Sentences with phrase «bagram airbase»

The BBC has reported that the Syrian airbase is «now out of service» and that «all jets seem to be destroyed.»

The C - 5M can haul 120,000 pounds of cargo more than 5,500 miles — the distance from Dover Air Force base in Delaware to Incirlik airbase in Turkey — without refueling.

The United States shut down an airbase outside of Reykjavik in 2006.

Based on intelligence gathered by Syrian and Russian air defense crews from the U.S. strike exactly a year and a week ago on Shayrat Airbase in Syria, air defense crews were likely well - drilled and prepared to meet a U.S. - led attack on their claimed chemical weapons facilities.

RAF Tornados are actually taking part to Operation Shader against ISIS flying from Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus.

Hellenikon International Airport started as a military airbase in 1938 and was Athens» main hub for commercial air travel for 60 years.

The Russian Air Force has been supporting the Syrian government since sending dozens of fighter and attack aircraft to an airbase near the Mediterranean Sea in September 2015.

The latest Israeli airstrike on the T4 airbase and the possibility of Russia providing Damascus with an S - 300 missile system have strained relations between Moscow and Tel Aviv.

Global equities were little changed this week despite an uptick in geopolitical jitters following the US missile strike on a Syrian airbase and a potential shift in tactics by the US Federal Reserve later this year.

The United States Navy fired 59 tomahawk missiles into Syria last week in order to destroy the airbase where Bashar al - Assad launched a deadly chemical attack earlier in the week.

A few days ago, President Trump launched an airstrike against a Syrian airbase in response to the Syrian Government launching a Saren gas attack.

You are jamming the two - bases as in joint bases, marine or Airbase etc and permanent base.

[T] he Americans told Moscow in advance about the strike, to avoid casualties among Russian military personnel stationed on the airbase (source: BBC)

Sources have told the Guardian that US intelligence officials believe Russian personnel were at al - Shayrat airbase when sarin was loaded on to a Syrian jet.

I was appalled by the account of Harold Wilson's government, as recently as the late 1960s, forcibly removing Chagos Islanders from their homes to make way for a US airbase on Diego Garcia, even though many lived on islands over 100 miles away.

A quick recap of Trump's first year in office: an airstrike on a Syrian airbase, FBI Director James Comey's firing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the GOP healthcare fiasco, U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, North Korea's ongoing threats of nuclear annihilation, «Crazy Mika «tweets, the Mooch, Charlottesville, #MeToo, Democratic gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey, Roy Moore's Alabama Senate run, Paul Manafort's indictment, Mike Flynn's plea deal, an ongoing battle over the Consumer Financial Bureau, the annihilation of ISIS, a resurgence of al - Qaeda terrorist networks, the repeal of net neutrality, the move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Republican tax reform, Steve Bannon's fall from grace, «shithole» countries and continuing Fire and Fury fallout.

Use of territory and Airbase in a military cooperation agreement is nothing strange.

Rebels said they had secured the surrender of the country's main military airbase, Mitiga, along with Gaddafi's presidential guard.

In a visit heavy on symbolism, the Queen emerged from Baldonnel military airbase wearing a green coat and hat.

Putin has still an airbase in Syria and is able to submit ground soldiers within hours.

On September 19th Mr Mohamed officially re-emerged when he was taken from Bagram airbase in Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba, being held there without charge as an «enemy combatant» until the following autumn when he was charged with conspiracy, although these charges were later dropped and replaced with new military commission accusations at the end of 2008.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler tore into President Donald Trump's decision to launch a missile assault on a Syrian airbase yesterday evening in retaliation for dictator Bashar al - Assad's use of nerve gas against a rebel - held town — and further assailed the Republican commander - in - chief's opposition to admitting refugees from the war - bloodied country.

That raises significant questions for both the Scottish and UK governments over the status and future of the Trident nuclear submarine system, which is based on the Clyde, and UK airbases in Scotland.

Indeed, you may have read some good news about the Niagara Falls Airbase in the press recently (see article below).

