Yemen’s Houthis welcome UN call for probe into air strikes
Yemen‘s Houthi group welcomed on Friday a call by the United Nations for an independent investigation into Saudi-led coalition air strikes that killed dozens of...
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Dozens killed, including children on a bus, in Yemen air strikes
Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed dozens of people, including children travelling on a bus through a market, in Yemen‘s Saada province, a Yemeni health official...
Russia and US air strikes ‘caused mass civilian deaths in Syria’
Air strikes by Russia and a US-led coalition killed civilians in Syriaon a large scale last year, while the Assad government carried out unlawful chemical weapon...
Risk of Afghan civilian casualties may damp US strikes support
US President Donald Trump’s plans to step up air strikes on Islamist militants in Afghanistan risk increasing civilian casualties and stirring resentment, despite an initial welcome...
Saudi-led air strikes ‘kill at least 20 Yemeni civilians’
At least 20 Yemeni civilians were killed and many others were wounded when a Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a village in the south, officials...
Australia suspends Syria strikes after US downing of Syrian jet
Australia said on Tuesday it had suspended air strikes into Syria following the US downing of a Syrian military jet and Russia’s subsequent threat against US-led...
Air strikes said to kill at least 12, damage hospital in Syria
Syrian or Russian air strikes killed more than a dozen people and severely damaged a hospital in and around a town in rebel-held Idlib province...
Kremlin says Turkey provided intel for ‘friendly fire’ strikes
Russian air strikes that accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in Syria were launched based on coordinates provided to Russia by the Turkish military, Kremlin spokesman...
France says Syria or Russia responsible for strike on school in Syria’s Idlib
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said either Russia or the Syrian government were responsible for an air strike on Syria’s Idlib province that led to...
Battle for Aleppo intensifies after ceasefire ends (Update 1)
The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, the morning after a...
Aleppo city quiet on third day of ceasefire, some clashes
Calm prevailed across the divided Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday, the third day of a unilateral ceasefire announced by Russia, but medical evacuations and...
Aleppo air strike ‘kills 14 members of one family’
Fourteen members of one family were killed in an air strike in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Syrian government...
Attack on mourners in Yemen kills more than 140, say local health officials
By Mohammed Ghobari Saudi-led warplanes struck a funeral at a community hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the country’s Houthi-run administration said on Saturday, but...
Syria presses Aleppo advance, tells rebels to leave (Updated)
By Lisa Barrington Syrian government and allied forces advanced north of Aleppo, pressing their week-old offensive to take the insurgent-held, eastern part of the city...
Syrian government seizes area in Aleppo attack, death toll climbs
By Tom Perry Syrian government forces seized ground from rebels north of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on the city’s opposition-held east as it...
U.S.-led forces strike Syrian troops, prompting emergency U.N. meeting
By Angus McDowall and Andrew Osborn U.S.-led coalition air strikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting...
Australia offers condolences over air strike on Syrian troops
By Harry Pearl The Australian Department of Defence has offered its condolences to the families of Syrian soldiers killed or wounded in a U.S.-led bombing...
At least 21 civilians killed in Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen – residents
At least 21 civilians were killed in two separate air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen on Saturday, residents said on Sunday, as...
Afghan forces encircled by Taliban in provincial capital, officials say
US warplanes unleashed three strikes on Friday in Afghanistan’s province of Uruzgan, where Afghan security forces remained surrounded by Taliban fighters a day after having...
Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen capital resume, nine civilians killed – residents (update)
A Saudi-led military coalition conducted air strikes on the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday for the first time in five months, residents said, after UN-backed...
