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Idlib, in northwestern Syria, is subject to government air raids.
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It said Israel carried out five air raids on Hamas facilities.
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But there had been four air raids on deconflicted sites this year.
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Israel has targeted senior Hezbollah commanders in air raids on Syrian soil.
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The GNA bombed an airfield its rival has used to launch air raids.
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Air raids are worse than before the ceasefire went into effect, the opposition says.
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Two Hamas security men were lightly hurt in one of the air raids, residents said.
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Air raids and U.S. intelligence will be used against their 3,000-strong operations, Villegas said.
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US air raids in Herat killed approximately 90 civilians, including 60 children, according to reports.
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The United Nations has backed calls for cease-fires in the air raids on Aleppo.
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To be extra cautious, the militants built an underground tunnel with sandbags for air raids.
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Almost every person I met from Saraqib knew someone who'd died in the air raids.
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But these small gestures of commemoration are not enough for survivors of the air raids.
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They know about Japan as a victim in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Tokyo air raids.
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"My schooling was a bit interrupted by air raids and things like that," she said.
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For the past three weeks, he hasn't heard the pummeling of air raids in the city.
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Later, two rebel officials said air raids around Wadi Barada had stopped just before 8 p.m.
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The Hezbollah-run military media unit said that air raids were aimed at rebel supply lines.
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The rebels have clung on in Aleppo, despite the intensity of Russian and Syrian air raids.
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Between December 85033 and January 2020, the total number of Saudi air raids jumped 294 percent.
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The Saudi-led coalition began its air raids in support of Hadi's government in March 2015.
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Iran denies involvement in attacks on U.S. forces and has condemned the air raids as "terrorism".
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Air raids also hit north of Aleppo and deeper into west Aleppo countryside, the Observatory said.
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During wartime air raids, male prisoners "stood at their cell windows and cheered the British fighter aircraft".
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The neighborhood was rebuilt using its prewar infrastructure after the 1945 air raids destroyed most of it.
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Nine similar targets were destroyed in air raids the previous evening, it said in an earlier statement.
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Syrian military and Russian air raids on Idlib have increased in the past week, killing dozens of people.
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Syrian warplanes were carrying out air raids in the area in an effort to take back positions lost.
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Residents of Idlib said hundreds of families had begun leaving the city for fear of further air raids.
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Al-Jazeera noted reports of sporadic fighting in Idlib, but the air raids have, for now, largely ceased.
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Starting in the south of Idlib province, the Syrian regime used air raids and bombings to attack villages.
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The researchers compared ionospheric data from the Radio Research Station with information concerning 152 large Allied air raids.
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Churchill even invented a green velvet "siren suit" to be put on in a hurry during air raids.
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Khalifa Hifter, a close ally of Egypt, said it had taken part in the air raids, Reuters reported.
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But the city is densely built up and militants firing from homes are often targeted by air raids.
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They died in air raids, ground battles, labor camps, and refugee shelters, from beatings, exposure, starvation, and disease.
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Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the air raids and hospitals appear to have been deliberately targeted.
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Since then, at least 10,000 people have been killed and the number of air raids has passed 15,000.
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In the summer of 2012, I documented one of the first air raids on Aleppo for Human Rights Watch.
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Air raids destroyed radio navigation station for aircraft, civil aviation authorities told SABA, which is controlled by the Houthis.
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He called for negotiations to protect the civilians, and said recent air raids in Idlib were a bad omen.
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The FARC has sought to distance itself from the dissidents and the government has authorized air raids against them.
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Rebels still expect the army thrust will slow in residential areas that offer them more cover from air raids.
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There were air raids on towns across Eastern Ghouta including Douma, where an entire building fell, a witness said.
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Russia similarly timed its peacekeeping proposal in central Syria to coincide with escalated regime air raids on the zone.
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More than 100 people were killed in air raids, rocket strikes and shelling of the area on Monday, it added.
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The Houthis have fired missiles at Riyadh and Saudi oil facilities, saying they are retaliating against air raids on Yemen.
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George, the robot that was made after him, was bombed and destroyed in Surrey during the air raids of WWII.
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"Air raids," which began on a small scale in 1914, were carried out by four-winged bombers and German Zeppelins.
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A surge of fighting in the past week has trapped thousands of civilians in the crossfire and coalition air raids.
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The death toll began to mount, and thousands of civilians began to flee deeper into Idlib to avoid air raids.
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Air raids have continued in eastern Deir al-Zor governorate, where U.S.-led and Kurdish forces are targeting Islamic State fighters.
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The American-led coalition that props up the Afghan government said its air raids alone had killed over 200 Taliban fighters.
