All posts tagged "Syria"

  • Sept.19, 2014 by the French Army's video and photo department ECPAD shows two Rafale jet fighters fly over Iraq Friday. Joining U.S. forces acting in Iraqi skies, France conducted its first airstrikes Friday against the militant Islamic State group, destroying a logistics depot that it controlled, Iraqi and French officials said. Rafale fighter jets accompanied by support planes struck the depot in northern Iraq on Friday morning, and the depot, which helped the extremist group launch operations, was “entirely destroyed,” President Francois Hollande said. (AP Photo/ECPAD)
    Pentagon: US, partners begin airstrikes in Syria

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and five Arab countries launched airstrikes Monday night on Islamic State group targets in Syria, expanding a military campaign into a country whose three-year civil war has given the brutal militant group...

    • Posted September 22, 2014
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  • (AP-Yonhap) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sits inside a tent belonging to a Syrian family at a refugee camp in Irbil, 350 kilometers north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday. Ban expressed his deep sadness over the suffering and the hard conditions the refugees are living in. The Syrian conflict, which began in March 2011, has killed more than 120,000 people, forced more than 2 million to flee the country and devastated the nation's cities, economy and social fabric.
    U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon condemns S. Sudan, rebel forces for stealing humanitarian aid

    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday strongly condemned the commandeering of humanitarian vehicles and the theft of food and other desperately needed aid by government and anti-government forces in violence-torn South Sudan. In a statement, Mr. Ban...

    • Posted January 15, 2014
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