Mortars must fit perfectly in their launchers; ISIS' quality control
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ISIS and the regime are using mortars and heavy artillery.
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Activists said three children were reported killed by insurgent mortars.
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Government airstrikes destroyed a hospital, and rebels counterattacked with mortars.
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The army hit back with tanks, heavy machineguns and mortars.
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Protesters, she said, wielded homemade mortars that created smoky diversions.
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Gaza media reported that gunmen had fired mortars toward the border.
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They wear helmets and flak jackets, and carry rifles and mortars.
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He said Pakistan had retaliated with long-range artillery and mortars.
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Mortars fired by Palestinian militants hit civilian infrastructure, including a kindergarten.
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"At 3 A.M., we had live mortars going off," Murnion said.
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Howa Machinery, which supplies rifles and mortars, was up around 16%.
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Competitors will work with both 60 mm and 120 mm mortars.
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Hamas retaliated with more than 200 rockets and mortars toward Israeli communities.
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American artillery and mortars pounded the North Vietnamese as the platoon advanced.
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A Reuters correspondent said they exchanged mortars and sniper fire with militants.
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Security forces seized AK-47s, grenades, commando knives and mortars, Parrikar said.
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Fischer grabbed two rusty black mortars out of a moldy cardboard box.
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"The mortars are better than hunger," said 48-year old farmer Mahmoud.
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ISIS-launched mortars landed on residential areas, killing at least seven civilians.
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"Volume still comes from brick-and-mortars," Ms. Jensen of NPD said.
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As Maizullah and I spoke, the Americans lobbed mortars into distant hills.
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The Israeli military said Palestinians fired about 45 rockets and mortars at Israel.
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Most mortars were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, the military said.
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Today the boom of mortars around al-Masri has been replaced with voices.
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There was a machine that shot mortars stationed right next to our house.
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The military said rebels fired more than 100 mortars and launched 50 rockets.
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Mortars land outside, and we scurry into one of Abu Ghraib's concrete buildings.
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Most of the casualties were caused by mortars that landed inside the base.
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Hours later, militants attacked the nearby C.I.A. base with mortars and small arms.
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The mortars were a macabre invitation to a fight for the bunker complex.
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Just as he was entering the building, he heard the sound of mortars.
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People flee their homes as mortars land in several locations near the border.
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Mortars set the conditions for other units by keeping bigger threats at bay.
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The factions that were trying to storm the town targeted it with mortars.
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"I'm sure Tim had pictures of rebels firing mortars, and Chris and I were in the other part of town where the mortars were landing and killing civilians," said Mr. Kamber, who compared photos with Mr. Hetherington after the war.
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They are deceptively simple on first blush, looking like standard American and Soviet mortars.
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He said he had once made fireworks and mortars, but quit that after Sept.
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Since then it has remained within range of the militant group's mortars and rockets.
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The news agency said "infiltrators" used SPG-9 rockets and mortars for the attack.
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Bombs fly back into mortars, bullets back into guns, tear gas back into canisters.
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The online-only bank operates no brick-and-mortars, but that's not a problem.
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Hours later, militants attacked the nearby C.I.A. base with mortars and small-arms fire.
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The sheer number of mortars and rockets fired from Gaza was itself an escalation.
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The regime forces began firing at us with tank shells, mortars and heavy artillery.
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He'd gone from firing mortars to pretending to be a penguin in improv exercises.
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Some colleagues who covered the Balkan wars are well-versed in mortars and artillery.
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Many are unaware of the war in Yemen, the bombs, bullets, mortars, and mines.
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On Tuesday, mortars landed near Mogadishu's international airport, where lawmakers voted the next day.
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The blasts from the mortars immediately wounded Sergeant Conrad and the three other Americans.
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He had the beach zeroed in by artillery and mortars to the last inch.
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These include thousands of artillery pieces and mortars near the border with South Korea.
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The mortars zeroed in, "like someone bouncing a basketball around the hole," he said.
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They pretend they have guns and mortars and say they will fire on each other.
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She said there were mortars landing nearby, but that she and her family were unharmed.
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In al-Suani, a southwestern suburb, Reuters reporters saw two mortars almost hitting a clinic.
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She did not flinch at the sound of outgoing mortars and gunfire in the distance.
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Shots came from all directions, in a continuous symphony, punctuated by the percussion of mortars.
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It began with bullets, then with mortars, then with shelling, then scuds and chemical weapons.
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Dozens of mortars fired by the rebels killed 10 people and injured some 30 more.
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There were unused rockets, mortars and grenades, as well as a pile of suicide vests.
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I watch and listen as they send mortars out into the neighborhoods surrounding Abu Ghraib.
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Israel said some 70 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza into its southern territory.
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The move also includes support for Saudi F-15 warplanes, mortars, anti-tank missiles and .
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"The federal forces' bombardment is heavier still: cannon, mortars, rockets, wire-guided missiles," he wrote.
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"Everybody thinks that retail is broken and that brick-and-mortars don't work," Lopez said.
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But they were more sturdy than US bunkers, made to protect against rockets and mortars.
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Homemade mortars were stacked in neat rows, some awaiting fuses and others primed for explosion.
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Rubbish everywhere, fresh scars of battle, rubble piled around mortars, and a machine-gun nest.
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Another officer told Reuters mortars continued to land there, and snipers were still within firing range.
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Mortars are being used on a smaller scale and are only targeting specific areas, said Col.
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An eyewitness told CNN that Peshmerga forces were using light and heavy machine guns and mortars.
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The smuggling of mortars, land mines, grenades, rockets and missiles took place between 1991 and 1995.
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The Turkish Army has been targeting our villages with mortars and artillery for many months now.
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"As we were going out, they was raining mortars in on top of us," Morgan said.
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The scrub across the river made perfect cover for insurgents firing mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
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Every surface is covered with mortars, old and new, illumination rounds, cut-away models, tables full of dissected fuzes, and huge 220-mm mortars—the largest ISIS-developed weapons we have seen—plus the massive tube that fires them, as big around as a telephone pole.
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Hamas and its allies fired 460 rockets and mortars at Israel; Israel struck 160 buildings in Gaza.
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Each side used mortars and RPGs and engaged in close-quarter fighting in some areas, residents said.
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The hallways are lined with clay molds to mass-produce the interior forms of 119.5-mm mortars.
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Seven militants firing mortars were killed and four more were killed in a vehicle, the sources said.
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The Palestinians have fired mortars at Israeli troops and Israeli aircraft and artillery have struck inside Gaza.
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Rights groups have accused both sides in Taiz of using rockets and mortars in populated residential areas.
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In Angola, poachers even use grenades and mortars left over from the war to kill the animals.
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FARC rebels also trained them to use weapons, grenades and mortars and to plant home-made landmines.
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"Air strikes continue, mortars continue, the humanitarian situation is very bad," he told reporters at Geneva airport.
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The Snapchat stories included weapons for sale and images of heavier weapons such as shells and mortars.
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Tuesday, the Israeli military said that about 100 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza toward Israel.
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They are armed with heavy weapons, some American in fact, including tanks, armored vehicles, mortars and artillery.
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Civilians in Damascus have also been killed or wounded by mortars coming from eastern Ghouta, he added.