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An instructor with the American Women's Voluntary Services demonstrates how to black out windows for defense against air raids on Dec.
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Both men recorded families trying to make do in the London Underground system during the air raids, bedding down in tunnels.
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Israel shot down an Iranian drone this month and responded with air raids in which one of its jets was downed.
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They say their missile attacks on the kingdom are in retaliation for air raids on Yemen by the Western-backed coalition.
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The administration has said it will stop refueling Saudi warplanes, but the air raids are still using US and Western ammunition.
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The Houthis have stepped up ballistic missile attacks on the kingdom in what it says is retaliation for the air raids.
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Foreign-backed rebels have long demanded anti-aircraft missiles to help them fight off air raids by Syrian and Russian forces.
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On Monday, the official Saudi Press Agency reported that its coalition had "intensified" air raids on the Houthis in northwest Yemen.
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During one of the air raids on the city in November 1936, nine bombs fell onto the roof of the Prado.
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Opposition rescue workers said on Wednesday that Russian and Syrian jets had killed at least 150 civilians in the air raids.
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The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Houthi forces and has carried out more than 53,000 air raids on Yemeni territory.
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The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Houthi forces and has carried out more than 15,000 air raids on Yemeni territory.
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The Houthis say their missile attacks on the kingdom are in retaliation for air raids on Yemen by the Western-backed coalition.
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It said there was intense fighting on several fronts accompanied by a government artillery barrage, continuous air raids and attacks by helicopters.
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S. protests that followed air raids on Kataib Hezbollah targets turned into a siege of the U.S. embassy and reached its gates.
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As many as 81 people died in the air raids; around 20143 of them were probably innocent bystanders, according to the bureau.
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The huge, 35 metre-high fortress was originally built by forced labourers in response to allied air raids which began in 1940.
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In Moscow, blacked-out to withstand German air raids, his hosts provided him with a bomb shelter equipped with caviar and champagne.
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The military also said that eight militants were killed in air raids, which followed a clash between the armed forces and militants.
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Officials in the War Department knew that relocation was no longer necessary because the threat of air raids or invasion had nearly vanished.
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The past two months in Idlib have been the quietest in five years with no air raids, said U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland.
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American drone strikes and air raids have decimated the group's top ranks, and it was not immediately clear who could possibly replace him.
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Rescuers said the air raids created "a state of terror" among residents in eastern Ghouta, where the U.N. says nearly 400,000 people live.
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On Tuesday, India carried out air raids over Pakistani territory, its first in nearly 50 years, and on Wednesday, Pakistan responded in kind.
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Washington has sent Ankara sharp warnings when Turkish air raids have killed Kurdish fighters aligned with the US, in both Syria and Iraq.
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Three of Tuesday's air raids hit an outdoor market in the Mustaba district, Ayman Mathkour, director of the Haja health department, told Reuters.
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He said that every day, his battalion had forced back tank offensives, the bombs from the German air raids falling from the sky.
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The Idlib region saw a lull in air raids that have been pounding rebel-held territory after Russia's defense ministry announced on Aug.
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Earlier this month, senior security officials in Kabul said joint air raids by U.S. and Afghan forces against the Taliban have not subsided.
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He also served as a "firewatcher," spending his nights on the roof of the university's administration building spotting fires sparked by air raids.
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Turkey has recently intensified air raids on a suspected Kurdish rebel stronghold in northern Iraq, a move that could further rally votes for Erdogan.
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Based on manuals written in 1947 that describe how to save Londoners from air raids, the training focused on basic search-and-rescue techniques.
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Israel says its air raids on Syria are needed to foil deployments and arms transfers by Iran or Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, allies of Damascus.
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It's 1940, and the Blitz is on, with Londoners enduring heavy air raids nightly and trying to keep their chins up during the day.
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The Houthis are backed by Iran; a coalition led by Saudi Arabia has conducted air raids on the country in support of Hadi's government.
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It was thought to have been destroyed in the Berlin air raids at the end of World War II. But could this be it?
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Among the targets in the air raids was a senior Tunisian operative, Noureddine Chouchane, who is suspected in two major attacks in Tunisia, said Col.
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Air raids on the Jinderes town center had intensified after Turkish forces and the FSA captured the hill overlooking it a day earlier, Anadolu said.
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Concealed behind the tree line, the guerrillas had war-ready camps, with trenches to foil a ground invasion and bunkers to protect against air raids.
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Katsumoto Saotome, the founder of the Tokyo Air Raids Center, had pushed for there to be a government-funded state museum dedicated to the raids.
