran's spreading military influence in the Middle East, with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowing revenge.
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The impact of a U.S. air strike in Iraq that killed a top Iranian commander, sharply escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, was still to be assessed, traders said.
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After Russian-backed Syrian government forces killed Turkish soldiers in an air strike in Syria last week, Ankara signaled it would walk away from its pact with the EU altogether.
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U.S. forces conducted an air strike supporting an Afghan special police unit fighting the attackers but suffered a "missile malfunction", causing several casualties, the U.S.-led NATO mission there said.
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Tension rose in June when the PMF blamed the United States for the deaths of 22 of its fighters in an air strike near the border and threatened to retaliate.
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A report by Pakistan after the air strike found damage to an area of 1.2 acres which included 19 pine trees valued at 2.7 million Pakistani rupees ($20,000) and soil erosion.
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Israel's Channel 1 television said one air strike was aimed at an Iranian shipment for Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas of equipment intended to greatly increase the accuracy of their rockets and missiles.
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DUBAI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed in an air strike that hit a hotel north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, the armed Houthi movement said.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State on Monday confirmed the death of its propaganda chief, whom the Pentagon said was killed in a U.S.-led air strike in Syria's Raqqa province last month.
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Military chief General Eduardo Ano said the fierce resistance by the Maute in Marawi was to protect Hapilon, who was in poor condition after being wounded in a January air strike.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it had killed five militants after launching an air strike in Somalia against al Shabaab, a militant Islamist group allied with al Qaeda.
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The currency has also been pressured by tensions in Syria since Ankara said last week that an air strike on a Turkish military convoy in northwest Syria had killed three civilians.
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In August, MSF said it was evacuating its staff from six hospitals in northern Yemen after a coalition air strike hit a health facility operated by the group killing 19 people.
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The militant group's second-in-command and other senior leaders were likely killed last month by an air strike after a U.S. special forces' helicopter was fired on from the ground.
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Last November the United States carried out an air strike on the Libyan town of Derna, close to the Egyptian border, to kill Abu Nabil, an Iraqi commander in Islamic State.
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Last week, Somalia's government said it had requested a U.S. air strike that killed scores of suspected militants to help pave the way for an upcoming ground offensive against al Shabaab.
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Russia, which backs the Syrian government, has said the deaths were caused by a gas leak from a depot where rebel groups were storing chemical weapons, after a Syrian air strike.
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Syria has already denied the attack and Assad had said the allegations against the Syrian military by the United States and its allies were used to justify a U.S. air strike.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Friday it had killed three militants after launching an air strike in Somalia against al Shabaab, a militant Islamist group allied with al Qaeda.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian state television said on Sunday an Israeli air strike had hit a military post in the city of Misyaf in Syria's Hama province but caused only material damage.
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The strike comes a few months after the United States targeted an al Shabaab training camp in Somalia in an air strike that the Pentagon says killed more than 150 fighters.
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The Observatory said the air strike that killed 25 people hit a road between the town of al-Latamenah and Idlib province, an area of northwestern Syria mostly under insurgent control.
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CNBC takes a look at how the world reacted to the missile strikes: Syria's Information minister described the U.S. air strike on its airbase as "limited" and "expected", according to Reuters.
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Similarly, CNN host Fareed Zakaria said Trump "became president of the United States last night" the day after he ordered an air strike on Syria following its recent chemical weapons attack.
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If the ceasefire holds for a week, the US and Russia will embark on a joint air-strike campaign against IS and JFS, seen as among the most radical rebel forces.
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The Observatory said it had received information that some of those who died were shot dead while attempting to flee the prison after the air strike hit one side of it.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitoring group, said it remained unclear if the source of the bombardment in Quneitra province was an air strike or shelling.
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An air strike on Syria by the United States, France and the UK stoked fears of conflict with Syrian government allies Russia and Iran, two of the world's biggest oil producers.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has killed 20 suspected militants in an air strike in its western desert and shootouts in the Sinai peninsula, the military said on Wednesday, part of ongoing operations.
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She had spent the previous week running between buildings in Mosul's Old City, where an air strike on a school had killed her father, her brothers, and one of her sisters.
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In Derna, the group was chased out by rival Islamists and other opponents, and in Sabratha local brigades took on militants in February in the wake of a U.S. air strike.
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At least 30 civilians were killed and 40 injured in an air strike conducted by the Afghan security forces, backed by US air support, in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.
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The Pentagon said in March that Shishani had likely been killed in a U.S. air strike in Syria, but this was the first time the group appeared to confirm his death.
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The Saudi-owned al-Arabiya satellite channel reported that several field commanders of the Houthi group were killed in an air strike on a cave near the border with Saudi Arabia.
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The station gave no further details but Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said that Houthi leaders were killed in a coalition air strike conducted on the Houthi's Interior Ministry in Sanaa.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Syrian offshoot Nusra Front confirmed on Wednesday that their spokesman and veteran jihadist fighter Abu Firas al-Suri was killed in a U.S. air strike in Syria.
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"I'm pleased to announce the martyrdom of my older brother Baraa Kadek, known as Rayan Meshaal...in an air strike by the coalition," the Facebook post reportedly by his brother said.
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The other key actors Iran: Iran was seeking revenge for seven members of one their elite units who were killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria a few weeks ago.
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Syria, Iran and Russia say Israel was behind an air strike on a Syrian air base on Monday that killed seven Iranian military personnel, something Israel has neither confirmed nor denied.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman denied on Tuesday an assertion by U.S. officials' that they believe Moscow was responsible for an air strike on a United Nations aid convoy.
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The identification of Romero, Kapoi and Agustin comes just one day before the 78th anniversary of the infamous Japanese air strike on Pearl Harbor that took place on December 7, 1941.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An air strike by Syrian government forces in Syria's northwestern Idlib region killed 22 Turkish soldiers, the local governor in the southeastern province of Hatay said early on Friday.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's Defense Ministry said early on Thursday that two of its soldiers were killed and two others wounded in an air strike on Turkish forces in Syria's Idlib region.
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The killing of 33 Turkish soldiers, in an air strike by Syrian government forces in Syria's Idlib province, raised the Turkish military death toll in the region to 54 this month.
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The disclosure about Esper's personal travel plans follows the overnight U.S. air strike against Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force and the second most powerful figure in Iran.
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This year begins with the air-strike killing of Iran's military leader, devastating bushfires, and impeachment, and one of the most contentious elections of our times looms in the near future.
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"The surge in oil price just now was primarily driven by news of U.S. air strike killing a high-level general of Iran," said Margaret Yang, market analyst of CMC Markets.
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When we visited the institute—a large concrete structure that had been hit by an air strike, each floor collapsed upon the one below it—no one appeared to be around.
