Sentence examples for use of missiles from inspiring English sources

The colonel did not specify whether aircraft were engaged in airstrikes involving the use of missiles and bombs.

However, several eyewitnesses spoke of seeing planes and illuminating flares over the village, which if true would indicate the use of missiles from planes guided in by special forces teams on the ground rather than CIA-operated drones.

Much time and effort was expended by the Clinton administration in an attempt to bring North Korea, a rogue nation with plutonium processing plants and nuclear capabilities, into an agreement on the use of missiles.

The Assad army has destroyed most of the civilian homes up to now by use of missiles from multiple missile launchers, helicopters that have attacked Baba Amr from the skies and tank shelling using mortar shells type 120mm.

Activists said an assault on the town of Hiffeh that began on Monday included the first use of missiles fired from helicopter gunships since the anti-Assad protests began 16 months ago.

While President George W. Bush oversaw the beginning of the Central Intelligence Agency's  use of missiles fired from drone aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, Mr. Obama has expanded their use beyond Pakistan to Yemen and Somalia and made them a routine tool of counterterrorism.

The White House has approved the use of missile-armed Predator drones to help Nato target Colonel Gaddafi's forces in Libya.

And since last year, Pakistan has offered quiet but crucial support for the C.I.A.'s use of missile-firing drones, including intelligence on militants' whereabouts.

Although the Pentagon has not officially confirmed the use of missile-firing Predators in Afghanistan, it seems that the first occurred in mid-October.

They point to a line in the nonbinding preamble about the "interrelationship" between offensive and defensive strategic arms and a provision in the treaty that bans the use of missile silos or submarine launch tubes to house missile defense interceptors.

The United States has stepped up its use of missile strikes from C.I.A.-operated drones in Pakistan's lawless tribal area against suspected Taliban and Qaeda targets and have killed some of the top commanders in recent months.