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A devastating allied campaign of air raids left the Baroque city centre in ruins; an estimated 25,21990 people died, most of them women and children.
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Reuters journalists heard the sound of nine air raids in about half an hour in Old Aleppo, in the center of the city, on Friday.
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The air raids were launched from France's recently deployed Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier capable of supporting airstrikes against the Islamist State in Iraq and Syria.
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Pro-government forces carried out air raids on Eastern Ghouta overnight on Monday and early on Tuesday, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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An electric shock sends Cory back to the 1950s, where he finds himself in an America rife with paranoia about Russian spies and air raids (oh...).
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Pre-attack air raids with conventional bombs shattered windows and doors and drove people into shelters where the heavy poison seeped down into underground hiding places.
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Though the combatants exchanged fire on Friday, a rebel commander and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were no government or Russian air raids.
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His comments came after the Syrian military declared that a week-long ceasefire was over and air raids hit aid trucks near the city of Aleppo.
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In between air raids and nosy neighbors, Shideh struggles to keep a sense of normality, which includes practicing aerobics to her banned Jane Fonda workout tape.
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East Aleppo, held by rebels until December when the army swept through it after months of siege and air raids, was left all but a wasteland.
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But my sister and I were evacuated to the next town because Onomichi was a middle-sized city and thought to be targeted by air raids.
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Beyond the World War II We Know As a child, Katsumoto Saotome barely escaped the air raids over Tokyo that killed as many as 100,229 people.
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Turkey has sent thousands of troops and equipment to the region just south of its border to head off the campaign driven by Russian air raids.
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As in World War Two, when London and other cities endured the repeated air raids of the Blitz, people are scared but not prepared to show weakness.
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Air raids in at least three other villages killed 15 others on Thursday, including three children, while eight more civilians died in air strikes elsewhere, it said.
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Most of those air raids were carried out by B-24 and B-25 bombers, the former of which could carry up to 8,000 pounds of bombs.
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Last month, Amnesty International said Nigeria's air force had killed at least 35 people in air raids on villages that were used as a "law enforcement method".
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With German air raids looming, Howard was evacuated in 250 with his mother and sister to Long Island, where he stayed with family friends for three years.
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Most of those air raids were carried out by B-2000 and B-103 bombers, the former of which could carry up to 210,2000 pounds of bombs.
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During the Blitz, two million homes were destroyed by German air raids, many in the same industrial cities where housing conditions for the working class were already bad.
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Mr. Kerry said he was particularly disturbed about air raids on a hospital and three health clinics in Aleppo, for which he blamed President Bashar al-Assad's government.
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There are air raids, fighting from the government side, but there is a barrage of mortars and grenades going from this area going into civilian neighborhoods in Damascus.
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"I'm fearful of history repeating itself," said Nihei, who only found the strength to face up to her own past when the Tokyo Air Raids Center was founded.
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Maintaining that safe area required some 20,000 troops, near-constant air-raids, and an increasingly contentious international debate at the UN which consumed the Clinton Administration's international diplomacy.
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First responders in eastern Ghouta rushed to look for survivors after air raids on Beit Sawa and Saqba, said the Civil Defence service which operates in rebel territory.
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Dubai-based al-Hadath TV and Iraqi media have reported several air raids over the last month in and around Hawija, 210 km (130 miles) north of Baghdad.
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The LNA, which has been trying to consolidate its grip on eastern Libya after taking Benghazi last year, has encircled Derna and launched occasional air raids over the city.
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According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, over 9,000 people, including nearly 4,000 civilians, have been killed in one year of Russian air raids in Syria.
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Turkey carries out regular air raids near the border against the PKK insurgent group which has bases in northern Iraq and has fought a decades-long insurgency in Turkey.
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Ankara's forces have regularly carried out air raids against PKK targets in northern Iraq and in May dropped commandos on mountain ridges in a new operation against the militants.
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Israel has justified its air raids in Syria by saying they are needed to foil deployments and arms transfers by Iran or Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, both allies of Damascus.
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The incident took place as a fragile Russian and Turkish-backed ceasefire, welcomed by the United Nations, entered its third day with ongoing violations including clashes and air raids.
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The attacks came a month after Egypt launched a series of air raids in Libya on what it said were Islamist militants responsible for attacking Christians in its territory.
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has acknowledged that civilian areas in North Vietnam have been damaged during U.S. air raids, but declared that only military targets had been scheduled for attack.
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Local groups in many towns seized by the army in recent days had negotiated their own surrender deals independently of the main rebel operations rooms after heavy air raids.
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"The armed forces take into consideration the lives of civilians while implementing military operations against terrorist elements by conducting air raids outside population centers," the military said in a statement.
