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Gunfire, mortar and artillery fire boomed a few blocks away.
The aerial engagement followed overnight artillery fire by both sides.
"The artillery fire did more damage than the bombs," Tan added.
The IDF responded with tank and artillery fire, killing four Palestinians.
American troops came under artillery fire last Friday from Turkish positions.
Finally, the new development could signal the end of indiscriminate artillery fire.
The Marines are there to provide artillery fire, according to the reports.
He lay awake at night, listening to the thumping of artillery fire.
Aerial bombing and indiscriminate artillery fire flattened villages and destroyed irrigation canals.
Airstrikes and artillery fire have killed at least 33 people since Friday.
It wasn't immediately known whether the projectiles were missiles or artillery fire.
The Israeli military responded with artillery fire and airstrikes in northern Gaza.
The artillery fire landed three hours late and in the wrong place.
In some parts of the city artillery fire could still be heard.
In some parts of the city, artillery fire could still be heard.
In the background, there is the steady thud of mortar and artillery fire.
Some Russian officials first suggested that rebel artillery fire had ignited the convoy.
Some Russian officials suggested that artillery fire from rebels had hit the convoy.
Heavy artillery fire could be heard from center of the city on Tuesday.
Residents fleeing Sur say swathes of their neighbourhood have been destroyed by artillery fire.
They are meant to protect the tunnel entrances from artillery fire and aerial attack.
Loud explosions and heavy artillery fire could be heard across Tripoli from early morning.
The pause seemed to have little impact Tuesday, as shelling and artillery fire continued.
Turkish artillery fire supported the Peshmerga effort, according to that country's prime minister, Binali Yildirim.
It responded with artillery fire the last time South Korea used the speakers in August.
Whole neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble, the commercial district torn apart by artillery fire.
Military sources also reported exchanges of artillery fire, but those reports could not be confirmed.
The officials had toured Darbasiya which was hit by Turkish artillery fire earlier in the week.
Since Tuesday the YPG and Turkish forces have traded artillery fire along the Syria-Turkey border.
In August, similar propaganda broadcasts led to an exchange of artillery fire between the two nations.
But for many, their homes have been devastated by weeks of artillery fire and aerial bombardment.
Hundreds more are supporting the offensive with airstrikes and artillery fire, intelligence, logistics and other support.
The Defense Department confirmed that artillery fire originating from "Turkish positions" at around 9:00 p.m.
Many were missing legs due to bombings, rockets, and artillery fire; many more were missing arms.
At least 192 homes were damaged by artillery fire, according to Pavel Malykhin, the city manager.
Dozens of civilians have been killed since Turkey began launching airstrikes and artillery fire across the border.
Velasco was a field artillery fire control Marine, from West Covina, California, according to the Marine Corps.
The two sides exchanged artillery fire after South Korea began blasting propaganda on loudspeakers across the border.
This week Turkey blamed Islamic State in Syria for cross-border artillery fire that killed two people.
US forces patrolling northeast Syria on Sunday reportedly noticed the artillery fire, according to the Military Times.
She often talks of being caught between Russian and German artillery fire, which destroyed the family home.
They face a gauntlet of U.S. airstrikes, Islamic State land mines and artillery fire from the fighting.
Earlier this week, Turkey launched airstrikes and artillery fire targeting U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in the area.
Their target was a base of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which came under artillery fire.
In the bigger cities where buildings were more substantial, a doctrine of direct artillery fire was emphasized.
He said Turkish artillery fire had forced it to turn back, although the Kurdish militia denied this.
After almost daily aerial bombardments and artillery fire, large parts of the picturesque, lakeside city have been devastated.
" "US troops in the vicinity of Kobani came under artillery fire from Turkish positions at approximately 9 p.m.
A Reuters visuals team heading to Mosul from the northern side reported intense artillery fire in the morning.
The last time South Korea deployed the loudspeakers, in August 2015, it triggered an exchange of artillery fire.
She was smuggled into Russia and arrested for allegedly directing artillery fire that killed two Russian television journalists.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - On the outskirts of Tripoli, days of silence are broken by bursts of heavy artillery fire.
Witnesses told CNN they have seen an increase in artillery fire and rocket activity near the front lines.
YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said there was heavy Turkish artillery fire across the border into Syria on Wednesday.
A CNN team on the outskirts of Mosul heard loud clashes, bombing from air support and artillery fire.
"Precision airstrikes and artillery fire will likewise continue at specific targets to hasten the clearing," said Brig. Gen.
The thump of outgoing artillery fire sounded throughout Thursday morning, and the crack of incoming shells was increasing.
Unforgettable, Mr. Debski said, was the loud "hurrah" with which the Soviets charged despite the German artillery fire.
US forces stationed with Syrian Democratic forces troops on the base responded with artillery fire and air strikes.
A house next to hers was hit by artillery fire and destroyed, though it was unoccupied at the time.
Turkish towns in the region have often seen artillery fire spill over during Syria's almost five-year civil war.
Insurgent strongholds, including swathes of Diyarbakir's historical centre, have been pummelled by artillery fire and razed to the ground.
Weeks of Russian and Syrian air strikes and artillery fire killed hundreds of civilians, and destroyed hospitals and schools.
Turkish military sources said the air strikes had hit 12 Islamic State targets, while artillery fire hit 70 targets.
Intense artillery fire by regime forces continued to target al-Shaar neighborhood on Monday, activists Aleppo Media Center reported.
The Coast Guard had the deadly hulk towed far offshore and then sank it with barrages of artillery fire.
Artillery fire nearly hit a small group of US forces stationed in a Kurdish-controlled town on Friday, too.
The area has also been pounded by air strikes and artillery fire from Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces.
Those who fled described a death vise of airstrikes, artillery fire and land mines that litter every exit route.
In the morning, explosions rang out at the front line as artillery fire pounded Baghouz and warplanes buzzed overhead.
