Drone attacks
-
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has posted about this week’s aerial attacks on Ukraine. In his post on X, he says Russia has launched 500 aerial bombs, nearly 660 drones, and 120 missiles over the past seven days. “No other country in the world has ever faced such attacks on a daily basis for such a…
-
An 11-year-old boy died after a drone attack on an apartment block in Russia’s Bryansk region overnight, according to the local governor. Ukrainian drone attacks destroyed a house in Bryansk’s Starodubsky district and hit a five-storey tower block elsewhere in the region into Sunday, Alexander Bogomaz said on Telegram. The tower block death was the…
-
We brought you reports earlier that the eastern Dnipro region was attacked by Russian missiles, drones and artillery overnight. The region’s governor, Serhii Lysak, said Russian forces attacked the city with cruise missiles and drones, damaging 10 houses and several cars. At least four people were injured in the attack. These images reflect the wreckage…
-
The US has bolstered defences at its Tower 22 base in Jordan as it prepares to respond to the drone attack that killed three service members there, an American official has said. A second official said the military had carried out self-defence strikes inside Yemen today against Houthi military targets deemed an imminent threat. British…
-
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has decided against disciplining any members of the United States military for an August drone attack in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, the New York Times and several US news outlets reported on Monday. An internal Pentagon review concluded last month that the August 29 bombing in the Afghan capital did…
-
The Ukraine International Airlines plane was shot down minutes after taking off from Tehran on Wednesday. Many on board were Iranians with dual citizenship, while 57 were holders of Canadian passports. The downing of the plane came at a time when Iranian forces were on alert for U.S. reprisals following tit-for-tat strikes. A U.S. drone…
-
Weeping amid wails from a crowd of hundreds of thousands of mourners, Iran’s supreme leader on Monday prayed over the remains of a top Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, an attack that’s drastically raised tensions between Tehran and Washington. The targeted killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani already has…
-
President Donald Trump has vowed to increase drone strikes on Iran if Americans and their investments within or outside the United States are attacked. Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites “very hard” if Iran retaliates to honor the death of an Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and an Iraqi militia leader.…
-
Billions of dollars spent by Saudi Arabia on cutting edge Western military hardware mainly designed to deter high altitude attacks has proved no match for low-cost drones and cruise missiles used in a strike that crippled its giant oil industry. Saturday’s assault on Saudi oil facilities that halved production has exposed how ill-prepared the Gulf…
-
While Iran has denied blame for the attacks on two Saudi Arabia oil stations in Afif and Dawadmi, its Yemeni allies have promised more strikes to come. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group carried out Saturday’s pre-dawn attack with drones, including some powered by jet engines. “We assure the Saudi regime that our…
You must be logged in to post a comment.