Turkish media reports that Khalaf had been killed by aerial bombardment.
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The SU-224 is used for aerial bombardment of ground targets.
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It has supported Syrian government troops with an aerial bombardment campaign.
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Pro-Syrian government forces have maintained weeks of aerial bombardment and shelling.
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Entire city blocks have been flattened by round-the-clock aerial bombardment.
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The GNA quickly condemned the aerial bombardment, calling it a war crime.
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This is the price of constant aerial bombardment, drone "accuracy" or not.
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"The resulting flotilla was an American Dunkirk, minus the aerial bombardment," Smerconish added.
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Pershing recruited 223, all at risk of submarine attack, some under aerial bombardment.
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This includes the aerial bombardment by pro-government forces of areas beyond government control.
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Although the country's civilians had been spared heavy aerial bombardment, they weren't spared hunger.
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NATO planes patrolled the skies to prevent, at least, aerial bombardment of the population.
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Shia Houthis as a proxy for Iran, added heavy aerial bombardment to the mix.
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The problem wasn't structural: the dam had been built to survive an aerial bombardment.
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The paramilitary source said his group's weapons depot was specifically targeted by an aerial bombardment.
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Aerial bombardment also dug craters into main streets to prevent militants from slipping between neighborhoods.
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It is now a shadow of its former self after being flattened by constant aerial bombardment.
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Rebel sources say they are fighting back with difficulty in the face of sustained aerial bombardment.
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But for many, their homes have been devastated by weeks of artillery fire and aerial bombardment.
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Kidnappings, terrorism, chemical warfare, shelling, and aerial bombardment pose high risk of death or serious injury.
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She had been inside a tent on the banks of the Euphrates during an aerial bombardment.
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"Across the board the main thing that children said they fear is aerial bombardment," Khush said.
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The US preceded its invasion of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, with massive aerial bombardment.
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There needs to be a no-fly zone to stop the aerial bombardment of Syrian population centers.
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The base was an island in a lake of clay that bubbled with incoming and aerial bombardment.
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In Aleppo, relentless aerial bombardment by Vladimir Putin and the Assad regime threatens to slaughter an entire city.
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Will he opt for more intense aerial bombardment to raze areas ahead of the advance of allied ground forces?
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We get our first ideas about aerial bombardment from TV. We imagine that fighter jets raze buildings, even neighborhoods.
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The approach to the city shows signs of the fighting that followed, with many buildings collapsed by aerial bombardment.
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In Darayya, an aerial bombardment in November destroyed a field hospital that was among the only providers of basic care.
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Shelling and aerial bombardment, including of densely populated urban areas, have significantly raised the risk of death or serious injury.
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The airplane brought a new technology to warfare, and in the 1930s, aerial bombardment was portrayed as unstoppable and catastrophic.
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Assad regime forces, supported by Russia, have "continued their aerial bombardment" of the area in efforts to push rebels out.
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"Juba has not been demilitarized, and aerial bombardment is still happening in some areas of the country," said Lt. Gen.
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An emergency responder in Aleppo confirmed to CNN that rebel-held neighborhoods were under aerial bombardment from Russian jets Sunday.
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Clashes also involved gun fire, artillery and aerial bombardment, sending clouds of smoke towards the sky above the city center.
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The diplomats are expected to call for an immediate end to all aerial bombardment of, and military flights over, Aleppo.
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Russia, Iran and militias must also "be held responsible to cease artillery and aerial bombardment against civilians," said the statement.
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In the 1930s it was widely believed that aerial bombardment of cities would prove devastating enough to prompt almost immediate capitulation.
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In a southern district of the city, clashes involving aerial bombardment, artillery and machine gun fire were continuing, according to Reuters.
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This precautionary measure, however, insured the destruction of whatever structures had managed to evade aerial bombardment—and it wasn't even foolproof.
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US and UN officials have accused the Russian-backed Syrian regime of carrying out an indiscriminate aerial bombardment of the area.
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Libya's United Nations-backed government, the Government of National Accord (GNA), quickly condemned the aerial bombardment, calling it a war crime.
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The Viet Cong were operating from mobile facilities because of the constant threat of aerial bombardment, infantry maneuvers and logistical considerations.
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The most common form of attack was shootings in South Sudan, aerial bombardment by state forces in Syria and kidnappings in Afghanistan.
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But the Empire makes a series of errors, including the inexplicable reliance on vulnerable ground forces instead of space or aerial bombardment.
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At Verdun, she was wounded during an aerial bombardment of the field hospital where she was working but stayed at her post.