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It said at least 34 people had died in air raids on an Islamic State-held village north of Palmyra, and that local officials said poison gas had been used.
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Yemen's Houthis has stepped up missile attacks on the kingdom in what it says is retaliation for air raids by a Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-aligned armed movement.
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The coastal city was all but wiped out by Japanese air raids in the second world war, a memory that is "like Pearl Harbor to us," notes the American colonel.
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In addition to daily coalition air raids, there are hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis held in prisons by a corrupt sectarian central government supported by the U.S. and Iran.
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Britain has come under pressure to cease arms sales to Saudi Arabia because of the high death toll in air raids by the Western-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
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Still reeling from the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Honolulu in the early 1940s was a turbulent town, full of air raids, blackouts and scores of military personnel.
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At least 30 civilians, including women and children, were killed by air raids on Friday in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Syria's capital of Damascus, Al Jazeera reports.
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"After the air raids started here and they started bombarding other cities, we thought about making this shelter by digging inside the rock," Abu Mohammed told VICE News in June.
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But despite the sheer destruction of the Tokyo air raids, unlike for Hiroshima or Nagasaki, there is no publicly funded museum in Japan's capital today to officially commemorate March 10.
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A former Nazi bunker in Hamburg, built by forced laborers to shelter tens of thousands of Germans during Allied air raids in World War II, will soon house hotel guests.
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Since peace talks in Kuwait failed in August, the coalition has intensified air raids, despite vocal criticism from rights groups that the bombardments have been indiscriminate and could constitute war crimes.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian air raids over Libya have destroyed several camps that trained the militants who killed dozens of Christians in southern Egypt on Friday, the Egyptian military said on Saturday.
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A rebel command center said on Twitter government attempts to storm the town were being resisted after it was struck with "dozens of Russian air raids", barrel bombs and rocket barrages.
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"Despite the ongoing air raids, IS retook all of Palmyra after the Syrian army withdrew south of the city," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman, using another acronym for the group.
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YEMEN: UAE says aid ship struck by rebels A coalition led by neighboring Saudi Arabia began its air raids on the country in support of Hadi's government in March last year.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces killed 30 suspected militants in ground and air raids in North Sinai conducted over the past four days, the military said in a statement on Friday.
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A year earlier, London had hosted the Festival of Britain on the South Bank of the River Thames to celebrate social and cultural recovery after years of air raids and rationing.
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The visit comes just after Israel marked its 70th anniversary of independence and amid surges of violence along the Gaza border, including rocket attacks by Palestinian militants and Israeli air raids.
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The United States and its allies are carrying out air raids in the area against Islamic State, which controls some parts of Hasaka province but has lost ground in recent months.
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Mr. Hersh — who followed his father, Seymour Hersh, into journalism — notes that old-fashioned, solid police work may help cripple terrorist networks better than high-wire air raids over the Levant.
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Clashes, shelling and air raids in western Syria on Friday marred the first day of the ceasefire, which aims to end nearly six years of war and lead to peace talks.
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"The images of neighborhoods across Europe reduced to rubble due to wartime air raids are a lasting reminder of the destruction that can be caused by man-made explosions," said Scott.
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The jets struck the village of al-Matab southeast of Raqqa, near the Euphrates River, the Observatory said, adding that several air raids had also pounded areas east of the city.
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The buses sparked an emotional debate in Dresden, itself all but destroyed near the end of World War II, when Allied air raids unleashed a firestorm that killed tens of thousands.
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"Also this aeroplane that used to go to Sambisa and drop bombs and kill people, so I am thinking of them, too," she said, recalling Nigerian military air raids on the forest.
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There have been thousands of U.S. led air raids, day and night, against many Iraqi cities and towns, killing and maiming civilians, destroying power plants, hospitals, schools and universities, roads and bridges.
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"Every day there are about three to four (air) raids close to our house," said 33-year-old mother-of-one Um Fahd, whose husband, brother and father have all been killed.
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The big picture: Per Al Jazeera, there have been more than 50 air raids on Douma in the last 24 hours, and civilians have experienced suffocation after being attacked with poison gas.
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"We counted 150 air raids and 450 barrel bombs in the past two days," he said, speaking of the primitive bombs, filled with nails and other shrapnel, that the Syrian government uses.
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He is now warning the Islamic Republic that any new threats to Americans or attacks on US targets could trigger an even more serious escalation than the already robust US air raids.
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At the beginning of World War II, Tony was evacuated to Petersfield, a town halfway between London and the southern coast, but he returned to London just as the air raids began.