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A United Nations expert said that analysis of satellite imagery of a deadly and disputed attack on an aid convoy in Syria last month showed that it was an air strike.
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"With our analysis we determined it was an air strike and I think multiple other sources have said that as well," Lars Bromley, research adviser at UNOSAT, told a news briefing.
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Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed that Mullah Janat and four fighters had been killed in the air strike, which he said also killed six captured Afghan soldiers the Taliban was holding.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's military said on Wednesday that more than 80 militants were killed in an air strike on Monday in northern Iraq, where Turkish jets have frequently targeted PKK fighters.
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Al-Dayfi traveled to Afghanistan in mid-2001, trained at an al Qaeda training camp and was wounded by a coalition air strike, according to a U.S. military profile last year.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The U.S. air strike in Baghdad which killed Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani will increase insecurity and instability in the region, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
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Last November the US said it carried out an air strike on Libya's Derna to target Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, an Iraqi IS commander.
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Iran shot down a U.S. drone last week and Trump said he had called off a retaliatory air strike with minutes to spare, saying too many people would have been killed.
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The Pentagon also said on Wednesday a U.S. air strike targeted a senior leader of al Shabaab in Somalia, but it was still assessing the results of the May 27 drone operation.
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Medics and residents of a Houthi-held area of western Yemen said on Thursday that the death toll from a coalition air strike that hit a house had risen to 26 people.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin confirmed on Thursday that Russian war planes had accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in an air strike that went wrong in northern Syria, the RIA news agency reported.
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Serraj's forces carried out an air strike on an LNA position in the suburb of Suq al-Khamis on Tuesday, a resident and an eastern military source said, without giving more details.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A Saudi-led military coalition said on Saturday an air strike that hit a market in Yemen's northern Saadah province was a legitimate military target, the Saudi news agency reported.
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Another is a U.S. air strike on an Assad air base, viewed as less likely because of the potential for causing Russian casualties, the officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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More than 30 civilians, half of them children, were killed in an air strike called in to protect the troops, and the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has promised an investigation.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed ten civilians, including women and children, in the northern province of Saada on Thursday, residents and medics said.
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Southeast of the Afghan capital, Kabul, in Ghazni city, an air strike on a vehicle killed seven Taliban on Tuesday, including a commander, said Mohammad Arif Noori, spokesman for Ghazni's provincial governor.
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The air strike late on Thursday killed several people and caused material damage, the source said, adding that this hampered efforts by the Syrian army and its allies to fight Islamic State.
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In the second attack on Saturday, residents reported an air strike hit the home of Sheikh Maqbool al-Harmali, a local tribal chief in Hairan district of Hajjah province, killing six civilians.
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Iraq's military said 61 bodies had been recovered from a building Islamic State had booby-trapped, but that there was no sign the structure had been struck by a coalition air strike.
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It was not immediately clear if Afghan or U.S. forces carried out the air strike on Thursday night near the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, said Omar Zwak, a spokesman for Helmand's governor.
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On Saturday, Afghan officials said as many as 16 civilians, including women and children, had been killed by a U.S. air strike in Nangarhar, but American officials said only militants were killed.
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"How will the air strike help me make money?" said Sunil Dere, a 49-year-old farmer from Wadgaon Amli village, 250 km (155.34 miles) east of India's financial capital of Mumbai.
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Cairo (Reuters) - The Libyan capital Tripoli's Mitiga airport halted air traffic on Monday after the facility was attacked in an air strike, according to a post on the airport authority's Facebook page.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior State Department official firmly rejected Russia's claim on Wednesday that a deadly chemical attack in Syria was caused by a Syrian air strike on an opposition arms depot.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Pro-Syrian government forces shelled Turkish positions in northern Syria on Wednesday in response to a Turkish air strike that killed five of their fighters, a pro-government commander said.
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Tunisian forces have been on alert for possible militant infiltrations since last month when a US air strike targeted mostly Tunisian IS militants at a camp near the border in Libya's Sabratha.
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"My wife is looking after the five children my son left behind, and I'm helping her," said 65-year-old Eid al-Ibrahim, whose eldest son was killed in an air strike.
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An Iraqi TV channel reported Friday that the ISIS leader had been wounded in an air strike in northern Iraq, but U.S. and Iraqi officials could not confirm that, Reuters reported. Rep.
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Modi ordered an air strike on what India said was a militant training camp on the Pakistani side of the border, a tough response that benefited the right-wing BJP, analysts said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-led air strike mistakenly killed 18 members of a Kurdish and Arab militia backed by Washington south of the Syrian city of Tabqa, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian air strike has killed around 40 Islamic State fighters, including four senior commanders, near the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, Russia's defense ministry said on Friday.
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The air strike late on Thursday killed several people and caused material damage, the source said, saying that this hampered efforts by the Syrian army and its allies to fight Islamic State.
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A coalition air strike on Tuesday hit a hospital operated by MSF in the northern Hajja province killing 19 people, including one of its staff members, and injuring 24, the group said.
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"With our analysis we determined it was an air strike and I think multiple other sources have said that as well," Lars Bromley, research adviser at UNOSAT, told a Geneva news briefing.
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KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S air strike hit an Iraqi civilian airport under construction in the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Kerbala and killed one worker, Iraqi religious authorities said on Friday.
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On Tuesday, a coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in Yemen, killing 19 people and prompting the group to evacuate staff from six hospitals.
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Syria's civil war has worsened dramatically in recent months and following Thursday's air strike a senior Turkish official said Ankara would no longer prevent refugees fleeing the conflict from embarking for Europe.
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In July, an air strike hit a detention center in Tripoli's Tajoura district that was located in the same complex as an armed group's vehicle repair workshop, killing at least 53 migrants.
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The two Senate leaders spoke after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Quds Force and architect of its growing military influence in the Middle East.
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Iran threatened to hit back hard after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad killed Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Quds Force and architect of its growing military influence in the Middle East.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi President Barham Salih condemned on Friday the U.S. air strike on Baghdad airport that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Quds force, and urged restraint from all parties.
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Israel Army Radio reported that the country's military had gone on heightened alert, fearing retaliation by Iran or its proxies after the killing of Soleimani by a U.S. air strike in Baghdad.
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IRAN STRIKE: Iran threatened to hit back hard after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Quds Force and one of the country's most powerful men.
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A video of a dazed and bloodied Syrian boy - Omran Daqneesh - after he was pulled from the rubble of an air strike in that neighborhood last Wednesday shocked people around the world.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A air strike by the Saudi-led coalition against a radio station in Yemen's Houthi-held port city of Hodeidah killed four people on Sunday, residents and medical sources said.