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Heavy aerial bombardment of the densely populated Gaza Strip killed 22006,20093 people, mostly civilians, according to Palestinian officials, and caused widespread destruction.
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Of the hundreds of people killed over days of aerial bombardment, more than 63 were children, a World Health Organization official said.
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Pakistan carried out its own aerial bombardment the following day, and the two countries even fought a brief dogfight over Kashmir skies.
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US and UN officials have accused the Russian-backed Syrian regime of carrying out an indiscriminate aerial bombardment of the area. Gen.
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In the Red Sea port town of Massawa stand the remains of an Italian-era bank battered by aerial bombardment three decades ago.
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The renewed aerial bombardment will make it even harder for the rebels to break a siege that has strangled life in the city.
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More air strikes were reported in Aleppo and Idlib province on Sunday after scores of people were killed in aerial bombardment on Saturday.
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There was "a better than even" chance, Kissinger told Mitchell, that Johnson would call a pause to the aerial bombardment of North Vietnam.
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Together with America and France, Britain is now supplying, arming and servicing hundreds of Saudi planes engaged in the aerial bombardment of Yemen.
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Almost immediately that step was rendered meaningless by continued aerial bombardment of civilians in Syria by the Assad regime and its Russian partners.
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Several thousand displaced civilians are congregating near the frontier area seeking shelter from heavy Russian aerial bombardment of their towns and villages in Deraa province.
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And while the US-led coalition's intense aerial bombardment of the city over the last few months has taken a toll, it's difficult to quantify.
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Over the past two years more than 12,500 people, including more than 4,500 children, have been killed by Syrian and Russian aerial bombardment, the SOHR reported.
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"We see a full-scale ground offensive and aerial bombardment, as well as exchanges of fire from both sides," he said, speaking by videolink from Geneva.
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Rebel-held districts in the city had suffered intense aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian warplanes for more than a week before a lull on Wednesday.
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Op-Ed Contributor On Tuesday, 78 people were killed in the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta after heavy aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian forces.
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The continuing aerial bombardment of Marawi and intermittent clashes on the city's streets have trapped civilians and made it difficult for humanitarian assistance to reach them.
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Aerial bombardment of the rebel-held part of the same district at noon on Friday killed seven people, including children, and wounded some others, the Observatory said.
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Heavy aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo resumed on Tuesday after a pause of several days which the Syrian army said was designed to allow civilians to leave.
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Mohammed Hardan, who works for AMC, says he was at al-Rahma hospital when it was targeted by aerial bombardment, posting footage of the incident hours later.
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More than three weeks after the Iraqis declared victory in the biggest population center reclaimed from Islamic State, aerial bombardment can still be heard every few minutes.
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Airstrikes continued Friday, a day after 20163 civilians and 10 fighters were killed in aerial bombardment and shelling, according to the local Daraa Martyrs Documentation Office monitoring.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Aerial bombardment by the Syrian army in northwest Syria, the biggest remaining rebel-held enclave, killed at least 28 people on Thursday, a war monitor said.
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The Syrian Democratic Forces said that at least two civilians had been killed in the "Turkish aerial bombardment" in the village of Mosharrafa, west of Ras al Ain.
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Doctors said the stress from the constant aerial bombardment was inducing complications in mothers-to-be; and so it was too for Ra'eda, who needed a C-section.
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For the first time in this latest offensive that began February 18, ground attacks were combined with aerial bombardment, pummeling the rebel-held enclave near the Syrian capital.
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Kerry said Russia and Assad were not in compliance with a U.N. Security Council resolution, which calls for immediate humanitarian access and an end to aerial bombardment of civilians.
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It took six months of grinding street-by-street battles and aerial bombardment to free the area, including the labyrinthine Old City, where the militants made their last stand.
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Hadi fled to Saudi Arabia, where he remains; the Saudis launched a blistering campaign of aerial bombardment and announced the formation of a military coalition to retake the country.
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Rebel-held districts of Aleppo have suffered intense aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian warplanes for more than a week, while the Assad regime prepares to take the northern city.
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The rebel attacks come after Syrian government and allied Russian forces declared a unilateral ceasefire last week, which brought several days of relative calm following weeks of intense aerial bombardment.
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The rebel attack comes after Syrian government and allied Russian forces declared a unilateral ceasefire last week, which brought several days of relative calm after weeks of intense aerial bombardment.
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Yemen's civil war became an international issue in March 2015, when the Saudi-led coalition entered the conflict by launching a massive aerial bombardment campaign that continues to this day.
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It also sent his voter approval ratings soaring to close to 4693 percent during the four-day aerial bombardment of Baghdad, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.