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The Israeli military said it believed the two groups had amassed more than 20,000 rockets and mortars.
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During the attack, al Shabaab fighters fired mortars on Kenyan military installations while simultaneously assaulting the airfield.
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Mortars, tank cannons, air strikes, small arms, and high-calibre machine guns continued sounding up the road.
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"They'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat," Mr. Carter said.
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The teams, which are not engaged in street fighting, are firing artillery and mortars at ISIS positions.
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Pakistan had glass cases full of bullets, mortars, grenades and guns, including a gold-plated AK-47.
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Islamic State fighters have mortars and sniper rifles with infrared sights enabling them to strike at night.
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The mortars and the machine guns cleared the way for several infantry squads to maneuver into position.
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The Israeli military said seven people were wounded by Palestinian rockets and mortars that hit southern Israel.
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At midnight, they unleashed mortars — and shells came crashing back, nearly hitting the building where Mr. Hadad was.
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It looks like "Anthem" gives you plenty of unique weapons to take out foes, from missiles to mortars.
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The standard ISIS fuze will trigger all of their rockets, mortars, and bomblets—a significant engineering problem solved.
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But there was a time, not long ago, when rocket-propelled grenade launchers and even mortars were available.
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In one issue, a crime boss named Sanction fends off the police by shooting concussion mortars at them.
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The Green Zone was regularly targeted by mortars during the U.S. occupation of Iraq that ended in 2011.
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Amazon's long been a go-to for people to online price compare while shopping at brick-and-mortars.
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On September 6th mortars landed near America's embassy in Baghdad; its consulate in Basra was later struck, too.
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Militia members fired small arms, heavy machine guns and mortars at gunmen and civilians alike, leaving scores dead.
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"Everything is booby-trapped," he said, speaking over a loud barrage of mortars and gunfire from the fight.
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And today, many millennials are living on the internet and they don't go to the brick and mortars.
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Syrian state media said Ghouta factions fired mortars at districts of Damascus on Saturday, including near a school.
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Islamic State fired mortars at civilians fleeing toward advancing Iraqi government forces, including her neighbor who was killed.
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State media said the armed insurgents showered civilian districts of the southern city with mortars, wrecking many homes.
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She learned how to use homemade mortars, she said, although she mostly left the weaponry to the men.
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Billy West, the founding chef, served a stellar guacamole, prepared table-side in molcajetes, the volcanic stone mortars.
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She told me about how soldiers, supported with helicopters, attacked her village with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.
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Late Wednesday night, three mortars were fired from Gaza into southern Israel, the IDF said, hitting open areas.
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Finally, this week, Hamas began firing mortars into Israel en masse, to the complicit silence of the media.
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Iran-backed militias in Iraq have used mortars and rockets to attack bases where U.S. forces are located.
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Meanwhile, U.S. Army soldiers have supported Iraqi and Kurdish troops with howitzers, mortars, and other long-range weapons.
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Opposition forces also inflicted civilian casualties with indiscriminate attacks using mortars and improvised weapons, according to the commission.
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Most of those violations were explosions from tanks and mortars, so the big guns are still in place. 4.
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Islamic State fought back with suicide car bombs, drones carrying grenades and mortars, Reuters correspondents in the area said.
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They also provided a good place to test out operations with heavy weapons like AT-4s, artillery, and mortars.
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But they returned as night fell to attack the Iraqi forces with suicide bombs, mortars and heavy machine guns.
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Factions in Ghouta fired mortars at Damascus on Tuesday, killing six people and injuring 28, Syrian state TV said.
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But Kurdish fighters say the enemy uses the cover of night to approach their positions with mortars and snipers.
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It said it had sustained no losses despite heavy enemy fire, which included mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and howitzers.
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The deal also includes some in-store retail perks, including earlier shopping hours at the company's brick and mortars.
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And the almost constant sound of gunfire and impacts possibly from mortars or artillery led credence to his skepticism.
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Hundreds of other structures bear the marks of smaller, though still destructive, weaponry: mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns.
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Militants in the hills opposite carry assault rifles but also medium-sized weapons like mortars and anti-tank missiles.
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We hear the jets screech by, the helicopters whirring in the sky, the mortars launching, then the bombs exploding.
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General Bajwa reiterated Pakistan's claims that Indian troops had fired only small arms and mortars at Pakistani military posts.
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A giant crater was caused "almost certainly [by] air dropped munitions" as opposed to artillery or mortars, he said.
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While demonstrations have been largely peaceful, protesters at the barricades have armed themselves with homemade mortars and Molotov cocktails.
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Officials said the separatists had been firing mortars from positions inside residential zones, making it difficult to fight back.
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"Whenever we can spot them we just open fire with tanks or mortars and rockets," said Major Luay Abbas.
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A giant crater was caused "almost certainly (by) air dropped munitions" as opposed to artillery or mortars, he said.
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"Mortars, helicopters, people talking — we would process those sounds and use them as rhythmic starting points," Mr. Ross said.
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Then the attackers withdrew as the Americans massed mortars and artillery, usually before aircraft strafed hills or dropped bombs.
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Hours after the rocket demolished the bulldozer, Islamic State retaliated, firing a series of mortars towards the rapid reaction force.
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Every day they see the terrible consequences of mortars fired into neighborhoods like Zahraa, where Amira lost her short life.
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The military returned fire after its artillery near the border town of Karkamis was hit by mortars, the sources said.
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But a spokeswoman said no Palestinian mortars had been fired since this morning, after two days of more frequent barrages.
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The decision was prompted by three mortars being fired into a diplomatic quarter in Baghdad in September, the newspaper said.
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Fighters launched mortars into densely populated areas and fired rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns at the opposing positions.
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Factions in Ghouta fired mortars at districts of Damascus, killing a child and wounding eight others, Syrian state media said.
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Unsurprisingly, modern armies also want more mobile air defense that can travel on trucks and protect against mortars and rockets.
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Refugees at the border told CNN Monday that Myanmar army soldiers had shot at them with mortars and machine guns.
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By the end of some sequences, entire villages and local landmarks are razed by mortars, heavy artillery, and tank treads.
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The ISIS affiliated attackers used mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, technical vehicles and heavy machine guns according to one defense official.
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In Taiz, they fire mortars indiscriminately at the civilian population and snipers shoot at children to force residents into submission.
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Battery & White Point Gardens still has mortars and cannons that were used to defend the city during the Civil War.
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Two hundred projectiles, including rockets and mortars, were fired toward Israel in the previous 24 hours, Israel Defense Forces said.
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The unit I was traveling with discovered large stocks of crudely made mortar rounds: improvised rocket-assisted mortars, or IRAMs.
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THE BRICKS AND MORTARS WILL INCORPORATE DIGITAL IN THEIR SHOPPING EXPERIENCE AND THE ONLINE PEOPLE ARE HAVING SOME PHYSICAL PRESENCE.
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The government blamed groups linked to Nusra for firing mortars into residential areas of Damascus, killing at least one person.
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The enemy continues to fire artillery and mortars at our positions, although it is not on the offensive for now.
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Nearly every day there were battles, between rebels armed with homemade mortars and slingshots and Ortega supporters with military weapons.