Afghan officials have in recent weeks accused the Pakistani military of several incidents of heavy artillery fire into Afghanistan.
Turkey pushed ahead by launching airstrikes and artillery fire against the Kurdish forces on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
The Observatory said two pupils and two teachers were killed when artillery fire struck a school in the city.
On the approach to Ras Baalbek, a Christian town of some eight thousand, I heard artillery fire echoing nearby.
The airstrikes and artillery fire have concentrated on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta, according to activists inside the city.
The army says 2,500 troops are involved in operations and on Tuesday were pounding rebel mountain positions with artillery fire.
The artillery fire Conner directed is credited with killing 50 German soldiers and wounding 100 more, ultimately repelling the assault.
In March, Russian authorities finally convicted Savchenko of charges relating to the deaths of two journalists killed by artillery fire.
Turkey has frequently launched air strikes in the region but the latest campaign has included artillery fire and ground operations.
He settled in the Russian capital in 2015 after he was injured by artillery fire while fighting in eastern Ukraine.
The plane was caught in antiaircraft missile and artillery fire as it descended toward Damascus International Airport, according to Gen.
Davutoglu said the artillery fire would continue and promised that those responsible for the Ankara attack would "pay the price".
The artillery fire of facts are just kind of bouncing off and even the fact shrapnel is not hitting them.
On Wednesday, Iraqi troops concentrated artillery fire on Falluja's northern and southern neighborhoods, according to a resident contacted via the Internet.
In March, two people, including a young child, were killed in cross-border artillery fire blamed on Islamic State in Syria.
At least five Syrian government soldiers were killed on Tuesday by Turkish artillery fire, the conflict monitor based in Britain reported.
North Korea considers the broadcasts tantamount to an act of war, and at times has responded to them with artillery fire.
The coalition, aided by Turkish artillery fire, killed the militants in Syria and also destroyed seven buildings used as ISIS headquarters.
Hundreds of Ukrainian troops were killed and more than 100 captured when Kiev's forces were surrounded and pounded with artillery fire.
Israel's army said Monday's blast, targeting military vehicles in the Shebaa farms area, prompted Israeli forces to respond with artillery fire.
Here's the latest: The two nuclear-armed neighbors exchanged artillery fire on Saturday, killing at least five civilians and two soldiers.
Turkish towns in the region have frequently seen artillery fire spill over during Syria's civil war, about to enter its sixth year.
U.S. Marines were providing artillery fire at the request of Iraq to help support Iraqi forces moving into new positions, they said.
Turkey frequently launches air strikes in the region but the latest campaign, dubbed "Operation Claw", has included artillery fire and ground operations.
When the SDF fighters get into trouble or need help to pave the way, they call in US airstrikes and artillery fire.
Scuds are occasionally fired at Saudi targets; thousands of Saudis living near Yemen have been evacuated to avoid rockets and artillery fire.
The targets were shelters, hideouts and arsenals used by the militants, the military said, adding that artillery fire continued from the ground.
The remaining jihadists were firing from the eastern edge of the town, and security forces responded with artillery fire and air strikes.
U.S. advisers in Iraq are also now able to directly contribute airstrikes and artillery fire to partnered units, Military Times reported Friday.
Along the way were the remains of the years of fighting: burned-out mud huts, houses disfigured by bullets and artillery fire.
Regime forces, led by Bashar's uncle, Rifaat, surrounded Hama and pummeled it for weeks with tank and artillery fire, killing at least 10,000.
The drones were also tested in extreme conditions, like 30 mile-per-hour winds, hard rain, darkness, zero-visibility fog and artillery fire.
On Wednesday morning Iraqi troops concentrated artillery fire on Fallujah's northern and northeastern neighborhoods, according to a resident Reuters contacted via the Internet.
At her trial in Donetsk in Russia earlier this year she was accused of directing artillery fire that killed two Russian television journalists.
Sirte is now a battlefield, its otherwise deserted central neighborhoods the scene of sporadic sniper exchanges, artillery fire, and house-to-house fighting.
Thunderclaps of Israeli artillery fire reverberated across the frontier between Syria and Israel, with the faint sound of impact echoing back moments later.
Nugent's house was a bungalow with a pebble-dash job so pockmarked it looked as if the façade had taken heavy artillery fire.
Turkish artillery fire nearly struck a small group US troops stationed near the Kurdish-held city of Kobani, according to multiple media reports.
She soon began seeing large numbers of soldiers with blast trauma, usually from mortars and artillery fire, a common feature of that war.
With fragmented dialogue that often comes at you like artillery fire, "Red Speedo" recalls the (good) work of David Mamet, distilled and compressed.
The attack occurred as government and rebel forces traded artillery fire Sunday on the eastern edge of the rebel-held half of Aleppo.
American bombers and artillery would then subject the reportedly empty village to bombs and artillery fire before covering the area with chemical defoliants.
The invadingTurks were so eager to begin their new genocide that they were unconcerned about harassing the departing Americans with bracketing artillery fire.
"The artillery fire was the most intense of the whole war, a fact which heightens the interest of the photograph," the text continued.
TRIPOLI, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The only functioning airport in the Libyan capital was closed on Sunday after being struck by artillery fire overnight.
Artillery fire from the rebels besieging the government-held city of Taiz, 300km south of Sana'a, has destroyed that city's sole Baskin-Robbins outlet.
The IDF, meanwhile, say they took out Syrian military targets after artillery fire from their northern border, but that all their aircraft returned safely.
Air strikes and ground fighting, including artillery fire, have killed or injured tens of thousands of civilians and displaced well over 3 million more.
A Turkish offensive in northern Syria has been underway since Wednesday, with airstrikes and artillery fire targeting U.S.-allied Kurdish forces on the ground.
The short-range projectiles were launched off the North's east coast, days after Kim Jong-un ordered artillery fire near a disputed sea border.