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The regime focused on the spine of Syria -- north from Damascus to Homs and Hama; while intense aerial bombardment of the northwestern province of Idlib kept rebel groups off balance.
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Also Saturday, Iraq's Ministry of Defense opened an investigation into an "aerial bombardment incident" that took place in the same area of the city on March 22 and 23, said Col.
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The fighting in Aleppo came after Syrian government and allied Russian forces declared a unilateral ceasefire last week, which brought several days of relative calm after weeks of intense aerial bombardment.
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The Observatory said a heavy Syrian and Russian aerial bombardment in the last three days in the mostly rebel-held Idlib province to the southwest had killed more than 100 people.
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Related: In Photos: The Sudanese Refugees Who Fled Intense Fighting and Aerial Bombardment Sudanese asylum-seekers who are not recognized as refugees find themselves at risk of forced return to Sudan.
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Then, to the world's surprise, the aerial bombardment of opposition strongholds and civilian areas will resume, and Putin will be on a fast track to tearing down the sanctions regime entirely.
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The artillery and aerial bombardment came only hours after thousands of displaced people who had taken shelter along the Israeli border returned to the city that the army had nearly completely besieged.
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The aerial bombardment has now claimed nearly 2,000 civilian lives, more than a fifth of which have been children, according to Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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I first encountered him after spending time in Aleppo during the terrible days and nights of fierce aerial bombardment, where barrel bombs were dropped on the city by the Syrian regime's jets.
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According to a senior data analyst at Hala Systems, which operates an early warning system for aerial bombardment called Sentry, 13 strikes had been observed in Idlib and northern Hama on Tuesday.
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Whether it's dropped indiscriminately from a shuddering aeroplane over the desert or remotely triggered by an unmanned drone, aerial bombardment reveals something about the power doing it and the people enduring it.
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Patrick Steiger described as "overlapping forces on the ground" – meaning the opposing sides were so close together that any aerial bombardment was likely to kill US and Nigerien troops as well as militants.
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But it hasn't worked — the continued presence of families has hampered the aerial bombardment of IS positions, and the military's ground forces haven't been able to break through in the ways they expected.
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The civil defense center was in Kafr Zeita, a town in rebel-held northern Hama province, which came under intense aerial bombardment on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said.
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It also accompanied several days of intense aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo by government and allied Russian forces that have continued as Russian and American diplomats seek to negotiate a cease-fire deal.
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But the assault has created a new problem for Jordan in the shape of tens of thousands of civilians who have fled intensive aerial bombardment of their towns and moved toward the border.
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But as we soon discovered being on the ground, the biggest danger was not crossing the border, it wasn't the threat of kidnapping, it was the fact that the aerial bombardment was relentless.
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The war escalated in the fall as government forces and their Russian allies began a ferocious ground assault and aerial bombardment on opposition-held areas of _________, forcing thousands to flee for their lives.
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"Since the beginning of the offensive by the regime and its allies, notably Russia, the intensity and scale of the aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo is clearly disproportionate," the EU said in a statement.
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The activist group's grim toll comes as rebel-held districts of Aleppo reel from an intense weeklong aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian warplanes while the Assad regime prepares to take the northern city.
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"Everyone knows that there is only one way to save Aleppo and that is for an immediate end to the aerial bombardment that the Syrian regime and their Russian backers are pursuing," Rycroft said Saturday.
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An aerial bombardment of rebel-held areas continued on Friday, with heavy air strikes in the Shaar district where incendiary material struck a complex of medical buildings, the complex's director and other medical workers said.
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The first instance of aerial bombardment — an Italian plane dropped grenades against an encampment of enemy troops in Libya in 1911 — resulted in accusations that the pilot had hit a field hospital, injuring several civilians.
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"There has been no aerial bombardment so far but the situation is very tense, with all sides wary of how long the ceasefire will last," Mohammed al-Ali, an activist from Idlib, told Al Jazeera.
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"We're trying to reduce the aerial bombardment that is happening to our neighbors," Mr. Dunn said, adding that the local population of ducks and ducklings — occasional prey for bald eagles — has been on the wane.
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That was made quite clear Wednesday, when the Pentagon announced it had conducted a record-breaking aerial bombardment of training facilities linked to the Taliban and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) in Badakhshan Province.
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The U.N. report, released on June 3, describes the Saudi-led campaign of aerial bombardment in Yemen, ongoing since March 26, 2015, as having caused some 60% of all casualties among children since the conflict began.
