DefenceTalkAir strikes rocked Ukraine’s strategic Black Sea port of Odessa early Sunday, AFP reporters said, but there were no casualties, according to the army. The Russian defence ministry confirmed the strike. “This morning, high-precision sea and air-based missiles destroyed an oil refinery and three storage facilities for fuel and lubricants near the city of Odessa, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/air-strikes-hit-ukraines-strategic-port-odessa-78578/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkAfghan authorities said Monday they are investigating an air strike at the weekend which local officials say killed more than a dozen civilians, including children. Provincial officials said 15 people died on Saturday night when a rocket struck a house in Khashrod district of Nimroz province. “We are aware of claims of civilian casualties in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/afghanistan-probes-air-strike-that-killed-civilians-76662/

DefenceTalkIsrael said Sunday it struck bases of the Islamic Jihad militant group near Damascus, while Syria claimed that its air defences shot down “enemy missiles”. The Israeli army said in a statement that fighter jets “struck Islamic Jihad terror targets south of Damascus,” following rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. “In the Adeliyah region, outside […]https://www.defencetalk.com/israel-claims-air-strikes-near-syrian-capital-damascus-74204/

Two mortar rounds hit the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone on Saturday and two rockets slammed into an airbase housing US troops, security sources said, a day after a deadly American strike. The precision drone strike outside the Baghdad airport on Friday killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, top Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and a […]

DefenceTalkMore than 3,000 civilians have been killed in US-led coalition air strikes against the Daesh group in Syria since they began four years ago, a monitor said on Sunday. The Washington-led alliance puts the toll at just over 1,000 civilians in both Syria and neighboring Iraq, and says it does all it can to prevent […]https://www.defencetalk.com/four-years-of-coalition-strikes-on-syria-kill-3300-civilians-monitor-71864/

DefenceTalkWASHINGTON: The US military has carried out more air strikes against the Islamic State group in Libya, killing several fighters, the US Africa Command said Thursday. The strikes hit Tuesday about 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of the Mediterranean city of Sirte, AFRICOM said in a statement. On Sunday, the Pentagon announced the first air […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-carries-out-more-airstrikes-in-libya-70561/

DefenceTalkIn confirming the deployment of its S-300 and state-of-the art S-400 missile-defense systems in Syria, the Kremlin boasted six months ago that it had secured the country’s air bases from American cruise missiles. But after a barrage of U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles hit the Syrian government air base at Shayrat on April 7, where some […]https://www.defencetalk.com/after-u-s-strikes-syrian-air-base-russians-ask-where-were-our-vaunted-air-defense-systems-69690/

DefenceTalkThe Pentagon said Wednesday that US air strikes in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State group may have killed 119 civilians since 2014, a figure far lower than casualty estimates by monitoring groups. The figures released by Centcom, the US military command in the Middle East, came from a months-long review of reports and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-strikes-may-have-killed-119-civilians-in-iraq-syria-pentagon-68565/

DefenceTalkRussia has conducted more than 50 air strikes since Tuesday against Islamic State (IS) jihadists near the Syrian city of Palmyra, the defence ministry in Moscow said. “The Russian air force has increased the intensity of its strikes against targets of the armed units of international terrorist organisations near the city of Palmyra,” the ministry […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-conducts-over-50-strikes-on-is-near-palmyra-in-3-days-67830/

DefenceTalkThe White House for the first time will release casualty figures from its controversial drone program, officials said on Monday, amid criticism that the airstrikes often kill civilians instead of the intended terror targets. Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama’s top homeland security adviser, said the administration will publish a review of its air strikes on […]https://www.defencetalk.com/white-house-to-release-data-on-drone-strikes-66981/