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Airstrikes on rebel-controlled northwestern Syrian killed at least 16 people Tuesday, including two students and two teachers, opposition activists said, as government forces closed in on a town considered a symbol of the uprising against President Bashar Assad. CBC | World News
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Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted Saudi airports and Aramco oil facilities in airstrikes
Yemen’s Houthi military spokesperson said on Friday the group had launched 26 rocket attacks in the past week against airports in southern Saudi Arabia, facilities belonging to oil giant Saudi Aramco and “two sensitive targets deep in” the kingdom. CBC | World News
Read More »Migrants at Libya camp prevented from leaving between deadly airstrikes, report claims
The United Nations revealed on Monday chilling new details about an airstrike that smashed into a migrant detention centre in Libya, killing at least 50 people. CBC | World News
Read More »Iran-backed Iraqi militia vows revenge after U.S. airstrikes
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Monday condemned U.S. airstrikes on Iranian-backed Iraqi militia bases, a move that could plunge Iraq further into the heart of a proxy conflict between Washington and Tehran. CBC | World News
Read More »As Russia, China veto humanitarian aid to Syria, airstrikes in Idlib intensity
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday said Russia and China had blood on their hands after the two countries used a veto of a UN Security Council resolution to block cross-border aid deliveries from Turkey and Iraq to millions of Syrian civilians. CBC | World News
Read More »As Russia and China veto humanitarian aid to Syria, airstrikes intensify in Idlib
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday said Russia and China had blood on their hands after the two countries used a veto of a UN Security Council resolution to block cross-border aid deliveries from Turkey and Iraq to millions of Syrian civilians. CBC | World News
Read More »Yemen erupts: 17 killed in rebel bombing, Saudi airstrikes fall on Sanaa
Masked militants set off a large car bomb outside a security headquarters in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden early Sunday, as a Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes on the rebel-held city of Sanaa. CBC | World News
Read More »28 killed in overnight airstrikes in Syrian village
Overnight airstrikes killed 28 people, including four children, in a village in rebel-held Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. CBC | World News
Read More »Saudi-led airstrikes kill 14 civilians in Yemen’s capital
Airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition targeted Yemen’s capital early on Friday, hitting at least three houses in Sanaa and killing at least 14 civilians, including women and children, residents and eyewitnesses said. CBC | World News
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