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A government offensive to retake eastern districts raged from late September to late October, backed by an intense aerial bombardment that the United Nations said killed hundreds and drew condemnation from Western countries and rights groups.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Syria and Russia to end aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo, stating there is "no chance" of peace without an end to military operations and coordination between the parties.
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In the almost ten months since Russia launched its aerial bombardment in support of Mr Assad, Syrian rebels have lost between half and a third of their territory, says a Syrian opposition official in southern Turkey.
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Remotely piloted drones have been used on battlefields in the Middle East and Africa for over a decade, and American hackers have mounted guns on commercial drones while ISIS uses these same drones for aerial bombardment.
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The problem in California, he said, was that the drug companies had flooded the airwaves — "total aerial bombardment, 3,500 gross rating points a week" — but he doubted that kind of "razzmatazz" would work in flyover country.
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The last time pro-Syrian government forces threatened American troops near the oil fields, in February 2018, the United States unleashed an artillery and aerial bombardment that left 200 to 300 of the attacking fighters dead.
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Women and children leaving Baghouz have spoken to Reuters and other international media of harsh conditions under siege in the encampment, surviving heavy aerial bombardment and with food supplies so scarce that some resorted to eating grass.
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Today, in Sudan's Nuba Mountains, people are forced to flee their homes and seek temporary refuge in caves and dry river beds, exposed to the elements and other hazards, in order escape aerial bombardment by government forces.
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A map of Syria's conflict in the week before the latest ceasefire showed the north dotted with icons pinpointing clashes, aerial bombardment and death around the epicentre in Aleppo, and almost devoid of icons in the south.
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"With continuing the artillery and aerial bombardment by Russia, the ceasefire has come to an end" it said, adding that that the towns of Maarat Al Nouman, Kafra Nbel and Ariha were also targeted by the strikes.
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After a withering 40-plus days of aerial bombardment on targets in Kuwait and Iraq and several battles on the border of Saudi Arabia, the war concluded with a bold ground attack which lasted an astonishing 100 hours.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Syrians are moving toward the Turkish border from the Syrian city of Aleppo due to increased aerial bombardment, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday at a fundraising conference in London.
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The opposition group, known as the High Negotiations Committee, condemned Russia's "indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilian areas in northern Syria, particularly on rural Aleppo," and said a "massive acceleration of Russian and regime military aggression" had taken place.
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It is not clear how effective the mockups have been at thwarting aerial bombardment, which has been essential to the Iraqi forces' ground campaign to roll back Islamic State from large swathes of territory it seized in 2014.
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Military offensive These requirements included cessation of offensive military activity and aerial bombardment in the war zones of Darfur, Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, cooperation on counter terrorism and improvement in humanitarian access into the rebel held areas.
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With the insurgents now saying they are preparing to assault western Aleppo, so far spared the devastating aerial bombardment of rebel-held districts, a yet more protracted and bloody battle is in prospect, rebels, government sources and diplomats say.
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The blasts caused an electrical blackout in Aleppo, the country's second largest city and a major industrial hub that bore the brunt of years of fighting and heavy Russian and Syrian aerial bombardment on its former rebel-held areas.
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But it is for her services during World War II that she is most remembered: She organized and often performed in daily chamber music concerts at the National Gallery to raise the spirits of Londoners enduring frequent aerial bombardment.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry responded with a call on Syria and Russia to end aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo, stating that there was "no chance" of peace without an end to military operations and coordination between the parties.
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A Guatemalan judge found that the general had known about the systematic massacres, in the hillside hamlets of the El Quiché department, and had done nothing to stop them or the aerial bombardment of refugees who had fled to the mountains.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — The ferocious ground assault and aerial bombardment in eastern Aleppo has forced some 7003,000 people to flee for their lives in the last few days, according to Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations under secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
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The initiation of a ground offensive follows on from days of aerial bombardment which has killed hundreds in the besieged city in northern Syria, effectively ending a fragile ceasefire which was negotiated by Russia and the US on September 9.
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Relentless aerial bombardment by the Assad regime and its Russian allies and a devastating ground offensive have displaced more than half a million people from Idlib since December, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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The last time pro-Syrian government forces and allied Russian mercenaries threatened American troops near the oil fields, in February 2018, the United States unleashed an artillery and aerial bombardment that left 200 to 300 of the attacking fighters dead.
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SANAA (Reuters) - Fighting in a port city in Yemen has forced around 2,000 high school students to flee to the capital to sit exams, braving a six-hour journey along a mountain road scarred by land mines and aerial bombardment.
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In perhaps its most symbolic breach yet, Iran said last week it had begun refining uranium at Fordow, a site built inside a mountain apparently to protect it from any aerial bombardment, and one that Tehran concealed from U.N. inspectors until 29.