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They may be joined by more weapon systems for countering rockets, artillery and mortars, known as C-RAM, McKenzie said.
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Mortars were fired at 10 Downing Street, the prime minister's official residence and office, and at Heathrow Airport outside London.
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And we dug into how California's privacy law has affected not just online stores but brick and mortars as well.
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It uses a high-energy laser to intercept aerial targets such as photoelectric guidance equipment, drones, guided bombs and mortars.
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Security officials said the small militant cells occasionally fired mortars from Sunni neighborhoods where many of the evictions have occurred.
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The previous day, another four civilians in the Baraki Barak District were killed by mortars fired by American forces. Dec.
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The enemy moved in an approximate battalion-sized dismounted formation supported by artillery, tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems and mortars.
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"We are seeing hundreds of rockets and shells a day, either from planes or ground artillery and mortars," he said.
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We faced the same dangers as our male peers; our gender did not protect us from mortars, bombs or bullets.
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In the eastern Salam neighborhood, residents reported five civilians killed by ISIS mortars as militants fought Iraqi forces in the area.
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The few rockets and mortars the fighters possessed were old and shoddy, lacked the correct fuzes, and often failed to detonate.
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A conventional war required conventional arms—mortars, rockets, grenades—which, as an international pariah, ISIS could not buy in sufficient quantities.
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The terror group is targeting the Palmyra citadel and its surroundings with mortars and rockets, the activists said via social media.
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The fighting also spread across other parts of the city as rebels fired mortars on government controlled parts of the city.
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Militants struck with "two suicide car bombs, a number of mortars and medium machine guns," Iraqi officials said in a statement.
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" "If we do not take precautions, today three, five, 10, 20 mortars are falling into Turkey, tomorrow there may be bombs.
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The militants fight with mortars, guns and car bombs, often hiding among civilians in the close-packed houses and narrow streets.
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It's seeing Kobani in Syria rebuilding and thriving a year after it was slammed by ISIS's makeshift mortars and coalition airstrikes.
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That means Canada will begin kicking in automatic weapons, machine guns, and mortars to those Kurdish forces for the first time.
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And opposition forces would have to stop using rockets, mortars, anti-tank guided missiles and other weapons to attack regime forces.
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But in the summer of 2015, the rebels were closing in on the Latakia city limits, and mortars were falling downtown.
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Until the development of radar, sound ranging was one of the most effective ways to locate enemy artillery, mortars and rockets.
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Rebel groups in the area have fired mortars into Damascus this week, causing dozens of deaths and injuries, state media report.
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Around 400,000 people are in hiding as the Damascus suburbs have been pounded with shells, mortars and bombs since Sunday night.
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Pakistani troops fired indiscriminately with small arms and mortars along the Line of Control in Krishana Ghati sector, the spokesman said.
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That's particularly risky, given Bolton recently requested options for striking inside Iran after Iran-aligned militants fired mortars into Baghdad's diplomatic quarter.
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But the volume of mortars would appear to be the largest fired in a single incident since the 2014 Israel-Hamas war.
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Exactly two weeks earlier, we had been on the edge of Um Mohamed's neighborhood, Tayaran, as airstrikes, artillery and mortars pummeled it.
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There, militants are dug in among civilians, fighting off the advance of elite Iraqi units with suicide car bombs, mortars and snipers.
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His positions now regularly come under fire from mortars and truck-mounted antiaircraft machine guns, lowered to fire horizontally, Colonel Prokopiv said.
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But he said that mortars launched Thursday in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood, apparently by rebels, also appeared to be intimidating civilians.
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The first step is a little more involved than just setting up a bunch of fireworks mortars around the Olympic stadium, though.
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If this modular technology can cut costs and lines without alienating customers, we could see our local brick-and-mortars adapt quickly.
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Zhang: When we talk about new retail, we strongly believe that online commercial world and offline brick & mortars are not separate worlds.
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Rebel mortars and snipers killed at least 16 people in Aleppo over the weekend, according to the Syrian Observatory, a monitoring group.
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"It's bizarre to hear mortars in the distance when there are kids playing basketball outside the window of my office," he said.
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Keep it in a high-yield savings account with an online bank, which typically offer better interest rates than brick and mortars.
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Gunfire and artillery systems, like land mines and mortars, cause injuries and deaths every year because of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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But rebel groups fire mortars; an individual strike doesn't cause a building to fall, but that doesn't mean it didn't kill someone.
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Rebels have also been firing mortars on the districts of Damascus near eastern Ghouta, wounding seven people on Wednesday, state media reported.
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The group he was affiliated with, which is part of Hamas's military wing, said he was killed while firing mortars into Israel.
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In the last several days, hardened Islamic State fighters using small arms and mortars, and relying on a sandstorm as cover, counterattacked.
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A dozen display halls, each easily as big as a football field, show off bombs, mines, machine guns, mortars, warplanes and artillery.
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As if to underline the enemy's proximity, while we were reporting the new unit's appearance, we suddenly came under attack from mortars.
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Human rights organizations have accused the authorities of using disproportionate force against protesters who have been armed with homemade mortars and slingshots.
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When the police tried to clear a highway the students had blocked, the protesters attacked officers with homemade mortars, the statement said.
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Residents say they are repeatedly targeted by Islamic State snipers, mortars and grenade-dropping drones that buzz overhead several times a day.
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According to a US military investigation, the South Koreans responded by shelling the village with mortars, before moving in to clear it.
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ISIS found ways to attach weapons to those drones, dropping mortars and other ordnance on US-allied forces, which has harmed Western forces.
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On September 6, Iranian-backed militants in Iraq shot three mortars into Baghdad's massive diplomatic compound, which is home to the US Embassy.
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Israel's ambassador to the United Nations says that over 180 rockets and mortars were launched toward Israeli territory from Gaza during this period.
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Zhang: Well, I think future retail is not about e-commerce or brick and mortars, it is about the digitalized commerce or not.
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A military outpost in Semdinli had come under a PKK attack with mortars, anti-aircraft fire and machine guns before dawn on Friday.
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Militants attacked Iraqi security forces with suicide car bombs, mortars and machine guns in a city that it had apparently lost months earlier.
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Putin has said that all opposition heavy weapons, mortars, tanks, rocket systems are to be removed from the demilitarized zone by Oct. 10.
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Last Saturday, Israel pounded Gaza with dozens of airstrikes after the IDF said militants fired more than 200 rockets and mortars toward Israel.
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The IDF said more than 200 rockets and mortars were fired toward Israel, wounding four people, according to Israel's emergency medical service, MDA.
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She soon began seeing large numbers of soldiers with blast trauma, usually from mortars and artillery fire, a common feature of that war.
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In addition, the militants briefly occupied the base, destroying a Humvee vehicle and looting mortars and other weapons before fleeing, Commander Nangyalay said.
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Local news media reports suggested that the militants had used a truck to transport mortars to fire on different parts of the city.
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Escape and risk the Islamic State snipers' bullets, or stay and risk being accidentally hit by shells or mortars from the Iraqi forces.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least one person was killed when dozens of mortars crashed into Eastern Ghouta on Wednesday.
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In particular, spigot mortars offer a way to provide a small tele-operated platform with a very substantial warhead for close-range use.
