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US Strikes at Islamic State
US Strikes at Islamic State
Oct 12, 2024 3:30 PM CDT

US Strikes at Islamic State

Attack on camps will disrupt militant group, military says

(Newser) - A series of airstrikes has targeted several camps run by the Islamic State group in Syria in an operation the US military said will disrupt the extremists from conducting attacks in the region and beyond. The US Central Command said the airstrikes were conducted Friday, without specifying in which parts...

Israel: We Killed Hezbollah Chief in Lebanon
Hezbollah Confirms Israel
Has Killed Its Leader
UPDATED
Sep 28, 2024 6:30 AM CDT

Hezbollah Confirms Israel Has Killed Its Leader

Hassan Nasrallah was killed amid airstrikes in Lebanon

(Newser) - Hezbollah has now confirmed what Israel reported earlier on Saturday: The nation's military has killed Hassan Nasrallah, its leader for three decades, during heavy airstrikes overnight in the Beirut area, per the AP . Nasrallah, 64, "has joined his fellow martyrs," according to a statement from the group....

After Rare Warning, Israel Bombards Lebanon

At least 180 are dead after latest Israeli airstrikes, hundreds wounded

(Newser) - Israeli strikes killed more than 180 Lebanese people on Monday in the deadliest and most intense barrage in nearly a year, per the AP . The Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate their homes ahead of time, the first such Israeli warning of its kind in...

Gaza Health Ministry: 22 Dead, 30 Hurt in Latest Israeli Strike

Israel counters that airstrike targeted Hamas 'command and control center ... that previously served' as school

(Newser) - An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, the Gaza Health Ministry said. Another 30 were wounded in the strike on the school in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City, the ministry said in a statement, per the AP . The Israeli army...

Amid Mass Vaccine Effort in Gaza, Israel Keeps Striking

More than 12 are dead after Israeli air raids into Saturday, as health workers rush to control polio

(Newser) - Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday morning, hospital and local authorities said, as health workers were wrapping up the second phase of an urgent polio vaccination campaign designed to prevent a large-scale outbreak in the territory. The vaccination drive was...

Dozens Reported Dead After Israeli Strike on Gaza School

Israel says it hit a Hamas command center embedded in school/shelter; Hamas denies that

(Newser) - An Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City early Saturday, killing at least 80 people, Palestinian health authorities said, in one of the deadliest strikes in the 10-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli military acknowledged the strike, claiming it hit a Hamas command center within the school....

Israel Orders Evacuation of Gaza Humanitarian Zone

Meanwhile, at least 30 are dead after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza school

(Newser) - Israeli airstrikes hit a school being used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, as the country's negotiators prepared to meet international mediators to discuss a proposed ceasefire. At least one small child was among the dead taken from the girls school in...

Mom Dies After Israeli Attack, Baby Saved via C-Section
Gaza Baby Delivered
From Dead Mother Dies
UPDATED
Apr 26, 2024 5:57 AM CDT

Gaza Baby Delivered From Dead Mother Dies

Sabreen Jouda weighed just 3.1 pounds when she was delivered by emergency C-section

(Newser) - A premature baby orphaned by an Israeli airstrike has died less than a week after she was rescued from her dead mother's womb. Sabreen Jouda was almost two months premature when she was delivered by emergency C-section on Sunday. Her lungs hadn't developed properly yet, so she suffered...

WCK Chief Puts Israel on Blast: Convoy 'Systematically' Targeted

Israel says misidentification to blame; aid group founder doesn't buy it

(Newser) - Celebrity chef Jose Andres, founder of the World Central Kitchen humanitarian aid nonprofit, says the seven WCK aid workers who were killed in Gaza Monday night were targeted "systematically, car by car." In what Reuters describes as an emotional interview, Andres claimed that the Israeli military knew about...