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The group blamed the Saudi-led military coalition for the decision, calling its bombing "indiscriminate" and its assurances of protection for health workers "unreliable," citing the aerial bombardment of Abs Hospital in Hajjah Province on Monday, which killed 19 people and wounded 24.
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The U.S. led aerial coalition campaign to end the militants' last territorial enclave has exacted a heavy human toll with hundreds of casualties among civilians from intense aerial bombardment that has razed many villages to the ground, former residents and aid workers say.
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Aid workers returning to the neighbourhoods of eastern Mosul describe the damage as remarkably light compared to the Iraqi army's bombardment of previous cities recaptured from IS. The army has refrained from using heavy artillery and the American-led coalition has restricted aerial bombardment.
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On Monday, activists said that 15 people -- including at least 12 children -- had been killed in an aerial bombardment on a school in the town of Enjarah on the western outskirts of Aleppo, the largest Syrian city, which is in the north of the country.
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Some two million people (including thousands of displaced Syrians) live in relative safety in the west, while over 250,000 live in the east, which has been subjected to years of indiscriminate aerial bombardment by the government's barrel bombs and, since last year, Russian airstrikes.
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"I call upon all council members who have operational military assets in Syria to take concrete steps to halt the aerial bombardment of civilian areas," said O'Brien, specifically slamming the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia for bombing the city of Aleppo.
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The military said Humam Abdul Najib escaped from Marawi City, which the militants had hoped to establish as a stronghold for Islamic State in Southeast Asia, before it was recaptured by the military in October after five months of ferocious battles and aerial bombardment.
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After his family was killed in an aerial bombardment, he crossed into Syria with other Iraqis who feared Shi'ite Muslim militias advancing against IS would take revenge on Sunnis - a fear that other Iraqis have cited as their reason for entering IS-held Syria.
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" Asked about Churkin's remarks, the UK's ambassador to the UN Matthew Rycroft said of his Russian counterpart, "he needs to look in the mirror and understand where the responsibility lies… it's about the aerial bombardment and lack of humanitarian access — and we know who is doing that.
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Syria's so-called moderate opposition, known as the High Negotiations Committee, refused to even take part until there was an end to what it called a "massive acceleration of Russian and regime military aggression," the former including "indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilian areas in northern Syria," opposition representatives said.
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On Wednesday, however, Iran further raised pressure on those countries by announcing what would be a new breach of the deal - enriching uranium with the centrifuges it has at Fordow, a site that it dug in secret inside a mountain, apparently to protect it from potential aerial bombardment.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said that at least 255 people were killed by aerial bombardment in Raqqa city, the de facto capital of IS. The dead were said to include nine children and seven women, and the group expects the toll to rise.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said that at least 32 people were killed by aerial bombardment in Raqqa city, the de facto capital of IS. The dead were said to include nine children and seven women, and the group expects the toll to rise.
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The bombing continues UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock in his briefing by teleconference said "over the past 24 hours, heavy shelling and aerial bombardment on multiple communities in East Ghouta reportedly continued, resulting, it is reported, in the death of at least 50 people and wounding at least 200," he said.
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They walk miles in 120 degree heat, carrying wood and water on their heads for cooking and cleaning; they dig foxholes to protect their families from aerial bombardment; they work in gold mines and fight on the front line as commanders, motivated by vengeance for their fallen sons and husbands.
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My dad built one for our living room, his electrical engineering skills honed by developing sophisticated weaponry for aerial bombardment fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific during World War II. I was born when the fight against the Nazis was barely in the rear-view mirror, and never out of memory.
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"Firstly, in the run-up to this cessation of hostilities there was a dramatic increase in the intensiveness ... of Russian aerial bombardment and also of the regime warplanes of Bashar al-Assad," she said, adding she had witnessed a Russian airstrike on a market that killed at least eight people days before the truce.
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He stands accused of asking Porzingis to play inside, a sin, it is argued, that shows he fails to comprehend the 3-point aerial bombardment ways of the modern N.B.A. Chris Herring of The Wall Street Journal is a thoughtful and careful analyst, and he has pointed out that Porzingis has received the ball in the post almost twice as often under Rambis as under the former coach Derek Fisher.
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Yemen's warring parties are in the midst of a bloody stalemate: The Zaydi Shia-led Houthi rebels who along with military loyalists of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have controlled Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, since their joint coup in September 2014; and Saudi-backed anti-Houthi forces ostensibly led by the President in exile Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who are supported by the Saudis, most notably through a campaign of aerial bombardment in Houthi-controlled parts of the country.
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