A day after the Iraqi government declared victory over the Islamic State, our correspondent toured the city, where artillery fire could still be heard.
Despite almost daily artillery fire and limited food supplies and other commodities, the plight of the two villages have not received as much media attention.
The U.S. military said it destroyed the tank after it moved within firing range of the U.S.-backed forces while being supported by artillery fire.
As a barrage of airstrikes and artillery fire volleyed into northern Syria, chaotic scenes unfolded on the ground as people tried to flee to safety.
Chilling warning The military announced it would reduce airstrikes and artillery fire on rebel-controlled areas in eastern Aleppo to allow civilians to evacuate safely.
After the two armies agreed on May 30 to stop exchanging artillery fire, thousands returned to their homes near the de facto border with Pakistan.
Skillfully requesting and directing supporting Marine artillery fire on the enemy positions, First Lieutenant Mueller ensured that fire superiority was gained over the hostile unit.
It said in a written statement that 58 Islamic State militants were killed in air strikes, artillery fire and clashes as part of those operations.
The Observatory also reported artillery bombardment by government forces and air strikes overnight in Hama province, and artillery fire by government forces in Homs province.
The Army and Air Force teamed up in Hawaii for a live-fire exercise involving B-52 bombers, Army attack helicopters, and active artillery fire.
Among the group was the Italian photographer Andrea Rocchelli, 30, who was killed by the artillery fire along with other journalists on May 24, 2014.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that it sources said that Hezbollah's claim that Badreddine was killed by artillery fire could not be confirmed.
That involves some risks for American advisers near the front lines, who can call in air strikes and artillery fire and offer guidance on ground movements.
In 2015, Mr. Kim ordered his front-line military units to go on a "semi-war state" after the two Koreas exchanged rocket and artillery fire.
A Reuters reporter saw one Airbus A319 operated by Afriqiyah Airways sitting in a hangar at Mitiga with a hole in its roof from artillery fire.
Indian forces returned artillery fire, an Indian officer said, the first time the heavy guns had been used since a 2003 ceasefire along the disputed frontier.
Four civilians were killed and 19 wounded in artillery fire on Falluja's center on Thursday, a source in the city's main hospital said via the internet.
There have been regular exchanges of rocket and artillery fire in recent weeks between Turkish forces and YPG fighters who control part of Syria's northwestern border.
Turkish artillery fire nearly hit a small group US troops stationed near the Kurdish-held city of Kobane on Friday afternoon, according to multiple media reports.
Turkish artillery fire nearly struck a small group US troops stationed near the Kurdish-held city of Kobani on Friday afternoon, according to multiple media reports.
Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division engage ISIS militants with strategically placed artillery fire in support of Iraqi and Peshmerga fighters in Mosul on July 5.
Artillery fire battered Maarat al-Numan town and nearby villages in the south Idlib countryside over the past two days, after warplanes struck there on Thursday.
"The Turkish side continued to support illegal armed formations with artillery fire and reconnaissance and attack drones," Interfax cited a rear admiral, Oleg Zhuravlev, as saying.
Several people in the suburb were treated for exposure to chlorine gas, opposition groups said, as airstrikes and artillery fire from the regime continued on Sunday.
But when the pro-regime forces began shelling an SDF base, the US responded with heavy airstrikes and artillery fire that lasted for about three hours.
Explosions and artillery fire could be heard on Syrian state television in districts around the citadel which overlooks the Old City as the army pressed its offensive.
On Friday, the Pentagon said U.S. troops in northern Syria came under artillery fire from Turkish positions, even though Ankara knew that American troops were located there.
Nadia Savchenko, a Ukrainian army pilot accused of directing artillery fire which killed two Russian journalists, was given a 22-year prison sentence by a Russian court.
In June 2014 she was taken prisoner during a botched mission, smuggled into Russia and arrested for allegedly directing artillery fire that killed two Russian television journalists.
There may not be enough support to engage in a land war in response to devastating artillery fire against Seoul or even to a North Korean invasion.
Idlib, which borders Turkey, has also seen an escalation in artillery fire from the Syrian army and allied Iranian-backed militias on rebel-held towns, witnesses said.
Others may have driven through miles of Kuwaiti desert in 1991, swerving to avoid the duds left behind by weeks of intense American artillery fire and airstrikes.
Yet sporadic artillery fire and shelling occurs daily, Eubank said, and approximately 200,000 people have yet to return to their homes in the territory occupied by Turkey.
Turkey referred to the deal as a "pause," and there are questions as to whether the terms have held amid reports on Friday of shelling and artillery fire.
Fewer than 200 advisers accompany Iraqi forces to spots where they can help call in airstrikes and artillery fire, and offer counsel on ground movements, we were told.
Limited for the time being to occasional artillery fire from a ridge to the east of the city, Turkey's involvement has infuriated the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad.
A U.N. human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas.
Asked whether the soldiers killed by artillery fire, an Indian Army official said the cause of death was unclear, adding that more information would come from the autopsy.
Black smoke poured from an area near one of the town's mosques and the lake after bombings by OV-10 attack aircraft and artillery fire from the ground.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Ten Islamic State militants were killed in northern Syria by coalition air strikes and cross-border artillery fire from Turkey, military sources said on Wednesday.
Parts of Falluja, especially a southern frontline that was mostly static for around two years, have been severely scarred by air strikes, artillery fire and Islamic State mines.
The Russian ministry was quoted as saying it had information about fighting between Nusra Front militants and opposition fighters involving heavy artillery fire in the past 24 hours.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi schoolgirl Manar Mahmoud is eager to resume classes after years of life under Islamic State in Mosul, ignoring the nearby rattle of artillery fire.
Turkey mobilized hundreds of C.I.A.-trained Syrian Arab fighters from the opposition Free Syrian Army to spearhead its attack, and bombarded the enclave with jets and artillery fire.
About 200,000 civilians were still trapped in desperate conditions in the old city of Mosul, targeted by jihadists and suffering heavy casualties from coalition bombing and artillery fire.
