Sentences with phrase «as air strikes»

For example, the Air Raider can call in support vehicles (such as tanks) to use or call in support maneuvers such as air strikes.

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.

After falling to a recent trough of $ 1,208.20 intraday in Asia on Monday, the U.S. Comex gold futures climbed to $ 1,221 on Tuesday as air strikes began in Syria.

As the air strikes continued, Alloush reiterated Jaish al - Islam's demand that it be allowed to stay in Douma to protect its people.

In an insightful video showing what goes on in a live war zone, watch below as an air strike is called in to deal with the snipers quickly and effectively:

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.»

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.

He is thought to be exploring a much larger strike this time, as the strike in April 2017 didn't meaningfully hamper Syria's air operations.

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.

The strike by the US, the UK, and France in Syria on Friday involved 105 missiles fired from air and sea to rain down thousands of pounds of explosives on three targets suspected of being chemical weapons facilities — but Israeli officials cited in a recent news report characterized it as a failure.

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.

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.

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.»

Two F / A -18 E Super Hornets from the Tophatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 overfly with extended landing gear and hook (hence, in landing configuration) the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during an air power demonstration taking place over the flattop as the it returns from an eight - month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.

Tanks manned by fighters for Libya's interim government shelled loyalists holding out in Muammar Gaddafi's hometown as NATO jets circled overhead, ready to renew air strikes.

I know it sucks to have dirty laundry aired, but this looks like more that airing of dirty laundry — if Julie is correct (and I realize I'm hearing her side in this thread), denigrating your partner to give you an out, and maintain your state of paragon exemplar in ministry strikes me as a sinister act.

These suggestions strike us as ridiculous — to view God as the cosmic air controller or cosmic metallurgist is to offer a position which is religiously repugnant.

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.

Star Wars strikes so many of us as a breath of fresh air not only because we need to believe that the good can triumph but because lately we have had such difficulty in identifying the good and distinguishing it from the evil.

It's claimed Israel has carried out an air strike on a Christian church and cemetery in Palestine as... More

If you play «In The Air Tonight» by Phil Collins on December 31st at 11:56:40 the drum break will play right as the clock strikes midnight.

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.

Amnesty International UK's director Kate Allen said: «We hope Justin Welby used the meeting as an opportunity to personally communicate the Church's concerns over the thousands of Yemeni civilians killed and injured in reckless and indiscriminate Saudi - led coalition air strikes.

As my Beau and I strolled through the narrow alleyways of the Old Town in Split, we were struck by the intense heat of the Old Town, which entraps the hot air within its high brick walls.

Salvino, a devout believer in the application of body English, leaped high in the air as he rammed a strike.

Even now, they're mainly just Air Combat Controllers, directing aircraft as they strike, instead of striking themselves.

Prolific on social media, the Spurs man saw tonight as a perfect opportunity to fire back at Merson after a wonderful strike against Italy left Gigi Buffon clutching thin air.

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»).

Blackburn may well have been the platform upon which United now start to win matches more comfortably, with an air of confidence and in a manner which will strike fear into the eyes of their title rivals, as up till now they've been lacking in so many qualities needs to really stamp your make on any title battle.

I've been so moved by it's words - it's a wonderful collection of essays - and the following in particular struck me this weekend as it echoed what I was feeling in the air.

The American military strike against Syria threatened Russian - American relations as the Kremlin denounced President Donald Trump's use of force and the Russian military indicated it would suspend an agreement to share information about air operations over the country that was devised to avoid accidental conflict.

Pandemonium equally struck again late Sunday afternoon as sporadic shooting rented the air in Abonnema area of Port Harcourt.

The legislative session runs for another three months, but it's up in the air as to whether the Legislature, in an election year, would want to strike compromises on complicated issues.

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.

[citation needed] In a March 2015 Newsnight election debate, he was challenged by Jeremy Paxman as to whether or not he was «tough enough» to be Prime Minister, famously responding, «Hell yes, I'm tough enough», in reference to his reluctance to support air strikes against extremist targets in Syria.

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.»

That is because ISIL can not be defeated from the air alone, as even supporters of air strikes acknowledge, and because ISIL's success depends on the vacuum created from a multi-sided civil war.

As you can read on the Wikipedia article on the Royal Saudi Air Force and Saudi - Arabian ground forces, Saudi Arabia has the following aircraft capable of performing ground strikes:

However, it could spell the beginning of a much bigger involvment for Britain, if as expected, the air strikes fail to significantly damage Isis» presence in Syria.

The S - 300 sale is potentially a threat to intervention by air in the Syrian Civil War by the U.S. or its allies (the U.K. and France, for example, also participated in the chemical weapons retaliation strike in April of 2018, and Turkish aircraft have intervened in parts of the Syrian Civil War as well, for example, shooting down a Russian jet fighter which was intruding into its air space).

However, they seem to have been gaining ground as fast as they are losing it, even after the addition of air strikes.

Most of the targets included Boko Haram fuel pump storages, Solar Panels, Meeting Points and hideouts in the samuba forests as most of the areas were identified first before the air strikes.

Fallon also described Syria as a client state of Russia as he spoke out against Russian air strikes which are not solely targeted at Islamic State militants in Syria.

It worth mentioning that IS benefited from the coalition air strikes by marketing itself for all jihadists around the world as the Islamic state that is fighting the evil of the west in general and US in specific, this marketing propaganda attracted many jihadist around the world to join IS.

The former SNP leader is now his party's foreign affairs spokesman, and had been expected to be at Westminster as David Cameron set out the case for extending RAF air strikes against Isil from Iraq into Syria.

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.

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