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The SDF has blamed Turkish forces and 'Turkish-backed militias' for the attack, which they said launched artillery and mortars at the town.
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In addition to uncovering leftovers of an ancient campfire and archaic mortars and pestles, they also found flaked stone tools and painting material.
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The background: The request came after Iranian-backed militants fired three mortars or rockets onto the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
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This may sound like a small change, but mortars must fit perfectly in their launchers so that sufficient gas pressure can build for ejection.
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They dig tunnels to scuttle back and forth between nearby Kurdish and Arab areas, firing mortars at Shia militias arrayed along the mountain range.
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But they have been putting "holds" — or blocking — the sale of offensive weapons like bombs, anti-tank missiles, small-diameter rockets and large mortars.
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At least seven mortars landed in the town, a Reuters witness said, while a drone hovered overhead and armored military vehicles patrolled the border.
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The Israeli military said over 150 rockets and mortars were fired at Israel, and Israel carried out over 140 airstrikes targeting Hamas militant positions.
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But they have been putting "holds" - or blocking - the sale of offensive weapons like bombs, anti-tank missiles, small-diameter rockets and large mortars.
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He could radio the coördinates to a tactical-operations center and request that the structure be targeted by coalition missiles, mortars, rockets, or artillery.
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Saturday morning, another convoy of about 30 Humvees arrived, but the hulking vehicles are vulnerable in open combat to rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.
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Some apparently rebel-made -- mostly grenades and mortars; others apparently stolen from the Syrian army, such as a Russian-manufactured surface-to-air missile.
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Mortars were fired from the area under YPG control near to the location where the Turkish reconnaissance team was operating, the senior rebel said.
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I took my time calling in the mortars, but because they were at a bend in the road I knew exactly where they were.
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In 225, mortars and artillery shells arched toward this spot near the Dalecarlia Reservoir, one of the main water sources for the nation's capital.
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It was 2016, and grenades and mortars were crashing down in rapid succession, wreaking havoc on Ukrainian positions on the edge of Stanytsia Luhanska.
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For example, they may be asked to pull mortars and machine guns up to set up support-by-fire positions for maneuvering elements below.
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The report commended government forces for reducing civilian casualties from ground engagements, including indiscriminate firing of mortars and other heavy weapons in civilian areas.
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Meanwhile, rebel groups in the area fired mortars into Damascus last week, causing dozens of deaths and injuries, Syrian state-run media SANA reported.
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Israeli warplanes struck Hamas positions in Gaza after Palestinian militants there fired dozens of rockets and mortars at southern communities early Wednesday, the military said.
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The rebels' use of inaccurate "hell-fire cannons", homemade mortars that fire gas cylinders packed with explosives and shrapnel, was also totally unacceptable, he said.
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Our first stop is a walled compound that al-Hakim says could have been a mosque, where several ISIS-designed mortars lie in the entrance.
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Past the mortars, in the back of a building, stand a series of pressurized tanks connected with steel pipe and large drums of black liquid.
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Your barrel bombs and mortars and airstrikes have allowed the militia in Aleppo to encircle tens of thousands of civilians in your ever-tightening noose.
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But despite army reinforcements, the militants had dug into northern residential areas by nightfall and were lobbing mortars at government positions across the Euphrates river.
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The Turkish military also reported a cross-border exchange of fire early Thursday, saying five mortars from Afrin landed in the Turkish province of Hatay.
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The group had targeted the palace but the mortars went off some distance away, ending up about 300 metres from the nearby house of parliament.
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He was ambushed and attacked with "small arms, machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, rocket propelled grenades, mortars, and improvised explosive devices," according to his citation.
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The US-led coalition has also begun supplying the SDF with heavier equipment, such as mortars and anti-tank weapons, to counter suicide car bombs.
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In recent weeks, mortars and rockets have been fired at bases in Iraq where U.S. forces are located but no American troops have been injured.
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Four other US service members were wounded when the team came under attack by mortars and small arms from unknown insurgent forces in the area.
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Reinforcements also arrived to help government forces oust militants armed with machine guns and mortars from the village of Imam Gharbi, further to the south.
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He did a tour in Anbar province in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 with soldiers who were being targeted frequently by mortars and roadside bombs.
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He said Islamic State allowed people to leave on Sunday after firing mortars at Popular Mobilisation positions at the airport, and Popular Mobilisation forces responded.
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First, Trump decided to equip the anti-ISIS Syrian Democratic Forces -- a largely Kurdish militia -- with mortars, anti-tank weapons, armored cars and machine guns.
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They attacked again before dawn the next day, but the SS troops were ready, raking them with machine-gun fire and pounding them with mortars.
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Britch recalls multiple close calls with incoming mortars, but one particular explosion at close range shortly before he was due home changed his life forever.
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Mr. Woods and Mr. Doherty, who were contractors for the C.I.A., died later when a separate annex run by the agency was hit by mortars.
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Militants were using suicide car-bombs, roadside bombs and snipers to resist the attack, and were pounding surrounding areas with mortars, a CTS commander said.
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Troops aboard the small boats fired shoulder-launched missiles, rockets and mortars at the Nimitz replica, with photos showing it erupting in fire and smoke.
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Brick-and-mortars cannot compete with the vast variety, price point and convenience of Amazon, yet for certain purchases an in-store experience is preferred.
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Keep customers coming to physical storefronts in a time when traditional brick-and-mortars are struggling to stay afloat and — in many cases — shuttering altogether.
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The last few months have also seen Gaza militants fire dozens of rockets and mortars into Israel, which has responded with dozens of air strikes.
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All heavy military equipment tanks, ground-to-air missiles and mortars of all the opposition groups will be removed by October 10, the leaders said.
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U.N. regional humanitarian coordinator Panos Moumtzis said violence has escalated in eastern Ghouta and mortars fired into Damascus had killed and injured scores of civilians.
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The Israeli military said its aircraft had struck more than 150 Hamas targets overnight, while more than 180 Palestinian rockets and mortars hit southern Israel.
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But the terrorists' use of tunnels and mobile mortars, their ability to hide among civilians in abandoned properties, has made the use of airpower more challenging.
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"We had to go to my sister's house with mortars and rockets landing around us, and one destroyed our house just after we left," she said.
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ISIS engineers are repurposing steel pipes, believed to have once been oil pipes, and fashioning them into tubes to fire off explosive shells known as mortars.
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Neighborhood 'liberated' from ISIS ISIS opened fire with mortars and small arms while civilians fled Ma'moun, Major Mustafa Al-Iraqi of the Counterterrorism Service said Sunday.
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Daily suicide attacks and roadside bombs, along with snipers and mortars, have been the most lethal Islamic State tactics in resisting the 100,000-strong Iraqi force.
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Then Russia claimed they were bombing elsewhere, then that the aid convoy had been followed by militants with mortars, and then that the trucks caught fire.
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The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said that rebel groups had breached the truce by firing seven mortars Wednesday morning in the countryside near Homs.
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The defense ministry accused the Armenian-backed rebel region's armed forces of violating the ceasefire more than 117 times with the use of mortars and howitzers.
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The defense ministry in the rebel region accused the Azeri armed forces of violating the ceasefire and shelling their positions from tanks, mortars, multiple rocket launchers.