The move was met with criticism, which was only likely to intensify after U.S. troops stationed in the region came under artillery fire from Turkish forces late Friday.
Artillery fire continued Monday, the head of the Idlib branch of Syrian Civil Defense — a volunteer organization more commonly known as the White Helmets — told The Washington Post.
When the pro-regime forces began shelling a base held by the SDF, the US responded with heavy airstrikes and artillery fire, which continued for about three hours.
Within minutes of when the ceasefire was meant to start, activists on the ground reported shelling and artillery fire from pro-regime positions, killing at least one person.
YPG media adviser Rezan Hedo denied Erdogan's assertion that the convoy had turned back under Turkish artillery fire, but he gave no details on its size or composition.
He said Turkey was involved in the Mosul operation on "multiple fronts" and that 17 Islamic State militants had been killed by Turkish artillery fire since the offensive began.
TRIPOLI, May 26 (Reuters) - Heavy clashes between rival factions erupted in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday, with loud explosions and heavy artillery fire heard since the early morning.
CNN reported earlier Friday that Turkish artillery fire had hit several hundred yards from a US special operations unit, according to a US official familiar with the initial assessment.
The jihadists in Raqqa, like their comrades in Mosul, have also begun to herd civilians into buildings to use them as human shields against air strikes and artillery fire.
The carnage included strikes on four makeshift hospitals, and the use of indiscriminate barrel bombs, banned under international law, as well as rocket and artillery fire, according to reports.
She was handed over to Russia and found guilty of complicity in the deaths of two Russian journalists who were killed by artillery fire while reporting on the conflict.
Major-General Igor Konashenkov said rebels had directed artillery fire at the mobile field hospital after it began receiving civilians and had scored a direct hit on its reception.
The administration seriously considered a "bloody nose" strike to rattle North Korea, which analysts warn could risk a storm of artillery fire on Seoul, South Korea's densely-populated capital.
The Russian Defence Ministry was quoted as saying it had information about fighting between Nusra Front militants and opposition fighters involving heavy artillery fire in the past 24 hours.
Residents said the warring sides traded heavy automatic and artillery fire as the Houthis advanced in the central Political District, which is a redoubt of Saleh and his family.
Ms. Savchenko is accused of directing artillery fire that killed two Russian journalists during a battle between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatist militias in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Artillery fire from Turkey and air strikes by U.S.-led coalition warplanes killed at least eight Islamic State fighters in northern Syria, military sources said on Thursday.
The Blue House complex also has a big, underground bunker, built to withstand artillery fire, which was upgraded with a state-of-the-art information system last year, media reported.
Long after advancements in firearms made such fortifications obsolete, the castle withstood artillery fire when it came under siege from a rebel samurai army during the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877.
The last time South Korea deployed the loudspeakers, in retaliation for a landmine blast in August that wounded two South Korean soldiers, it led to an exchange of artillery fire.
Turkey's army said 11 of the jihadists were killed in air strikes by coalition forces, while the rest were killed in artillery fire and clashes during operations in al-Bab.
Major-General Igor Konashenkov said rebels had directed artillery fire at the mobile field hospital after it had started receiving civilians and had scored a direct hit on its reception.
In 2015, North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire at the same time as the Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills after the South began blasting propaganda on loudspeakers across the border.
While his battalion braced artillery fire in the blistering cold and blanketed snow, an artillery shell exploded a tree, which sent splinters traveling the speed of bullets into his face.
"The children of Aleppo are trapped in a living nightmare," UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth said in the wake of two hospitals being hit with airstrikes and artillery fire.
Only a few hours later, airstrikes and artillery fire could be felt in northern Syria as the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces accused Ankara and its proxies of severe ceasefire violations.
Overnight, bombs and artillery fire hit the M10 and M290 hospitals in eastern Aleppo, where 22,229 people are trapped and cut off from aid supplies by Russian and Syrian government forces.
Overnight, bombs and artillery fire hit the M10 and M2 hospitals in eastern Aleppo, where 250,000 people are trapped and cut off from aid supplies by Russian and Syrian government forces.
During a visit on Wednesday to the city, about 70 miles west of Baghdad, the booms of artillery fire filled the air, followed by clouds of smoke rising on the horizon.
The release of the documents comes amid worsening tensions between the neighboring countries in recent weeks, with days of clashes last month during which troops on the border exchanged artillery fire.
While senior Army weapons developers welcome the possibility of longer-range accurate artillery fire, they also recognize that its effectiveness hinges upon continued development of sensor, fire control and target technology.
South Korea's Defense Ministry said it was trying to determine if the projectiles, launched at 10am (9pm Wednesday EST) from the North's east coast, were short-range missiles or artillery fire.
TRIPOLI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - An Airbus A319 passenger jet belonging to Libya's Afriqiyah Airways was damaged by artillery fire during clashes between rival armed groups at Tripoli's Mitiga airport on Monday.
Facing heavy machine gun and artillery fire, Doss repeatedly ran alone into the kill zone, carrying wounded soldiers to the edge of the cliff and singlehandedly lowering them down to safety.
"Every Pakistan post through which infiltration takes place should be reduced to rubble by artillery fire," blustered a retired brigadier who now mans a think-tank in New Delhi, India's capital.
Overnight, bombs and artillery fire hit the M22 and M290 hospitals in eastern Aleppo, where 22,229 people are trapped and cut off from aid supplies by Russian and Syrian government forces.
Overnight, bombs and artillery fire hit the M10 and M2 hospitals in eastern Aleppo, where 250,83 people are trapped and cut off from aid supplies by Russian and Syrian government forces.
"The apostate Turkish government should know that the blood of Muslims shed with airplanes and artillery fire will, with God's permission, ignite a fire in their own land," the statement said.
Though North Korea also engages in propaganda broadcasts of its own, it has long objected to the South's use of speakers, and has at times responded to them with artillery fire.