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As air raids pounded Houthi fortifications in the airport, Houthi fighters blocked the main road from Hodeidah to Sanaa with mounds of earth and chunks of asphalt to prevent coalition troops from advancing.
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The UK-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said there were heavy air raids on eastern Aleppo in the early hours of Monday, while rebel forces shelled government held areas.
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Shakespeare, World War II air raids, begrudgingly respectful old men, the quiet dignity of menial work — all these British tropes and more join forces in the trailer for Starz's upcoming movie The Dresser.
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Raqqa's remaining civilians -- up to 20,000 people, according to the SDF -- are trapped in their homes, fearful of fleeing because of snipers, air raids and street battles, according to SDF commander Haval Zargos.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Air raids carried out by Syrian government warplanes killed at least 13 people from one family in a town in the west of the country on Wednesday, a monitoring group said.
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But within months, Deputy Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach admitted privately to several reporters in Washington that American air raids were in fact hitting civilian-populated areas of Hanoi, Haiphong and other cities.
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Clashes, shelling and air raids in western Syria marred the truce on Friday shortly after it went into force at midnight (2200 GMT on Thursday), and violence appeared to escalate later on Friday.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring organization, on Friday reported at least 26 air raids and artillery shelling targeting the town of Douma in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's Idlib region saw a lull in air raids that have been pounding the insurgent territory, a monitor and rebel official said on Saturday, after the government said it was ceasing fire.
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Given that Israel had destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981 and Syria's in 2007 in air raids, both the choice of location and secrecy surrounding it would have made sense from an Iranian perspective.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Friday the air raids targeted militants responsible for plotting the attack, and that Egypt would not hesitate to carry out additional strikes inside and outside the country.
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An aid convoy was hit by a mortar round near Homs this week while another was forced to stop due to air raids, said Jan Egeland, chairman of the U.N. humanitarian task force for Syria.
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The Observatory, a British-based war monitor that collects information from a network of sources across Syria, said heavy fighting continued and that the army had unleashed more than 500 air raids and artillery strikes.
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That recognition has nudged Israel into a more assertive military posture vis-à-vis Iran in Syria in recent months, characterized by repeated cross-border air raids against Iran and its chief terrorist proxy, Hezbollah.
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With Japan's surrender, Hong Kong's citizens would have breathed a sigh at relief from the US air raids -- bombs from which sometimes went astray, endangering residents -- although their legacy continues to surface to this day.
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Air raids meanwhile intensified, said the monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as displaced people flocked to the border areas least likely to be hit, and the United Nations warned of a humanitarian catastrophe.
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Yehia Tanani said he and his family left Manzar three days ago and walked for 3 km (1.86 miles), hiding behind walls and under trees to avoid air raids before sheltering at a fish farm.
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At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured Sunday in the long-besieged town of Eastern Ghouta after multiple Syrian and Russian air raids hit a crowded neighborhood, according to the Syrian Civil Defense.
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In painful detail, Khaled describes how the air raids on Aleppo ruined the city and killed his family; only he and his sister survived, but he lost her on the long and gruelling flight to Europe.
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With backing from Iranian fighters and Lebanon's Hezbollah on the ground, and Russian air raids, the government has recaptured areas in the west, northwest and south of Syria since Moscow intervened last September, reversing rebel gains.
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Russia's backing for Syrian government forces has helped swing the war in favor of Assad, although Russia previously denied hitting civilian targets in Syria where it launched air raids late last year to bolster its ally.
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Earlier this year, the two nuclear rivals came to the brink of war, launching air raids into each other's territories, and later suspended ties after India revoked the autonomy of Kashmir, a territory both countries claim.
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Junko Kaneda, 84, who walked by herself through sweltering heat on Sunday to vote at a polling station in Nakano, a neighborhood in western Tokyo, recalled hiding in bomb shelters during World War II air raids.
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How to remember the past In a quiet corner of Tokyo's Koto ward a two-story building that has the air of a residential home in fact houses the Tokyo Air Raids Center for War Damages.
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Two years after Martin was born, the family returned to England, where he was raised until the onslaught of German air raids, when he, his mother and his sister were sent to join relatives in Canada.
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Syrian government warplanes resumed their bombardment of a rebel-held valley near Damascus on Sunday after nearly 24 hours with no air raids, a rebel official and monitors said, during the third day of a fragile ceasefire.
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That night, two major bakeries hundreds of miles apart were targeted and destroyed in nighttime air raids, as was a cotton factory in Hayyan, Aleppo, which acted as a major employer to those left in the region.
