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airstrike stories: 71 news summaries

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(Newser) - With US casualties mounting in Afghanistan, some members of Congress are questioning recent orders that have put troops at greater risk in order to protect Afghan civilians, the Washington Post reports. Gen. Stanley McChrystal recently berated the military for being “preoccupied with protection of our own forces.”... More »

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Afghanistan • civilian casualties • Susan Collins • airstrike • Afghanistan war • counterinsurgency • Stanley McChrystal

US Strike Kills al-Qaeda Hotel Bomber in Somalia

Also wanted in 1998
US embassy attacks

Sep 15, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - An American helicopter strike killed a long-sought terrorist in Southern Somalia yesterday, the New York Times reports. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, an al-Qaeda leader operating out of Kenya, was suspected in the 2002 attack on a Kenyan resort as well as the attacks on US embassies in Kenya and... More »

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Somalia • Kenya • terrorist • airstrike • Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan

 McChrystal 
 Visits Site 
 of Airstrike, 
 Pledges 
 Inquiry  

Promises public investigation in televised address

Sep 5, 09 12:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gen. Stanley McChrystal visited the site of a NATO airstrike today that killed scores of Aghan civilians and made an unprecedented televised address in which he promised a full public inquiry, Reuters reports. “Nothing is more important than the safety and protection of the Afghan people,” said the... More »

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Afghanistan • civilian casualties • airstrike • Afghanistan war

(Newser) - Weeks after a US drone reportedly took out the Taliban's leader in Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud's fellow commanders have confirmed his death. Two Taliban officials—including his successor, Hakimullah Mehsud—tell the BBC that their leader actually died Sunday after being critically injured in the airstrike. The development also clears up... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • drones • Baitullah Mehsud • airstrike • Hakimullah Mehsud

(AP) - A roadside bomb hit a wedding party on its way to a ceremony in southern Afghanistan, killing 21 people including women and children, Afghan officials said today. A local police chief said that a Western airstrike hours later killed five farmers loading cucumbers into a taxi in a neighboring province;... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • terrorism • civilian casualties • roadside bomb • airstrike • Afghanistan war • insurgency

(Newser) - The US military is tightening its rules regarding airstrikes in Afghanistan, in the face of mounting civilian casualties, the New York Times reports. Airstrikes will now be used mostly to prevent coalition forces from being overrun, new Afghan commander Stanley McChrystal announced. “Air power contains the seeds of... More »

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Afghanistan • civilian casualties • US military • airstrike • Stanley McChrystal

US Committed Serious Errors
in Afghan Strikes: Report

Investigation finds civilian deaths could have been reduced

Jun 3, 09 2:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The American military could have reduced the number of civilian causalities during its controversial Afghanistan air strikes last month if it had followed proper procedures, a military investigation has found. Personnel made serious errors in the bloody May 4 raids, including the failure of one plane to reconfirm a target... More »

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Afghanistan • civilian casualties • US military • airstrike • Afghanistan war

US Strike on Taliban Left 95 Kids Dead: Afghan Officials

Total toll said to be 140, but US disputes claim

May 13, 09 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ninety-five children are among the 140 people said to have died in US airstrikes last week aimed at the Taliban in western Afghanistan, according to a list compiled by Afghan officials. If the toll is correct, the AP reports, it marks the highest number of civilian deaths since 2001. The... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • civilian casualties • US military • death toll • airstrike • Farah province

 As Pakistan 
 Shells Taliban, 
 500K Flee Swat 

Military bombards densely populated areas; UN warns of crisis

May 7, 09 6:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Refugees continue to flee the Swat Valley in Pakistan, reports the Guardian, where government forces battling resurgent Taliban militants have been conducting airstrikes in heavily populated areas. The government is preparing for up to 500,000 refugees in what the UN warns is becoming a humanitarian crisis. The Washington Post... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • refugee camp • refugee • airstrike • Pakistan military • Swat Valley

(Newser) - Many civilians were killed in two Afghan villages hit by a US airstrike on Monday, the Red Cross said today, confirming both "dozens of bodies" and allegations coming from Kabul. “There were bodies, there were graves, and there were people burying bodies,” a spokeswoman said. “We... More »

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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • US military • Red Cross • collateral damage • International Committee of the Red Cross • airstrike