In the first large-scale engagement between Assad's forces and US soldiers alongside their Syrian rebel partners, more than 100 of their attackers were dispatched forever in airstrikes and artillery fire.
Despite some artillery fire on Douma on Wednesday, there has been no renewal of the army's withering bombardment and assault that stormed most of the rebel enclave in just a few weeks.
While they offer no rebuttal to the devastating aerial power of the coalition, the drones allow ISIS to get above their opponents -- to drop crude explosives, or spot targets for artillery fire.
Soldiers of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined in the mayhem, raining artillery fire on bases loyal to the vestiges of a central government that they had supposedly entered Yemen to protect.
By contrast, North Korea could already launch nuclear attacks against South Korea and Japan, and devastate Seoul with artillery fire, even if its ability to strike the continental United States is uncertain.
As Batman, he's a sadistic savage who tortures criminals by branding his bat symbol into their skins, and has no compunctions about mowing down adversaries en masse with high-powered artillery fire.
"A heavy firefight was still ongoing involving armored vehicles, artillery fire and close-air support," Filemon Tan, spokesman of the Western Mindanao Command, told journalists, citing intelligence reports received late on Sunday.
"Ground troops were supported by attack helicopters and artillery fire," the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) said in a statement about Sunday's raid on al Shabaab bases in the Baadhade district of Jubbaland.
Amid international pressure to end the conflict, Pakistan returned the pilot and there were no further strikes but tensions remained high, with regular exchanges of artillery fire from both sides in Kashmir.
The two nuclear-armed neighbors exchanged artillery fire on Saturday, killing at least five civilians and two soldiers and making it clear that hostilities over the disputed Kashmir region are hardly over.
ADEN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Fighting resumed in the Yemeni port city of Aden on Wednesday, when government forces stormed its eastern suburbs and exchanged heavy artillery fire with southern separatists, residents said.
However, the reach of the artillery could bracket the North Vietnamese as they moved away, and the forward observer got right to work calling in 105-milimeter artillery fire from Khe Sanh.
The United States, which has deployed more than 5,000 troops in the fighting, leads an international coalition providing critical air and ground support, including artillery fire, to the Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
The rocket fire came from an area of Syria controlled by Islamic State, and the Turkish army retaliated with cross-border artillery fire against militant positions, Governor Suleyman Tapsiz told broadcaster TRT Haber.
As a barrage of airstrikes and artillery fire volleyed into northern Syria, hundreds of civilians fled areas on the border with Turkey, two Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters and witnesses told CNN.
Turkish artillery fire and air strikes by U.S.-led coalition warplanes killed 14 Islamic State fighters in northern Syria and struck dozens of militant targets on Sunday, Anadolu reported military sources as saying.
Turkish artillery fire also hit 104 Islamic State targets, including buildings and bombed vehicles, the army said in a statement, reiterating it had largely established control in the residential areas of al-Bab.
On Friday evening, the Defense Department confirmed that artillery fire originating from "Turkish positions" exploded "within a few hundred meters" from an area known to have US troops at around 9:00 p.m.
"The apostate Turkish government should know that the blood of Muslims shed with airplanes and artillery fire will, with God's permission, ignite a fire in their own land," the Islamic State declaration said.
For decades, the entire valley has been plagued by violence amid territorial tensions between Pakistan and India that have resulted in regular exchanges of artillery fire, local independence movements and anti-India separatists.
Two Russians who had been helping to direct Syrian artillery fire were killed during the fighting, the report added, and two others died later as a result of wounds sustained during the battle.
His visit to the Marawi operational center at Camp Ranao took place "amidst the sound of gun and artillery fire (in) the background," a report by the state-run Philippines News Agency (PNA) said.
DERNA, Libya (Reuters) - With artillery fire rumbling in the distance, residents of Derna gathered in a streetside cafe on Saturday to discuss the future of their city, long a jihadist hotbed in eastern Libya.
TRIPOLI, Libya — The casualties at the Aziziya field hospital south of Tripoli used to arrive with gaping wounds and shattered limbs, victims of the haphazard artillery fire that has defined battles among Libyan militias.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Air strikes by U.S.-led coalition warplanes and artillery fire from Turkey killed eight Islamic State fighters in northern Syria, state-run Anadolu Agency cited the Turkish military as saying on Sunday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reports of Turkish artillery fire into Syria's Afrin region, if true, would undermine regional stability and would not help protect Turkey's border security, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Friday.
The officials cited shelling attacks by insurgents on Damascus as well as Turkish artillery fire across the border into Tal Abyad, where Kurdish militias were battling the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
And just hours after Pence announced the ceasefire, Turkey was accused of violating it as clashes, including shelling and artillery fire, continued on the border between Turkey and Syria, according to eyewitnesses and Kurdish fighters.
Nearly 200 militants were killed by Turkish tank and artillery fire, which struck at least 500 of the group's positions over the last 48 hours, said Mr. Davutoglu, addressing Turkish ambassadors in the capital, Ankara.
"The first time that I heard real life artillery fire, when I was in Libya during the Arab Spring, I had flashbacks that I didn't know I was going to have," Hedayat explains to PEOPLE.
Since the 1950-53 Korean war ended in an armed truce, not a peace treaty, tensions have frequently flared between the Koreas, including an armed standoff last year that saw an exchange of artillery fire.
The Afghan capital had been consigned to rubble by rocket-propelled grenades and artillery fire, first in fighting between mujahideen warriors and the Soviets after their invasion in 1979, and then between different mujahideen factions.
Turkey has also helped to facilitate joint air strikes with U.S.-led coalition aircraft on Islamic State positions in northern Syria, and the military has ramped up artillery fire in response to cross-border shelling.
The visit to the Marawi operational center at Camp Ranao took place "amidst the sound of gun and artillery fire (in) the background," according to a report from the state-run Philippines News Agency (PNA).
