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Anti-IS operations enter fourth year
Aug 07, 2017 (AFP)
On August 8, 2014 two FA-18 jets launched from the USS George W. Bush aircraft carrier in the Gulf and dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on IS fighters near ...
US approves sale of war planes to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram
Aug 04, 2017 (AFP)
The State Department informed Congress late Wednesday it had approved the $593 million sale of 12 Super Tucano A-29 ground attack aircraft, a deal that includes...
Nimitz carrier strike group joins Operation Inherent Resolve
Jul 31, 2017 (UPI)
The first flights launched from the Nimitz were composed of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, early warning radar planes and other support aircraft. "For the Nimitz Stri...
US gives surveillance planes to Philippines
Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)
The two Cessna C208B planes, which together with their equipment are worth more than $30 million, will track Islamic State group-styled gunmen as well as patrol...
Hong Kong maids lured by Islamic State recruiters: report
Jul 26, 2017 (AFP)
Around 150,000 of the city's army of domestic helpers are from Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. Against a backdrop of growing relig...
Four Mali civilians killed in suspected jihadist attack
Jul 25, 2017 (AFP)
The ethnic Tuareg victims were sleeping when the attack happened in the early hours of Tuesday near the Niger border. Others there managed to flee the area, a l...
Nigerian military blames homeless for botched air strike
Jul 22, 2017 (AFP)
Air force jets hit the camp in Rann, northeast Nigeria, on January 17 as aid workers distributed food to internally displaced people (IDPs) living in makeshift ...
Philippines to extend martial law in south until year end
Jul 22, 2017 (AFP)
In a special joint session of the House and the Senate, legislators overwhelmingly backed Duterte's bid to have martial law remain in force in the Mindanao regi...
Pentagon chief says he thinks IS leader Baghdadi is alive
Jul 21, 2017 (AFP)
"I think Baghdadi's alive... and I'll believe otherwise when we know we've killed him," Mattis told Pentagon reporters. "We are going after him, but we assume h...
Kremlin says 'contradictory' reports on Baghdadi death
Jul 17, 2017 (AFP)
The Russian army said in June that it was trying to verify information that its jets killed Baghdadi during a bombing raid near the IS stronghold of Raqa in Syr...
Australia military powers beefed up for terror attacks
Jul 17, 2017 (AFP)
Among a raft of changes, police will no longer have to wait until they have exhausted their capacity to call on the army during a terror attack, while special f...
Australian military expanding domestic terrorism aid
Jul 17, 2017 (UPI)
The expanded ADF role, announced Monday by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Defense Minister Marise Payne, includes specialized training by special forces tr...
US troops inside Raqa, IS Syria stronghold: official
Jul 12, 2017 (AFP)
The troops, many of them special operations forces, are working in an "advise, assist and accompany" role to support local fighters from the Syrian Democratic F...
Baghdadi 'The Ghost': world jihad's low-profile boss
Jul 11, 2017 (AFP)
The reclusive jihadist chief's death was confirmed by "top tier commanders" from his Islamic State group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The 46-y...
Five killed in Boko Haram ambush in NE Nigeria: sources
Jul 11, 2017 (AFP)
The insurgents opened fire on a military vehicle convoy late Monday in Hambagda village outside the town of Gwoza near the border with Cameroon, they said. "A c...
IS chief reported dead after jihadists lose Mosul
Jul 11, 2017 (AFP)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a longtime conflict monitor, said it had heard from senior IS leaders that Baghdadi was dead. If confirmed, his death w...
Mosul becomes 'graveyard' for foreign jihadists
Jul 08, 2017 (AFP)
More than three quarters of the remaining jihadists in Mosul are foreigners, according to Iraqi commanders who have reported a spike in suicide attacks as anti-...
Niger air strike kills 14 civilians mistaken for jihadists
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
The victims were farmers who had fled the area around the village of Abadam on the Nigerian border due to the raging insurgency. They were killed in an air stri...
US conducts air strikes on Shabaab militants in Somalia
Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)
The military's Africa Command said the strike occurred at about 1:30 am local time (2230 GMT) some 300 miles (480 kilometers) southwest of Mogadishu. "Working f...
US launches new air strike on Somalia
Jul 03, 2017 (AFP)
The attack Sunday was a "kinetic strike operation," Patrick Barnes, a spokesman for the US Africa Command said. That term usually indicates a strike from an air...
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