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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

coalition against Islamic State

People attend the funeral ceremony of the victims of Wednesday's bomb explosion in the city of Kerman about 510 miles (820 kms) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, January 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 9, 2024, 4:16 pm
Why Islamic State attacked Iran on the anniversary of Soleimani’s death
Last week’s bombing near the grave of the Quds Force general that killed 84 is the latest episode in ISIS’s war on Shiite Muslims
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Illustrative: US Army soldiers stand outside their armored vehicle on a joint base with the Iraqi army, south of Mosul, Iraq, Feb. 23, 2017. (Khalid Mohammed/AP)
November 7, 2023, 4:19 pm
Iraqi Kurdistan says 2 drones targeting US-led anti-jihadist coalition shot down
Third UAV crashes into ground at base in Erbil airport; US Defense Department source says no injuries or damage caused; no group immediately claims attack
By AFP and ToI Staff
Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, speaks during a news conference in Hassakeh, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
November 26, 2022, 4:02 pm
Syrian Kurds say forced to end operations against IS due to Turkish attacks
US military says two rockets targeted US-led coalition forces at bases in northeastern Syria; no injuries or damage caused
By AP
Illustrative photo of a member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces removing an Islamic State flag in the town of Tabqa in Syria. (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)
July 12, 2022, 6:25 pm
US drone strike kills leader of Islamic State in Syria
Maher al-Agal targeted while riding motorcycle near Turkish border, another official seriously injured; Pentagon says no civilian casualties
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this July 17, 2017, file photo, a fighter of the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. (Hussein Malla/AP)
June 16, 2022, 5:35 pm
US-led military raid in Syria captures senior Islamic State leader
Coalition against terror group doesn’t identify target, but unofficial sources say it was Ahmad Hani al-Kurdi, a bomb-maker and former IS governor of Raqqa
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, right, makes remarks at the Negev Summit, with from left, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, March 28, 2022, in Sde Boker, Israel. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
May 11, 2022, 3:22 pm
Coalition against IS discusses looming resurgence as jihadists gain power in Sahel
Marrakesh meeting to address ‘stabilization efforts in areas previously impacted by Daesh’; senior officials reunite three years after caliphate was crushed in Iraq
By AFP
Illustrative: American soldiers during an exercise in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria, December 8, 2021. .(AP/Baderkhan Ahmad)
April 7, 2022, 4:46 pm
Two US-led coalition members injured in missile attack in east Syria
War monitor says five rockets were fired at the Green Village base from positions where Iran-backed fighters are based
By AP and ToI Staff
An Iranian Shahed-136 drone is launched during a military exercise in Iran, December 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)
March 21, 2022, 1:18 pm
Iranian UAVs downed over Iraq in February were heading for Israel, officials say
Incident came days before Israel allegedly struck IRGC drone warehouse in Kermanshah, whereupon Iran launched missiles at Iraq’s Erbil
By Emanuel Fabian
Screen capture from video allegedly showing an attack by US special forces on a house in Atmeh, in Syrias northwestern Idlib province, February 2, 2022. (Twitter)
February 3, 2022, 6:43 am
US special forces carry out counterterrorism raid in northwest Syria
Pentagon says mission ‘successful,’ no casualties among troops; official reveals malfunctioning helicopter was blown up on the ground; monitor reports firefight at house in Idlib
By Lolita C. Baldor and Bassam Mroue
This photo, released on Monday, March 27, 2017 by the official Twitter account of Operation Inherent Resolve, shows the Tabqa Dam, in Raqqa, Syria. (Operation Inherent Resolve via AP)
January 21, 2022, 6:17 pm
Risking thousands, US targeted massive Syria dam it claimed was on ‘no strike’ list
Commander of US offensive insisted at time that dam wasn’t targeted, but Central Command now confirms military dropped 3 2,000 pound bombs on ‘towers attached’
By ToI Staff
Parts of the wreckage of a drone are laid out on the ground near the Ain al-Asad airbase, in the western Anbar province of Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (International Coalition via AP)
January 5, 2022, 10:37 pm
US-led coalition bases in Iraq, Syria come under rocket fire
Officials say no casualties caused in the attacks, which come shortly after the one-year anniversary of the US assassination of Iranian Gen. Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant
By AFP
Parts of the wreckage of a drone are laid out on the ground near the Ain al-Asad airbase, in the western Anbar province of Iraq, January 4, 2022. (International Coalition via AP)
January 4, 2022, 1:21 pm
For 2nd time in as many days, armed drones shot down in attack on US troops in Iraq
US-led coalition says fixed-wing drones carrying explosives flew toward the Ain al-Asad airbase, which houses American soldiers fighting Islamic State group
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Supporters and members of the Popular Mobilization Forces hold posters of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 1, 2022. (Khalid Mohammed/AP)
January 3, 2022, 1:46 pm
Armed drones targeting Baghdad compound shot down on anniversary of Soleimani death
Remnants of two craft aimed at US-led coalition carried the message: ‘Commanders’ revenge operations’
By Laure Al Khoury
In this July 26, 2017, file photo, Syrians look at a US armored vehicle convoy on a road that leads to Raqqa, northeast Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
December 12, 2021, 6:52 pm
Covert US army unit tasked with fighting IS repeatedly killed civilians – NYT
Current and former officials say deaths caused by Talon Anvil were collateral damage, but other sources say unit ‘circumvented rules imposed to protect noncombatants’
By ToI Staff
Smoke rises from buildings following an airstrike on the rebel-held besieged town of Arbin, in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on January 2, 2018. (AFP / ABDULMONAM EASSA)
November 14, 2021, 5:36 am
US military hushed up Syria strike that killed dozens of civilians — NY Times
Investigation indicates army personnel actively suppressed probe of 2019 bombing that hit women and children in country’s east
By ToI Staff
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