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A commander said Islamic State — known to its enemies by the Arabic acronym Daesh — deliberately targeted the female unit with 20 mortars when the singing began.
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"Wherever you are, you hear explosions of mortars, shelling and planes flying over," Valter Gros, who heads the ICRC office in Aleppo, said in a statement.
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While establishing the outpost last month, the US forces advising the mission came under attack from mortars and small arms fire and one US soldier, Sgt.
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Nearly 150 have been killed and hundreds injured in eight weeks of clashes between pro-Ortega forces and protesters armed with rocks, slings and homemade mortars.
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Most of the dead here were killed in fighting between youths who used rifles, machine guns, mortars, tanks, even three armored ships that bombarded the shore.
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It started as a trailer, but by the end of 2016, it'll have two brick-and-mortars to match up the pair of trailers near downtown.
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Ward cited the discovery of chemical-filled artillery projectiles, mortars and aerial bombs of Iranian origin as proof that Iran did not fully disclose its capabilities.
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Some are mortars and grenades launched by government forces; others are pressure-plate I.E.D.s left behind by the Taliban, the Islamic State and other insurgent groups.
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Al Shabaab had reportedly targeted the palace but the mortars went off some distance away, ending up about 300 meters from the nearby house of parliament.
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University students took over college campuses, and masked residents armed with homemade mortars and other weapons set up road blocks around the country that paralyzed commerce.
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The WWI legacy was largely forgotten until 1993, when developers dug up a cache of mortars, triggering a state of emergency, evacuations and a lengthy cleanup.
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The men talked over each other in desperate attempts to bring attention to their plight as the sound of mortars rung out from the nearby battlefield.
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Shopkeeper Mohamed Omar said he had counted over 20 military vehicles, some mounted with anti aircraft guns and mortars while others carried soldiers leaving the bases.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that all opposition heavy weapons, mortars, tanks and rocket systems are to be removed from the zone by Oct. 10.
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The last few months have also seen Gaza militants fire more than 100 rockets and mortars into Israel, which has responded with dozens of air strikes.
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Youths armed with homemade mortars and slings fired off projectiles from behind brick barricades in the southern city of Masaya, video footage taken by Reuters showed.
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The U.S. military has said the attacking forces were aligned with the Syrian government and were backed by artillery, tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems and mortars.
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"When you're in the middle of nowhere in Afghanistan, it's the middle of the night, and mortars start coming in and exploding through the roof," he recalled.
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However, since most existing mortars are either too big or too small to fit snugly inside these pipes, ISIS has started making its own using clay molds.
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The attack was conducted using drones, mortars and light weapons, the ministry said in a statement, adding that Turkish forces had retaliated the attacks in self-defense.
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When it closes and darkness falls, the two sides start firing mortars at each other, while people living in no-man's land take shelter in their houses.
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And the oil persisted on soldiers' bodies and in the environment, where mortars could kick up residual mustard gas that had settled onto the soil months before.
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Syrian state media said that government troops struck targets in Ghouta after mortars were fired from the rebel-held pocket, killing a child and wounding eight others.
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Priced at JPY 98,000 (about US $900), Musio is now sold online through SoftBank's marketplace and Amazon Japan, and through a handful of brick-and-mortars stores.
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A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said last week that a force aligned with Assad, backed with artillery, tanks, rockets and mortars, had on Feb.
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Bricks-and-mortars stores have had to add entertainment value to lure shoppers, with art installations or concerts, as well as trying to secure exclusive clothing launches.
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By soaring over the city, you see the true scope of the devastation: Virtually every building in sight has been destroyed by mortars, bombs, and tank shells.
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Samad said he trained the boy in the use of AK-47 and PK machine guns, rockets and mortars as well as satellite phones and VHF radios.
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Elbit said the shipment of mortar fire control systems — both mounted and dismounted — along with a lightweight handheld mortar ballistic computer, will improve the accuracy of mortars.
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Nura managed to strike deals with some brick and mortars, including specialty stores like B8ta, but sales for its first product were mostly restricted to online channels.
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The ministry issued a statement saying that already "the Syrian Democratic Forces and US Special Operations Forces have twice targeted Syrian troops with mortars and rocket artillery."
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Here, residents told CNN, a day doesn't go by without the sound of machine-gun fire, mortars or some other threat drifting to them across the bay.
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Mr. Khattala told the informant he was expert in the use of mortars and bragged about his ability to hit targets even under the most difficult circumstances.
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Both were on the government-controlled side of Monrovia, a city perched on a peninsula where rebels lobbed mortars into densely populated areas from across a bridge.
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His mother works at a nail salon, smokes Marlboro Reds and has PTSD from the napalm and mortars that fell in Vietnam when she was a child.
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" The KRG's Security Council expressed alarm late on Thursday at what it called a significant Iraqi military buildup south of Kirkuk, "including tanks, artillery, Humvees and mortars.
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Hamas, for its part, has not shown a willingness to give up its weapons, including rockets and mortars, seen as one of the biggest obstacles towards reconciliation.
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The Green Zone was regularly targeted by mortars during the U.S. occupation of Iraq that ended in 2011 and rockets have occasionally been fired into it since then.
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Those deaths happened the same day Taliban mortars killed at least seven people at a wedding party in Faryab province in northern Afghanistan, police spokesman Kareem Youresh said.
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Five ISIS militants escaped from Navkur prison on Friday after Turkish mortars landed nearby, according to the SDF, which is responsible for all ISIS prisons in northern Syria.
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And, in May 2017, Trump approved a plan to arm the tens of thousands of Kurdish forces fighting ISIS in Syria with rifles, machine guns and lightweight mortars.
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Those deaths happened the same day Taliban mortars killed at least seven people at a wedding party in Faryab province in northern Afghanistan, police spokesman Kareem Youresh said.
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The Paris-based company, bought by Astorg in 2013, makes calcium aluminate cements, used in specialized concretes and mortars and in refractory linings in furnaces, amongst other applications.
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Within 24 hours of our arrival, hundreds of mortars had been propelled into our immediate vicinity, resulting in a flood of casualties at the remaining state-run hospitals.
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This place started as a trailer, but by the end of 2016, there will be two brick-and-mortars to match up the pair of trailers near downtown.
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Yet the next day the thud of mortars and rockets could still be heard inside the supposedly liberated city, and armoured convoys were still rumbling into the fray.
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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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The Saudis blamed the Houthis, pointing to evidence compiled over the weekend suggesting that mortars, which are launched from the ground, were used rather than missiles from planes.
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At the same time, rockets and mortars continue to be fired from rebel-held areas in residential areas of government-held Damascus and surrounding suburbs, the statement said.
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Northeastern Diyala has seen almost weekly Islamic State attacks in the last year, including ones using mortars and roadside bombs, as well as small arms attacks and kidnappings.
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Relatively light-weight rockets and mortars are typically used by ISIS, jihadi extremists and Shia paramilitary in Iraq, who for years have had US troops in their crosshairs.
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Beyond it we hear the constant thud of artillery and mortars, a sound "like soda cans crushed underfoot" and a sinister whine of car alarms accidentally set off.