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Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement that the air strike took place near Raqqa, Syria, and targeted and killed Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, also known as Dr. Wa'il.
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Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, a grouping of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries, said a U.S. air strike on the Iraqi border with Syria killed 22 of its members and wounded 12 others.
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He said Shishani was killed earlier this week in a nearby village along with an aide by an air strike during combat with U.S.-backed Iraqi forces closing in on the area.
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The air strike in the Massar Jabba Forest Reserve had damaged a forest ecosystem which "could take up to a century to recover", said Khan, Prime Minister Imran Khan's adviser for climate change.
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KUWAIT, April 23 (Reuters) - An air strike from a drone killed two men south of the Yemeni city of Marib on Saturday suspected of belonging to al Qaeda, local residents said by phone.
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ADEN (Reuters) - At least 50 militants were killed in a U.S. air strike on an al Qaeda training camp in the mountains of southern Yemen, medics and a local official said on Wednesday.
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Tunisian forces have been on alert for possible militant infiltrations since last month, when a U.S. air strike targeted mostly Tunisian Islamic State militants at a camp near the border in Libya's Sabratha.
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Damascus, as well as its allies Iran and Russia, blamed Israel for an April 9 air strike on the same Homs base, an attack that killed seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) members.
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Last week, she resurfaced in paparazzi shots, but the Chinese release of her upcoming film Air Strike (also commonly translated as Unbreakable Spirit or The Big Bomb), also starring Bruce Willis, was canceled.
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Iraq said in January that Adnani had been wounded in an air strike in the western province of Anbar and then moved to the northern city of Mosul, Islamic State's capital in Iraq.
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An initial air strike late on Sunday killed one policeman, while a follow up strike targeted first responders, killing at least seven, said Rahimullah Khan, commander of the reserve police unit in Uruzgan.
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The U.S. military command in Kabul confirmed its warplanes had conducted an air strike in the area, but said they targeted "individuals firing on, and posing a threat to" Afghan national security forces.
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"The militants were observed loading weapons into a vehicle and were under surveillance until the vehicle was destroyed by an air strike," said Bob Purtiman, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
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Año said an estimated 100 Maute militants were holding out, and the military was checking on a report that one of its founding leaders, Omar Maute, had been killed in an air strike.
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Residents said at least nine members of the same family, including at least five children, were killed in one air strike which hit their home in Wadi Khair in southern Yemen's Shabwa province.
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The 2013 In Amenas attack was carried out by militants linked to veteran Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who U.S. forces say may have been killed in an air strike in Libya last year.
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"A friend called last night to say that he was killed in an air strike," a close family member of Muhaxheri told Reuters in his hometown of Kacanik, declining to give more details.
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But according to an exiled opposition spokesman, on the day of the planned meeting on September 8th an air strike west of Aleppo killed one of Jabhat al-Nusra's leaders, Abu Omar Saraqeb.
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Abdul-Salam said one of the committees set up to monitor the ceasefire in the northern al-Jawf province had had a lucky escape from an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition.
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While Western states have accused Damascus, the Syrian government's Russian allies say the deaths were the result of a Syrian air strike on a rebel arms depot where chemical weapons were being produced.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi air strike in Syria on April 19 has killed 36 Islamic State militants, including some of the group's leaders in Syria, an Iraqi military spokesman told Reuters on Sunday.
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Already Russia has twice warned U.S. military that it may conduct offensive operations in areas where U.S. troops are located, and U.S. troops refused to move, conducting air strike exercises on Syrian territory.
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A Pentagon spokesman told Reuters on Monday that a U.S. air strike on April 3 hit a meeting of high-level al Qaeda officials in northwest Syria at which Abu Firas was present.
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The Pentagon said on Friday that the coalition had killed a senior Islamic State leader, Wa'il Salman al-Fayad, in an air strike last week near the group's de facto Syrian capital, Raqqa.
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MSF said on Thursday it was evacuating its staff from six hospitals in northern Yemen after a Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a health facility operated by the group killing 19 people.
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GENEVA, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Analysis of satellite imagery of a deadly attack on an aid convoy in Syria last month showed that it was an air strike, a U.N. expert said on Wednesday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi-led coalition air strike on a prison in southwest Yemen killed at least 100 people, an official from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday.
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A July air strike by opposition forces that killed dozens of detainees in a center in Tripoli has increased pressure on the world to find a safe haven for the refugees and migrants.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An air strike by Syrian government forces in Idlib killed nine Turkish soldiers and severely wounded several others, the local governor in the southeastern province of Hatay said late on Thursday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's priority is to stabilize the Middle East, French Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Amelie de Montchalin said on Friday after a U.S. air strike killed Iran's Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
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Demand for safe-haven assets soared as Iran vowed revenge for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, head of its elite Quds Force, in the air strike that was authorized by President Donald Trump.
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ISTANBUL, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. air strike in Baghdad which killed Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani will increase insecurity and instability in the region, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's foreign ministry on Friday called for the country and wider region to be spared any repercussions from the U.S. air strike that killed the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force.
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NEW YORK, Jan 3 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yields fell sharply on Friday on safety buying after a U.S. air strike killed Iran Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani, increasing tensions between the two countries.
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On Sunday the Houthi news outlet Masirah reported from the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa that 11 people, including five students, were killed in a coalition air strike on a school and nearby houses.
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Visit Business Insider&aposs homepage for more stories Iranians are mourning the demise of the iconic military commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a targeted US air strike in Iraq on Friday.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Air traffic at the Libyan capital's only functioning airport resumed on Wednesday after being halted earlier following an air strike, according to a post on the Mitiga airport authority's Facebook page.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame condemned in a statement on Monday an air strike on Tripoli's only functioning airport, Mitiga, considering it as "a serious violation of humanitarian law".
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"We can confirm that the UK participated in the recent coalition air strike in Syria ... on Saturday, and we are fully co-operating with the coalition investigation," the defense ministry said in a statement.
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Jacques said the latest release did not include an investigation into a coalition air strike in mid-July near Manbij, Syria, which groups say killed dozens of civilians, but that it was near completion.
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The investigators accused the Syrian government of a "meticulously planned and ruthlessly carried out" air strike on a U.N. and Syrian Red Crescent convoy at Orum al-Kubra, in rural western Aleppo on Sept.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Eastern Libyan forces on Thursday conducted an air strike for a second night on the military section of the only functioning airport of the Libyan capital, a statement by the force said.
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The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had called Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and expressed his condolences over the air strike, blaming the incident on poor coordination between Moscow and Ankara.
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Moscow said on Friday its forces may have killed Baghdadi in an air strike in Syria last month, but Washington said it could not corroborate the death and Western and Iraqi officials were skeptical.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 57 people were killed in the air strike, which hit a court house and prison in the town of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province.