Still within Falluja are an estimated 50,000 civilians, long cut off from shipments of food and medicine by a government siege and now under artillery fire as the front lines have tightened around the city.
Three of the suspected PKK militants were killed by artillery fire in one part of Semdinli, while the other two were killed close by, the security sources said, without giving further details on the operation.
After advances by pro-government forces and what the government calls reconciliation deals with besieged rebel-held suburbs, artillery fire no longer pounds those districts daily, and rebel mortar fire hits the city less frequently.
Meager resources meant to reduce poverty and improve basic services such as health and education were diverted to fund the conflict while schools, hospitals, power and water supplies were destroyed by shelling and artillery fire.
The Turkish military responded with salvo after salvo of artillery fire throughout the afternoon, pounding the Syrian town of Tel Abyad visible across the border where the Kurdish-led militia appeared to be still ensconced.
ANKARA (Reuters) - The Turkish army is retaliating with artillery fire at Syrian government targets in Syria after an airstrike killed 22 Turkish soldiers in the northwestern Idlib province, two Turkish security officials said on Friday.
Syrian forces attacked the district, containing an estimated 400,000 trapped residents, with air and artillery fire for the sixth straight day Friday, pounding civilian targets including marketplaces and hospitals, according to residents and aid groups.
Shelling and artillery fire was reported Friday in the border town of Ras al-Ain, one of the targets of Turkey's week-old offensive against Kurdish fighters, who have long been backed by the United States.
US officials had been in touch with members of the YPG throughout the negotiations Thursday, asking about logistics, like where the YPG could pull out of and demanding they stop long-range artillery fire into Turkey.
The army destroyed eight Islamic State targets with cross-border artillery fire after rockets from Syria hit the Turkish border town of Kilis, some 80 km (50 miles) to the west, a Turkish military source said.
Officers involved in the operation said Iraqi forces had moved toward the village of Haj Ali in tanks and armored vehicles under cover of coalition air strikes and artillery fire, capturing another village on the way.
Border problems between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which even saw exchanges of artillery fire earlier this year, have simmered for months, part of a longer running dispute over the frontier between the two neighbours that stretches decades.
At least eight soldiers on the frontlines in Marawi told Reuters the militants were using accurate sniper fire, grenades and firebombs to hold off advancing troops, despite daily bombing raids and artillery fire on their positions.
As the fighting moved up and down the peaks, lush jungle landscape was ripped apart by airstrikes and artillery fire and reduced to craters and shattered tree stumps, with body parts protruding from the pulverized earth.
At Fort Bragg in North Carolina last month, a mix of 19913 Apache gunships and Chinook cargo helicopters took off in an exercise that practiced moving troops and equipment under live artillery fire to assault targets.
"The actions of the militants were supported by artillery fire from the Turkish armed forces, which allowed the terrorists to break through the defence of the Syrian army," the Russian defence ministry was quoted as saying.
"The actions of the militants were supported by artillery fire from the Turkish armed forces, which allowed the terrorists to break through the defense of the Syrian army," the Russian defense ministry was quoted as saying.
"When the [Syrian Democratic Forces] fighters get into trouble or need help to pave the way, they call in U.S. airstrikes and artillery fire," notes a recent report from Raqqa, the besieged ISIS capital in Syria.
It showed uniformed soldiers moving through battered streets with dense clouds of black smoke overhead, while the whizz and crash of artillery fire, the rattle of small arms fire and deep echoing blasts could all be heard.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Four journalists from China, Canada, Bulgaria and Russia were wounded along the Syria-Turkey border as a result of heavy artillery fire, Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted Moscow's defense ministry as saying on Tuesday.
Shelling and artillery fire was reported Friday in the border town of Ras al-Ain, one of the targets of Turkey's 11-day-old offensive against Kurdish fighters, who have long been backed by the United States.
Blackish grey smoke hung in the air east of the Islamists' stronghold and the regular sound of outgoing artillery fire could be heard, said a Reuters reporter near Bazwaia, about five km (three miles) east of Mosul.
Turkey's army said 15 of the jihadists were killed in clashes, artillery fire and air strikes during operations in al-Bab, while the remaining 29 were killed and four buildings were destroyed in the coalition air strikes.
Exactly how much fighting Cole has done is unclear, but the 23-year-old said that - unlike most regular U.S. soldiers stationed nearby - he has participated in offensives against Islamic State that involved artillery fire and airstrikes.
ANKARA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Turkish army is retaliating with artillery fire at Syrian government targets in Syria after an airstrike killed 22 Turkish soldiers in the northwestern Idlib province, two Turkish security officials said on Friday.
"Seriously, it's time to take our f---ing nuclear weapons out of Turkey," Jeffrey Lewis, a director at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, tweeted after U.S. troops in Syria came under Turkish artillery fire Friday.
The last such reunions were held in October 2015 during the government of Moon's predecessor under a futile push for reconciliation following a sharp increase in tension over border incidents involving a landmine blast and artillery fire.
Unlike Mr Erdogan, who offered them some language rights and launched peace talks with the PKK rebels (before responding to a spate of attacks by levelling their neighbourhoods with artillery fire), Mrs Aksener has always been a hardliner.
She patrolled Afghanistan's Helmand Province with the Marines, accompanied the Army on night raids in Baghdad, took artillery fire with rebel fighters in Libya, and has taken photos in countless other wars and humanitarian disasters around the world.
In June 2014, prosecutors say that Savchenko, who had been transferred from the air force to fight with Ukrainian ground forces, had helped direct artillery fire in the Luhansk region where a shell killed two Russian television reporters.
"Westfront" is also notable for its creative sound editing, expanding space through offscreen sound, creating sound bridges using artillery fire that extends from one shot to another and even devising audio match cuts, between cries and whizzing shells.
Several other troops had been also wounded in northwest Syria's Idlib province after they came under heavy artillery fire from the Syrian government, according to an earlier statement from the ministry, which specified that the troops were reinforcements.
