Sentences with phrase «air strikes last»

And both the UN and ISAF data sets show a drop in deaths due to air strikes last year, by 50 % and 10 %, respectively.

Russia's foreign minister said Friday that the U.S. sought out and respected Moscow's positions in Syria when it launched its air strikes last week.

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.

Not exact matches

«The air force announced the execution of air strikes with the Qasef - 1 aircraft on Aramco in Jizan (province),» the channel said on its Twitter account, referring to a drone the Houthis unveiled last year.

Trump did warn Russia before the US struck a Syrian air base in April of last year.

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, told National Public Radio last month that air strikes could have the objective of targeting senior leaders among the Islamist militants, safeguarding infrastructure or «blunting attacks» by large numbers of militants, possibly to counter an assault on Baghdad.

Combined with an air assault from a US B - 1B Lancer bomber and UK and French fighter jets, the attack ended up looking considerably different from last year's punitive strike.

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

Echoing then - Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's remarks last month, Goldfein said most view the January strike in Libya as a B - 2 strike, but forget that its journey and mission were supplemented by Air Force tankers, maintainer airmen and weapons loaders, among other «family of systems.»

Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted there was no alternative to the air - strikes, following a chemical weapons attack in Douma last week that killed 75 people, including children.

If there was any precarious truce left standing between Israel and Hamas since the last major conflict over the Gaza strip four years ago, it has been destroyed in the past few days as rockets and air strikes have been launched from both sides.

Last night the United States President Barack Obama authorised air strikes against Islamic militants that are taking over several parts of Iraq.

On Sunday, October 7, as the United States began at last its air strikes against the Taliban, I was on an airplane, more than twenty thousand feet above the Midwestern plains» that height from which the square - edged farms and checkerboarded fields seem not quite real: a toy land, a counterpane spread across a giant's bed, a fantasy.

Bas Dost, not really talked about, but he struck 16 times in 17 starts from just 43 shots in the Bundesliga last year, he is very tall, very good in the air and showed ruthlessness in front of goal last year.

The 27 - year - old hit bottom last June when manager Lou Piniella went off on Grieve, who was hitting.236 at the time, after he had struck out looking to end a game against the Yankees; the tongue - lashing in the dugout was aired repeatedly on national TV highlight shows.

And while that last bit is funny, I don't have as big a problem with a couple thousand here and there for art projects as I do with spending hundreds of millions on air strikes of questionable efficacy that are not part of a larger strategy (not to mention multiple trillion - dollar - plus wars executed by «conservatives»).

Nearly six in 10 Americans approve of President Donald Trump's decision to strike at a Syrian air base from which chemical attacks were launched last week, according to a new CBS News national poll.

«Russian warplanes have since last night been carrying out heavy air strikes on the Jabal Akrad and Jabal Turkman regions» in the north of the province, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

As I reported last week, there was outrage when Corbyn wrote to MPs opposing air strikes without first informing the shadow cabinet (I'm told that my account of that meeting was also raised).

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D - NY) is standing behind President Donald Trump's missile strike of a Syrian air base last week that was believed to be used for a chemical weapons attack in which innocent Syrian citizens were killed.

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.

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

Bearing an unsurprisingly striking resemblance to the concept previewed last year, the 2018 Civic Type R boasts aggressive front air intakes, big wheels and an oversized rear wing.

[00:41:30] Not much joy like that for European travelers last week, with a combination of an air traffic control failure in Amsterdam and strike action in Italy causing hundreds of flights to be canceled and creating long delays for travelers.

The last ability calls in a massive air strike which is great in the outdoor levels for clearing out groups of enemies.

The only thing I can remember in the last thirty years is Reagan firing the striking air traffic controllers.

«Cancelled» is the last word you want to read on an airport monitor but every so often air traffic controller strikes, dangerous weather conditions and mechanical failures cause those 9 letters to flicker on to the screen... Read more