Sentence examples for which airstrikes from inspiring English sources

"Military operations lasted several hours during which airstrikes were called in.

Mutwakel's organisation has documented 44 incidents in which airstrikes killed a total of 615 civilians, many of whom were not living near military zones.

The U.S. also runs a joint operations center near the Kurdish capital, Erbil, from which airstrikes against the Islamic State group are being directed.

forces was a violation of human rights and the presidential executive order which bans airstrikes during operations in residential areas".

"It requires a variety of instruments, only one small part of which is airstrikes" — which, Dempsey hastened to say, he was not necessarily predicting.

The episode in Kandahar followed others this year in which American airstrikes in some of the war's most hotly contested battle zones killed civilians.

That he would equate a battle with fellow Arab Muslims in another country to the 2006 conflict, in which Israeli airstrikes leveled much of Hezbollah's heartland in southern Lebanon and the suburbs of Beirut, is "nothing short of amazing," Mr. Tabler said.

Israel also launched another operation — "Defensive Shield" — in 2012, which included airstrikes but not a ground invasion.

The operation was supposed to be a low-cost triumph of what Clinton called "smart power," in which U.S. airstrikes, diplomacy, and Libyan rebel groups would win a swift victory without the need to involve U.S. ground troops.

Syrian activists reported a number of airstrikes in the country's north and centre, including in the province of Hama, which they said airstrikes hit locations controlled by another US-backed rebel group, Tajamu al-Izzah.

He proposed airstrikes, which on their own are not enough.