A U.S. official, speaking on the condition anonymity, said a small number of U.S. troops had moved away from the outpost temporarily after the artillery fire, but are still in the general area and expect to be back.
It had briefly resumed broadcasting in August after an 11-year break, but stopped after the two Koreas exchanged artillery fire, and it managed to strike an agreement with Pyongyang on a package of measures aimed at easing animosities.
The two sides will then rush forward, while you're free to pan the camera around and watch your googly-eyed warriors smash into each other, lobbing spears, hefting muskets, and being flung rag-doll style by incoming artillery fire.
The Turks have responded by raining artillery fire on the YPG for several days in a row, hinting at a possible ground operation and allowing as many as 2,000 rebels to cross into Syria to check the Kurdish offensive.
NATO forces also urgently need secure communications in the FM band as well as upgraded, computerized artillery fire after the impressive Russian cannon and rocketry performance in Ukraine, boosted missile defenses, and massively upgraded cyber and information warfare capabilities.
Or perhaps he intends to slow down the relocation of our army base in South Korea from Seoul to Camp Humphreys, 40 miles south, which places our soldiers and their families outside the range of North Korean artillery fire?
Russia's Defence Ministry was cited by the RIA news agency on Friday however as saying that the Turkish troops had been hit by artillery fire from Syrian government forces who were trying to repel an offensive by rebel forces.
When North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test last month, for instance, she resumed anti-Pyongyang propaganda from loudspeakers along the border, despite what Seoul says was an exchange of cross-border artillery fire the last time she used the speakers.
The lieutenant was honored for volunteering, despite being wounded, in January 1945 to go to the front line near the town of Houssen, France, during the Battle of the Bulge to observe German enemy forces and direct artillery fire against them.
A day after the first, seemingly cordial telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the residents of Avdiivka, a small town on the Ukrainian side of the conflict line with Russian-backed separatists, heard the echoes of heavy artillery fire.
In the era before precision-guided weapons, unguided cluster munitions — which break open over a target and dispense a number of smaller "submunitions" over a wide area — were seen as a way to make up for inaccurate bombs or artillery fire.
In Latakia province, violent clashes continued on Sunday two days after the army and its allies launched an offensive around several villages near the main coast road to Aleppo using heavy artillery fire and dozens of air strikes, the Observatory said.
India wants to seal its borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh 'Trail of blood' According to India, the two soldiers were killed in an attack following artillery fire from Pakistani posts near the village of Battal which struck along the LOC.
In July 2014 Ms Savchenko was captured by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, smuggled by Russian security services across the border and put on trial for allegedly directing artillery fire that resulted in the death of two Russian television journalists.
KABUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghan families have been displaced by cross-border rocket and artillery fire by Pakistani troops, an aid group said on Monday, as tension rose after Pakistan said militants implicated in recent attacks had taken shelter in Afghanistan.
In recent weeks, the area around the government-held town of Avdiyivka has seen some of the heaviest artillery fire of the past two years, refocusing global attention on a simmering conflict that has strained relations between Russia and the West.
Major Filemon Tan said two soldiers were killed and nine wounded after air force planes dropped bombs on the militants' positions and ground troops pounded them with artillery fire, in the town of Butig in Lanao del Sur, from Tuesday.
Kilis is on the edge of a roughly 60-mile strip of Syrian border territory controlled by IS. Turkish towns in the region have frequently seen artillery fire spill over during Syria's civil war, about to enter its sixth year.
Also on Saturday, Houthi fighters and government forces traded heavy volleys of artillery fire just south of the Hodeida port, killing at least seven people, including two civilians, according to Wadah Dobish, a spokesman for government forces on Yemen's western coast.
Asked by Reuters whether he expected a conflict with Turkey in northern Syria, where the two sides have exchanged artillery fire in recent days, YPG Commander Sipan Hemo accused Turkey of preparing for a major military campaign in the Aleppo and Afrin area.
"It would be very difficult to eliminate that threat before the artillery fire could create a lot of damage on the southern side," David Shear, who served as the senior U.S. defense official for east Asia under former president Barack Obama, told Reuters.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India and Pakistan have exchanged artillery fire in the disputed Kashmir region forcing hundreds of people to flee, police in Indian Kashmir said, raising fresh doubts about a 15-year-old ceasefire between the nuclear-armed rivals in the area.
Washington has told the YPG to avoid doing anything to increase tensions with Turkey, saying they undermine the struggle against Islamic State, but has also urged Turkey to cease artillery fire across its border, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Tuesday.
The government, backed in the skies by Russian jets and on the ground by fighters from the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group, pounded the area with airstrikes and artillery fire on Sunday, seeking to reverse the rebels' advances, according to monitoring groups.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander, whose death it announced on Friday, was killed in Syria by Sunni Islamist artillery fire and not by an Israeli air strike as one member of the Lebanese Shi'ite movement had said.
Ms. Howard said the biggest difference between Thursday and the previous day was that rising smoke was visible on the Syrian side of the border, and the boom of artillery fire could be heard from where she was stationed on the Jordanian side.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. troops in northern Syria came under artillery fire from Turkish positions on Friday but none were wounded, the Pentagon said, an incident that highlights the risks to U.S. troops as Turkey wages an offensive against U.S.-allied Kurdish militia.
The operation to seize Raqqa began on June 286, when US-backed forces started to hammer the city's limits with the help of coalition airstrikes and artillery fire — support the rebels that will do the actual ground combat still receive to this day.
An army of 10,000 troops is amassing outside of the besieged city of Aleppo as the government prepares for an unprecedented assault on rebel-held areas of the city after a week of airstrikes and artillery fire has left the city burning and hundreds dead.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish artillery fire has already played a role in the effort to drive Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul and four Turkish fighter jets are on standby to take part in air operations, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.
