France launched a retaliatory air assault against ISIS extremists in Raqqa, Syria, late Sunday, just two days after a series of terrorist attacks killed more than 120 people in Paris and its suburbs. Ten fighter jets launched simultaneously from the...

US and coalition aircraft have started a large-scale operation against ISIS’s oil infrastructure, taking the name of the offensive from a similar World War II campaign against the oil infrastructure of Nazi Germany. Operation Tidal Wave II began Oct. 21...

US officials are “reasonably certain” the ISIS executioner known as “Jihadi John” was killed in a Nov. 12 airstrike on the group’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa, Syria. An Air Force drone fired a Hellfire missile at a car, which officials...

In recent weeks, US and coalition aircraft have conducted 250 airstrikes in the region of Sinjar in northern Iraq, helping Peshmerga forces retake much of a critical highway ISIS uses to connect its strongholds of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa,...

Maintainers at Holloman AFB, N.M., recently pioneered new F-16 ground equipment that cleans the aircraft’s hydraulic system during maintenance, saving time and maintenance cost. The new hydraulic test “mules” incorporate a purification system that constantly strains the aircraft’s hydraulic fluid...

T?he New York National Guard recently inaugurated a combat-veteran F-16A, now on display outside the state’s Guard joint forces headquarters in Latham, N. Y. The former 174th Fighter Wing jet, serial number 80-0504, flew combat in Operation Desert Storm, as...

Britain’s last airworthy Avro Vulcan nuclear jet bomber flew for the last time, after a herculean restoration effort returned it to flight in 2007, reported Britain’s The Telegraph. The Royal Air Force retired the last Vulcan—tail number XH558 in 1993,...