Sentence examples for intense strikes from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON -- Planning for an air war against Iran continues inside the Pentagon, and the U.S. Air Force could mount such intense strikes against Iranian targets that "you wouldn't want to be in the area," said Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff, on Wednesday.

However, intense air strikes in recent days have helped Kurds fend off the advance.

All have advanced or won local victories because they were supported by intense air strikes.

Intense artillery strikes and waves of aerial bombardment were reported across the Gaza Strip.

Bin Laden's associates were being picked off by the now intense missile strikes from unmanned drones over the tribal areas, and his communications were clearly difficult.

The Syrian army has claimed control of an important district in rebel-held eastern Aleppo after fierce fighting, with rebels blaming intense air strikes and lack of hospitals for their collapsing frontline.

There were intense air strikes in Gaza in the hours before the ceasefire, with a factory in central Gaza City hit and homes in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.

Intense air strikes have battered the eastern part of the city since Tuesday, when the Syrian army and its allies resumed operations after a pause lasting weeks.

The family had fled the north of Saada during a period of intense air strikes around the village where they lived, she said.

"There have been intense air strikes since dawn on opposition-held positions in Jobar from which the offensive was launched," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, said.

al-Assad made the claim in an interview published by the AP published on Thursday just hours before the most intense air strikes seen in the Syrian city of Aleppo for months resulted in dozens of deaths, and all but confirming that a fragile ceasefire brokered between the US and Russia lies in ruins.