US air strikes
A suspected US drone strike against Islamic State in Afghanistan killed at least 21 people on Wednesday, most of them militants but possibly including some...
US air strikes target Islamic State in Libya
Libya’s UN-backed government requested US air strikes against Islamic State in its former coastal stronghold of Sirte, and the first strikes were carried out on...
Strikes ‘kill at least 50’ at Qaeda Yemen camp
At least 50 militants were killed in a US air strike on an al Qaeda training camp in the mountains of southern Yemen, medics and...
Two abducted Serbs killed in US Libya raids on Islamic State
By Aleksandar Vasovic and Ahmed Elumami Two Serbian Embassy staff members abducted in Libya in November were among nearly 50 people killed on Friday in...
US aircraft hit Islamic State militants in Libya, more than 40 dead (Update 2)
By Ahmed Elumami and Aidan Lewis US warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as...
Islamic State leader killed in air strike was close to Paris attacker -mayor
By Ingrid Melander Charaffe al Mouadan, one of 10 Islamic State leaders killed by US-led air strikes in the past month, was close to Paris...
Three Islamic State leaders killed in recent strikes – US military
By Idrees Ali The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria has killed the group’s finance minister and two other senior leaders...
Kurdish forces seize Iraq’s Sinjar town from Islamic State (Update 3)
By Isabel Coles Kurdish forces backed by US air strikes seized the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State on Friday, a Reuters witness...
NATO troops killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand, Taliban grab district
By Mohammad Stanekzai The Taliban seized a district headquarters in Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Monday despite US air strikes to repel them, and two NATO...
Taliban launch brazen attack on Afghan parliament, seize second district in north (Updated)
By Hamid Shalizi A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to consider a new defence minister,...