Sentences with phrase «saying of the air strike»

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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.

«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 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.

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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.

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.

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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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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

Most of those present at the meeting - including Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn, Shadow Defence Secretary Maria Eagle and deputy Labour leader Tom Watson - said they backed David Cameron's call for RAF air strikes.

«Russian warplanes have since last night been carrying out heavy air strikes on the Jabal Akrad and Jabal Turkman regions» in the north of the province, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Air Force has confirmed the death of many suspected leaders of Boko Haram in a recent air strike carried out by Nigeria Air Force fighter jets on locations believed to be hideouts of the deadly insurgents, an official saAir Force has confirmed the death of many suspected leaders of Boko Haram in a recent air strike carried out by Nigeria Air Force fighter jets on locations believed to be hideouts of the deadly insurgents, an official saair strike carried out by Nigeria Air Force fighter jets on locations believed to be hideouts of the deadly insurgents, an official saAir Force fighter jets on locations believed to be hideouts of the deadly insurgents, an official said.

Mr Barber suggested coordinated strike action, the possibility of which was also aired by Bob Crow of the RMT and Mark Serwotka at the civil servants» union PCS - the latter of whom said he would be planning joint industrial action across the public sector if his pleas fall on deaf ears.

A statement signed by Air Commodore Olatokumbo Adesanya, Director of NAF Public Relations said, «Battle Damage Assessment conducted after the strike showed that several leaders of the Boko Haram Terrorist Organization and their followers were killed during the attacks.

Burnham, who is not persuaded by the case for air strikes, warned that colleagues who voted against the party's proposed position would be «thrown to the wolves» and said that he would not be a part of a «sham shadow cabinet».

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.»

In a statement by its Director of Public Relations & Information, Air Commodore Dele Alonge, the Force says, «It is instructive to note that with the recent successes recorded by the military in the North East against the Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT), intelligence reports revealed that due to the fierce attack on the sect, the BHT elements are presently in disarray and looking for soft targets to strike especially military installations.»

Relations between Afghanistan and the West have been more strained than ever of late following a Nato air strike on Friday, ordered by a German commander, which was said to have killed up to 70 civilians.

The US and allied nations have launched a campaign of air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, the Pentagon says.

Sen. Charles Schumer says he is supportive of President Donald Trump's decision to strike a Syrian air base that was allegedly involved in a chemical weapons attack.

He went on to say that while he was against proposals to extend air strikes to Syria, he could not «in good conscience» endorse the view of the Stop the War Coalition, who he described as «fundamentally wrong in their assessment and understanding of the threats the UK faces.»

Mr Cameron wants to secure Commons backing for UK air strikes in Syria, but has said he will not call a vote until he is confident of winning it.

The striking finding is that both studies produced remarkably similar results, increasing our confidence that we have uncovered the causal relationship between particulates air pollution and life expectancy,» says Avraham Ebenstein, a lecturer in the Department of Environmental Economics and Management at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an author of both studies.

«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.

I mean, there are lots of things we are prepared to believe exist without having seen them,» says Wildlife Conservation Society biologist Kent Redford, citing subatomic particles and Madeleine Albright's accounts of NATO air strikes in Kosovo.

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