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Three women and six children were killed on Friday in the northwestern Saada province in an air strike on their home, the head of the local health department Dr Abdel-Ilah al-Azzi said.
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The 200-bed public hospital is the main provider of medical care in Kunduz after a more advanced trauma center run by Medecins Sans Frontieres was destroyed by an American air strike last year.
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BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said an air strike on a Turkish military convoy in northwest Syria killed three civilians and wounded 12 on Monday as Syrian troops advanced against rebels inside a key town.
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The White House does not have evidence suggesting Russia was involved in an air strike that killed Islamic State leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Three U.S. service members were killed close to the central city of Ghazni on Tuesday and at least 30 Afghan civilians were killed in a U.S. air strike overnight, officials and local residents said.
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On Mr Katyal's theory, the chief intimated, a president who acts on advice to launch an air strike against Syria could be seen as "discriminat[ing] against a majority-Muslim country"—a ludicrous conclusion.
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The Houthis said they had launched attacks on Saudi military camps across the border over the past two days and that a coalition air strike on Thursday killed three civilians in northern Saada province.
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Islamic State said in a statement on Tuesday that the maintenance team responsible for the dam had been killed in a U.S.-led air strike on Monday, the day the SDF paused its assault.
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The incident comes less than five months after 42 people were killed in a U.S. air strike on a hospital in the northern city of Kunduz run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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Syrian rebels and a monitoring group said two explosions that struck the same town on Wednesday were caused by an Israeli air strike but Lebanon's Hezbollah blamed rocket fire by al Qaeda-linked militants.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq launched an air strike on a gathering of Islamic State fighters in neighboring Syria, killing members of the hardline militant group who planned cross-border attacks, its military said on Thursday.
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At least four civilians, including two journalists, were killed and dozens injured when a convoy was hit by a Turkish air strike on the Syrian town of Ras al Ain on Sunday, Colville said.
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An air strike by opposition forces in July that killed more than 50 people at Tajoura detention center in Tripoli increased pressure on countries to find a safe haven for trapped refugees and migrants.
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A Facebook group that says it supports Amit Shah, the chief of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), posted images on Tuesday of the alleged destruction caused inside Pakistan by the Indian air strike.
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Jens Laerke, spokesman of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said civilians including children had been killed and injured and an air strike had put a hospital out of operation.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that the death toll from an air strike in eastern Syria overnight had climbed to 54, including Islamic State fighters and 28 civilians.
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In western Libya, a US air strike on a jihadist training camp near Sabratha killed more than 40 people in February 2016, likely including a senior ISIS figure involved in planning attacks in Tunisia.
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On Wednesday, thousands of Yemenis massed in Saada city, calling for the prosecution of the Saudi-led military coalition over the air strike on the bus, which drew horrified reactions from around the world.
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Armed forces chief Año said about 100 Maute militants were holding out in Marawi, and the military was checking a report that one of the brothers, Omarkhayam, had been killed in an air strike.
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On Tuesday a Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by MSF in the northern Hajja province injuring 24 and killing 19 people including one of its staff members, the group said.
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Russia's Defense Ministry said on Friday it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in late May.
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The air strike was launched after the Russian forces in Syria received intelligence that a meeting of Islamic State leaders was being planned, the ministry said in a statement posted on its Facebook page.
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Al Jassem left the capital Damascus where he worked, and returned to his home village near Aleppo to volunteer as an ambulance driver, pulling people from the rubble after a bombing or air strike.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke separately with the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan and urged them to avoid "further military activity" following an air strike by India inside Pakistan.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has carried out an air strike in Syria that killed a prominent leader of al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front, Abu Firas al-Suri, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.
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Aldamr, whose home was leveled by an air strike, said business had improved for him, but that reflected the scale of the damage that during the fighting, not an improvement in the local economy.
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Seven civilians were killed in a government air strike in the north late on Monday, the ministry of defense said in a statement, adding that strike was conducted for the "elimination of the enemy".
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The S&P 21 energy index rose along with oil prices after the recent U.S. air strike that killed Iran's top military commander, raising the threat of a new conflagration in the Middle East.
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An early air strike at the Baghdad Airport killed Major-General Qassem Soleimani, architect of Iran's spreading military influence in the Middle East and a hero among many Iranians and Shi'ites in the region.
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MOSCOW, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The Kremlin confirmed on Thursday that Russian war planes had accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in an air strike that went wrong in northern Syria, the RIA news agency reported.
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At least four civilians, including two journalists, were killed and dozens injured when a convoy was hit by a Turkish air strike on the Syrian town of Ras al Ain on Sunday, Colville said.
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Turkey's turnabout came after an air strike killed 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria, and appeared to be an effort to press for more EU aid in tackling the refugee crisis from Syria's civil war.
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LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Turkey's dollar-denominated sovereign bonds fells as much 4 cents on Friday after tensions in the region escalated sharply with 33 Turkish soldiers killed in an air strike in Syria.
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"As result of a targeted air strike by Afghan air forces, Mawlavi Sardar Mohammad, a key member of the Taliban military commission was killed along with eight others," the ministry said in a statement.
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LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Iraq's sovereign dollar-denominated bonds dropped around 1 cent on Friday after a U.S air strike killed a top Iranian commander at Baghdad airport, sharply escalating tensions across the region.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran following the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian military general Qassem Soleimani.
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Oil prices jumped nearly $3 on Friday after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad killed the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, sparking concerns for escalation of regional tensions and disruption of crude supplies.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani has made the world safer, and that taking no action would have created more risk.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Several Iraqi militia fighters were killed on Sunday in an air strike on their headquarters near the western Qaim district on the border with Syria, military sources and militia commanders told Reuters.
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The air strike was the first by the United States against the Taliban in 11 days, when a reduction in violence agreement had begun between the sides in the lead up to Saturday's pact.
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The U.S. air strike followed a sharp increase in U.S.-Iranian hostilities last week when pro-Iranian militiamen attacked the U.S. embassy in Iraq following a U.S. air raid on the Kataib Hezbollah militia.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the killing of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. air strike would increase tensions in the Middle East, RIA news agency reported.
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Iran, along with Damascus and its big-power backer Russia, blamed Israel for an April 9 air strike on a Syrian air base, T-4, that killed seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) members.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan forces killed an important Islamic State (IS) commander in an air strike, one year after he defected from the Taliban and established a new IS foothold in the country, security officials said.
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India launched an air strike on what it said was a militant training base on Tuesday, its first inside Pakistan since a 1971 war, after at least 40 Indian paramilitary police died in a Feb.