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The sound of outgoing mortars from a nearby SDF position didn't seem to cause concern for shoppers at the general store of Abdel Kareem, 38, in Tal Tamr.
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Ambulances carrying those gravely injured from sniper fire, artillery, mortars and mines are driven out of Mosul in a steady flow en route to hospitals in nearby Erbil.
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Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 50 rockets and mortars into southern Israel on Tuesday, the largest barrage since the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.
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Spleeters' team found molds for 119.5-mm mortars in the abandoned Tal Afar bazaar, where tightly packed shops and metal roofing had helped keep the ISIS weapons factories hidden.
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"Certainly, finding charred remains of flour products is the much-needed demonstration of what the large quantity of mortars, pestles, and moulders were already showing us," Restelli told Gizmodo.
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The fighting, near the city of Ramadi in Anbar province, continued for several hours after the militants attacked with suicide car bombs, mortars and machine guns, the sources said.
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The report said "concrete steps must be made to "minimize the use of explosive weapons which produce dud ordnance -- such as mortars, rockets, and grenades -- in civilian-populated areas.
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An attack that targeted nuclear facilities only, assuming that they could all be found, would still leave intact North Korea's 20,000 conventional rocket launchers, artillery pieces and heavy mortars.
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Police said Wednesday that Pakistani soldiers continued targeting dozens of Indian border posts and villages with mortars and automatic gunfire for the sixth straight day in the Jammu region.
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Video footage shows they have used imprecise explosive weapons including mortars and Katyusha rockets, whose use in the vicinity of densely populated civilian areas flagrantly violates international humanitarian law.
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Israel has posted Iron Dome short-range air defenses on the Golan, local media said, suggesting that the anticipated attack could be by ground-to-ground rockets or mortars.
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Associated Press journalists in Baghouz on Saturday reported hearing mortars and gunfire directed toward a cliff overlooking Baghouz, where U.S.-led coalition airstrikes were carried out a day earlier.
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The Pentagon said Saudi Arabia intended to use the radars to support its border security by locating the source of incoming artillery, rockets and mortars and defending against them.
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In one of the day's first barrages, one of the mortars landed in the yard of a kindergarten, which was empty at the time because school had not started.
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In July, according to one monitoring group, 50 children were killed on the government side by rebel mortars, and 100 were killed on the rebel side by government strikes.
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Few are more acutely aware of the danger they pose than police Lt-Colonel Falah Hammad Hindi, who instructed his men to take cover as mortars landed ever closer.
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According to the Israel Defense Forces, more than 180 rockets and mortars were launched from Gaza toward Israel, with rocket alarms ringing into the early hours of the morning.
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Police officials in the area said Islamic State militants were involved in the attack and the mortars were fired from a nearby mountainous area were militants are still active.
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There the past has been blasted with mortars launched from the ground, but in 1943 destruction came from the air, as bombs rained down on Tiepolo's star-crossed couple.
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In addition to the attack Monday night, a scattering of rockets and mortars have struck the Bagram base itself, according to Afghan officials, although most did not cause casualties.
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Jackson and a team of archaeologists, conservators, stone masons and designers sampled mortar from mid third century Roman buildings in London and made a mix of mortars to match.
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During the final battle for Aleppo, she often heard the sounds of bombs and mortars exploding nearby, and her jailers would taunt her, saying Assad's bombs will kill you.
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In the myth, the sun dies, the world is plunged into darkness and household objects and domesticated animals revolt: Mortars and grinding stones eat people, and llamas drive humans.
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EÖ: Several mortars landed in Akçakale during the fight between regime forces and the opposition back in 2012 and 2013, which killed 5 [and] injured 10 in October 2012.
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And it is demeaning to the thousands of women who have been assaulted by the bullets and mortars of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past fifteen years.
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"The intensive three-week Kinderguardian course introduces specially selected children from 12 to 4 years old to pistols, rifles, semi-automatics, and a rudimentary knowledge of mortars," Walsh said.
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Tuesday&aposs fighting was the heaviest since a 2014 war, with Palestinian militants firing scores of rockets and mortars into Israel, and Israel carrying out dozens of airstrikes in Gaza.
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Footage shot from a drone by rebels shows a complex assault on Khan Touman that began with a barrage of rockets or mortars and involved armored vehicles and a tank.
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Syrian state television and a witness later said bullets and mortars were fired from inside the rebel enclave at the al-Wafideen crossing point, through which the convoy had entered.
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It urged all parties fighting in Libya to stop using mortars and other indirect weapons in civilian areas and to keep fighters or other military objectives away from populated areas.
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"It is necessary to implement agreements on disengagement and the withdrawal of heavy weapons behind the agreed withdrawal lines, withdrawal of tanks, artillery and mortars to the agreed storage sites".
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The proposal to leave U.S.-supplied weapons with the YPG, which could include anti-tank missiles, armored vehicles and mortars, would reassure Kurdish allies that they were not being abandoned.
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ISIS then pushed into Kurdish territory, and by October thousands of militants—armed with tanks, mortars, machine guns, and suicide vehicles—had reached Kobanî, a city on the Turkish border.
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Two other Americans, Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty, who were contractors for the C.I.A., died later when a separate annex run by the agency was hit by mortars.
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U.N. Middle East peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov earlier on Wednesday condemned "the indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars" at Israeli civilians as "absolutely unacceptable" and said it "must stop immediately".
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The theft and resale of the arms — including Kalashnikov assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades — have led to a flood of new weapons available on the black arms market.
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It stopped taking paying guests in 2012 - bar a few old friends - when Syria's civil war came to Aleppo and mortars and sniper fire began to plague the streets around.
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Rebel fighters have also besieged government-held towns in the north of the country, and have fired rockets and mortars into government-controlled neighborhoods of Aleppo and the capital Damascus.
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In the exchange, the militants launched mortars at the Israeli soldiers, the air force was called in, and an airstrike hit the vehicle carrying the fighters, killing its four passengers.
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But you will hear that he is just as guilty as the men who lit those fires and the men who fired those mortars because Abu Khattala planned the attack.
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Blood gushing down his face, Mr. Ubben dropped to a knee as he heard the whistling of more inbound mortars, he testified Wednesday at the Federal District Court in Washington.
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A commander in the coalition fighting on behalf of Assad's government told Reuters overnight the bombing aims to prevent the rebels from targeting the eastern neighborhoods of Damascus with mortars.
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One of those wars flared again this week as Hamas hit Israel with some 460 rockets and mortars and Israel responded with airstrikes of more than 100 targets in Gaza.
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In September, Mr. Bolton requested military options after Iranian-backed militants fired three mortars or rockets into an empty lot on the grounds of the United States Embassy in Bagdad.
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The use of mortars and the area from which they were fired, he said, led him to think that the attack could have been carried out by the Islamic State.
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One resident said government forces had attacked a house where prominent ASWJ leaders live, and the two sides were fighting with mortars and anti-aircraft guns in the city center.
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"The mom-and-pops, the bricks-and-mortars may not be able to stand up to these cloud kitchens," said Mireya Loza, a food studies professor at New York University.
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"People don't realize how much online selling brick and mortars do," said Adele Meyer, who has overseen the National Association of Reseller and Thrift Stores for more than two decades.
