By Michael Gold and Yimou Lee TAIPEI/YILAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – A powerful typhoon battered Taiwan on Saturday with strong wind and torrential rain, cutting power to 3.62 million households as the death toll rose to six. Television footage trees uprooted and power poles toppled over, a moped being swept into the air by wind and shipping containers piled on top of each other at a port. “The storm will weaken
By Michael Gold and Yimou Lee TAIPEI/YILAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – A powerful typhoon battered Taiwan on Saturday with strong wind and torrential rain, cutting power to 3.62 million households as the death toll rose to six. Television footage trees uprooted and power poles toppled over, a moped being swept into the air by wind and shipping containers piled on top of each other at a port. “The storm will weaken
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition conducted 19 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq on Friday, the Command Joint Task Force said on Saturday. The greatest concentration of attacks was near the Syrian city of Hasaka, where nine fighting positions, three bunkers, a weapons cache and other targets were destroyed, the task force said in a statement. Tactical units also were hit. Islamic State assets near
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition conducted 19 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq on Friday, the Command Joint Task Force said on Saturday. The greatest concentration of attacks was near the Syrian city of Hasaka, where nine fighting positions, three bunkers, a weapons cache and other targets were destroyed, the task force said in a statement. Tactical units also were hit. Islamic State assets near
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition conducted 19 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq on Friday, the Command Joint Task Force said on Saturday. The greatest concentration of attacks was near the Syrian city of Hasaka, where nine fighting positions, three bunkers, a weapons cache and other targets were destroyed, the task force said in a statement. Tactical units also were hit. Islamic State assets near
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition conducted 19 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq on Friday, the Command Joint Task Force said on Saturday. The greatest concentration of attacks was near the Syrian city of Hasaka, where nine fighting positions, three bunkers, a weapons cache and other targets were destroyed, the task force said in a statement. Tactical units also were hit. Islamic State assets near
Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen’s dominant Houthi group, UAE state news agency WAM said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and a coalition of other Sunni Muslim states have been fighting since March to restore Yemen’s exiled government and to repel the Iran-allied, Shi’ite Houthis, who took control of the capital Sanaa in September. At least two
Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen’s dominant Houthi group, UAE state news agency WAM said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and a coalition of other Sunni Muslim states have been fighting since March to restore Yemen’s exiled government and to repel the Iran-allied, Shi’ite Houthis, who took control of the capital Sanaa in September. At least two
Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen’s dominant Houthi group, UAE state news agency WAM said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and a coalition of other Sunni Muslim states have been fighting since March to restore Yemen’s exiled government and to repel the Iran-allied, Shi’ite Houthis, who took control of the capital Sanaa in September. At least two
Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates have been killed while taking part in a Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen’s dominant Houthi group, UAE state news agency WAM said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and a coalition of other Sunni Muslim states have been fighting since March to restore Yemen’s exiled government and to repel the Iran-allied, Shi’ite Houthis, who took control of the capital Sanaa in September. At least two