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Blasts at Syrian airbase near Damascus kill two: monitor
Sep 02, 2018 (AFP)
Syrian state media also reported the blasts at the Mazzeh airbase, on the western outskirts of Damascus, but did not mention any casualties. The Syrian Observat...
Saudi-led coalition admits 'mistakes' in deadly Yemen bus strike
Sep 01, 2018 (AFP)
The bombing on a crowded market in part of northern Yemen held by Huthi rebels killed a total of 51 people, according to the Red Cross. Fifty-six children were ...
Air raid warning tech gives Syrians life-saving minutes
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
Those crucial extra minutes were thanks to a warning system that could help save civilian lives in an expected regime offensive on Idlib province, home to the l...
US Navy seizes cache of AK-47s in Gulf of Aden
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
Investigators have not yet determined where the boat came from or where it was headed, but it was boarded in an area where the US Navy has previously confiscate...
Saudi-led coalition rejects UN's Yemen 'war crimes' report
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
"We affirm the inaccuracies in the report and its non-neutrality," the coalition said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency. "The report di...
Court orders arrest of Sri Lanka's top military officer
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
Colombo Fort magistrate Lanka Jayaratne directed police to detain Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne, Chief of the Defence Staff, for allegedly helping the main per...
UN probe reports possible 'war crimes' by all sides in Yemen conflict
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
In their first report, a team of UN-mandated investigators said they had "reasonable grounds to believe that the parties to the armed conflict in Yemen have com...
Intense air strikes target airport in Yemen capital
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
The raids began at around midnight (2100 GMT Monday) and lasted half an hour, according to a resident in Sanaa, who reported more than a dozen strikes. While th...
Russia 'reinforcing military presence off Syria'
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
Moscow has accused rebels of planning to stage a chemical attack in the northwestern province that would "provoke" Western strikes on its ally Damascus. Quoting...
US support to coalition in Yemen not unconditional: Mattis
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
The Pentagon chief's comments came the same day as UN investigators said they had reasonable grounds to believe that warring parties in Yemen may have committed...
UN points to possible 'war crimes' in Yemen conflict
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
In their first report, a team of UN-mandated investigators said they had "reasonable grounds to believe that the parties to the armed conflict in Yemen have com...
John McCain, US war hero and political maverick, dead at 81
Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)
The senator's passing marked the end of a 35-year political career that brought the independent-minded Republican within reach of the White House as his party's...
John McCain's Hanoi Hilton jailor recalls 'stubborn' POW
Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)
One of them, the former director of the infamous Hoa Lo prison, recalls verbally sparring with the famous inmate and says McCain's refusal to budge on his views...
26 children killed by coalition strikes in Yemen: UN
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
At least 22 children and four women died in an attack Thursday while fleeing fighting in the Al-Durayhimi district, south of the rebel-held city of Hodeida, UN ...
Russia says over 63,000 troops have fought in Syria
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
A total of 63,012 Russian personnel have "received combat experience" in the war-torn country, the ministry said in a video about Russia's campaign to support t...
Nearing capacity, Pentagon looks to expand Arlington Cemetery
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
Known for its seemingly endless rows of impeccable white tombstones and home to the gravesite of assassinated president John F Kennedy, Arlington is seared into...
Colombia protests Venezuelan border incursion
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
The government of President Ivan Duque said it sent a strongly-worded protest to the Venezuelan ambassador over what it claimed was a "violation of Colombia's s...
US hospital ship to visit Colombia amid Venezuela crisis
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
The USNS Comfort hospital ship "will return to South America this fall," Pentagon spokeswoman Commander Sarah Higgins said. "We are working the details in close...
Air strikes kill 18 IS fighters in Syria: monitor
Aug 17, 2018 (AFP)
Those killed late Thursday in the village of Sousa in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor were mostly foreigners, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. T...
'Day of joy' as Greek soldiers fly home after Turkey release
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
"This is a day of joy... we share the joy of their families," junior foreign minister George Katrougalos, who accompanied the pair home, said on arriving at The...
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