# airstrikes - Sunday 25 November, 2018
A rebel alliance denied they were behind the attack.
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# airstrikes - Saturday 14 April, 2018
The Irish government has yet to make a statement on the three allies’ airstrikes.
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# airstrikes - Thursday 12 April, 2018
Tom Clonan analyses the case for the US to send a message with airstrikes in Syria – but the consequences could be far-reaching and costly.
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# airstrikes - Wednesday 27 December, 2017
The strikes also killed 11 rebel fighters and wounded 16 civilians.
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# airstrikes - Sunday 16 April, 2017
Hammam al-Alil’s sulphur springs and reopened spa have become a spot where the soldiers fighting in Mosul and the civilians fleeing it meet for a rare moment of relaxation.
# airstrikes - Thursday 13 April, 2017
‘We don’t know whether those dead children were killed there … Were they dead at all?’
# airstrikes - Saturday 8 April, 2017
“The United States will no longer wait for Assad to use chemical weapons without any consequences.”
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# airstrikes - Wednesday 29 March, 2017
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are still inside west Mosul, caught up in deadly fighting between Islamic State and Iraqi forces.
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# airstrikes - Friday 23 September, 2016
Attempts to reach agreement failed after Russia refused US demands that it promise to ground the Syrian air force.
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# airstrikes - Tuesday 20 September, 2016
The week-long ceasefire in the war-ravaged country has collapsed.
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# airstrikes - Monday 12 September, 2016
Rebels battling the Syrian regime and the political opposition are still weighing whether to abide by the agreement.
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# airstrikes - Thursday 7 April, 2016
Brutality in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and elsewhere has been largely overlooked by western media outlets, Julien Mercille writes.
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# airstrikes - Monday 18 January, 2016
Syria’s state news agency SANA said at least 300 civilians were killed.
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# airstrikes - Saturday 5 December, 2015
We’re all gung-ho for a counter attack but we need a conversation, writes Rob McDonnell.
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# airstrikes - Friday 4 December, 2015
MPs have backed a vote to join the anti-IS coalition.
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# airstrikes - Wednesday 2 December, 2015
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British MPs will vote on extending its bombing campaign against Islamic State militants later today.
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# airstrikes - Saturday 25 July, 2015
As well as bombing Kurdish militants.
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# airstrikes - Friday 24 July, 2015
The eastern European country, which borders Syria, has finally entered the fray.
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# airstrikes - Thursday 26 March, 2015
The beleaguered Middle Eastern state is facing civil war.
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# airstrikes - Monday 27 October, 2014
From the rise of extremist groups in the Middle East, to conflict on the fringes of Europe, it’s clear the world is entering a new age of international relations.
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# airstrikes - Tuesday 30 September, 2014
IS fighters near the Turkish border were among the targets of the strikes.
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It is time to stop air strikes and let the people of the Middle East decide their own fate – together and without interference.
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# airstrikes - Saturday 27 September, 2014
Why has there been a spate of beheadings? What should the group be referred to as? Has the West just gone to war with them?
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# airstrikes - Friday 26 September, 2014
Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said Europeans joining Islamist State group is a ‘serious problem’.
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# airstrikes - Thursday 25 September, 2014
The UK will vote tomorrow on joining the strikes.
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# airstrikes - Wednesday 24 September, 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry said ancient treasures in Iraq and Syria have become the causalities of warfare.
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# airstrikes - Tuesday 23 September, 2014
The strike was conducted by the US, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
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# airstrikes - Tuesday 26 August, 2014
The US has long resisted taking action against IS inside Syria, but it’s believed the militants’ murder of journalist James Foley may have altered the President’s approach.
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# airstrikes - Monday 28 July, 2014
Eight children were killed earlier when a missile slammed into a public playground at a refugee camp.
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# airstrikes - Thursday 10 July, 2014
Another 24 rockets from Gaza were intercepted, army figures show.
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# airstrikes - Wednesday 9 July, 2014
The death toll in Gaza after two days of Israeli air strikes has climbed to more than 40.
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# airstrikes - Monday 7 July, 2014
The men were killed in an early morning airstrike.
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# airstrikes - Saturday 10 March, 2012
Palestinian militants have launched 92 rockets into Israel since yesterday alone.
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# airstrikes - Tuesday 31 January, 2012
Security officials say the four confirmed victims were suspected members of al-Qaeda.
# airstrikes - Monday 31 October, 2011
Two men reported dead after Israeli aircraft struck the southern Gaza Strip targeting rocket-launching militants.
# airstrikes - Friday 1 July, 2011
Gaddafi has threatened the Libyan forces will move to Europe ‘like locusts’ unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.
THE LIBYAN LEADER Muammar Gaddafi has threatened attacks in Europe if NATO airstrikes continue.
Addressing supporters in Tripoli by telephone he has warned the NATO-led alliance to stop the strikes or face ‘catastophe’ reports Reuters . He also denounced an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court earlier this week.
# airstrikes - Friday 24 June, 2011
Rebel council claims it is in contact with a 100-person-strong underground network in Tripoli to gauge morale in the capital.
# airstrikes - Thursday 23 June, 2011
“We will resist and the battle will continue to the beyond, until you’re wiped out,” said a defiant Gaddafi.
# airstrikes - Sunday 19 June, 2011
NATO has described Libyan government figures as “pure propaganda”, but admits to mistakenly striking rebels on Thursday.
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