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But a look inside the villa in Bashiqa one day after Kurdish peshmerga forces said he was eventually killed by an air strike showed how he evaded death for almost an entire day of fighting.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - After having been declared dead several times in the past, a senior Taliban commander has been killed in an air strike in northern Afghanistan, officials of the militant group confirmed on Monday.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes carried out at least one air strike in Syria's northeast Hasakah region after an incident at a checkpoint where U.S. soldiers killed one person, Syrian and Turkish media said on Wednesday.
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An Australian citizen believed to be a top recruiter for the Islamic State has been killed in a U.S. air strike in Iraq, disrupting the militant group's ability to lure fighters, Australia said on Thursday.
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JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday an air strike against an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Syria that it accused of planning "killer drone attacks" showed Tehran that its forces were vulnerable anywhere.
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The world received a stark reminder of the violence faced by Syrian families on Wednesday, when anti-government activists released a video of children being pulled from the rubble after an air strike in Aleppo.
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The most famous component of the Manning leaks was arguably a video titled "Collateral Murder" that depicts a 2007 air strike in Baghdad during which a US helicopter crew fired at and killed innocent journalists.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An air strike in northern Somalia left as many as 22 soldiers dead overnight, local officials said on Wednesday, and one region said the United States had been duped into attacking its troops.
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In one telling example, Ms Murad says her sister-in-law escaped from slavery because her captor's wife was weary of his abuse of Yazidi girls and called an American air strike down on him.
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Guterres was speaking on the sidelines of a U.N. pledging conference a day after an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition that supports Hadi's government killed 12 civilians in the coastal city of Hodeidah.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres condemned a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen that killed dozens of people on Thursday and called for "an independent and prompt investigation," a spokesman said.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's government said on Wednesday it had requested a U.S. air strike that killed scores of suspected militants to help pave the way for an upcoming ground offensive against Islamist group al Shabaab.
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KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military denied reports on Friday that an air strike in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar had killed as many as 16 civilians, saying the operation had killed only militant fighters.
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Jaeger hired engineers and researchers to develop software that, with the help of a neural network, could search Arabic language media for keywords that would help confirm the location and timing of an air strike.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-led air strike against al Shabaab militants in Somalia on Monday killed three members of the al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgency group, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday.
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KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 30 Afghan civilians, including women, children and elderly men, were killed and dozens wounded in an air strike in the northern province of Kunduz on Thursday, the provincial governor said.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Air space re-opened at the Libyan capital's only functioning airport, Mitiga, on Thursday after it was halted following an air strike, according to a post on the Mitiga airport authority's Facebook page.
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The military commander of Jaish al-Islam, Zahran Alloush, was killed by an air strike on December 25th, but the group's political leader, Muhammad Alloush, has been chosen as the HNC's chief negotiator in Geneva.
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"We thought it was safe," one of them said, explaining that a coalition jet had hit the hospital with an air strike, which should have detonated any improvised explosive devices that ISIS had planted inside.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An air strike by a Saudi-led military coalition killed 26 people at a hotel and an adjoining market in Yemen's northern Saadah province on Wednesday, according to medics and a Reuters witness.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's armed forces killed 23 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in the latest clashes in eastern Turkey, including three militants who died in an air strike, the general staff said on Saturday.
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ET. Crude futures tumbled nearly 2 percent in the previous session on easing fears that Friday's U.S.-led air strike on Syria would escalate conflict between Western powers and Syrian government allies Russia and Iran.
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"My son went to the market to run house errands and then the enemy air strike happened and he was hit by shrapnel and died," said Fares al-Razhi, mourning his 14-year-old son.
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Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, a grouping of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries, also said on Monday a U.S. air strike on the Iraqi border with Syria killed 22 of its members and wounded 12 others.
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The missile shipment came after Russia, a main backer of the Damascus government, accused Israel of indirectly causing the downing of a Russian military jet by Syrian air defenses following an Israeli air strike nearby.
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Aggravating the volatile situation in the region, Iran - Assad's other main ally - threatened to respond to an air strike on a Syrian military base on Monday that Tehran, Damascus and Moscow have blamed on Israel.
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On the other hand, Trump also ordered an air strike inside Iran earlier this year, only to call it off at the last minute, and has advocated for regime change and US intervention in Venezuela.
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Last week, Ankara said it would no longer stop hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers on its territory from trying to reach Europe, after an air strike on Idlib in Syria killed 34 Turkish soldiers.
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Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and top Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in the air strike on their convoy at Baghdad airport, the Pentagon said.
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And, after twenty-four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a U.S.-led air strike on the border with Afghanistan, he took charge of the delicate negotiations with Pakistan to reopen NATO supply lines to Afghanistan.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Heavy Canadian and U.S. medium sour crude differentials strengthened on Friday following a U.S. air strike in Baghdad that killed Iran's military commander Qassem Soleimani and stirred Middle East geopolitical tensions, traders said.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed harsh revenge after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, architect of the country's spreading military influence in the Middle East, was killed in the air strike at Baghdad airport.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran promised harsh revenge after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Quds Force and architect of its growing military influence in the Middle East.
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Gold prices jumped 1% to a four-month high on Friday as tensions flared in the Middle East after a senior Iranian military official was killed in a U.S. air strike, sparking safe-haven bids.
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SINGAPORE, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Oil prices jumped more than $1 on Friday after a U.S. air strike killed key Iranian and Iraqi military personnel, raising concerns that escalating Middle East tensions may disrupt oil supplies.
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PARIS, Jan 3 (Reuters) - France's priority is to stabilise the Middle East, French Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Amelie de Montchalin said on Friday after a U.S. air strike killed Iran's Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
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In the single biggest loss of military hardware for Russia since it launched air strike in Syria in autumn 2015, more than 10 servicemen were wounded in the attack by "radical Islamists", the report said.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least seven workers were killed and another 35 wounded in an air strike that hit a biscuit factory on Monday in a southern suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, emergency services said.
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Cover image: A handout image provided by the Israeli army on March 20, 2018 reportedly shows a before and after aerial view of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by an air strike in 2007.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that he will not comment on a U.S. air strike in Baghdad that killed the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani.
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Nasrallah, speaking in a televised addressed marking Soleimani's death in a targeted U.S. air strike, said responding to the killing was not only Iran's responsibility but the responsibility of its allies in the region too.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed harsh revenge after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, architect of the country's spreading military influence in the Middle East, was killed in the air strike at Baghdad airport.
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The U.S. embassy in Baghdad urged all citizens to depart Iraq immediately, hours after the U.S. killed Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in an air strike.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of paramilitary groups said on Saturday that an air strike targeting its fighters earlier hit a convoy of medics, not senior leaders as reported in some media.
