Sentences with phrase «air strikes in»

I mean, there are lots of things we are prepared to believe exist without having seen them,» says Wildlife Conservation Society biologist Kent Redford, citing subatomic particles and Madeleine Albright's accounts of NATO air strikes in Kosovo.

Mr Cameron wants to secure Commons backing for UK air strikes in Syria, but has said he will not call a vote until he is confident of winning it.

One of the coalition's biggest defeats of the last parliament came in 2013 over proposed air strikes in Syria against President Assad.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage has said that the government is «gravely mistaken» in considering air strikes in Iraq and Syria.

They demanding the sacking of shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn and other «warmongers» after he rallied support for air strikes in a barnstorming Commons speech.

His intervention comes after the 66 Labour MPs who backed air strikes in a vote last week, defying their leader who opposes Western wars in the Middle East, have complained of online abuse.

Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg told the BBC his party would support air strikes in Iraq.

Fourth, The Prime Minister has avoided spelling out to the British people the warnings he has surely been given about the likely impact of UK air strikes in Syria on the threat of terrorist attacks in the UK.

John McDonnell has poured cold water on Hilary Benn's speech backing air strikes in Syria by warning that «the greatest oratory can lead us to the greatest mistakes».

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon tells BBC Newsnight that the UK's air strikes in Iraq are the start of «a long drawn out campaign».

The Shadow Foreign Secretary set out why he would be voting in favour of air strikes in a speech hailed as «outstanding»

Speaking on a visit to Jordan and Lebanon, Cameron indicated that Corbyn's election did not mean the end cross-party support for air strikes in Syria.

Turner did however vote against RAF air strikes in Syria - a stance he shared with Corbyn.

Jeremy Corbyn has been unable to force through an official Labour party policy of opposing air strikes in Syria.

Labour MPs are being given permission to vote as they choose on whether to back RAF air strikes in Syria.

«For these, and other reasons, I do not believe the PM's current proposal for air strikes in Syria will protect our security and therefore can not support it.»

Labour MPs are being given permission to vote as they choose on whether to back RAF air strikes in...

Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has been praised by MPs on both sides of the House for a rousing speech in favour of air strikes in Syria.

He suggested that many Tory and Labour MPs now supported air strikes in Syria.

Britain now expected to launch air strikes in Syria within days, if not hours.

He has stepped up pressure for MPs to back joining air strikes in Syria after IS claimed responsibility for the November 13 attacks in Paris, which killed 130 people.

Mike Gapes, the Labour MP for Ilford South, referred directly to Mr Corbyn when he said: «Can I remind her and the right honourable member for Islington North that it was a Labour government, with Robin Cook as Foreign Secretary, which carried out air strikes in Iraq under Operation Desert Fox in 1998 without a UN resolution, it was a Labour government that restored President Kabbah in Sierra Leone without a UN resolution, that it was a Labour government that stopped the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo without a UN resolution, and that there is a long - standing and noble tradition on these benches supporting humanitarian intervention.»

Labour also supported the air strikes in Libya, leading some — mainly on the left — criticising Miliband for appearing to have too warm a relationship with David Cameron.

The video does not include any details of how the plane might have been brought down, but expressly describes the apparent terror attack as retaliation for Russian air strikes in Syria.

IS has called for a war against both Russia and the US over their air strikes in Syria.

Leaders from the Catholic and Orthodox Church in Syria have condemned Saturday's air strikes in the country by the US, UK and France.

Leaders from the Catholic and Orthodox Church in Syria have condemned Saturday's air strikes in the country... More

The «number of weapons released» in US air strikes in Afghanistan in 2017 was 4,361, according to US Air Force data, compared with 1,337 the previous year.

The number of US air strikes in Afghanistan has spiked since President Donald Trump took office a year ago though the insurgents have hit back with deadly attacks, including a bloody Taliban raid on a Kabul hotel on the weekend.

Houthi supporters hold up rifles as they rally to protest the killing of Saleh al - Samad, a senior Houthi official, by a Saudi - led coalition air strike in Hodeidah, Yemen April 25, 2018.

A bald eagle and the American flag; JMW Turner's The Slave Ship and Henry Fuseli's Nightmare; a bullet - riddled window from the 2015 Copenhagen terrorist attack and the billowing smoke from an air strike in Syria.

Not exact matches

The increase in air strikes has led to concerns over civilian casualties, particularly after the United Nations reported a spike in deaths caused by air strikes last year.

The US has refused to confirm if Ansi died in one of its air strikes, with Defence Secretary Ashton Carter saying that he could not comment on specific details of a particular move.

On Tuesday, the United States launched an air strike against Iranian - backed fighters who it said posed a threat to US and US - backed forces in southern Syria.

«If your house is going to be struck by a wall of air or a tornado or a hurricane, you want to be in a place that is structurally sound.»

Only a very small fraction, if any, of the source term will remain in the air and / or «surf» on the wave that eventually strikes the shoreline.»

«Finally they tell us that the air traffic control workers in Brazil have decided to go on strike so our plane can't take off.

True, Air Canada suffered labour disruptions in the past, including a two - week strike by ground workers in 1978 and a walkout in 1987.

In these days of wildcat strikes and back - to - work legislation, it is difficult to remember an era when Air Canada's management and its unions didn't seem eager to stab each other's eyes out with forks.

There have also been comparisons to the U.S. F - 22 Raptor, although the F - 22 has emerged in combat in Syria as a precision strike low - observable aircraft in addition to its air superiority role.

«The American strike on Shayrat air base in Syria is an appropriate response to [Assad's] mass homicide,» said Fred Hof, the director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and former US special adviser on Syria.

When the US struck a Syrian air base over a suspected chemical attack in April 2017, it used Tomahawk missiles launched from US Navy guided - missile destroyer ships.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces launched air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people, aiming to degrade its chemical weapons capabilities in the biggest intervention yet in the conflict by Western powers.

These have included several air strikes against pro-government forces that have sought to advance towards a U.S. military base in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq, where the U.S. military has been training rebels to fight IS.

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.

Older U.S. Air Force jets — including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, eyed in recent years for retirement, and the F - 15E Strike Eagle — are leading the air war against the Islamic State, statistics shAir Force jets — including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, eyed in recent years for retirement, and the F - 15E Strike Eagle — are leading the air war against the Islamic State, statistics shair war against the Islamic State, statistics show.

At least 12 air strikes hit Latakia's northern countryside as pro-government forces clashed with fighters from al Qaeda's Nusra Front and Turkmen insurgents in the Jabal Akrad and Jabal Turkman areas, the British - based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

In 2014, the carrier was one of the first to launch air strikes against ISIS.

But he was mired in the Iraq war, and had few options beyond air strikes or another full - scale war in the Middle East, which Israel was pushing for.

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.