Rocket Attack
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Pakistan: Rocket attack on colony and massive explosion in packed Kabul market injures several
World | Oct 24, 2024, 10:46 AM ISTThe 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 | Sep 06, 2024, 11:23 PM ISTGiven 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 | Aug 23, 2024, 01:52 PM ISTThe 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 | Aug 06, 2024, 05:24 PM ISTTensions 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 | Jul 28, 2024, 06:59 PM ISTA 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 | Jul 28, 2024, 01:30 PM ISTIsrael 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, 08:26 AM ISTHamas 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 | Jan 06, 2024, 06:04 PM ISTHezbollah 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 | Oct 07, 2023, 06:39 PM ISTThe 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 | Feb 05, 2023, 09:33 PM ISTRussia 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 | Feb 28, 2022, 07:52 PM ISTUkrainian 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 | Sep 16, 2021, 10:59 PM ISTSeveral 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 | Aug 30, 2021, 07:48 PM ISTThe 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 | Aug 01, 2021, 11:40 AM ISTOver 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 | Nov 18, 2020, 06:43 AM ISTRockets 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 | Aug 21, 2020, 01:36 PM ISTIsrael 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 | Feb 14, 2020, 06:54 AM ISTA 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 | Jan 09, 2020, 07:37 AM ISTThe 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 | Jan 05, 2020, 12:24 AM ISTIran’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 | Jan 03, 2020, 11:37 AM ISTSoon 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.