Sentences with phrase «air strikes on»

One mission erupts into a frantic police chase that relies on your driving skills, or rather your ability to keep the Interceptor driving in a straight line, while others have you in control of an overhead UAV, tapping targets with the touch screen to activate air strikes on unsuspecting enemies.
In the more interesting corner are a comically unlucky adventurer with a barrel fetish, a three - eyed woman with a very large gun who apparently ran straight from a dinner party to look for her boyfriend, and a klutzy reporter - slash - jujitsu expert who can call in air strikes on her cell phone.
He has also voted against the Government on tuition fees and yesterday voted against air strikes on Islamic State militants.
Report reaching DailyPost indicates that the Nigerian military has launched air strikes on Bama, Borno State.
David Cameron is understood to be considering taking the issue of air strikes on Isis in Syria to the Commons after the party conference season.
The dance between the two sides is precisely the same as the one that preceded the Commons» vote on whether or not to support air strikes on Syria.
«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.
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Owen Smith explains why he'll be voting against air strikes on Syria.
Elsewhere, the Britain - based Observatory said the toll in Thursday's air strikes on the town on Albu Kamal on the Syrian border with Iraq had risen to 49 people, at least 31 of them civilians.
While British forces are taking part in air strikes on IS targets in Iraq, they are not involved in the US - led coalition targeting Syria due to resistance from opposition parties still mindful of previous unpopular interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since his speech in favour of air strikes on Syria I am struck by the number of Hilary Benn's colleagues, those who have worked with him in cabinets or shadow cabinets, who tell me he has changed since the summer, finding his political voice or public definition in opposition to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
Government forces launched air strikes on al - Qaeda bases in Zinjibar during September.
The crux of the matter is that Britain has indeed waded into the «battle for Islam», which, although it has a concrete military component in the form of air strikes on Isis, is above all a battle of ideas.
The reality of the situation in Palestine and its hinterlands - or rather, the closest approximation of reality one can make out in the thick fog of propaganda that flies from all sides - is damning of Israel's body politic, especially at points of peak interest such as air strikes on Gaza or Lebanon.
The United States and some Arab nations have launched the first air strikes on Islamic State (IS) fighters... More
The United States and some Arab nations have launched the first air strikes on Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria.
The US has carried out air strikes on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq; the first strike in an expanded mission recently announced by Barack Obama.
Former defence minister and Christian MP Sir Gerald Howarth has told Premier he supports the United Kingdom joining US - led air strikes on Islamic State (IS) fig...
Israeli officials are saying that should Iran retaliate for the attack on the drone base, there will be massive Israeli air strikes on Iranian bases in Syria.
A US - led coalition has been launching air strikes on Isis militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for months as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive.
Some major airlines were re-routing flights after Europe's air traffic control agency urged caution for aircraft flying in the eastern Mediterranean due to possible air strikes on Syria.
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.
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.
Smoke rises following a Syrian government air strike on rebel positions in eastern Aleppo, Syria
It's claimed Israel has carried out an air strike on a Christian church and cemetery in Palestine as... More
The Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole, in a combined operation with the Nigerien Air Force, on 8 April 2018, launched a coordinated air strike on Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) locations at Arege and Tumbun Rago in Borno State.
Relations between Afghanistan and the West have been more strained than ever of late following a Nato air strike on Friday, ordered by a German commander, which was said to have killed up to 70 civilians.

Not exact matches

Syrian air defenses activated and fired interceptor missiles during the US, UK, and France's missile strike on the country's suspected chemical weapons sites, but only two of those reportedly had a chance of hitting their targets.
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.
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.
On April 9, an air strike killed seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members at a Syrian base.
Ryan Bohl, a Middle East analyst at the geopolitical consulting firm Stratfor, told Business Insider that though Syria's chemical weapons facilities lay under the umbrella of Russia's air defenses, they were not actually close enough that a strike on the facilities would endanger Russian troops.
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.
«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.
Iraqi soldiers and security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters, backed by U.S. - led air strikes and support on the ground, already control Mosul's southern, eastern and northern flanks, and have advanced on those fronts for nearly two weeks.
WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Air strikes by U.S., British and French forces crippled Syria's chemical weapons program and all missiles launched hit their targets, the Pentagon said on Saturday as President Donald Trump declared «Mission Accomplished.»
WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - Air strikes by U.S., British and French forces crippled Syria's chemical weapons program and all missiles launched hit their targets, the Pentagon said on Saturday as President Donald Trump declared «Mission Accomplished.»
Even worse, US air strikes that were first believed to have mistakenly killed 60 Syrian troops instead of IS now appear to have killed regime prisoners forced to put on Syrian army uniforms.
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 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.
It is likely more modern stand - off weapons like the UK's MBDA Storm Shadow and French SCALP - EG cruise missile along with the new AGM - 158 JASSM - ER (Joint Air - to - Surface Standoff Missile Extended Range) were highly effective in Friday night's strike on Syria by UK, France and the U.S..
On April 14 AQAP announced that one of its leaders, Ibrahim al - Rubaish, had been killed by a U.S. air strike.
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.
The Pentagon says that about 500 men began to fire on the position and that the US responded with air power and artillery strikes.
Kennedy decided on a naval blockade rather than an air strike, and Khrushchev backed down.
What struck me from his early story was that he took the first steps toward founding RE / MAX while still on active duty in the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s.
After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.
On the other hand, such strikes, he said, also act as a deterrent to Hezbollah, whose missile capabilities could mean that the air force and the rest of the Israeli military will fight any future Lebanon war with their own bases under attack.
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