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On the same day, an air strike on a farm in Attohayta district of Hodeidah governorate killed 14, and air strikes elsewhere killed a further 41 civilians and injured 43 over the past 10 days.
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An Iraqi military statement later said no Popular Mobilisation Forces or other Iraqi troops tasked with securing the Iraqi-Syrian border had been hit by the air strike, and it had taken place inside Syria.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had killed nine militants in an air strike in southern Somalia this week during a battle between U.S. and Somali government troops and al Shabaab Islamist fighters.
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An air strike also hit the Houthi-controlled Hodeida port, killing a military commander responsible for operations in three provinces, according to a news agency affiliated with the group's leading ally, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Friday disclosed that it carried out an air strike in Yemen in May, killing four al Qaeda militants, and also revealed three other strikes that had not been previously reported.
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ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - A Saudi-led military coalition said it intercepted a missile fired in Yemen on Tuesday and residents said an air strike by the alliance caused eight civilian casualties, straining a civil war ceasefire.
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The most dramatic option under consideration - but considered less likely - would be a U.S. air strike on a Syrian air base far from the fighting between Assad's troops and rebel forces in the north, officials said.
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However, German voters have dark memories of an air strike in Afghanistan in 2009, called in by their forces but executed by the Americans, in which civilians perished and their government had to compensate the bereaved.
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Last year, the U.S. military disciplined 16 service members over a separate incident in Kunduz in 2015, when a U.S. air strike killed 42 people in a hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a Turkish air strike on a convoy in the Syrian town of Ras al Ain killed 14 people including five civilians and wounded 10 on Sunday.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 44 people were killed and more than 130 wounded in an air strike on a migrant detention center in the Libyan capital Tripoli, the U.N. mission to the country said on Wednesday.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said an alleged poison gas attack blamed on his government last week in Idlib province was "100 percent fabrication" used to justify a U.S. air strike, news agency AFPreported on Thursday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had critically injured a leader of the Tahrir al-Sham militant group in Syria with an air strike on his position that also killed 12 of his field commanders.
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Ali said his cousin Nur was an employee of telecoms firm Hormuud Telecom, but the company said it had no employee of that name and that none of its staff were killed in an air strike.
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"We are aware of reports alleging civilian casualties resulting from this air strike...The U.S. Africa Command will review any information it has about the incident, including any relevant information provided by third parties," it said.
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Hafidh, 11, survived the air strike, but his older brother Waleed was among the 40 children who died on the bus as it drove through a market in Dahyan, a town in the province of Saada.
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The Humvee I was in stopped next to a Toyota pickup truck with Iraqi plates and a Russian machine gun mounted in the bed; it had been compressed beneath a building pancaked by an air strike.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's military said on Friday it was investigating "harm caused to civilians" from an air strike it carried out in Gaza that Palestinian medics said killed eight members of one family including five children.
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The coalition concluded that the Old City could not be captured according to the rules of engagement that had governed the battle in East Mosul, so it loosened its requirements for calling in an air strike.
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Last month the United States carried out an air strike on a suspected Islamic State training camp in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, killing more than 40 people, many of them believed to be Tunisians.
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KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike killed at least eight policeman in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a government official said on Friday, the latest casualties from a rise in air and ground operations against the Afghan Taliban.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, a grouping of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries, said on Monday a U.S. air strike on the Iraqi border with Syria killed 22 of its members and wounded 12 others.
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HODEIDAH (Reuters) - At least 22 civilians were killed on Friday and dozens wounded when a Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a market in western Yemen causing a fire to break out, a local official said.
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However, an Iraqi military statement later said no Popular Mobilisation Forces or other Iraqi troops tasked with securing the Iraqi-Syrian border had been hit by the air strike, and it had taken place inside Syria.
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The international Red Cross said that as many as 100 people were killed when an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition that is fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen hit a detention centre under rebel control.
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An air strike warning system run by the Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue service in opposition areas, was by Wednesday afternoon sending alerts every few minutes, triggered when warplanes are spotted taking off from air bases.
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U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive in Japan's western city of Osaka for the G20 meeting just a week after calling off a retaliatory air strike on Iran after it shot down an unmanned U.S. aircraft.
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Ties between Moscow and Ankara have come under severe strain in recent days since 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike in Idlib, the deadliest attack on the Turkish army in nearly 30 years.
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The latest flare-up in the shadow war between the two long-time foes started with the U.S. killing of Iran's top general, Qassem Soleimani, in an air strike next in Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.
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The latest flare-up in the shadow war between the two foes started with the U.S. killing of Iran's top military commander, General Qassem Soleimani, in an air strike next to Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's prime minister defended a U.S. decision to launch an air strike on Friday that killed powerful Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and the Israeli military was put on high alert, after Iran threatened revenge.
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Foreign policy has been thrust into the 2020 race by Republican President Donald Trump's decision to kill Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani with an air strike on Friday that sharply escalated tensions between the two countries.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States should stop abusing the use of force and seek solutions via dialogue, China's foreign minister said, after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Iran's most prominent military commander.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There are no current threats against the United States' homeland, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on Friday after a U.S. air strike killed a top Iranian commander in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Speaker of Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi condemned on Friday a U.S. air strike in Baghdad that killed Iran's most powerful general and a top Iraqi Shi'ite militia commander as a breach of sovereignty.
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The U.S. embassy in Baghdad urged all citizens to depart from Iraq immediately, hours after the U.S. killed Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in an air strike.
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According to Aziz, the best location for a medical facility is on a narrow street, flanked by tall buildings, so that, after an air strike, helicopters and jets have difficulty tracking the movement of wounded civilians.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's government on Thursday requested an explanation from the United States after Somali officials said a U.S. "friendly fire" air strike killed at least 22 soldiers and civilians in the Horn of Africa nation.
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Haftar's forces said they hit the drone in an air strike on Mitiga airport, part of a series of measures meant to punish Turkey for its support of the rival, internationally recognized Libyan government in Tripoli.
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MOSCOW, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the killing of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. air strike would increase tensions in the Middle East, RIA news agency reported.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Formal funeral processions for militiamen killed in a U.S. air strike on Baghdad airport will take place on Saturday, Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of militia groups said in a statement on Friday.
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The strategy will give U.S. commanders greater freedom to use American firepower against the militants but, speaking a few hours before the air strike, Mattis said they would do "everything humanly possible" to prevent civilian casualties.
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However the Kabul air strike showed the risks that the new strategy could cause a repeat of the bitter disputes over civilian casualties that soured relations between Washington and the government of former president Hamid Karzai.
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Israel's military said its troops resorted to live fire, and an air strike, after explosive devices and rocks were thrown at them and to prevent breaches of the border fence from the Islamist Hamas-controlled enclave.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday it had killed two militants in Somalia in an air strike targeting al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group that is fighting to topple the U.N.-backed government.
