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24 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on mosque, school sheltering displaced people in Gaza

At least 24 Palestinians, including children, were killed, and 93 others injured early Sunday morning in two separate Israeli airstrikes targeting a mosque and a school that were sheltering displaced civilians in central Gaza, Anadolu reports. The Gaza government’s media office confirmed the attacks, saying the Israeli army committed two brutal massacres by bombing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Mosque adjacent to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah and the Ibn Rushd School […]

6 October 2024

International News

Trump’s air strikes in Afghanistan dramatically increased civilian deaths: Report

In 2019, air strikes from the US and its allies in Afghanistan killed 700 civilians, more than in any other year since the beginning of the war in 2001 and 2002, according to new research from Brown University's Cost of War project. The new data casts light on US President Donald Trump's aerial warfare policies across the Middle East and in countries neighbouring the region, which have become less restricted […]

9 December 2020

International News

‘Bodies ripped to pieces’: Yemenis flee Hudaida as battle rages

Tens of thousands of Yemenis are fleeing their homes as fighting intensifies near a rebel-held western coastal province, a rights group said, warning the worst humanitarian crisis in the three-year conflict is yet to come if battles engulf urban areas. Displaced civilians in the southern city of Aden described "terrifying mortar attacks, air strikes, landmines and other dangers" amid the government-led offensive, according to an Amnesty International report published on […]

18 May 2018

International News

Israeli military conducts overnight air strikes in Gaza

The Israeli military has conducted overnight air strikes on the Gaza Strip's northern areas, claiming it was targeting Hamas positions. The development comes after the Israeli army shot dead 62 Palestinians protesting near the fence with Israel to call for their right of return. Palestinians were marking 70 years since the Nakba, or Catastrophe, the day on which the state of Israel was established on May 15, 1948 in a […]

17 May 2018

International News

Russia ‘will not delay’ in response to US sanctions: Deputy FM

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has said Moscow will not delay its response to new US sanctions, according to Russian state news agency RIA. Ryabkov's comments on Monday came in response to remarks made by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, who said on Sunday that Washington will impose new economic sanctions on Russia for their support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Ryabkov said that Russia's lower house of parliament […]

16 April 2018

International News

Thousands march in funeral of disabled Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in Gaza

Thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip marched on Saturday in the funeral of slain Palestinian Ibrahim Abu Thurayya, 29, who was shot in the head and killed by Israeli forces on Friday during clashes along the border with Israel. Abu Thurayya was a well-known Palestinian activists, famously known for consistently protesting the Israeli occupation, despite losing both his leds in an Israeli airstrike in 2008. After he was […]

18 December 2017

International News

US launches strikes on Syrian regime targets

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airfield from which a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched, declaring he acted in America’s “vital national security interest” against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Sharply escalating the US military role in Syria, two US warships fired dozens of cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean Sea against the airbase controlled by Assad’s forces in response to the […]

7 April 2017

airstrikes

24 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on mosque, school sheltering displaced people in Gaza

Trump’s air strikes in Afghanistan dramatically increased civilian deaths: Report

‘Bodies ripped to pieces’: Yemenis flee Hudaida as battle rages

Israeli military conducts overnight air strikes in Gaza

Russia ‘will not delay’ in response to US sanctions: Deputy FM

Thousands march in funeral of disabled Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in Gaza

US launches strikes on Syrian regime targets

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