South Korea has also resumed anti-North propaganda broadcasts using loudspeakers along the border, a tactic that the North considers insulting and resulted in an armed standoff that included an exchange of artillery fire the last time South Korea used the speakers in August.
An army of 210,2000 troops is amassing outside of the besieged city of Aleppo as the government prepares for an unprecedented assault on rebel-held areas of the city after a week of airstrikes and artillery fire has left the city burning and hundreds dead.
An army of 103,000 troops is amassing outside of the besieged city of Aleppo as the government prepares for an unprecedented assault on rebel-held areas of the city after a week of airstrikes and artillery fire has left the city burning and hundreds dead.
Two years ago, eight former senior American officials urged the Obama administration to send $3 billion in defensive arms and equipment to Ukraine, including anti-armor missiles, reconnaissance drones, armored Humvees and radars that can determine the location of enemy rocket and artillery fire.
Mr. Acevedo and about 21944 of his fellow prisoners were soon evacuated and taken on a forced march south — "the death march from Bataan couldn't be worse than this," he wrote — with artillery fire exploding around them and fighters of the Army Air Forces dropping bombs.
Konashenkov did not name the airline but said an Airbus-320 that took off from Tehran narrowly escaped "the lethal zone of artillery fire" as it prepared to land, before it was diverted to Russia's Khmeimim Air Base, which is southeast of the city of Latakia.
"In Rakhine State, the Tatmadaw (army) has been using helicopter gunships against the Arakan Army and both sides are accused of indiscriminate use of heavy artillery fire, gunfire and landmines in civilian areas," Yanghee Lee, U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar, said in her own update on Monday.
" "Acting on these tips, senior members of the Assad regime formed a plan to intercept the journalists' communications, track their movement to locate the Media Center, and kill the journalists with artillery fire," they say, adding that the plan "was formulated at the highest levels of the Syrian government.
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - A Mai Mai militia attacked Banro Corp's east Congo Namoya gold mine with rifle and artillery fire on Thursday, a Banro geologist at the mine said, killing five people and wounding several others in the second attack on the mine in less than a year.
As a line of Confederate troops marches across a field into Union rifle and artillery fire, a haze of myth starts to gather over the action, a mist of sentiment about the tragedy of the Civil War and the symmetrical valor of the soldiers on both sides of it.
Moreover, it would be impossible to hide a force of about 30,000 Iraqi and Kurdish troops that have been massing for weeks on the outskirts of Mosul, gradually encircling the city while conducting artillery fire and airstrikes to soften up enemy defenses in advance of the main ground offensive.
No matter who shoulders the blame for the North's nuclear status and the tensions that have arisen as a result, the fact remains that Pyongyang is a difficult regime to deal with, one that is quick to take offense and doesn't hesitate to rain artillery fire on the South.
There is low-level fighting, with small arms and occasional artillery fire, almost every day between India and Pakistan, across the line of demarcation in Kashmir, and the military doctrines of both countries could lead to the early use of nuclear weapons if that fighting escalates into full-scale war.
For instance, the radars don't always pick up smaller artillery fire; the night vision devices don't mount onto Kalashnikovs without the aforementioned adapter; the drones are prone to Russian jamming and hacking; the medical scanners run on different voltages than in Ukraine; and the Humvees suck up gas and aren't armored.
Just hours after the U.S.-brokered agreement was supposed to impose a 120-hour ceasefire, shelling and artillery fire was reported around the Kurdish-held town of Ras al-Ain, one of the key targets of the nine-day-old Turkish offensive to push the Kurds out of northern Syria.
U.S. forces, caught unawares by the move, began a hasty and logistically problematic retreat; at one point American troops found themselves deliberately "bracketed" by Turkish artillery fire—pinned in position and wholly reactive to the movements of a foreign state's force, one set in motion by their own commander in chief.
Related: The Next President of the Philippines Promises 'Double Hanging' the Worst Criminals Major Filemon Tan told Reuters that two soldiers were killed and nine wounded after air force planes dropped bombs on the militants' positions and ground troops pounded them with artillery fire, in the town of Butig in Lanao del Sur, from Tuesday.
Two directives (one in late 2016 and one in 2017) have made it easier for advisers on the ground to order airstrikes or artillery fire, and "may be the reason why Mosul could be the site of the largest loss of civilian life since the start of the Iraq war in 2003," according to Task & Purpose.
These broadcasts are reportedly considered highly insulting in Pyongyang, because they are damaging to the dignity of leader Kim Jong Un. When South Korea bombarded its neighbor with broadcasts of propaganda and pop music last August, North Korea massed troops at the border and unleashed artillery fire, in the two countries' most serious skirmish in some time.
The Iraqis and their international partners will now be confronted by the immense challenge of restoring essential services like electricity and rebuilding destroyed hospitals, schools, homes and bridges, which were wrecked in the ground combat or by the airstrikes, artillery fire and Himars rocket attacks carried out by the American-led coalition to help Iraqi troops advance.
"First Lieutenant Conner ran 400 yards through the impact area of an intense concentration of enemy artillery fire to direct friendly artillery on a force of six Mark VI tanks and tank destroyers, followed by 600 fanatical German infantrymen, which was assaulting in full fury the spearhead position held by his battalion," reads the citation for Conner's Distinguished Service Cross.
For instance, scientific and engineering work on advanced optical glass and sighting devices for stargazing helped military planners and soldiers develop more accurate artillery-fire targeting by World War I. Astrophysicists' quest to study poorly reflective celestial bodies like the moon in some ways mirrored the desire of military officials to build a plane that would not reflect back radar energy.
Kurdish forces and activists say more than 100 people have died from Turkish artillery fire and airstrikes, while some 130,000 people have already been displaced, according to the UN. Trump has defended his decision as part of his drive to end U.S. engagement in Middle Eastern wars, but security experts and aid groups warn of an IS revival and a humanitarian disaster. Gen.
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