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India-Pakistan Standoff / Dark clouds of conflict

The ongoing tension between India and Pakistan is taking a dangerous turn. The Indian air force crossed Pakistani airspace and carried out strikes against alleged terrorist training camps within Pakistan-administered territory, followed by Pakistan's own airstrike.

India's new response template against terror

Restraint is no longer an option. Action is. That is the message sent out by the Indian Air Force mounting the lightning attack on terror camps deep inside Pakistan on February 26.

India in safe hands: Modi

Hours after India carried out air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the country is in safe hands.

Air strike in eastern Syria kills at least 28 people: reports

An air strike kills at least 28 people in an Islamic State-held area of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

Air strike on Syria refugee camp 'kills 28'

At least 28 people are reported to have been killed in an air strike on a refugee camp in rebel-held northern Syria, monitors say.

Syria crisis: Strikes on hospitals 'war crimes'

France and Turkey have said that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes.

Saudi Arabia offers greater role in air war on IS: US

Saudi Arabia decides to increase its military contributions to the campaign against Islamic State, including offering to expand its role in the air campaign, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter's spokesman says after bilateral talks.

Iran accuses Saudi of bombing embassy in Yemen

Saudi warplanes "deliberately" strike Iran's embassy in Yemen in an air raid that wounds staff, Tehran says as tensions between the two regional powers mount.

4 Syrian soldiers die in ‘US coalition air strike’

An air strike believed to have been carried out by the US-led coalition killed four Syrian military personnel in Deir al Zor province, which is mostly held by Islamic State, a monitoring group says, in what would be the first time coalition warplanes had hit Syrian government forces.

November 13, 2015
November 13, 2015

US airstrike targets ‘Jihadi John’

US forces have carried out an air strike targeting the Islamic State group militant "Jihadi John", the Pentagon has said.

October 20, 2015
October 20, 2015

Syria conflict: Russian air strikes 'kill 45 in Latakia'

At least 45 people have been killed in Russian air strikes on a rebel-held area of north-western Syria, a monitoring group says.

October 12, 2015
October 12, 2015

Islamic State figures killed in air strike; Baghdadi not believed among them

Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group's reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them.

October 7, 2015
October 7, 2015

Russian missiles 'hit IS in Syria from Caspian Sea'

Russia says it has launched rocket strikes on Islamic State group targets in Syria from warships in the Caspian Sea - about 1,500km (930 miles) away.

October 6, 2015
October 6, 2015

Kunduz: Afghan MSF hospital strike a mistake, says US

The US commander of international forces in Afghanistan says an air strike on a hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was a mistake.

September 29, 2015
September 29, 2015

Syria conflict: Russia considers joining anti-IS air strikes

Russia is considering whether to follow the US and its allies in conducting air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets, President Vladimir Putin says.

June 15, 2015
June 15, 2015

Top Islamist 'killed' in US strike

A top Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant two years ago has been killed in a US air strike in Libya, officials say.

April 6, 2015
April 6, 2015

Yemen conflict: Red Cross to send aid flights to Sanaa

International Committee of the Red Cross is due to make two emergency aid flights into Yemen's capital, Sanaa.

April 5, 2015
April 5, 2015

UN considers Yemen air strike pause

United Nations Security Council considers Russia's call for a pause in Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen.

April 1, 2015
April 1, 2015

Explosion at Yemen factory kills 25

Explosion at a dairy factory in Yemen's Hodaida has left 25 workers dead, medical sources said, with conflicting accounts attributing the blast to an air strike by a Saudi-led alliance or to a rocket landing from a nearby army base.