Sentences with phrase «of air strikes on»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

«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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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

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.»

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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The stock market went down today on a fear of the US going into an air strike against Syria.

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.

Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu said on November 15 that for the first time in the history of the Russian navy, its fleet air arm was involved in striking real targets.

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

A Conservative MP has told Premier air strikes may not be enough to defeat Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and that we shouldn't rule out the possibility of boots on the ground.

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»).

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

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.

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.

Secondly, while the notion of «surgical» air strikes, and «precision - guided» weaponry lends itself to the impression that air campaigns carry minimal risks to civilians on the ground, this is clearly not the case.

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.

The report documents why (one of) the explanation offered by Russia (a bomb strike on a sarin stocking site) is implausible: the nerve agent would then have been burnt and buried and not released in such huge quantities in the air.

On 14 May 2018, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), via the Air Task Force, commenced the conduct of «Ops Thunder Strike» against Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) in the Northeast...

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.

YouGov reports that the majority of Britons are in favour of air strikes against IS, but are opposed in nearly equal numbers to «putting boots on the ground.»

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:

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.

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.

«I believe that we should now take the decision to extend British air strikes against ISIL into Syria,» he wrote, ahead of a speech in parliament on Thursday where he will formally argue his case for war.

The newly acquired Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Mi - 35M helicopter gunships have successfully unleashed their firepower on Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) at a camp, 9.7 km South East of Bonne in the on - going Operation Thunder Strike.

Authorities of the Nigerian Airforce disclosed on Thursday that «On 15 May 2018, the second day of the ongoing Operation Thunder Strike, the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole successfully conducted air interdiction on a Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) infested location, 13 Nautical Miles North East of Bamon Thursday that «On 15 May 2018, the second day of the ongoing Operation Thunder Strike, the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole successfully conducted air interdiction on a Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) infested location, 13 Nautical Miles North East of BamOn 15 May 2018, the second day of the ongoing Operation Thunder Strike, the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole successfully conducted air interdiction on a Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) infested location, 13 Nautical Miles North East of BaAir Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole successfully conducted air interdiction on a Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) infested location, 13 Nautical Miles North East of Baair interdiction on a Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) infested location, 13 Nautical Miles North East of Bamon a Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) infested location, 13 Nautical Miles North East of Bama.

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.