Sentences with phrase «said air strikes»

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

The US said the air strikes started at around 1.30 am British time, and were conducted by America, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.

The Foreign Secretary said air strikes had not been ruled out but at the moment the UK would continue with its humanitarian mission only.

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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 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.

The Pentagon said Syria had fired 40 unguided surface to air missiles - but only after the Western strikes had ended.

A U.S. official familiar with the military planning said there could be more air strikes if the intelligence indicates Assad had not stopped making, importing, storing or using chemical weapons, including chlorine.

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.»

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 - 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.

Flights between the U.K. and Europe could be suspended indefinitely if Britain fails to strike a new air travel deal with the EU, says Ryanair CMO.

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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 Pentagon says that about 500 men began to fire on the position and that the US responded with air power and artillery strikes.

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.

The Russian military, whose forces are supporting Assad's government, said two Israeli F - 15 warplanes had struck the T - 4 air base, the Interfax news agency reported.

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 Russian military said on Monday that two Israeli F - 15 warplanes had carried out strikes on a Syrian air base on Sunday, the Interfax news agency reported.

«The F - 22 launched decoy flares and used airbrakes while constantly maneuvering [near the Russian strike jets], imitating an air fight» before it was chased away, Konashenkov said.

Syria fired 40 unguided surface to air missiles - but only after the Western strikes had ended, the Pentagon said.

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.

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.

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The Pentagon said it wasn't involved in any strikes in Syria, and Russia says the Israelis sent two F - 15 fighter jets into Syrian airspace and launched eight missiles at the T - 4 air base.

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.»

Air Canada also said it is prepared to increase capacity in the event that WestJet pilots go on strike.

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.

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.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said around 20 civilians were killed in the air strikes that hit an aid convoy in northern Syria.

In a statement, leaders of the Baptist and the Methodist Church said that the case for air strikes can only be supported if there are plans to tackle the ideology of IS.

Meanwhile, Two Hamas members have been killed in Israeli air strikes following a rocket attack on Israel, Gaza officials said.

He said: «All that we hear is the rhetoric of war and violence and air strikes and arming this and arming that.

So far, Prime Minister David Cameron has ruled out sending any UK soldiers to Iraq to fight IS and says he is only in favour of air strikes against the group.

He said the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities meant the UK had to join the Americans in air strikes.

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.

«I can use any style, whether that's on the mat, striking, brawling, or in the air,» said Ellering.

«Video surveillance shows the three victims being struck and being flung into the air,» Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Maura White said in bond court Wednesday.

France was the first US ally to join in air strikes against ISIL in September 2014, when Interior Minister Cazeneuve responded to threats to kill French citizens in retaliation by saying that the government was «not afraid» and would protect its citizens.

Strikes by the US - led air coalition fighting the Islamic State group destroyed 116 fuel trucks used by the jihadist organisation in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday.

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.»

In a statement obtained by LabourList he said he would reject the motion because «I do not think the case has been adequately made that extending British air strikes will either defeat ISIL or make us safer here at home.»

Britain should join air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and should not «sub-contract» its security to allies, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday in a written statement to MPs.

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.

3.30 - Tory MP Mark Pritchard says the Syria air strikes are justified on self - defence grounds alone.

Russia's foreign minister said Friday that the U.S. sought out and respected Moscow's positions in Syria when it launched its air strikes last week.