The US air support he urgently requested has been slow in coming though, with Washington reluctant to send its air force back into combat in Iraq in the absence of political unity among its leaders.
After testing of both the air force-backed Boeing AGM-86 and the navy-backed General Dynamics AGM-109 Tomahawk, the AGM-86B was selected for operation by the B-52 (and ultimately by the B-1 Lancer).
Valentina Tereshkova, pictured as a Major in the Soviet Air Forces back in 1969.
It has courted French displeasure twice already this year, by ordering American-made F-16 warplanes for its air force and by backing the Americans in their war in Iraq, despite withering public criticism of Europe's eastern newcomers from France's president, Jacques Chirac. Polandhas emerged a winner diplomatically from Iraq, more so than Mr Chirac at any rate.
Despite court setbacks to Arizona's aggressive illegal immigration law, two continuing federal investigations into his law enforcement practices and an audit of his budget released this week that found that millions of dollars had been misspent, the sheriff — as vividly highlighted by the creation of the Arpaio air force — is not backing down in his pursuit of illegal immigrants, or the limelight.
The French troops, who had arrived in Bunia the day before, supposedly to prevent such slaughter, were confined to barracks, without orders to intervene.The advance guard of a 1,400-strong European-led rapid-reaction force, backed by air support and heavy armour, the French have a UN mandate to defend Bunia's population from the tribal war raging in Congo's north-eastern Ituri province.
The Israeli Air Force struck back at the spot from which the rocket was fired and killed a militant there, according to the Israeli military.
Militants in Gaza retaliated by firing barrages of rockets into southern Israel, and the Israeli Air Force struck back at numerous rocket-firing squads and facilities used by the militant groups.
He mentioned the Pulwama attack (though not Jaish-e-Muhammad) and offered his "empathy". He has asked Modi to "give peace a chance". The biggest peace offer he could make in this grim moment is to unilaterally hand over the captured air force officer back to India.
When Michael Haas, a former senior airman with the US air force, looks back on the missions he flew over Afghanistan and other conflict zones in a six-year career operating military drones, one of the things he remembers most vividly is the colorful language airmen would use to describe their targets.
Palestinians set off a powerful bomb Sunday night in a lengthy tunnel they dug under an Israeli military base in the southern Gaza Strip, killing one soldier and wounding five, the army said.. Early Monday, Israel's air force hit back with at least two separate missile strikes in Gaza City, according to Palestinian security officials.