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Residents reported that civilians were killed in an air strike on an Islamic State-run mosque on Wednesday, highlighting the perilous situation facing hundreds of thousands of Mosul residents as the allied forces step up their campaign.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had killed one militant in an air strike in southern Somalia over the weekend during a battle pitting U.S. and Somali government troops against al Shabaab Islamist fighters.
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The Israeli military said one air strike had hit a high-rise building in al-Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, describing the target as a Hamas urban warfare training facility with a tunnel underneath.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An ambulance driver working with Doctors Without Borders has been killed in an air strike in Yemen, the medical charity said on Friday, the latest attack on the group's workers and facilities.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - An air strike reportedly killed dozens of people in a rebel-held town in Syria on Saturday as a U.N. envoy visited Damascus to advance preparations for peace talks planned this month despite opposition misgivings.
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The incidents come to light at a time when the U.S. government has warned of Iranian cyber threats in the wake of the U.S. air strike that killed Iran's second most powerful official, Major-General Qassem Soleimani.
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The incidents come to light at a time when the U.S. government has warned of Iranian cyber threats in the wake of the U.S. air strike that killed Irans second most powerful official, Major-General Qassem Soleimani.
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On Sunday an air strike hit a medical center in Busra al-Harir, causing extensive damage but no casualties, said the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations, a charity that works in opposition parts of Syria.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights earlier said dozens of people had been killed on Monday in al-Mayadeen in an air strike believed to have been carried out by the coalition on an Islamic Sate prison.
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The video revived memories of "Jihadi John", another British IS member who appeared in several videos in which hostages were murdered before he himself was believed to have been killed in an air strike late last year.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday there must be accountability for the "appalling conduct" of the entire war in Yemen after an apparent Saudi-led air strike killed 140 Yemenis.
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On September 19th the Syrian regime refused to extend the seven-day ceasefire, accusing rebels of failing to uphold their side and citing an air strike by American and coalition forces that mistakenly killed 62 Syrian soldiers.
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KABUL, May 17 (Reuters) - An air strike killed at least eight policeman in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a government official said on Friday, the latest casualties from a rise in air and ground operations against the Afghan Taliban.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian citizen believed to be a top recruiter for the Islamic State has been killed in a U.S. air strike in Iraq, disrupting the militant group's ability to lure fighters, Australia said on Thursday.
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An air strike hit a hospital in the rebel-held Syrian village of Awaijel, west of Aleppo, killing at least one person a day after attacks on two other hospitals in the region, a war monitor said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A September U.S. air strike in Somalia killed local militia forces and not al Shabaab militants as the Pentagon had initially believed, the U.S. military acknowledged in a draft statement obtained by Reuters on Thursday.
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The air strike ripped through a wake attended by some of the country's top political and security officials, outraging Yemeni society and potentially galvanising powerful tribes to join the Houthis in opposing a Saudi-backed exiled government.
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It also comes two days after a U.S. air strike targeting a suspected Islamic State training camp in the western city of Sabratha killed nearly 50 people, including two Serbian embassy staff abducted in Libya in November.
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Separately, the U.S. military carried out an air strike on Thursday against militia supported by the Syrian government that posed a threat to U.S. and U.S.-backed Syrian fighters in the country's south, U.S. officials told Reuters.
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Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook confirmed an air strike targeting Mansour in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region but declined to speculate on his fate, although U.S. officials speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters he likely was killed.
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DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Six months ago, Sajjad Hossain left Bangladesh hoping to build a new life in Europe, but he is now waiting to be sent home after being injured by an air strike in Libya.
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Nasrallah said the Saudi leadership were pushing their country to "the abyss" and accused Riyadh of being responsible for an air strike on a Yemeni funeral in the capital Sanaa on Saturday that killed scores of people.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Five doctors were killed and at least eight medical personnel injured late on Saturday in an air strike on a field hospital run by the internationally recognized Tripoli government, a hospital spokesman said on Sunday.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council called for a credible and transparent investigation into a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen that killed dozens of children, British U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce said on Friday.
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Alexander Kots, a military correspondent who has worked in Syria for the pro-Kremlin Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, says he has been told that Russia could return its entire air strike force to Syria within just 48 hours.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Explosions shook the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Saturday after an air strike, residents said, in an escalation of a two-week offensive by eastern forces on the city held by the internationally recognized government.
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Protests broke out on the main road of Pul-e-Khumri after the air strike, with demonstrators using pickup trucks to carry the remains of victims as they marched through the streets en route to burial ceremonies.
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MANILA (Reuters) - A Philippine government air strike aimed at Islamist rebels mistakenly killed two soldiers on Wednesday, the military said, the second such deadly accident in a bloody campaign to oust the militants from a southern city.
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An air strike late on Tuesday hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in the Tajoura suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, killing at least 40 people and wounding 80, a Libyan health official said.
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Washington, which said the drone was in international skies, then appeared to come close to attacking Iranian military targets, with Trump saying that he aborted a retaliatory air strike 10 minutes before it was to go ahead.
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Since confirming Soleimani was killed by a U.S. air strike in Baghdad, administration officials have said they acted because of an imminent risk of attacks on American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.
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ISTANBUL, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Turkish Capital Markets Board said it had banned short selling on all stocks listed on the Istanbul stock exchange on Friday, after an air strike in Syria's Idlib killed 33 Turkish soldiers.
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The survey comes as lawmakers in Washington return to Capitol Hill this week to face dueling crises: Trump's ordering of an air strike that killed a top Iranian official and his impending impeachment trial in the Senate.
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The United States and Iran backed off from intensified conflict last month after a U.S. air strike in Iraq killed Qassem Soleimani and Tehran retaliated with missile strikes on U.S. bases that injured more than 100 troops.
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The United States and Iran backed off from intensified conflict last month after a U.S. air strike in Iraq killed Qassem Soleimani and Tehran retaliated with missile strikes on U.S. bases that injured more than 100 troops.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's civil aviation authority said on Friday there would be no delays to any flights from Baghdad international airport, state TV reported, hours after the United States carried out an air strike on the airport.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran summoned Germany's charge d'affaires in Tehran on Sunday to protest against "destructive" comments made by some German officials supporting the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. air strike in Iraq.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that he will not comment on a U.S. air strike in Baghdad that killed the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani.
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A national security source familiar with internal government reporting before the air strike said U.S. agencies had collected evidence that groups or cells supported by Iran were actively engaged in planning attacks against U.S. personnel and targets.
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On Tuesday a Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by MSF in the Abs district of Hajja province injuring 24 and killing 19 people including one of its staff members, the aid group said.
