An overnight Russian air attack on Kyiv and surrounding areas killed two civilians, Ukrainian authorities said on Monday, marking the first reported deaths in the capital from Russian strikes this year. The attack set a private medical facility ablaze in Kyiv’s northern Obolonskyi district, where an inpatient ward was in operation. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service […]
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Thailand carries out air strikes amid border tensions with Cambodia
KUALA LUMPUR: Thailand has launched air strikes against Cambodian territory, according to Phnom Penh, despite both countries agreeing to hold talks this week to defuse escalating border clashes. Read More: China steps in to ease Cambodia–Thailand tensions Cambodia said Thai fighter jets bombed areas in Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces on Monday, only hours after Bangkok […]
Thailand launches air strikes as border ceasefire collapses
Thailand has launched air strikes along its disputed border with Cambodia after both sides accused each other of violating a US-brokered ceasefire. The Thai military confirmed on Monday that the escalation followed Cambodian fire on its troops stationed in Ubon Ratchathani province. Read More: Thai, Cambodian leaders agree to ceasefire after five days of battle […]
Air strikes, shooting kill at least 57 people in Gaza
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 57 people across Gaza, health officials said Saturday, as international pressure grows for a ceasefire but Israel’s leader remains defiant about continuing the war. Among the dead were those hit by two strikes in the Nuseirat refugee camp – nine from the same family in a house and, […]
Myanmar junta hits ethnic rebels with air strikes near India border
Myanmar’s junta has carried out air strikes on an ethnic armed group’s base near the border with India, the rebels and media said Wednesday, with one bomb landing close to the international boundary. The military coup almost two years ago has sparked renewed fighting with long-established ethnic rebel groups, as well as with dozens of […]
Israel Air Strike in Central Syria Injures 3 soldiers
An Israeli air strike in central Syria injured three soldiers early Saturday, the official SANA news reported. “Around 2:30 am (2330 GMT Friday)… the Israeli air force completed a strike focusing on one of our military positions in the town of Misyaf,” in Hama area north of Damascus, SANA cited a military source as saying. […]
Syria regime accuses armed groups of ‘toxic gas’ attack
Syria’s regime has accused armed groups of carrying out a “toxic gas” attack that left dozens of people struggling to breathe and prompted government ally Russia to launch retaliatory air strikes on Sunday. Around 100 Syrians were hospitalised with breathing difficulties after the alleged chemical attack in the regime-held city of Aleppo on Saturday, state […]
Israeli air raids hit ‘Iranian targets’ in Syria
Israel struck a dozen Syrian and Iranian targets inside Syria on Saturday in “large-scale” raids after an Israeli fighter jet crashed under fire from Syrian air defences in a severe increase in tensions, the military said. The confrontation was the most serious between arch foes Israel and Iran since the start of the civil war […]
Dozens killed in fresh Yemen air strikes, clashes
Fresh air strikes and clashes in Yemen have killed over 60 fighters as Saudi-backed pro-government forces push an offensive against Huthi rebels, security and medical sources said Monday. Saudi-led coalition air raids overnight killed at least 18 of the Iran-backed rebels in Hais, south of the key port of Hodeida, while bombardments from gunships left […]