The airstrike was authorised barely a week after Mr Hegseth was sworn in as the 29th Secretary of Defense, marking one of his first significant decisions regarding US military action in Africa.

An Israeli airstrike targeted a military convoy in southern Syria on Wednesday, marking the first strike against the forces of Syria’s new authorities. The attack killed three individuals ...

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity ...

The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the ... A U.S. military airstrike in Somalia last May targeted IS militants ...