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Adnani, who was killed two years later in a U.S. air strike in Syria, urged the group's sympathizers to use whatever means at their disposal to attack American and French citizens, and virtually any other Western civilians.
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The strikes came hours after a deadly air strike on a biscuit factory in the capital Tripoli, 190 kms (118 miles) to the west, that the United Nations envoy to Libya said could constitute a war crime.
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KABUL (Reuters) - At least six prisoners of the Taliban as well as a Taliban commander died following a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan at the weekend, according to conflicting reports which U.S. officials said they were investigating.
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The White Helmets, a group of civil defence emergency workers operating in rebel-held areas, said on Twitter one of their buildings in Haritan, in the north Aleppo countryside, was hit by an air strike on Saturday.
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A plume of white smoke, likely to be from an air strike, rose from a southeastern district while heavy gunfire was audible on the northern front and a commander there said nine suicide car bombs had been disabled.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that Islamic State's military commander was badly wounded but still alive, appearing to contradict US officials who said he was likely killed in a US air strike.
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CAIRO, July 3 (Reuters) - At least 44 people were killed and more than 130 wounded in an air strike on a migrant detention centre in the Libyan capital Tripoli, the U.N. mission to the country said on Wednesday.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - An air strike by a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed at least nine people on Thursday at an oil facility on the Red Sea operated by its Houthi opponents, oil workers and medics said.
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Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu began a visit to Israel later on Monday but did not mention the air strike during public remarks at the start of a meeting in Tel Aviv with his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A military source on the Syrian government side said on Friday that a U.S. air strike against a Damascus-backed militia the day before hit "one of our military points", without elaborating, state media outlets reported.
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Ismail said the air strike occurred in the southern part of the city, where a wake was taking place for the father of the administration's interior minister, Jalal al-Roweishan, who had died of natural causes on Friday.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The United States military has carried out an air strike in Somalia against al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgency that wants to topple the U.N.-backed government, the U.S. Africa Command said on Wednesday.
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The change in tactics came amid uproar over the March 17 incident, in which local officials say a U.S. coalition air strike demolished buildings killing scores of people, with some citing a death toll of more than 200.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A migrant detention center in Tripoli, hit by a deadly air strike last week, is being gradually emptied following a decision by Libyan authorities to release its inmates, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
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"In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Forces conducted an air strike against Al-Shabaab militants near Jilib ... killing three terrorists and destroying one vehicle with a mounted heavy machine gun," it said in a statement.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike targeted a Syrian army position in the Kisweh area south of Damascus on Tuesday but caused no casualties, a commander in the regional alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Reuters.
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Bill Clinton had come close to authorising an air strike on Yongbyon in 1994, but pulled back in the belief it would trigger a new war on the peninsula that, by some estimates, could cost a million lives.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States carried out an air strike on Tuesday targeting one of Islamic State's longest serving leaders, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a U.S. defense official said after the militant group announced Adnani had been killed.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S military said it killed four militants in an air strike against al Shabaab militants in the vicinity of Awdheegle, Somalia, as part of its operations to support the government's efforts to weaken the group.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Officials in Yemen's mostly Saudi-based government said 32 civilians were killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a market in the Taiz region earlier this week, disputing a U.N. death toll of 56.
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He added that the market was closed at the time, but an unusual number of people had gathered there to survey the damage from an air strike the night before that had also targeted a passing military vehicle.
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In a statement issued in Gaza shortly after an Israeli air strike there killed a top Islamic Jihad commander, the group identified the official who it said had been targeted in the Syrian capital as Akram al-Ajouri.
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Other strikes included one near Albu Hayat, where a tactical unit was hit and a staging area destroyed, and Habbaniyah, where an air strike destroyed two vehicles, three front-end loaders and another homemade explosives cache, it said.
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GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike on Thursday killed a Hamas gunman and wounded another and troops later shot dead a man close to the border, Palestinian medical officials said, as tensions across the Gaza Strip border simmered.
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Berlin joined the U.S.-led air strike campaign against Islamic State in Syria last year, though limiting its role to reconnaissance and refueling missions, after the jihadist group killed 130 people in shooting and bombing attacks in Paris.
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Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook confirmed an air strike targeting Mansour in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region but declined to speculate on his fate, although multiple U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters he likely was killed.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an air strike killed 15 children and two women sheltering in the basement of a school in the Syrian rebel-held town of Arbin in eastern Ghouta on Monday.
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S. President Bill Clinton to formulate a response to the possibility of military action by the North including an air strike to destroy Yongbyon, 90 km (55 miles) north of the North Korean capital, Gallucci said in interviews.
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JABA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A madrasa, or Islamic school, on a remote hilltop in northeastern Pakistan that was the target of an Indian air strike just over six weeks ago is still not ready to give up its secrets.
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So, the way I tend to approach it is when I'm in the field and I'm in Syria and there's an air strike or whatever, I try to channel what I imagine trauma doctors in the ER do.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - An air strike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 130, the United Nations said.
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It was the highest publicly reported toll from an air strike or shelling since eastern forces under Khalifa Haftar launched a ground and aerial offensive three months ago to take Tripoli, the base of Libya's internationally recognized government.
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India on Tuesday said it had launched an air strike inside Pakistan and that its warplanes killed "a very large number" of fighters at a militant training camp, raising the risk of conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike aimed at Somali Islamist militants killed six civilians instead, a lawmaker and relative of one victim said on Wednesday, raising further questions about the extent of civilian casualties from U.S. military operations.
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Before Sentry was introduced, the main warning people had of an air strike was when they heard the planes themselves — when it was already too late, said Omayya, 50, who was displaced from Aleppo to its northwestern countryside.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - An air strike on Masyaf in Syria hit a Scientific Studies and Research Centre facility and an adjacent military camp where ground-to-ground rockets are stored, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike over the weekend in Somalia killed an Islamist militant who helped plan last month's attack on a military base in Kenya in which three Americans died, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
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"Crazy Trump, don't think that everything is over with my father's martyrdom," Zeinab Soleimani said in an address broadcast on state television, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an air strike on Friday that killed General Qassem Soleimani.
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The mood calmed a little as there was no new aggression after Iran and the United States traded threats following a U.S. air strike killing a top Iranian commander, with Wall Street ending in positive territory on Monday.
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"Crazy Trump, don't think that everything is over with my father's martyrdom," Zeinab Soleimani said in an address broadcast on state television, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an air strike on Friday that killed General Qassem Soleimani.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday his powerful Shi'ite militia group would continue the path of Iran's Major-General Qassem Soleimani after his death in a U.S. air strike, broadcaster Al Manar reported.
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