Rappler's latest stories on US air strikes
Filipinos in Syria urged to stay home amid U.S.-led air strikes
(UPDATED) 'So far, the Embassy has not received any reports of Filipino casualties in the attacks that appear to have targeted military installations in and around Damascus,' says Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Elmer Cato
North Korea blasts U.S. strikes on Syria
North Korea says the US missile strikes proves a million times over that strengthening its nuclear program was the right choice reports state media KCNA
4 children among 9 civilians dead in U.S. Syria strike – state media
SANA news agency says 5 of the civilians among them 3 children are killed in the village of Shayrat An American missile also hit the village of Al Hamrat which killed 4 civilians including a child it adds
ISIS mounts fierce defense of besieged Syrian bastion
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the Islamic State group in Iraq Syria ISIS carried out two suicide attacks and 5 car bombings in the southwestern suburbs of Manbij
Survivors call for US troops to face trial over Afghan hospital air strike
Survivors of a US air strike on a hospital in Afghanistan dismiss an American military investigation that said the bombardment did not amount to a war crime
US air strike on Libya kills 2 abducted Serbians – minister
Unfortunately as a consequence of this attack on the Islamic State ISIS in Libya the two of them lost their lives says Serbia s foreign minister
US air strike hits ISIS in Libya, dozens dead: officials
A jihadist safe house was destroyed in the dawn raid in Sabratha about 70 kilometers 42 miles west of Tripoli
US air strikes in Afghan district under Taliban siege
The Islamists claim to have captured nearly the entire district of Sangin tightening their grip on the southern Helmand province
Indonesia death row, Roxas on Binay, William and Kate | The wRap
A Filipina and two Australians on Indonesian death row ask for another case review Mar Roxas says he will not be Jojo Binay’s running mate Prince William and Duchess Kate prepare for their second child
Turkey pushes for more than 'dropping tons of bombs' on ISIS
Dropping tons of bombs from the air is only a temporary solution and only delays the threats and the danger says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
US aircraft bomb ISIS near contested Syria border town
American fighter jets and robotic drones carried out 3 air strikes on Tuesday and Wednesday near the border town of Ain al Arab
US strike kills 7 civilians in Syria: watchdog
Watchdog group Human Rights Watch calls for a probe into possible violations of the laws of war with claims apparent US missile strikes have killed at least 7 civilians in northwestern Syria
US in 'near continuous' strikes against ISIS in Syria
But Washington warned that the jihadists could not be defeated in Syria by air strikes alone saying that moderate rebels would need to be trained and armed to beat them back
US-led strikes hit ISIS oil targets as coalition grows
The Pentagon says air strikes had disrupted lucrative oil pumping operations that have helped fund the militants
Rouhani slams West's 'strategic blunders' in Mideast
The strategic blunders of the West in the Middle East Central Asia and the Caucasus have turned these parts of the world into a haven for terrorists and extremists says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Somalia on high alert after Shebab leader confirmed dead
The US State Department had listed Ahmed Abdi Godane as one of the world s 8 top terror fugitives
Obama vacation plans unchanged after Iraq strikes
President Obama and his family plan to spend two weeks on the upscale resort island off Massachusetts where they have taken summer breaks since 2009
FAA bans US civilian flights over Iraq
The Federal Aviation Administration bans all US civilian flights over Iraq just hours after air strikes order by Washington on Islamist fighters
Why 3,300 Pinoys refuse to leave Syria
Higher wages hold back potential repatriates the DFA says
Flee Syria, Pinoys warned amid planned attack
Get out of harm s way DFA tells Filipinos in Syria
