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Pakistani fighter jets have carried out air strikes against militant hideouts, killing dozens of fighters, officials in the north-west of the country say. The strikes were in the mountainous Dehgan area in the North Waziristan tribal district, a stronghold for Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants. ... No exact casualty figures were given. "The strikes were carried out based on confirmed reports about the presence of Uzbek and other militants in the area," an official said. It is the second set of strikes in the region this week, days after the airport attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, which killed at least...

Baghdad - A "significant" fall in US air raids in Iraq has been recorded over the past few weeks, a top US air force officer told reporters on Sunday...

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli helicopters fired missiles in four separate air raids in the Gaza Strip in the space of an hour early on Friday, witnesses said. It was the most intense Israeli air raid in the occupied territory in months. The first strike destroyed a pro-Hamas Islamic charity in Gaza City and a minute later, the helicopters fired at a cemetery in Khan Younis militants used as a launching pad to fire mortars at an adjacent Jewish settlement, witnesses said. Crowds gathered at the site of the Gaza City blast and shouted as some sifted through the debris and...

Three killed in new US air strikes on Iraqi rebel city FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) Sep 28, 2004 Three people were killed and six wounded in US air strikes overnight on militant hideouts in the rebel Iraqi city of Fallujah, medics said Tuesday. US aircraft launched two rounds of strikes on a northern neighbourhood of Fallujah, according to residents and an AFP correspondent in the city, but the military only confirmed one operation at about 4:00 am (midnight GMT). "Three people were killed and six others wounded," said Dr Rafaa Hiad at the city's main hospital. The US military said the...