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September 30, 2015 • Russia carried out a series of airstrikes in Syria Wednesday, giving short notice to the U.S. that it also has planes in the air nearby and is calling out for more coordination.

Downing Street has said it «fully supports» President Trump's decision and confirmed that the UK Government was informed of the airstrikes in advance.

The «surgical precision» of the airstrikes in Syria helped greatly relieve market concerns, for the moment, that a wider conflict was brewing.

The United States launched a record number of airstrikes in Yemen and Somalia in 2017, and more importantly has reinitiated the targeting of terrorists in Pakistan and Libya.

General Irabor explained further that, contrary to the figure flying around on the number of casualty of the Airstrike in Rann in Kalabalge local government area of Borno state, the total casualty figure recorded by the Theatre Command stood at 112 dead, while 97 were injured and are receiving treatment in various hospitals within the state.

A Yemeni man stands at the site of an airstrike in the capital, Sanaa, on Sunday.

Not exact matches

Russia, meanwhile, has stepped up its airstrikes against ISIS targets in the jihadists» de-facto capital of Raqqa at France's request.

The Pentagon is currently uncertain as to whether or not the airstrike was successful in eliminating the senior leader, although it noted that there was no sign of civilian casualties.

Russia, an ally of the Syrian government, responded that there would be «chaos in international relations» if any additional Western airstrikes on Syria took place, Reuters said.

CAAT states that U.K. government data it has compiled show that since the Saudi - led coalition began airstrikes on Yemen in 2015, «the U.K. has licensed # 4.6 billion ($ 6.3 billion) worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, including # 2.7 billion worth of ML10 licenses (aircraft, helicopters, drones) and # 1.9 billion worth of ML4 licenses (grenades, bombs, missiles, countermeasures).»

The U.S. - led airstrikes, which U.S. President Donald Trump described as «perfectly executed,» came after the likely use of chemical weapons in an attack by the Syrian regime on the town of Douma earlier this month.

The blow follows months of back - and - forth incursions, including attempted drone attacks from Syria into Israeli territory and Israeli airstrikes in response.

CNBC's Hadley Gamble reports the latest developments out of Syria in the aftermath of U.S. - led airstrikes.

A coalition spokesman told the AP the rules of engagement had been «adjusted» in December, «empowering» more coalition forces «to call in airstrikes without going through a strike cell.»

Calls for airstrikes «would come from forces on the ground that an enemy's been identified, say, in this house,» US Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Robert Sofge, director of the Combined Joint Operations Center in Baghdad, told Business Insider earlier this month.

France has led airstrikes on Syria as part of the coalition and is believed to have special forces in Syria.

In 2007, Israeli airstrikes took out Syria's research reactor (which it had built with the aid of North Korea).

Maj. Roman Filipov was flying over the town of Maasran in Idlib province after conducting airstrikes in the region when his Su - 25 was hit with what Russian authorities said was a MANPAD.

A U.S. - led coalition has been launching airstrikes on Islamic State militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for months as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive.

The SDF has conquered swathes of territory from ISIS in northeastern Syria with support from US airstrikes and special forces, and according to the Pentagon, is leading the fight against the remnants of the Islamist group in the country.

Iran sends Shia fighters to Syria to aid the Assad regime, and Russia started conducting airstrikes in support of Assad last year.

Though it's unlikely that Obama would have sent a large force of ground troops into Syria in response to the sarin - gas attack, airstrikes on regime targets were on the table.

And a statement from the US Department of Defense says that it «is not coordinating airstrikes with the Russian military in Syria.»

Russian diplomats have castigated the United States, Britain and France for their airstrikes last week on what they said were chemical weapons facilities in Syria, where the Kremlin is backing the government of President Bashar al - Assad.

A look at how five years of siege, increased airstrikes, a fierce ground operation, a string of evacuation deals and a suspected chemical attack led to the fall of the rebel stronghold in the Damascus suburbs.21 days ago

The House of Commons approved a motion late Monday to extend the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant for a year, and expand airstrikes into Syria.

The poll of 1,011 likely voters was conducted April 10 - 13, although the poll methodology does not indicate if any of the responses were collected after the president announced airstrikes against Syrian targets in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack.

Just in the past weeks, hundreds of people have died in airstrikes and offensives that have leaders prepared to accuse Assad's government of war crimes.

They tried to think of what might have come next to redeem such a brutal loss of life: al - Kasasbeh smiling again, if only in his wife's memory; King Abdullah, himself a pilot, suiting up for an airstrike.

Afghan forces were trying to arrest leaders of the Taliban and that devolved into needing help from the United States in the form of airstrikes.

The video also claims that some of the girls have been killed in recent airstrikes by the Nigerian military and it also shows bodies on the ground in certain frames.

Christian aid agencies are among those supporting the people of Gaza, which has been hit by Israeli airstrikes in response to Hamas rocket attacks.

Since the Syrian army launched an offensive starting late last week (when the ceasefire ended), dozens of airstrikes have hit the rebel - held city of Aleppo city in Syria.

Al - Qaida has said Weinstein would be released if the U.S. halted airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen and also demanded the release of all al - Qaida and Taliban suspects around the world.

Syrians search for victims under the rubble of a destroyed building that attacked by Syrian government forces airstrikes, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria

The organization Doctors Without Borders says that at least 22 people were killed — 10 of whom were patients — when one of their hospitals in Afghanistan was hit by a U.S. airstrike.

As the BBC notes, the rise of ISIS — as well as the airstrikes and fighting to combat the Islamic militant group — is responsible for much of the uptick in violence.

Global leaders are calling on both Russia and Syria to cease airstrikes and bombing in order to provide an opportunity for relief to the quarter of a million civilians still trapped between the rebels and the regime.

The chief of human rights at the U.N. said, «If established as deliberate in a court of law, an airstrike on a hospital may amount to a war crime.»

According to Airwars — a non-profit that attempts to keep track of the number of civilian deaths caused by coalition airstrikes in the Middle East — there has been a spike in casualties under President Trump.

This humanitarian crisis triggered international response in the form of airdropped supplies, rescues and eventually US airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Right now we are talking about a limited airstrike in retaliation for the use of weapons that have killed a very small fraction of the war dead.

As a major global military power, Russia is clearly «able» to thwart ISIS — certainly just as well as most of the Western NATO states participating in airstrikes already.

Then there is the immediate issue over NATO's southern supply route through Pakistan, which brought in almost 30 percent of the non-lethal supplies until its closure in November, after an US airstrike killed two - dozen Pakistani soldiers.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in on the airstrikes, saying it was hypocritical to lament the loss of innocent Syrian children in chemical attacks while simultaneously forbidding those those children from entering the United States.

In 2009 for instance, former German defence minister Franz Joseph Jung had to step down over an airstrike in Afghanistan which caused the death of more than 100 civilianIn 2009 for instance, former German defence minister Franz Joseph Jung had to step down over an airstrike in Afghanistan which caused the death of more than 100 civilianin Afghanistan which caused the death of more than 100 civilians.

Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, gave a wide - ranging interview in New York where she called on the U.S. to carry out airstrikes on Syrian airfields in order to prevent more chemical attacks on its citizens, hours before that actually occurred.

On 21st May, an American airstrike killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

«Most defence committee members probably intend to vote for such airstrikes, but I shall vote against airstrikes, in the absence of credible ground forces, as ineffective and potentially dangerous, just as I voted against the proposal to bomb Assad in 2013.»