Israel's Airstrike Threatens to Entangle the US
Israeli Airstrike Threatens
to Entangle the US
the rundown
Apr 2, 2024 8:29 AM CDT

Israeli Airstrike Threatens to Entangle the US

White House says it played no role in attack in Syrian capital that killed Iranian general

(Newser) - Iran is promising revenge over an Israeli airstrike in Syria on Monday that killed a top general and six other officers. One big question is what form that revenge will take and whether it will draw the US into a widening regional conflict. Coverage:
  • The strike: Israel attacked an Iranian
...

US Strikes Houthis Again, Biden Balks at Criticism

Conflict continues in Yemen, a day after first round of airstrikes against rebels

(Newser) - The US military early Saturday struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk, a day after the US and Britain launched multiple airstrikes targeting Houthi rebels. AP journalists in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, heard one loud explosion. US...

Al Jazeera Journalist Is 5th in His Family Killed in Gaza

'The whole world must look at what is happening here in the Gaza Strip,' says his journalist father

(Newser) - An apparent Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza on Sunday, reports the AP , including an Al Jazeera journalist who lost four close relatives earlier in the war. Hamza Dahdouh is the son of veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh, whose wife, two other children, and a grandson...

Fears of Mideast War Grow as Israel Hits Hezbollah Again

In wake of commander Wissam al-Tawil's death in Lebanon, renewed worries about entire region

(Newser) - An Israeli airstrike killed an elite Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon on Monday, the latest in an escalating exchange of strikes along the border that have raised fears of another Mideast war, even as the fighting in Gaza exacts a mounting toll on civilians. The strike on an SUV killed...

In Ukraine, Accusations of a 'Symbolic and Cynical' Strike

Russia launches record 90 drones over Ukraine, per latter nation's air force; teen dead from debris

(Newser) - Russia launched a record 90 Shahed-type drones over Ukraine during the early hours of the new year, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, while Russia also reported Ukrainian attacks. A 15-year-old boy was killed and seven people wounded after falling debris from one of 87 downed drones hit a residential...

Ukraine Strikes Russia's 'Christmas Present'

Russian naval ship reportedly destroyed as Russian troops seize Marinka

(Newser) - Ukrainian aircraft dropped guided missiles at a naval base in Russian-occupied Crimea, reportedly destroying a large Russian landing ship, as Boxing Day dawned. Russian officials acknowledged the early morning attack at the naval base in Feodosia that killed at least one person and injured several others without confirming the ship,...

'An Entire Population Is Traumatized'

UN chief decries 'horrific' situation in Gaza; Israeli airstrike hits home of exiled Hamas leader

(Newser) - Israel's military hit the family home of the exiled leader of Hamas on the outskirts of Gaza City with an airstrike on Saturday and pressed ahead with attacks across the besieged enclave, where a humanitarian crisis is rapidly worsening. With food, water, and the fuel needed for generators that...

After Latest Airstrike, Calls for End to Israeli 'War Crimes'

Arab nations condemn Israeli strike on refugee camp as groups claim use of white phosphorus

(Newser) - Dozens of people entered the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt on Wednesday in what appeared to be the first time foreign passport holders have been allowed to leave the besieged territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war more than three weeks ago, the AP reports. Egyptian state-run media...

US Strikes Syria After Drone Kills Contractor

Pentagon says suspected Iran drone injured 5 soldiers

(Newser) - A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a US contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said. American forces said they retaliated soon after with "precision airstrikes" in Syria targeting facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard,...

Israeli Airstrikes Risk 'All-Out War'

At least 8 are killed, 40 hurt in Gaza; Israel says it was targeting Islamic Jihad

(Newser) - Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes in Gaza on Friday, killing at least eight people, including a senior militant, and wounding another 40, according to Palestinian officials. Israel said it was targeting the Islamic Jihad militant group in response to an "imminent threat" following the arrest of a senior...

Ukraine: 'Vile' Airstrike Leaves at Least 21 Dead

Zelensky's office: Russia fired 3 missiles on apartment building, campsite in Serhiivka

(Newser) - A Russian airstrike on residential areas killed at least 21 people early Friday near the Ukrainian port of Odesa, authorities reported, a day after the withdrawal of Moscow's forces from an island in the Black Sea had seemed to ease the threat to the city. Video of the attack...

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