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"For the last two days, the Russian occupation forces carried out massive attacks across the line," firing with rocket artillery, heavy mortars and other long-range weapons, the statement said.
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On Tuesday, mortars were fired at the green zone area, located close to the Presidential Palace in Kabul as Ghani was holding a ceremony to mark the start of Eid.
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Islamic State militants who retreated across the Tigris river to western districts also regularly target civilian areas under government control in the east with mortars and grenades dropped from drones.
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The US-led team was traveling with 30 Nigerien soldiers when they were attacked by approximately 50 ISIS-affiliated fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and heavy machine guns.
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Around 400,000 people are in hiding as the suburb crumbles around them after being pounded with shells, mortars and bombs dropped by Russian-backed Syrian regime forces since Sunday night.
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The Kurdish militia has fired dozens of mortars into border towns inside Turkey in the past two days, including Akcakale, according to officials in two provinces on the Turkish side.
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There has been no official word about what kinds of weaponry the YPG will get, but 120mm mortars, machine guns, ammunition, and light armored vehicles are possibilities, reports the Guardian.
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The proposal to leave U.S.-supplied weapons with the YPG, which could include anti-tank missiles, armored vehicles and mortars, would reassure Kurdish allies that they were not being abandoned.
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Between July 2015 and the beginning of the tentative truce last month, an average of 130 mortars, shells and rockets were fired at Saudi Arabia's frontier every day, the coalition said.
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He declined to give details - save to say the clashes had involved the use of small arms and mortars - and insisted the troops had never taken in front-line offensive operations.
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The officials said at least four mortars landed in the eastern Mosul neighborhood of al Zahraa, which was declared under the full control of Iraqi security forces nearly a week ago.
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Several were wounded and at least one, wrapped in a blanket and carried on the back of a donkey, appeared to be dead, casualties of Islamic State mortars and roadside bombs.
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Heavy fighting has taken place in Deraa city where rebels control its the border stretch with Jordan and several mortars have fallen in Jordanian territory but no casualties have been reported.
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Hamas led the charge in using suicide bombings against Israel in the 1990s and 2000s, though in recent years it has shifted to rockets and mortars as its weapons of choice.
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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's monitoring mission has reported that Russian-backed militants have used a wide array of heavy weapons, including mortars, high-caliber artillery and tanks.
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The desert route also leads the troops further away from the Makhoul mountains east of Baiji, from which Islamic State has been launching mortars in and around the town for months.
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Compared to that of traditional brick-and-mortars, the design of the shops tends to be less aggressive about selling and more intent on introducing the brand to new potential customers.
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The Green Beret-led team was traveling with 30 Nigerien soldiers when they were attacked by approximately 50 ISIS-affiliated fighters armed with rocket propelled grenades, mortars and heavy machine guns.
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He also made fireworks, including mortars, from the late 1990s until September 11, 2001, but stopped making fireworks "because he did not want to give the wrong impression," the affidavit said.
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The deaths caused by government forces, put at 127 over the first three months of this year, were mostly caused by explosive weapons, including mortars, rockets and grenades, the report said.
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Pieces of children's bodies being pulled from rubble are photographed with appalling regularity in a war of indiscriminate attacks, most often from government airstrikes and shelling but also from rebel mortars.
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Armed only with homemade mortars, their features hidden behind scarves and ski masks, the fighters of Masaya crouched behind the barricades they built to protect the streets of their rebellious city.
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The weapons that the United States will provide Kurdish and Arab fighters in the anti-Islamic State coalition include heavy machine guns, mortars, anti-tank weapons, armored cars and engineering equipment.
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"The mom-and-pops, the bricks-and-mortars, may not be able to stand up to these cloud kitchens," said Mireya Loza, a professor of food studies at New York University.
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They said Turkish army howitzers and multiple rocket launchers fired on the militants on Wednesday as they were preparing to strike Turkey with rockets and mortars, destroying one defensive fighting position.
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Close to 400,000 people are living in deteriorating conditions in the Damascus suburb, which has been pounded with shells, mortars and bombs by Russian-backed Syrian regime forces since Sunday night.
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In a church used as a weapons-making factory by the Islamic State, mortars were lying on the ground next to a pink backpack decorated with a picture of a kitten.
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"The intensive three-week Kinderguardian course introduces specially selected children from 12 to 4 years old to pistols, rifles, semiautomatics and a rudimentary knowledge of mortars," Walsh said directly into the camera.
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The fighting, which took place throughout Tuesday and continued overnight, saw Palestinian militants firing scores of rockets and mortars into Israel, and Israel carrying out dozens of airstrikes in the Gaza strip.
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General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said Savchenko, who became a member of parliament on her return from Russia, had planned an attack on parliament - which never happened - using grenades, mortars and automatic weapons.
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Some protesters have resorted to violent means, ranging from rocks to sling shots, Molotov cocktails and homemade mortars in protests against Maduro and shortages of food and other basic goods, it said.
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The Iraqi military is conducting a search at the site from which the mortars were fired and the town is in lockdown as police search for other potential attackers, the statement said.
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The barrage of hundreds of mortars and missiles fired on the city's western edge from bases in the countryside outside Aleppo has been the most intense bombardment by rebels in recent months.
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What is unique about Israel's concept of multi-layered defense is that it addresses not only larger threats, such as ballistic missiles, but also short-range rockets, mortars and medium-range threats.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian government said groups associated with al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front fired mortars onto residential areas of the capital on Thursday, killing at least one person, state television reported.
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The militants are vastly outnumbered and outgunned by Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition and are defending their last major stronghold in Iraq using suicide car bombs, snipers and mortars.
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The terrorists had been better armed, he insisted, and gestured at a paltry stash of confiscated weapons in the bed of the pickup: a pair of homemade mortars and strings of nails.
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Mr. Ubben was crawling to the edge of the roof as the mortars exploded, tearing what he described as a "grapefruit"-size chunk off his arm and all but severing his leg.
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At the same time, ISIS has developed what the organization Conflict Armament Research, or CAR , described in a recent report as a "centrally controlled industrial production system," for manufacturing rockets and mortars.
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Around 400,000 people are in hiding as the rebel-held suburb crumbles around them after being pounded with shells, mortars and bombs dropped by Russian-backed Syrian regime forces since Sunday night.
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While diehard fans stood outside of MAC's brick-and-mortars eagerly awaiting a glimpse of the new collection, eBay vultures took it upon themselves to sell the range online at a steep price.
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He escaped from Makiivka, a city in Donbass, harassed by mortars and grenades, because people like him are not wanted there now that the city is under the control of pro-Russian separatists.
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Hamas, the Islamist movement that runs Gaza, has been sending a defiant wave of home-made rockets and mortars into Israel, plus makeshift kites laden with devices to set fire to Israeli farmland.
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The firm also predicts an increase in app-only deals and exclusives, and exclusive deals at brick-and-mortars with new in-store features, like Target's visual search or Walmart's Scan-and-Go.
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The backdrop: After Russia got involved in the war in support of the Syrian regime, rebels in Latakia launched rockets towards Russia's Hmeimim airbase, and launched mortars vers the Russian embassy in Damascus.
