Reuters |Idrees Ali: U.S. military officials said they are closely watching for reprisals for American air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group, with the potential for a cycle of retaliatory actions that could inflame tensions between Washington and Tehran. The U.S. military carried out the strikes on Sunday against the ...

Alwaght - The east of Syria came to regional and international focus afresh this week when air raid targeted a coalition of Syria army and its allies fighting terrorists in al-Hari town in Abu Kamal district in Deir ez-Zor province. Reactions to the attack went more serious when Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-run organization,...

Press TV - A UK-based monitoring group saysat least 29 people have been killed in US airstrikes in the Syrian city of Raqqah. "At least eight children are among the dead," said the director of the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, on Wednesday. The observatory noted that the recent airstrikes brought the civilian ...

Press TV- At least 15 civilians have lost their lives in an aerial attack by a US-led coalition that purports to be fighting Daesh in Syria. According to Lebanons Arabic-language al-Ahed news website, the US-led airstrike targeted a residential compound in the town of Albu Kamal in the southeastern countryside of Dayr al-Zawr. The report ...

Press TV- A US-led coalition airstrike in western Mosul has claimed the lives of 13 civilians, says an Iraqi air force pilot. According to a reportpublished by the Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, the strike targeted several civilian homes in a residential area of Mosuls al-Yarmouk neighborhood, which was recently liberated from Daesh. "The strike ...

Press TV- An airstrike by the US-led coalition purportedly fighting Daesh terrorists in Iraqhas targeted a funeral ceremony in the Arab countrys city of Mosul, killing eight civilians. Colonel Ahmed al-Jaboury, with the Nineveh Liberation Operation, said in a statement that the victims were killed as the US-led coalition "mistakenly" hit the mourning ...

Press TV- Scores of civilians are believed to have lost their lives when the so-called US-led coalition carried out an airstrike against purported positions of the TakfiriDaesh terrorists in Iraqs troubled northern province of Nineveh. The US militarysaid the aerial attack was initially thought to have struck a van carrying Daesh militants near ...

Opposition groups in Syriahave called on the US and allies to suspend airstrikesfollowing the deaths of some 140 civilians in Aleppo in French and American air raids. The so-called Syrian National Coalition (SNC) on Thursday called for atemporary halt to theaerial campaign while an investigation is completed into the civilian deaths inthe northern ...

Syria is demanding the UN take action after it says French war planes killed more than 120 civilians during airstrikes on Tuesday near the Turkish-Syrian border. The deaths came just a day after US air assaults killed a further 20 people in Manbij. The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to the UN secretary general and to the president of the UN ...

Airstrikes by the United States and France inside Syria have killed as many as 140 civilians in a northwestern city and on its outskirts over the past couple of days. The Syrian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that French warplanes had targeted the village of Tukhan al-Kubra in the northern suburb of the city of Manbij in the Aleppo Province,...

The US military has conducted its first airstrikes against Taliban militants in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama's gave authorization earlier this month to expand American involvement against the militants. There have been operations carried out with these new authorities, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said Friday. Its fair to ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A senior commander with the Afghan Taliban says the militant group's leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed in a U.S. drone strike. Mullah Abdul Rauf told The Associated Press Sunday that Mansour died in the strike late Friday night. He says the strike took place "in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area." The ...

A deadly US airstrike in Afghanistan last year that destroyed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders did not amount to a war crime but was caused by human error, equipment failure and other factors, a US military report released on Friday concluded. Forty-two people were killed and 37 were wounded during an Oct. 3 strike that destroyed the hospital ...

US aircraft have carried out an airstrike on Libya's Sabratha city, killing around 40 people, local officials say. Theysaid the air raid on Friday targetedmilitantsnear the Libyan capital. The New York Times, citing an unidentified Western official, said US warplanes struck Daesh militants in the attack. The airstrike targeted a senior Tunisianoperative ...

US Air Force jets struck positions ofIraqi anti-ISIL forces duringclashes nearTikrit, injuring several fighters, Iran's Fars News Agency reports. The Iraqi army, together withmilitias, launched an offensive onthe northern city ofTikrit onThursday, afterIraq's Defense Minister Khalid Obeidi said that Tikrit was completely surrounded bythe country's ...

[caption id="attachment_111832" align="alignright" width="262"] The dam at Mosul, pictured here in 2007, lies 225 miles northwest of Baghdad and has been under control of militants from the group calling itself Islamic state since earlier this month. Associated Press[/caption] The U.S. targeted Sunni militants positions nearIraqs largest dam in a ...

At least six people have been killed in fresh US-led airstrikes in Afghanistans central province of Maidan Wardak. Afghan officials say two drones targeted areas in the town of Chak with missiles on Sunday. Several people were also injured in the attacks. In separate attacks, American Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) also pounded the eastern Nangarhar ...