Sentence examples for bases to launch from inspiring English sources

Later on Sunday it was reported that Turkey had agreed to let the US use some of its bases to launch air strikes against Isis.

He also continued to allow the US to use Saudi bases to launch the war on Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.

The operation secured valuable bases to launch attacks on British shipping and protected the vital supplies of high-quality Swedish iron ore, essential to German arms production.

Although Saudi leaders opposed a war with Iraq, they allowed the United States to use several military bases to launch air attacks into Iraq and as a staging ground for American troops.

The battles were part of the United States military's "island-hopping campaign" in the Pacific war, a strategy that called for American forces to seize islands in strategic locations from the Japanese in order to establish bases to launch further attacks.

The foreign minister of Qatar said today that his nation opposes war against Iraq, but he did not rule out the possibility that Qatar, on the Persian Gulf, would allow the United States to use its military bases to launch such an attack.

That allowed al-Qaida to move in and use Afghanistan as a base to launch 9/11.

In October Brazil signed a similar agreement to allow Ukraine to use the base to launch satellites atop its Cyclone rockets.

Its leaders say they will use Yemen, which shares a border with Saudi Arabia, as a base to launch ambitious attacks throughout the region, including in Saudi Arabia and East Africa.

But it was also the city Lenin used as his base to launch Russia's disastrous experiment with "socialism in one country".

Seasoned Middle East observers have suggested that Dahlan could be planning to use Serbia as a base to launch his leadership challenge against Abbas, the current Palestinian Authority (PA) leader.