Sentences with phrase «allied air attack»

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The Trump administration is likely trying to get broader support from allies for air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack, says Victor Kattan of the Middle East Institute.

U.S., British and French forces pounded Iran's ally Syria with air strikes early on Saturday in retaliation for a suspected April 7 chemical weapons attack, which they blame on Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's government.

The NATO foreign ministers meeting follows the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian agent in Britain, and Western air strikes against Russia - allied Syria, which the United States accused of a chemical attack in Douma on April 7.

Russia had promised to respond to any attack on its ally, but the Pentagon said no Russian air defense systems were used.

The air attack, denounced by Damascus and its allies as an illegal act of aggression, was unlikely to alter the course of a multi-sided war that has killed at least half a million people.

Defense spending aside, transatlantic rifts could also occur should Trump continue to make critical foreign policy decisions without first consulting allies (as in the April 7 air strike against Syria in response to a chemical - weapons attack) or if he presses NATO allies to make stronger military contributions in Syria or Afghanistan.

Washington and its allies have been considering air strikes following a suspected poison gas attack last weekend.

In an official release published on the U.S. Air Force official website, Lt. Col. Josh Koslov, squadron commander of the 43rd Expeditionary Electronic Attack Squadron, is quoted as saying, «When the Compass Call is up on station supporting our Iraqi allies we are denying ISIL's ability to command and control their forces.»

Americans for Prosperity, the advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, is emerging as the most powerful ally of the Republican Party ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, bombarding Senate Democrats with early air attacks that could help the GOP retake the Senate.

Execute an uppercut swing with enough precision after a kick and you can send a zombie flying through the air so an ally can finish it off with a ranged attack.

«In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety - six merchant vessels.

When Kirby is using a weapon ability like a Cutter and holding it in the air, allies can strike at it to enchant your attacks with new effects and increased damage.

The game expects a lot from you, often requiring you to manage multiple priorities at the same time, such as defending an ally from incoming ground and air attacks — while trying to stay alive yourself.

Since Tuesday, the coal industry and their allies in Congress have already begun attacking the President with the same rhetoric they've been using since the passage of the Clean Air Act 30 years ago — and surprise, surprise the sky hasn't fallen every time we've issued new safeguards for clean aAir Act 30 years ago — and surprise, surprise the sky hasn't fallen every time we've issued new safeguards for clean airair.