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GENEVA, May 31 (Reuters) - Fighting in the Libyan city of Derna has reached unprecedented levels, with air raids, shelling of residential areas and heavy ground clashes, the United Nations humanitarian office said in a report on Thursday.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Air raids by Turkish warplanes on the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin in northern Syria have partially destroyed the ancient temple complex of Ain Dara, renowned for its finely carved reliefs.
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The air raids included Afghan A-219 attack planes, US Air Force B-220 heavy bombers and, for the first time in Afghanistan, Air Force F-222s flying from a secretive base in the United Arab Emirates.
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The Western source said the number of missiles was in the 10s and that the transfers were designed to send a warning to the United States and Israel, especially after air raids on Iranian troops in Syria.
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But they worry an attack could nevertheless make it significantly harder for the US to launch air raids against the North by causing panic and chaos on the bases that house the American warplanes, bombers, and troops.
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According to an analysis by the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society at the University of Exeter, approximately 212,24 German civilians were killed by allied air raids and 2500% of inner-city buildings obliterated.
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Cooperation with the Russians was important since Russian-backed forces and American-supported forces were separately closing in on the Euphrates River city of Deir al-Zour, with both sides launching numerous air raids in the area.
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In addition to continued armed resistance, they have put together an extraordinary array of rescue workers, ambulance drivers, nurses, doctors, underground hospitals, electronic I.C.U.s, media producers, and low-power radio stations that warn listeners about air raids.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Air raids by a Saudi-led military coalition killed at least 15 policemen and wounded more than 20 people when they hit police buildings in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, overnight, medical and police sources said on Monday.
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Recent reports of more than half a dozen air raids led by U.S. special forces have been decried by powerful Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias and other critics of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi as violations of Iraqi sovereignty.
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The Houthis say their missile attacks on Saudi Arabia are in retaliation for air raids by the alliance, which entered Yemen's war in 2015 to try to restore the Saudi-backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
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The Houthis say their missile attacks on the kingdom are in retaliation for air raids on Yemen by the Western-backed coalition, which has launched thousands of air strikes in Yemen since 2015 that have killed hundreds of people.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government warplanes resumed their bombardment of a rebel-held valley near Damascus on Sunday after nearly 24 hours with no air raids, a rebel official and monitors said, during the third day of a fragile ceasefire.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations condemned air raids on five hospitals and two humanitarian warehouses in Idlib, Syria, this week and called for setting up a system so warring sides would protect civilians and medical facilities near "terrorist" groups.
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But I found no Blitz spirit at the station, which served as a shelter for thousands of East Enders during the air raids of World War II. Not a single person I spoke to was standing strong against terrorism.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria and its ally Russia have stepped up an offensive against the last big stronghold of Syrian rebels, mounting more air raids and deploying ground reinforcements including Iranian-backed militias, army defectors and residents said on Friday.
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CTS forces backed by U.S.-led air raids meanwhile clashed with Islamic State militants near a historic site a short distance away, an officer said, as they tried to drive the jihadists out of more districts in the city.
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Britain is s major arms supplier to Saudi Arabia, and opposition politicians and human rights groups have called on the government to cease such sales due to the high civilian death toll in air raids by the coalition in Yemen.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Tuesday they rejected any withdrawal of fighters from Aleppo after Russia announced a halt in air raids which it said was designed to allow insurgents to leave and to separate moderate fighters from extremist militants.
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The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said a week ago that it would keep the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah port - vital for aid - open for a month despite another missile attack against Riyadh, but it has kept up air raids.
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Syrian government warplanes killed at least 15 people in air raids on the town of al-Boulil in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor on Friday, the Syrian Observatory said, saying four women and a child were among those killed.
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NAIROBI, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The al Shabaab commander who masterminded an assault on a Kenyan army base in Somalia last week is believed to have been killed in air raids by Kenyan warplanes, the country's armed forces chief said on Thursday.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said warplanes carried out at least five air raids against rebel-held parts of Eastern Ghouta and that the army had also bombarded it with rocket fire on Tuesday.
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RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - Air raids by U.S. coalition warplanes have intensified in recent days as Kurdish and Arab militias seek to drive surrounded Islamic State militants from their last strongholds in Syria's Raqqa — but the toll on civilians has been severe.
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But instead of building the vehicle which later became the VW Beetle, the plant was converted during World War Two to produce jeep-type military vehicles as well as aircraft supplies and to repair warplanes, drawing numerous allied air raids.
