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US AIRSTRIKES

Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 31, 2016
Aleppo fighting spreads amid accusations of gas attack
Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counterattack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, and each side accused the other of using poison gas.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 24, 2016
Saudis resume Sanaa airstrikes as three-day Yemen truce expires
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition attacked targets in Sanaa at dawn on Sunday, hours after a three-day truce in Yemen's war expired, residents in the capital said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 29, 2016
No anesthetists, just six ICU beds left in east Aleppo, doctor says
Syria's besieged enclave of eastern Aleppo has no anesthetists and only six intensive care beds after two hospitals were disabled by airstrikes overnight, a doctor from the Syrian American Medical Society said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 6, 2016
Assad regime presses Aleppo offensive with aid of Russian airstrikes
The Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian air power, are keeping up a heavy bombardment of insurgent positions in and around Aleppo, rebels said on Monday, pressing to complete their recapture of the city's strategic southern gateway.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 22, 2016
Libyan forces seize main Sirte mosque, Islamic State-run jail
Libyan forces renewed their push to oust Islamic State from its former North African stronghold of Sirte on Sunday, saying they had seized the city's main mosque and a jail run by the militants' morality police.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2016
Taliban tightens grip on Helmand province as Kabul focuses on Islamic State
The Taliban are tightening their noose around the capital of disputed Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, which has seen sustained fighting, residents and local officials say.
WORLD
Jul 29, 2016
U.S. admits its airstrikes killed 14 civilians in Iraq, Syria between last July, April
Six U.S. airstrikes against al-Qaida and Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria killed 14 civilians and injured another between July 28 last year and April 29 this year, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 18, 2016
Syrian regime seizes key road into rebel-held Aleppo, besieging 300,000
Syria's army and allied militia fighters seized the only road into the rebel-held part of Aleppo on Sunday, tightening a siege around opposition areas of the northern city, which President Bashar Assad has pledged to recapture.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 23, 2016
Russian planes pound rebel-held areas of Aleppo
Airstrikes hit the only road into rebel-held areas of Aleppo city on Sunday in the heaviest bombing since February, a rebel official and monitors said, jeopardizing access where around 300,000 Syrians live.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 20, 2016
Syria airstrikes, Russia-backed army attacks in northwest kill scores: monitor
Airstrikes on two markets killed up to 50 people in northwest Syria on Tuesday, as Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power also launched strikes against rebels in the province of Latakia, a rebel group and a conflict monitor said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2016
Syria forces, aided by Russian airstrikes, boot Islamic State from town near Palmyra
Syrian and allied forces backed by Russian airstrikes drove Islamic State militants out of the town of al-Qaryatain on Sunday after encircling it over the past few days, Syria's military command said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2016
Islamic State puts squeeze on Aleppo ahead of truce; Russian airstrikes intensify
Islamic State fighters were reported to have tightened their grip on a Syrian government supply route to Aleppo on Tuesday as the army battled to retake the road as part of its campaign to seize the city.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 19, 2016
Monitor claims U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria killed 38 civilians over two days
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said on Thursday that at least 38 civilians were killed in airstrikes carried out by a U.S.-led coalition in Hasaka province in northeast Syria in the past two days.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 8, 2016
Red Cross aid reaches besieged Damascus suburb but Daraya being 'starved out'
The Red Cross said on Sunday it had delivered more food and hygiene kits for around 3,500 people in the besieged Syrian suburb of Mouadamiya near Damascus, expecting to send more in the coming days.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2016
Syrian forces take key town from rebels in Deraa
The Syrian army on Monday recaptured from insurgents a strategic town in the southern province of Deraa after fierce fighting, securing its supply routes from the capital to the south, a monitoring group said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 31, 2015
700 Islamic State fighters still believed hiding in IED-infested Ramadi, thwarting civilian return
About 700 Islamic State fighters were believed to be hiding in the center and eastern outskirts of Ramadi on Wednesday, three days after Iraqi government forces claimed victory over the militants in the western city, the U.S.-led coalition said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 29, 2015
Army sensing victory, Iraq's leader vows to obliterate Islamic State in '16, retake Mosul
A triumphant Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared on Monday that the coming year would see his forces defeat Islamic State, after his military achieved its first major victory since collapsing in the face of the fighters 18 months ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 23, 2015
Amnesty says Russians may have committed war crimes in Syria
Russia's bombing of Syria may amount to a war crime because of the number of civilians its strikes have killed, Amnesty International said Wednesday, presenting what it said was evidence that the air raids had violated humanitarian law.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 17, 2015
U.S. pulling 12 fighter jets from Turkey's Incirlik base
The U.S. military said on Wednesday it was removing 12 fighter jets from Incirlik air base in Turkey after sending them there last month to bolster the fight against Islamic State and to help reassure Turkey after Russian incursions its airspace.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2015
November saw most bombs yet hit Islamic State targets by U.S. group
The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State last month dropped the most bombs in its 16-month campaign in Iraq and Syria, according to new Air Force data.

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