The resulting musical is a surprising, and surprisingly humane and earthy, escapade based on the Greenham Common women's peace camp, a lengthy women - only protest at the siloing of nuclear missiles at the RAF Greenham Common airbase in the UK around the early 1980s — the height of the cold war.

Image analysis, completed less than a month later, covered a total of 36,000 square kilometers and revealed roadblocks, an influx of military vehicles at airbases, naval blockades, and other pivotal events as the conflict escalated.

The team's arrival was delayed by a week due to bad weather hampering flight operations in and out of Russia's Novo airbase.

[2] DHC - 6 (C - GKBH)(BELARE)-1 flight from Novo Airbase, 15 km southwest of Russia's Novolazarevskaya station landed at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica at 21:15 UTC (22:15 CET) on 14/11/2013

What about the sounds coming from outside: students talking in the hallways, gym class loudly playing outside, noise from the freeways, railroad noises, the landscaping crew cutting the grass and weed eating outside your window, and my personal favorite are the Lockheed C5 Galaxy airplanes (huge tank carrying monsters) and F15 fighters that thundered and screamed overhead from the airbase nearby.

This is in part due to the creative manner in which free schools have converted existing sites to suit their needs; for example Heyford Park free school is located on a former RAF airbase in Oxfordshire and has even incorporated the base's history into the curriculum, whilst Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form has just completed its move into Norwich's disused fire station.

Whicker would later be honored for his quick thinking in bringing the plane to a safe landing at a South Korean airbase and he'd go on to participate in airborne reconnaissance around Kuwait during the first Gulf War's «Operation Desert Storm,» then would be tasked with calling up reservists from the U.S. Strategic Command headquarters amid the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

one of the first science fiction paperbacks I ever bought, at a library sale on Rockcliffe Airbase in 1978.

She sets up an orchestra which brings the village and the men on the nearby airbase together and gives them some hope for the future.

Two miles from the airbase he plunged, burning, into a sizeable tract of forest known locally as Abbot's Wood.

Some cats belonging to families on American airbases are de-clawed, making them difficult to re-home if the need arises as relatively few British owners are geared to keeping an indoor - only cat.

Go to Hartmut Peters Airbase for more information.

Trailer showed third - person and air - vehicle gameplay with a character wearing a steam punk jetpack, skydiving and landing in the cockpit of a gyroscopic aircraft, and then jumping and climbing through airbase fortesses.

So Sgt. Roach and Captain Soap have to infiltrate a Russian Airbase to recover a satellite module.

The three new maps are «Airbase» Team Deathmatch map, which takes place around a parked aircraft, «Quarry» Capture map, which contains sweeping sandstorms, and the «Streetwars» Team Deathmatch map, which takes places within an urban jungle of abandoned buildings.

«Throughout the game you must scavenge for supplies and weapons, fight your way through the hordes of Infected and reach the Airbase in one piece.

The all new War Games map highlights the civilian shops, tall buildings for window - to - window fighting, and city streets for Titan combat from the Battle of Angel City, and the large, open tank garage facilities for hand - to - hand Pilot combat from the Battle of Airbase Sierra.

To maintain battle readiness at the new base, IMC Pilots use simulation pods to train for anticipated Militia raids, based on lessons learned in Angel City and IMC Airbase Sierra.

Are you ready to be a commander who can build our base stronger than any others?Commander, we must create a strong airbase to demolish the base of our enemy who look down upon us!

These environments range anywhere from Angel City, to Rise, and Airbase Sierra.

The IMC begin in a Airbase sort of structure, and the Militia will begin in an Angel City type of environment, however the twist is that it will take place at night.

Placed amid airbases and the destroyed ruins of Washington D.C, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) had a chance to reconnect the most popular shooter series of modern times to some semblance of reality with the level «No Russian».

«To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one's right to photograph.

Their four - screen video installation Gamma was shot inside the decommissioned Greenham Common airbase in Berkshire.

Established during World War II as a strategic airbase in the Caribbean, the United States has since used vast areas of the eastern part of Vieques as a bombing range and site for military training exercises.

(UN) GOVERNED SPACES A collaboration between artist Gregory Thielker and anthropologist Noah Coburn that resulted from studying relations between the US airbase at Bagram and local Afgani communities.