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"The Israeli enemy targeted one of our warplanes while conducting air raids against these groups in the area of Saida on the outskirts of al-Yarmouk Basin in the Syrian airspace," a Syrian state TV banner said, quoting a military source.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Guns mostly fell silent in Syria and Russian air raids stopped on Saturday, the first day of a cessation of hostilities that the United Nations has described as the best hope for peace in five years of civil war.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian warplanes resumed their bombardment of the rebel-held Wadi Barada valley northwest of Damascus on Sunday after nearly 24 hours with no air raids, a rebel official and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
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The introduction of B-29s The horrors Nihei saw that night were the result of Operation Meetinghouse, the deadliest of a series of firebombing air raids on Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces, between February and May 1945.
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But when the supreme crisis came, he was also a titanic statesman who led his nation through unfathomable struggles, including the Battle of Britain, in which the English successfully defended their homeland against several brutal months of unrelenting Nazi air raids.
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At least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in Syrian government air raids in the opposition-held province on Thursday, marking a dramatic escalation of a conflict that has driven nearly a million people from their homes in the past three months.
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The process is ostensibly a humanitarian one: It aims to help migrants escape war-torn Libya, where they are often prey to kidnapping, conscription, air raids, abuse and forced labor, without needing to brave the dangerous sea crossing to Italy.
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Air raids killed 14 men suspected of belonging to al Qaeda in southern Yemen on Sunday, medics and local residents said, in one of the largest US-led assaults on the group since a civil war broke out a year ago.
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It is housed in an imposing, reconstructed Baroque palace modeled after the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, and decimated by air raids during World War II. Prior to renovations by Plattner's foundation, the structure served rather unceremoniously as a youth hostel in the 1970s.
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The Houthis say their missile attacks on Saudi Arabia are in retaliation for air raids on Yemen by the Western-backed coalition, which entered Yemen's war in 2015 to try to restore the Saudi-backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
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The devastating air raids continued on the town overnight and in to Tuesday morning, UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, ahead of what the group believes will be a ground assault by regime forces to retake the town.
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"This is a dramatic reduction in the number of people killed, and there is a remarkable reduction in the amount of hostilities by all sides, especially air raids and heavy bombardment," said Wael Aleji, the spokesperson for the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
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In 2017, the US military and CIA launched at least 161 air raids in Yemen and Somalia, according to statistics compiled by the UK's Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which aggregates official data and news reports to track air strikes around the world.
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The Houthis say their missile attacks on the kingdom are in retaliation for air raids on Yemen by the Western-backed coalition, which entered Yemen's war in 2015 to try to restore the Saudi-backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
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What music might have served as a bridge between a bunk in Block 59 and the bourgeois living room of his family's Hamburg villa, where my grandmother now did her best to raise two young boys on her own amid frequent air raids?
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ADEN (Reuters) - Air raids killed 14 men suspected of belonging to al Qaeda in southern Yemen on Sunday, medics and local residents said, in one of the largest U.S.-led assaults on the group since a civil war broke out a year ago.
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And while the Allied bombing of Dresden in Germany in February 20023 roused a strong public debate on the tactic of unleashing fire on civilian populations, on its 75th anniversary the impact and legacy of the Japan air raids remain largely unknown.
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Civil defense sources said air raids struck the towns of Kafr Nubl and Maasran, as well as the cities of Saraqeb, Maarat al Numan and Idlib, and that several deaths and dozens of injuries were reported as rescuers dug through the rubble.
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A group of families from northern Syria, huddled in a tent on a Greek hillside, had for seven years refused to flee their neighborhood despite regular air raids, the destruction of their homes and schools, and the deaths of many relatives and friends.
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The regime, backed by Russian air power, has decimated much of eastern Aleppo with aerial bombardments in recent months, and analysts have said the intensified air raids are a sign the regime may be planning a ground offensive to wrest control of the area.
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ADEN (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it would keep the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah port, vital for aid, open for a month despite a fresh missile attack against Riyadh, but it kept up air raids that killed at least nine people.
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For a time the government cut off electricity to Incirlik air base, from which America conducts air raids against IS. Some of the planes that took part in the failed coup were said to have been stationed there; the Turkish commander of the base was arrested.
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Second, in the wake of the first American air raids on North Vietnam in 1964, the C.C.P. leadership, especially Mao, became very concerned that the U.S. might bring the Vietnam War to China, and so they decided to build a backup industrial base in China's west.
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That Saotome was in Tokyo was an accident of birth: Because his birthday fell in the first half of the year, he missed the cutoff for being evacuated with other groups of children sent from the city during the air raids that started the previous summer.
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The government has been hitting rebel-held areas to the east of Damascus with air raids and artillery for more than a month, despite a nominal cease-fire that was supposed to be maintained during new rounds of peace talks in Geneva and in Astana, Kazakhstan.
