Sentences with phrase «targeted by the bombs»

Not exact matches

According to their calculations, based on data released by the Pentagon as well as information collected by think tanks and news organizations, the U.S. dropped some 26,171 bombs across all its weapons platforms, on targets in seven different countries.

There have been attacks targeting similar vulnerabilities of airports overseas, including a suicide bombing in 2011 at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow, an attack on the Jinnah International Airport by the Pakistani Taliban in 2014, a terrorist attack in Brussels that killed 32 people and injured more than 300 in March 2016, and an attack in June 2016 at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, that killed 45 and wounded more than 200.

By the end of its deployment, its air wing had dropped over 1,118 bombs on ISIS target, passing a previous record set by USS Theodore Roosevelt's air wing earlier that yeaBy the end of its deployment, its air wing had dropped over 1,118 bombs on ISIS target, passing a previous record set by USS Theodore Roosevelt's air wing earlier that yeaby USS Theodore Roosevelt's air wing earlier that year.

That overpressure, caused when the bomb detonates at a low altitude over its target, is designed to crush underground tunnels and bunkers like the ones often used by ISIS.

The Tornados, supported by a Voyager tanker and a Reaper drone, dropped their Paveway IV guided bombs against six targets on an oilfield at Omar, «one of the ISIS's largest and most important oilfields,» according to the MoD.

Assuming — hoping — that yesterday's Boston Marathon bombing is not followed by a string of similar attacks, the most apt precedent might be the July 7, 2005, blasts in London, when three trains and a bus were targeted, 52 victims were killed and 700 were injured.

But as I have noted, the actual face of recent warfare differs markedly from this, as it involves civil wars, uses of force by non-state actors, and massive harm to the innocent not from the use of horrific weapons but because they are made the direct targets of weapons ranging from knives to automatic rifles to suicide bombs.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

With atomic and hydrogen bombs now stock - piled by both the United States and Russia in sufficient quantity and potency to destroy all human life upon the planet and with guided missiles to deliver them quickly to their targets, the annihilation not only of great cities but of entire nations in a matter of minutes has now become a staggering possibility.

Apart from the Lockerbie bombing (270 fatalities), for which responsibility was accepted by Gadhafi, attacks with more than 50 fatalities in the last 20 years were by Al Qaeda, Islamic State, or non-Muslim far - right inspired individuals (the attack listed as Greek is the bombing of TWA Flight 841 from Tel Aviv to New York, which happened to crash in Greece but Greece was not the target of the attack).

By launching sixteen twin - engined Army bombers from the aircraft carrier Hornet, they managed to bomb targets in Tokyo and several other Japanese cities, something that the Japanese leadership assumed could not happen.

I would say that clear defining point of Nuclear War is when a nation achieves what is called «The Nuclear Triad» which refers to the three ways to deliver a nuke to a target: Ground Based Launches, Sea Based Launches (usually uses Submarines) and Sky based Launches (by both missile systems on a plane and gravity bombs).

He attacked «the foul and despicable crimes committed by Isil and by the Assad government, including barrel bombs being dropped on civilian targets», but without mentioning Assad's backer, the supplier of those barrel bombs: Vladimir Putin.

A man who lost two children in the bombings told the BBC that police officers investigating phone hacking had warned him that their contact details were found on a target list, while a former firefighter who helped rescue injured passengers also said he had been contacted by police who were looking into the hacking allegations.

Last month, east London MP, Stella Creasy, who was a target of leftwing anger last year over her Commons vote in favour of bomb attacks on Syria, said there was «emphasis by some in these groups on controlling the levers of power to select — or deselect — MPs and party officials» and concluded: «Groups like Momentum now appear to be draining the very energy from our political process they claimed to be promoting.»

Malliotakis spoke at a press conference in front of Fraunces Tavern, the lower Manhattan target of a fatal bombing by a group led by Lopez Rivera.

«Apparently, this is the reason the insurgents are striving to remain relevant by resorting to callous use of women and children to carry out suicide bomb attacks on soft and vulnerable targets,» he said.

«The follow up operation which was conducted by the Nigerian Air Force and 38 Task Force Artillery Brigade, 8 Division, Operation LAFIYA DOLE, was targeted at destroying Boko Haram infrastructure and logistics; such as communication centers, fabrication yards, bomb making equipment, vehicles and other means of sustenance.

In Pakistan, in contrast, bombings are driven by religious differences between people who are ethnically much more similar within a multi-ethnic panorama of predominantly Muslim ethnicities - indeed, often the targets of bombings are secular people, or Christians, or less «fundamentalist» Muslims of the same ethnicity as the bombers, so simple ethnic profiling is not very useful in making a first order assessment of the risk that someone is a bomber and generates vastly more false positives.

ALBANY, NY — Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D - 88) is proud to announce that A.7198 - A / S.5512 - A, legislation she authored as a response to bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers across the nation earlier this year, was signed into law by Govern

Justice Gabriel Kolawole who presided over the case said the it was dismissed as a result of the inability of the prosecution to prove that President Goodluck Jonathan, who was at the Eagle Square during the bombing, was the target of the blast or was intimidated by the attack.

Yuletide Season: Military urges extra vigilance and Security Consciousness Barely two days after the Department of State Security (DSS) alerted Nigerians of plots by the Boko Haram terrorists group to carry out soft targets attacks and bombings in Market places and religious Centers, the Nigerian Army...

Social media isn't always accurate — Reddit's targeting of the wrong suspect in the 2013 Boston bombings is one cautionary example — but the barrage of data produced by Twitter and Facebook can be immensely useful to emergency responders and researchers studying crises, and point to innovative crisis management.

