Sentences with phrase «from air strikes»

Near the end of the Second World War Budapest became a front line city as Hungary was once again allied with the Germans and the Soviets; the German Army barricaded themselves in the castle quarter, and as a result the city suffered severe damage from air strikes.

Save the Children said the bomb, from an air strike, hit the entrance to the hospital in rural Idlib province.

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

US government sources tell Ankit Panda writing at The Daily Beast that only two missiles fired from Syria's air defenses took off during the actual strike, and they both failed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Relatives identified it from the sock the man wore when an air strike crushed him to death beneath his own home, a morgue worker said.

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.

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.

Today, its rich history can be gleaned from its ancient streets, which feel like open - air museums with their striking medley of medieval, baroque and postmodern architecture, and in its (distinctively British) customs (think: afternoon tea and driving on the left side of the road).

For the second day, barbaric air raids continue on #Douma city, more than 50 air strikes and heavy artillery shelling targeted the city since this morning @syriacivildefe teams work urgently to respond to the injured and evacuate them from the devastated areas.

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.

Operation Pillar of Defense consisted of air strikes from November 14 to 21, 2012, and claimed 980 rocket launchers.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

From the air, I was struck by how the trees in Manhattan's Riverside Park were undamaged but gas lines in New Jersey went for miles.

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 33 - year - old Real Madrid star pulled a victory from thin air against Egypt, trailing 1 - 0 prior to two stoppage - time strikes, but couldn't prevent an embarrassing defeat to one of the weakest Dutch sides in recent memory.

His strike from way out was the purest of hits, one that wobbled through the air like a kite dancing on the breeze.

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 US is concerned that a coalition revolving around a fight with DAESH would be compromised if the coalition included Israel, hence the lack of air strikes from Israel.

ISIS has been repudiated and condemned by a remarkably wide range of international actors, from the US and European states to Saudia Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (both participants in air strikes) and Iran.

Before that, air strikes had been used to force ISIS away from trapped civilians on Sinjar Mountain, averting another humanitarian crisis, and the bulk of American bombing has been in the Mosul Dam area, seeking to destroy the military hardware ISIS need to try and retake the dam off Kurdish Pershmerga militias.

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.

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.

Targeted U.S. strikes on the air base from which these chemical attacks emanated were a proportional response to this horrible atrocity.

There may be similar questions about how air strikes have been affecting non-combatants in IS occupied territory, but I wish to consider the air campaign from a different angle.

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.

A new message purporting to come from the leader of Islamic State said air strikes by Russia and a U.S. - led coalition had...

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.

If Corbyn telling Shadow Cabinet they can vote for air strikes but it's against party policy, increases pressure from local party / Momentum

Ignoring his painful wound and the withering hail of enemy fire being directed at him from three sides, he continued to relay artillery and air strike requests from his platoon leader who was also wounded.

Steve Wilson, election agent for Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, in South Yorkshire — who voted in favour of air strikes — said: «There were about 14 very negative emails / phone calls from members not happy with how Angela voted.»

The successful air strike by the NAF Alpha Jet aircraft followed calls from the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 8...

The Prime Minister has defended an RAF air strike that killed two British jihadists in Syria, including Reyaad Khan from Cardiff.

Martin: One other thing that struck me: Marchers like to claim credit for all of the good things science has brought — from beer and antibiotics to air travel, but never any of the bad stuff.

This jet, moving at perhaps 4,000 miles per hour, or more than five times the speed of sound in air, strikes so quickly that water molecules do not have time to flow away from the point of impact.

«During the past three years of armed conflict, Yemenis have been continuously exposed to serious harm and trauma, including air strikes, threats and attacks from armed groups, forced disappearances, torture, a cholera epidemic, and food and job insecurity,» said Farea Al - Muslimi, a prominent Yemeni scholar and chairman of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies.

A research team led by Dr. Brian Washburn from the Wildlife Research Center used records from the Army, Navy, U.S. Air force and the Coast Guard to identify statistical trends in wildlife strikes.

Another strategic effort is the U.S. Air Force's Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard prevention program, or BASH, which collects data to help map routes that prevent planes from sharing airspace with large flocks of birds.

When a high - energy gamma ray from a blazar strikes air molecules in the upper regions of Earth's atmosphere, it produces a cascade of charged subatomic particles.

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