In the summer of 1977, Egyptian and Libyan forces clashed along their border in a series of cross-border raids, tank battles, and bombing runs. On that occasion, Egypt bombed and strafed Libyan targets near the eastern city of Tobruk, killing several Soviet personnel in the process. Forty years on, Egypt[…]
Egypt on Monday called for international support as its air force hit Libyan radicals loyal to Islamic State in response to the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians. As warplanes struck the rebel stronghold of Derna in eastern Libya, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri headed to New York where he was expected[…]
The United Arab Emirates launched airstrikes Tuesday against the Islamic State group from an air base in Jordan, marking its return to combat operations against the rebels after halting the strikes late last year. The Gulf federation’s official WAM news agency quoted the General Command of the UAE Armed Forces[…]
The US-led coalition pounded the Islamic State group with 39 air strikes Thursday and Friday, including more than a dozen near the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobane. The 13 strikes conducted Thursday in Kobane, which is known as Ain al-Arab in Arabic, destroyed 17 fighting positions, as well as IS[…]
Syria accused Israel of bombing its main international airport on Sunday as the UN announced talks with rebel leaders on a ceasefire in its war-battered second city of Aleppo. The accusation came hours ahead of an appeal by humanitarian organisations Monday for countries to take in around 180,000 refugees as the[…]
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday welcomed any Iranian military action against the Islamic State in Iraq as “positive” after the Pentagon said Tehran had carried out air strikes against the group. Kerry, hosting a meeting of an anti-IS coalition in Brussels, said international air strikes were finally stopping[…]
The United States said Wednesday it was “horrified” by Syrian regime air strikes in the stronghold Raqa that killed at least 95 people, slamming the government for its “continued slaughter.” The bombing Tuesday was the deadliest by President Bashar al-Assad’s air force since Islamic State rebels seized the city last[…]
US-led air strikes have killed several hundred ISIL fighters around the Syrian town of Kobane, the US military has said, but cautioned that the town near Turkey’s border could still fall to the Sunni rebel group. The US-led coalition launched about 50 air strikes on the mainly Kurdish town of[…]
Australia’s cabinet Friday authorised the deployment of special forces and military air strikes to tackle the Islamic State organisation in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. “Today, cabinet has authorised Australian air strikes in Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government and in support of the Iraqi government,” Abbott[…]
France has carried out its first air strikes in Iraq against positions of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, joining a US-led operation to defeat the rebel group. In a statement issued on Friday, French President Francois Hollande said the strike destroyed a logistics depot held by ISIL.[…]
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