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There have also been allegations by MPs in favour of air strikes of abuse and intimidation on social media — but since this seems to be the preferred style of social media discourse perhaps too much should not be made of this.

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.

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.

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 yeair strikes in Afghanistan in 2017 was 4,361, according to US Air Force data, compared with 1,337 the previous yeAir Force data, compared with 1,337 the previous year.

«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.»

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.»

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.

«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.

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.

«If Air Canada workers are so important that strike could damage health of Canada, then they deserve good pay + decent pensions.»

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.

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

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.

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The coalition has launched thousands of air strikes which have hit schools, markets and hospitals, killing hundreds of people - though it says it does not target civilians.

«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.

The news that HBO struck a five - year deal to air first - run episodes of Sesame Street brought out two main reactions in people.

Before joining the team, Del Bagno was an F - 35A Joint Strike Fighter evaluator pilot and chief of standardization and evaluation with the 58th Fighter Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

On April 14 AQAP announced that one of its leaders, Ibrahim al - Rubaish, had been killed by a U.S. air strike.

The air base the US hit with sea - based cruise missiles began launching aircraft again within 24 hours of the strike.

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

When cosmic rays strike the air, they create showers of ionizing radiation — particles that can knock electrons free of atoms and molecules — that can penetrate deep inside our bodies.

America's biggest coal burning plant is in striking distance of my air, actually, near Macon, Georgia.

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.

Haley called Russia and Syria's air and artillery strikes «a brutal bombardment of civilians in Syria.»

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.

There is no official support for children who lose their parents in the air strikes and it is a struggle for aid workers to access them, so many rely on members of the community to take them in.

He explained that even when the children did go to school, the constant noise and threat of air strikes meant it was hard for them to focus anyway.

Aided by federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt, who effectively stripped the unions of their ability to strike, Air Canada prevailed earlier this year.

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.

Israel is suspected of carrying out a silent but lethal air war against Iranian - aligned militias in Syria, though Israel seldom comments on whether it took part in specific strikes, and if it does, it's always after the fact.

The NATO foreign ministers meeting follows the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian agent in Britain, and Western air strikes against Russia - allied Syria, which the United States accused of a chemical attack in Douma on April 7.

EDM was exploding, and yet, during live performances, star DJs couldn't leave their banks of computers and turntables; the best they could manage for onstage theatrics was to periodically throw their arms in the air to strike the much - mocked «Jesus pose.»

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).

In response to these US Air Force allegations, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major - General Igor Konashenkov told Russian media on Saturday that «most close - midair encounters between Russian and US jets in the area around the Euphrates River have been linked to the attempts of US aircraft to get in the way [of the Russian warplanes] striking against Islamic State terrorists.»

Throughout 2017, AFRICOM reported a number of «self - defense strikes» against Shabaab in Somalia, a euphemism for close air support for offensive operations.

However, all but two of the strikes in Libya took place under the aegis of Operation Odyssey Lightning, the US air operation which enabled Libyan Government of National Accord forces to recapture Sirte.

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.

President Barack Obama has not ruled out air strikes but he and top military leaders have said the crisis in Iraq can only be resolved through a settlement with leaders of the country's Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish communities.

Air Canada was forced to cancel about 75 flights in April when a faction of pilots called in sick — a strike declared illegal by labour officials.

Meanwhile, Air France crews and ground staff were on their 12th day of striking over pay.

Oil prices were already down after news that Nato air strikes over the weekend had killed one of the sons of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, and after industry sources said Saudi Arabia had raised output in April.

The EU's Security Chief Federica Mogherini responded Thursday night to the alleged chemical attack and said in a statement, «The EU condemns in the strongest terms the air strike that hit the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province on April 4, 2017.»

«The negotiations failed and the regime wants its conditions — the air strikes are a taste of what could happen if its conditions are not implemented,» he said.

Missile strikes on Syrian government bases overnight killed dozens of pro-regime forces, raising the risks of a wider regional war just weeks after Israel was blamed for hitting an air station in the country used by Iranian elite forces.

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.

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