Backed by coalition airstrikes, revolutionaries pushed back into Brega and were holding the eastern part of the town.

A forward column of Qaddafi's men retreated westward under intense coalition bombardment, a week to the day since coalition airstrikes and Tomahawk missiles saved Benghazi.

The militia took advantage of coalition airstrikes, retaking Ajdabiya, Brega, Uqayla, and Ra's Lanuf on its push westward from Benghazi.

May 28, 2011: A coalition airstrike in southern Afghanistan killed a dozen children and two women, Afghan and NATO officials said.

On October 6, 2008, at least 40 civilians attending a wedding were killed in a coalition airstrike.

The Taliban commander believed responsible for at least four of those deaths was killed in a coalition airstrike in November 2012.

After seizing Garmsir, the Marines pushed further south into an area where the insurgents had built bunkers and tunnels capable of withstanding coalition airstrikes.

Their Republican Guard forces are being defeated by coalition airstrikes and by effective ground engagements.

Later on, a coalition airstrike targeted Mullah Ghafour, killing his brother and 20 followers.

At my table, an elderly Helmandi engineer described how awful things were in his region - families killed in coalition airstrikes, villages overrun by the Taliban.