US-Led Airstrike Kills
30 Afghan Civilians

Villagers deliver bodies to provincial capital as proof

May 5, 09 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan villagers bore the bodies of 30 civilian victims of a US-led airstrike to a provincial council as proof of the coalition operation’s deadly price, provincial officials reported to the AP today. When fighting broke out yesterday between militants and coalition forces in Farah province, villagers herded their women,... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • civilian casualties • US military • collateral damage • airstrike • coalition

 Israel Launches 
 Airstrikes on 
 Gaza Tunnels 

Smuggling tunnels pounded in response to renewed rocket attacks on Jewish state

May 2, 09 8:39 AM CDT
(AP) - Israeli jets struck three smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border today in the second day of renewed airstrikes, the AP reports. There were no reports of injuries. The Israeli military said the strikes—the first in almost two months—were in response to rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestinians • airstrike • smuggling

 Pakistan Launches 
 Strikes Against Taliban 

Militant presence in Buner violates peace agreement, says military

Apr 28, 09 11:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan has deployed troops and begun airstrikes against suspected Taliban sites in the Buner district, uncomfortably close to the capital. A military spokesman said some 500 militants are in the district, just over 60 miles from Islamabad, violating a peace agreement, the BBC reports. Meanwhile, tens of thousands have fled... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • militant • Pakistan militants • airstrike • Pakistan military • Swat Valley • peace deal • security agreement • Buner

(Newser) - Israel is engaging in a bit of saber rattling directed toward Iran, the Times of London reports. The military is beefing up its air arsenal and training to be ready to strike Iran’s nuclear sites at a moment's notice. “Israel wants to know that if its forces were... More »

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Iran • Israel • Sudan • bombing • nuclear facilities • airstrike • Israel Defense Force • civil defense

Israeli Prez on Iranian Prez: 'We'll Strike Him'

Peres: "We'll strike" Amadinejad if Obama's  anti-nuclear efforts fail

Apr 13, 09 3:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel's new government continued its saber-rattling with Iran today, threatening to strike the country if President Obama's diplomatic overtures fail, the Jerusalem Post reports. Echoing the hardline rhetoric of new Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres issued a warning to Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "We'll strike him" ... More »

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Iran • Israel • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Shimon Peres • nuclear facilities • airstrike

Israel Suspected of Jan. Bombing in Sudan

39 died in raid by foreign military, but no confirmation

Mar 26, 09 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sudan said today that foreign fighter planes carried out an attack in January on 17 trucks carrying weapons to Gaza, amid reports that the Israeli Air Force was behind the bombardment. The strike killed 39 people near the Sudan-Egypt border soon after the start of the war in the Gaza... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Sudan • Egypt • weapons • airstrike • Israeli Air Force

Israel May Strike Iran Over Nukes: Think Tank

Israeli military will strike Iran if it gets too close to nuclear breakthrough

Mar 5, 09 5:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel is seriously thinking about launching a military strike against Iran to keep it from becoming a nuclear power, says a new report from a Washington think tank. What's more, the timetable for such a strike is moving up because of Iran's progress on the nuclear front and its possible... More »

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Iran • Israel • diplomacy • nuclear weapons • sanctions • airstrike • Obama administration

(Newser) - An airstrike in Pakistan’s troubled South Waziristan region, likely orchestrated by the US, has killed about 30 people, the Los Angeles Times reports. The dead are thought to be al-Qaeda or Taliban militants; the attack destroyed the compound of an associate of the Taliban leader suspected in the... More »

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Taliban • CIA • Pakistan • UAVs • Baitullah Mehsud • Predator • airstrike • al-Qaeda • South Waziristan

(Newser) - Dianne Feinstein said today that Predator drones used to carry out attacks in Pakistan originate there, not in Afghanistan as had been widely assumed, the Los Angeles Times reports. The revelation, which is likely to cause trouble for the Pakistani government, came during testimony by spy chief Dennis Blair.... More »

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Afghanistan • Congress • Taliban • Pakistan • Dianne Feinstein • Senate Intelligence Committee • UAVs • Predator • airstrike • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - CIA-directed air raids into Pakistan have “decimated” al-Qaeda’s senior leadership, killing up to a dozen high-level targets, senior US military officials tell NPR. They say a “complete al-Qaeda defeat” there is now entirely possible. “The enemy is really, really struggling,” says one official. “These... More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • terrorism • Pakistan • Waziristan • Afghan border • airstrike • al-Qaeda

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