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  Pakistan: Rocket attack on colony and massive explosion in packed Kabul market injures several

  World | October 24, 2024 10:46 IST

  The blast struck a second-hand clothes market in the Pamir Cinema district, said the humanitarian group Emergency NGO, which runs a surgical centre in the Afghan capital.

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  Manipur: One dead, five injured in rocket attacks, security forces on alert

  Manipur | September 06, 2024 23:23 IST

  Given the rise in attacks, the state government has announced the closure of all schools on September 7. In protest of rising attacks, thousands of people formed human chains in multiple cities.

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  Pakistan: Death toll rises to 12 in deadliest bandit attack on police in Punjab

  World | August 23, 2024 13:52 IST

  The outlaws, who ambushed the police vehicles, also took several officers hostage. The police spokesperson reported that the attackers managed to flee after the assault, leaving some officers critically injured.

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  Five US personnel injured in rocket attack at Iraqi base amid escalating Middle East tensions

  World | August 06, 2024 17:24 IST

  Tensions in the region are at an all-time high after the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr. It is yet to be determined whether the latest attack on Iraq was linked to threats by Iran, which blames the US for Haniyeh's death.

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  'We want to live, we don't want to die': Majdal Shams resident mourns children killed in playground

  World | July 28, 2024 18:59 IST

  A rocket slammed into a soccer pitch where dozens of children and teens were playing in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, which is located about 12 kilometres south of Lebanon and next to the Syrian border. The attack resulted in the killing of at least 12 children.

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  'Hezbollah will pay heavy price, kind it has thus far not paid': Israel after football match attack

  World | July 28, 2024 13:30 IST

  Israel blamed Hezbollah for the strike in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but Hezbollah rushed to deny any role. Netanyahu warned that Hezbollah “will pay a heavy price for this attack, one that it has not paid so far."

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  Israel launches retaliatory attack on Rafah after Hamas kills three soldiers in rocket attack

  World | May 06, 2024 8:26 IST

  Hamas had claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the Kerem Shalom border crossing in which three Israeli soldiers were killed. The Jewish country launched a counter-attack on Rafah.

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  Hezbollah launches 62 rockets towards Israel in 'initial response' to death of senior Hamas leader

  World | January 06, 2024 18:04 IST

  Hezbollah had threatened to retaliate against Israel following an alleged Israeli strike in Beirut that killed Hamas' deputy political leader Saleh al-Arouri earlier this week. Israel has claimed to have struck a "terrorist cell" in retaliation as the war threatens to expand across the Middle East.

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  Israel declares 'state of war' after Hamas fires 5,000 rockets as part of new operation | VIDEO

  World | October 07, 2023 18:39 IST

  The leader of Hamas' military wing Mohammed Deif said that the group has launched a new military offensive called 'Operation Al-Aqsa Storm' against Israel. One person has been killed in the rocket attacks in southern and central Israel.

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  Russia Ukraine war: Five injured in rocket attacks on 2nd-largest city Kharkiv

  World | February 05, 2023 21:33 IST

  Russia Ukraine war: Local media reports said the building hit was the National Academy for Urban Economy, about 700 meters from the city’s central square.

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  Caught on cam: Massive Russian rockets hit Ukraine's Kharkiv, dozens killed

  World | February 28, 2022 19:52 IST

  Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said in a post on Facebook: Kharkiv has just been massively fired upon by grads (rockets). Dozens of dead and hundreds of wounded, The Guardian reported.  

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  Several rockets fell in Kabul: Report

  World | September 16, 2021 22:59 IST

  Several rockets fell in one of the districts of the Afghan capital of Kabul, local media reported.

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  Islamic State group claims responsibility for rocket attack in Kabul

  World | August 30, 2021 19:48 IST

  ​The Islamic State group's affiliate in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for Monday's rocket attack in Kabul, saying it fired at least six Katyusha rockets at the airport in the Afghan capital. 

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  Several rockets hit Kandahar airport as Taliban-led violence rages; flights suspended

  World | August 01, 2021 11:40 IST

  Over the last few weeks, the Taliban captured several districts in Afghanistan including Takhar, the country's northeastern province.

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  Rocket attack in Baghdad, one child killed

  World | November 18, 2020 6:43 IST

  ​Rockets struck Iraq’s capital Tuesday with four landing inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq’s military said, killing a child and wounding at least five people, signaling an end to an informal truce announced by Iran-backed militias in October.  

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  Israel reports 3rd rocket attack from Gaza, conducts another strike on Hamas

  World | August 21, 2020 13:36 IST

  Israel has repelled the third night attack from Gaza and responded with strikes on Hamas' underground military infrastructure, the military said early on Friday.

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  Rocket hits K1 military base in Iraq housing US troops; no casualties reported

  World | February 14, 2020 6:54 IST

  A rocket hit a military base in Iraq's province of Kirkuk on Thursday. As per local media reports, the military base that houses US troops was hit in the evening. 

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  Day after Iran missile attacks, rockets hit Baghdad's Green Zone

  World | January 09, 2020 7:37 IST

  The rocket attack in Baghdad's Green Zone comes a day after Iran had fired multiple missiles at Iraq airbases housing US troops. The whole of Iraq is on a heightened state of alert as tensions between the US and Iran have dramatically increased over the past few days.

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  End of US presence in West Asia has begun, tweets Iran FM Javad Zarif

  World | January 05, 2020 0:24 IST

  Iran’s FM Javad Zarif, coincidentally, made the tweet at the time when at least two rocket attacks were reported on US locations in Iraq

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  Qasem Soleimani killed on Trump's order, says Pentagon

  World | January 03, 2020 11:37 IST

  Soon after the news broke out of Soleimani's death, US President Donald Trump tweeted an American flag, adding fuel to the fire that there was an American hand behind the attack. The speculation was put to rest when Pentagon finally confirmed in a statement that the Iranian General was neutralized at the command of the US President.