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Understanding these simple learning mechanisms will help all of us "keep calm and carry on" (which is how London dealt with the uncertainty of constant air raids in World War II) instead of getting caught in anxiety or panic in the coming days, and whenever we face uncertainty.
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Only 17 percent of respondents were happy with Netanyahu's policy toward Gaza, where he agreed to a ceasefire - dubbed by Lieberman as "surrender" - after militants from its ruling Hamas group launched almost 500 rockets into Israel on Monday and Tuesday and Israel carried out dozens of air raids.
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" David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, speaking with Stiller before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said violence is escalating and echoed Saleh's charge about Russia, saying that about 3,500 people had been displaced "in the last 36 hours" and 1003 air raids and attacks had taken place "today.
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In the aftermath of World War II, though her equipment was lost in the 1944 air raids, Hase was able to resume her photographic practice with the help of friends who had emigrated and were able to send her a new camera and film by way of the US Army.
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"The Israeli enemy targeted one of our warplanes while conducting air raids against these groups in the area of Saida on the outskirts of Wadi al-Yarmouk in the Syrian airspace," read a banner on Syrian state TV. The question now is if the plane's downing will further inflame tensions.
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"We have pulled 152 bodies and we have rescued 279 civilians since the Russian and regime bombing campaign," said Salem Abu al Azem, a senior rescue worker from the opposition-run Civil Defence in Idlib, adding bodies were still being pulled out of the wreckage of buildings flattened by air raids.
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The Kurdish YPG militia, helped by Russian air raids, seized an ex-military air base at Menagh last week, angering Turkey, which sees the YPG as an extension of the PKK, a Kurdish group that waged a bloody insurgent campaign on Turkish soil over most of the past three decades.
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The diary entries Mekas reads that date from after his arrival in America — about living cheaply in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, or his lonely stories to coworkers about a girlfriend who didn't exist — are more detailed yet less urgent than his descriptions of air raids and life in the displaced persons camps.
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It's the latest addition to an appealing British subgenre: the home-front story that reminds you that among grim air raids and explosions, people also just lived their lives, sometimes with laughter and unexpected new freedoms, as in John Boorman's 1987 autobiographical film, "Hope and Glory," about childhood during the Blitz.
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It was the second day of air raids, the first such strikes since around a year ago in the rebel-held area where community leaders in December reached a U.N.-sponsored deal with authorities to evacuate fighters under a phased plan that would have shored up government control of the city.
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"The images of neighbourhoods across Europe reduced to rubble due to wartime air raids are a lasting reminder of the destruction that can be caused by man-made explosions," Chris Scott, the lead author of the new study and a professor of space and atmospheric physics at Reading University, said in a statement.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated that Russian and Syrian warplanes conducted more than 500 air raids in a two-week span in January as part of their ongoing offensive in northern Latakia IMAGES: Assad-approved #Russia|n rockets being fired at IDP camps in rural #Latakia on #Syria-#Turkey border. pic.twitter.
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Syrian rebels: The Syrian opposition welcomed the strikes: "We hope for the continuation of the strikes in order to prevent the regime from using its planes to launch any new air raids or going back to using internationally banned weapons," Ahmad Ramadan, the head of the media office of the Syrian National Coalition political opposition group, told Reuters.
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I wanted to write books because reading and writing were all we had when we fled from Iran to Turkey through Europe, and eventually to the US. My first memories are all of air raids, sirens, long bus rides, the anguish of my parents, the revolving temporary homes (from Swiss convent to Skid Row motel) -- but also of books.
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While the American coalition has bombed sites in Syria and Iraq with far less intensity than the Russians in Syria — where the West accuses Moscow of predominantly striking moderate rebels — activists say hundreds of innocent Syrians and Iraqis have also been hit by the coalition's air raids in the country in the past year and a half.
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And earlier this year, the film Their Finest dramatized how the story could be polished, humanized, and smoothed out for inspirational movies made by the Ministry of Information to prop up the embattled spirits of the British people, who were living in the shadow of air raids and unsure if they'd make it to the next morning.
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Though MBS has been widely lauded for his reformist tendencies — he has "stood up to the religious elite to impose breathtaking social changes, including letting women drive and allowing concerts and cinemas," as noted this summer in a WSJ opinion piece — he has also led air raids in Yemen that have killed many thousands of civilians (with White House support, to the dismay of lawmakers from both political parties).
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On Friday, the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia in the northern Australian port city of Darwin, the first time a Japanese leader has visited the city, which was pummeled by Japanese air raids in World War II. The two leaders discussed economic cooperation and the possibility of the Japanese military participating in training exercises in Darwin, where about 2,000 American Marines rotate through each year.
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