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Turkey shoots down two Syria warplanes in escalating offensive

Turkey shot down two Syrian warplanes on Sunday in an escalating offensive.

PAF pilots who shot down Indian jets awarded with military medals

On February 27, Pakistan had shot down two Indian fighter jets that attempted to violate its airspace and captured an Indian pilot

Suspected Russian warplanes hit busy market in Idlib, kill 15

AMMAN: At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday when suspected Russian warplanes struck a crowded market in the rebel-held city of Ariha in...

US sends supersonic bombers over South Korea

SEOUL: US bombers overflew the Korean peninsula on Thursday as part of an exercise with Japanese and South Korean warplanes, the US Air Force...

Syria army pounds Aleppo rebels as US, Russia to meet

ALEPPO: Syrian warplanes again pounded Aleppo's last rebel-held districts, as the United States said American and Russian officials would meet Saturday in a bid...

Russia said to send more warplanes to Syria, diplomacy ‘on life support’

MOSCOW: Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its air campaign, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as the United States...

Heavy air strikes hit rebel road to Syria’s Aleppo – monitor, rebels

BEIRUT: Air strikes hit the only road into rebel-held areas of Aleppo city on Sunday in the heaviest bombardment since February, a rebel official and monitors said, jeopardising access to an area where around 300,000 Syrians live.

Syrian warplanes counter-attack rebels near Aleppo

AMMAN: Syrian warplanes attacked Islamist militants near the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, both sides said, as the government tried to push back a insurgent advance in the area.

Russian warplanes leave Syria, raising U.N. hopes for peace talks

MOSCOW/BEIRUT/GENEVA: Russian warplanes flew home from Syria on Tuesday as Moscow started to withdraw forces that have tipped the war President Bashar al-Assad's way, and the U.N. envoy said he hoped the move would help peace talks in Geneva.

Russia, Syrian army pound rebels ahead of fighting halt

DAMASCUS: Russian warplanes bombed Syrian rebel-held areas in northwestern Syria and government forces pounded a suburb of the capital on Thursday, ahead of a planned halt to fighting that rebels predicted Damascus and Moscow would ignore.

Russia pounds IS as manoeuvres force flight rerouting

BEIRUT: Russia has bombed the Islamic State group in the heaviest strikes in eastern Syria since the war began, as Moscow's military manoeuvres in the Mediterranean forced Lebanon to reroute flights.

Trudeau says Canada ready to settle 25,000 Syrian refugees

OTTAWA: Canada's new prime minister Thursday vowed to make good on campaign promises to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the beginning of next year and bring home fighter jets battling the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

Air strikes kill 23 in IS’s Syria ‘capital’: monitor

DAMASCUS: Warplanes pounded the Islamic State group's de facto Syrian capital Raqa on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including 13 jihadists, a monitoring group said.

France hits IS targets in Syria a second time: defence minister

PARIS: French warplanes carried out a second wave of strikes overnight on Islamic State targets in Syria, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday.

Islamic State says blows up two warplanes at seized Libyan base

TRIPOLI: The militant group Islamic State said on Thursday it had blown up two warplanes at an air base it seized near the central Libyan city of Sirte.

Saudi-led warplanes bomb Yemen capital airport

SANAA: Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition struck Sanaa's international airport on Saturday, shortly after authorities in the rebel-controlled Yemeni capital said it would reopen to receive humanitarian aid, witnesses said.

Saudi-led coalition batters Yemen with most intense raids

ADEN: Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition battered southern Yemen overnight in the most intense strikes since the launch of a campaign against Iran-backed rebels last month, residents and officials said Friday.

Warplanes hit Houthi base in central Yemen, students reported killed

SANAA: Warplanes from a Saudi-led air coalition on Tuesday bombed a military base in central Yemen controlled by Houthi fighters and their army allies, and a website of the Houthi-run defense ministry said two students were killed at a neighboring school.

Saudi asks for Pakistani warplanes, warships and soldiers

ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia has asked Pakistan for military aircraft, warships and soldiers, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Monday, at the start of a parliamentary debate on whether Pakistan should get involved in a Saudi-led campaign in Yemen.

Russia starts nationwide show of force

MOSCOW: More than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started military exercises across much of the country on Monday in one of the Kremlin's biggest shows of force since its ties with the West plunged to Cold War-lows.
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