But a document newly obtained by the Washington, D.C. — based Federation of American Scientists (FAS)-- founded by the creators of the original nuclear bomb in 1945 and monitoring the weapons ever since — reveals that in recent years the U.S. target list has expanded to include so - called «regional proliferators,» smaller states seeking to acquire such weapons of mass destruction.

There is no question that the great specificity of any one conscious perceptual experience — such as the throbbing pain of the socket following extraction of the lower right wisdom tooth, the feeling of familiarity in dj vu, the aha experience of sudden understanding, the azure blue of a high mountain vista, the despair at reading about one more suicide bombing — is mediated by coalitions of synchronized cortical nerve cells and their associated targets in the satellites of the cortex, thalamus, amygdala, claustrum and basal ganglia.

Meanwhile, a nearby stem cell company was targeted by a pipe bomb, putting the entire industry on edge.

Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta), the film stars Milla Jovovich as a Foreign Service Officer who, after being mysteriously framed for a terrorist bombing, finds herself the target of a ruthless assassin, played be Pierce Brosnan.

It proves that bad jokes can bomb not once but twice if offered consecutively (Bad Company, because it fears correctly that its target audience won't understand a joke unless it's repeated, does two Czech language jokes and two New Jersey jokes one after another to a rising chorus of crickets), and it will demonstrate by its inevitable box - office failure that even the dumbest members of the audience have the animal sense not to sit through something this appalling a second time.

Thus, they became bomb targets and were taken down by the Soviet Union.

Greene recounts the 1958 bombing of the oldest synagogue in Atlanta, «The Temple,» targeted by white supremacists who were upset by the rabbi presiding there, Jacob Rothschild, and his liberal views on civil rights.

Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown by an incompetent colleague in Lebanon, thinks he knows how the bomb is being moved toward its target and how to find it.

Al - Qa» ida took credit for the bombing of an Amman hotel frequented by Westerners in November 2005, explaining they were targeting «filthy entertainment centers.»

Adjustments - Timing shortened from being downed to rising, rising into a movement, mid-air quick recovery, jumping, dashing, moving (on ground or midair), attacking, or guarding - Awakening: Fixed bug where attacks at very close range came from unguardable angles; these can now be guarded - Dash Combo: Fixed bug where Tag Combos weren't counted for achievement purposes unless landed on a foe who was incapacitated by a Tag Combo - Brynhildr (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Ares (Summon Special Move 1): Removed hitbox between Ares and spear that appeared right after throwing a spear - Odin (melee mode, neutral melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Odin (melee mode, side melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Grim Reaper (Special Move 2): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time for zombies when targeting foes as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Grim Reaper (Down + Special Move 2): Fixed bug where dog zombies occasionally didn't face the correct direction while moving - Grim Reaper (Awakened, Character Ability Power) Added fire effect to characters who take damage after being hit by a zombie ball when Grim Reaper is in fire zombie ball mode - Ra (bomb mode, Special Move 1): Bombs can now be destroyed by enemy attack - Ra (ranged / bomb mode, Special Move 1): Changed reload when out of ammo to constant reload - Slayer (Melee Attack, Down + Melee Attack branch): Reduced freeze time upon landing on the ground - Slayer (upper Melee Attack): Reduced movement speed when pursuing foes - Slayer: Reduced turning radius when moving to attack - Loki (Special Move 1): Fixed bug so Grim Reaper's Special Move 1 zombies, Ra's Special Move 1 bombs, etc. are now drawn in - Loki (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Loki (Special Move 2): Fixed move so that Loki isn't motionless while charBombs can now be destroyed by enemy attack - Ra (ranged / bomb mode, Special Move 1): Changed reload when out of ammo to constant reload - Slayer (Melee Attack, Down + Melee Attack branch): Reduced freeze time upon landing on the ground - Slayer (upper Melee Attack): Reduced movement speed when pursuing foes - Slayer: Reduced turning radius when moving to attack - Loki (Special Move 1): Fixed bug so Grim Reaper's Special Move 1 zombies, Ra's Special Move 1 bombs, etc. are now drawn in - Loki (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Loki (Special Move 2): Fixed move so that Loki isn't motionless while charbombs, etc. are now drawn in - Loki (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Loki (Special Move 2): Fixed move so that Loki isn't motionless while charging.

- Fight mode has bombs and healing items dropped in - Team Fight has two players chained together by strings and you can hurt your teammate - B - Ball has you batting an explosive ball back and forth over a net - Hoops is basketball where you can grab your opponent and put them through the net - Skillshot has you punching targets - 1 - on - 100 has you punching enemies that appear in the arena - ARMS Test lets you try out combinations and training mode lets you try drills - Earn in - game prize money and use that at the Arm Getter to unlock new arm attributes.

Slam each target with your ball a few times to clear them out, or drop bombs as you pass by for splash damage.

For example, the grenade launcher essentially launches explosive snowballs and there's a boogie bomb that forces enemies to dance when they get hit by it, making them easy targets.

Ruscha started to paint while at Chouinard, and while he was unmoved by the spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism, he was inspired by the then little - known Jasper Johns, whose collage painting Target with Four Faces Ruscha later described as the «atomic bomb of my training».

During her yearlong residency abroad Kozloff conceived and completed Targets, a nine - foot walk - in globe in twenty - four sections, each of which is painted with an aerial map of a place that has been bombed by the U.S. in the years since World War II.

While he was in Kitakyushu, Gillick discovered that the city, which is dominated by its steel industries, was the original target for the first atomic bomb dropped by the Americans at the end of the Second World War.

Nuclear power stations make a much better target than solar or wind power stations in war time because so much can be destroyed by one or a few well aimed bombs.

Most of the time, you'll want to use barrel bombs strategically placed by the target's head as its wake up call.