Tag: Airstrikes

Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters Wednesday that a drone dropped the first bomb earlier this week, though it is not clear if the strike was successful. (AP Photo)Â

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U.S. drone flying from Turkey conducts strike in Syria

Jacqueline Klimas · August 5, 2015 4:26 pm

This marks the first time the U.S. has come to the aid of the Syrians it trained and equipped, who recently re-entered the battlefield. (AP Photo)Â

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U.S. will strike any who attack Syrian trainees, including Assad and al-Nusra

Jacqueline Klimas · August 3, 2015 6:07 pm

Remotely piloted aircraft conducted missions over the weekend from Incirlik Turkish air base, but no ordnance was dropped, said NavyÂ Capt. Jeff Davis. (AP Photo)Â

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U.S. drones conducted missions from Turkey against Islamic State

Jacqueline Klimas · August 3, 2015 4:58 pm

Syrian Kurdish militia members make a V-sign next to a poster of Abdullah Ocalan, jailed Kurdish rebel leader, and a Turkish army tank in Aleppo province, Syria. (AP Photo)

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Turkey’s not-so-hidden motives

Charles Hoskinson · August 3, 2015 4:01 am

After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the U.S.-led bombing campaign began a year ago, American intelligence agencies have concluded. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

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Intel agencies: U.S. strikes not weakening ISIS

Kelly Cohen · July 31, 2015 1:56 pm

A plume of smoke rises after an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State group positions in an eastern neighborhood of Ramadi, Iraq. (AP Photo)

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U.S. ramps up airstrikes in Ramadi

Tara Copp · July 13, 2015 6:53 pm

Afghan villagers gather near a house destroyed in an apparent NATO raid in Logar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, June, 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Ihsanullah Majroh)

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Airstrikes obliterate ISIS in Afghanistan

Barbara Boland · July 11, 2015 10:04 pm

Hafiz Saeed, center, head of religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa leaves after addressing a rally against caricatures published in French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

U.S. drone kills former Taliban, current ISIS leader

Kelly Cohen · July 11, 2015 2:48 pm

Turkish soldiers guard the border area with Syria in Akcakale, southeastern Turkey, as smoke from a fire caused by a US-led airstrike rises over the outskirts of Tal Abyad, Syria, Monday, June 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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ISIS ’emir of suicide bombers’ killed in airstrike

Barbara Boland · July 3, 2015 2:33 pm

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U.S. pummels ISIS in overnight bombing raids

John Siciliano · June 20, 2015 10:41 am

On June 15, the Department of Defense reported a set of targets in its daily airstrike report: two Islamic State "tunnel systems" in Syria, a tunnel entrance and two additional tunnel systems in Iraq. (AP Photo)Â

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U.S. targets Islamic State tunnels in Iraq

Tara Copp · June 20, 2015 9:00 am

the leader of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, identified by the IntelCenter as Nasir al-Wahishi, in Yemen. Al-Qaida on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 confirmed that al-Wahishi, its No. 2 figure and leader of its powerful Yemeni affiliate, was killed in a U.S. strike, making it the harshest blow to the global militant network since the killing of Osama bin Laden. (IntelCenter via AP, File)

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U.S. airstrike kills top al Qaeda leader

Kelly Cohen · June 16, 2015 11:09 am