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State media said "terrorists" had fired mortars on Dama and Shomara villages in the Laja region while several rural villages located west of the mainly Druze-inhabited Sweida city were targeted by insurgents.
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An Indian defense spokesman said Pakistani forces had fired 120mm and 82mm mortars, as well as automatic weapons, across the Line of Control, and alleged they had targeted Indian posts and civilian areas.
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As recently as Sunday, the objectives of American airstrikes included a range of Islamic State targets near the city, including tunnels, weapon caches, mortars and vehicles, according to the military command in Baghdad.
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In a Facebook video that he posted, he appeared beside two mortars and shouted to his men, "Strike hard enough to blow up Nawaz Sharif's home," referring to the prime minister of Pakistan.
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Yet they are also an indictment of the C.I.A., which for three years has been responsible for training thousands of rebels considered moderates to use Kalashnikovs, mortars, guided antitank missiles and other weapons.
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The US Army is turning up the power on its plans for a high-energy laser to shoot down everything from rockets and mortars to even "more stressing threats," the service recently revealed.
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The squad was traveling with 30 Nigerien soldiers when they were attacked by approximately 50 ISIS-affiliated fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and heavy machine guns, according to US military officials.
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The squad was traveling with 30 Nigerien soldiers when they were attacked by approximately 483 ISIS-affiliated fighters armed with rocket propelled grenades, mortars, and heavy machine guns, according to US military officials.
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The team was traveling with 30 Nigerien soldiers when they were attacked by approximately 50 ISIS-affiliated fighters armed with rocket propelled grenades, mortars and heavy machine guns, according to US military officials.
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As of now, Vidiots is in a period of fundraising and, even between brick-and-mortars, is actively programming events, the next of which takes place later this month at the Alamo Drafthouse.
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The squad was traveling with 30 Nigerien soldiers when they were attacked by approximately 50 ISIS-affiliated fighters armed with rocket propelled grenades, mortars, and heavy machine guns, according to US military officials.
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Chaim saw the heavy use of mortars by ISIS to try to push the SDF back, and the intense close-range use of artillery and airstrikes to flush ISIS out of urban positions.
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Terror group ISIS has begun to use unmanned aerial vehicles of both homebrew and industrial design in the past few years, in some cases using them to drop grenades, rockets and mortars on soldiers.
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The Iran-allied Houthis, who are battling the internationally recognized government of Yemen's President Abd Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi, often fire mortars into southern Saudi regions and test Saudi defenses with guerrilla-style incursions.
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A senior US official told CNN that the administration is now considering telling the coalition it will no longer object to them supplying the rebels with anti-armor ground weapons, additional munitions and mortars.
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Since the Yemen war began, South Africa has sold the two countries military hardware - armored vehicles, sniper rifles, bombs, mortars and surveillance equipment - worth 4.6 billion rand, or 44 percent of total arms exports.
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Then the mortars and rockets struck the hills south of Damascus where Freidawi and his fellow fighters had been deployed in early 2014 to stave off an advance by Syrian rebels fighting against Assad.
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In Iraq alone, U.S. forces have been fired upon with rockets and mortars at Q-West base near Mosul, at K-1 near Kirkuk and south down to Baghdad and out in Anbar province.
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But this could change as recent fighting with mortars and machine guns had come close to the key West Qurna oil phase 1, West Qurna phase 2 and Majnoon oilfields north of Basra city.
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He received training in use of small arms and "probably" anti-aircraft weapons, improvised explosive devices (IED), mortars and landmine at al Qaeda and Taliban camps and operated on the frontlines, the report said.
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Macy's "had a 25 percent jump in their online sales, but their retail sales at bricks and mortars fell by 5 percent, so they are cutting stores," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box " on Thursday.
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But the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)'s Security Council expressed alarm late on Thursday at what it said was a significant Iraqi military build-up south of Kirkuk "including tanks, artillery, Humvees and mortars".
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The al-Qaryatayn attack began on the evening of 29 September, when up to 250 militants with guns, rockets and mortars spread around the area with "terrible speed", said Ayman al-Fayadh, a resident.
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The Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, said it launched more than 35 airstrikes targeting the militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, after approximately 70 rockets and mortars were fired toward Israeli territory Tuesday morning.
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The Trump administration's National Security Council sought military options to strike Iran last September after a group aligned with Tehran fired mortars near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
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The U.S. special operations forces were fighting alongside about 800 troops from the Somali National Security Forces and Kenyan Defence Forces when they were attacked late on Friday by mortars and small arms fire.
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" 'One child being killed is too much' He appealed to Palestinians "to keep the protests peaceful," and urged Palestinian factions to stop firing rockets, mortars and incendiary kites and "to give peace a chance.
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The Army plans to field a 50-kilowatt laser on Stryker armored combat vehicles within the next few years to defend troops against enemy unmanned aerial systems, as well as rockets, artillery, and mortars.
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During the attacks, militants wielding machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades breached the walls and set fire to the consulate, then used mortars in an attack on the C.I.A. base about a mile away.
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Mortars killed 60 people that day, but Mr. Hondros paused in the midst of the bombardment to take a picture, one of his many images documenting the human cost of Liberia's second civil war.
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The Russian mercenary and pro-regime assault involved T-55 and T-72 main battle tanks with support from multiple-launch rocket systems and mortars, as well as an approximately battalion-sized dismounted formation.
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I was safe and smug in the United States, threatened by tear gas and possible arrest at the many demonstrations I attended, not the mortars and rockets faced by soldiers and journalists in Vietnam.
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The United States has already provided about $750 million in nonlethal arms to Ukraine, including body armor, night-vision equipment, radios and Humvees, as well as radars to pinpoint the location of enemy mortars.
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They tied up alongside and clambered aboard with wares to sell: deck furniture woven from cane, heavy wooden mortars for pounding manioc, baskets of charcoal for cooking and ngola boards to pass the time.
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As Iraqi forces sweep across much of eastern Mosul in a three-month, U.S.-backed offensive, residents remain in danger, often targeted they say by mortars and bullets fired by retreating Islamic State militants.
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"I'm paying more attention to what they say about the general health of spending rather than the online [shopping] impact on bricks and mortars, and hopefully we get some color on that," he said.
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Army mortarmen, deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, fire mortars near Al Tarab, Iraq, during the offensive to liberate western Mosul from the terrorist group ISIS on March 19.
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"Wherever you are, you hear explosions of mortars, shelling and planes flying over," said Valter Gros, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Aleppo, in a statement on Thursday.
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While there have been no recent attacks on the airbase by Taliban insurgents, the sprawling facility north of Kabul has been regularly hit since the 2001 U.S. invasion by rockets, mortars and explosives-laden vehicles.
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The freezing nights, the food shortages and -- worst of all -- the mortars and artillery shells that land with terrifying regularity on this area of desert, which is a temporary home to sheep and cattle herders.
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The mortars that hit the Mezzeh neighborhood and Ommayad Square in Damascus come after two days of intensive aerial bombing of rebel-held suburbs, rebels and monitors Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.
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The members club we dined at apparently sees more patrons returning each night, the music cranked up high—as it was when I visited—to block out the sounds of mortars whirling over our heads.
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PA) announced on Friday a deal to buy E-Mix, an Asian mortars and dry mixes company, for around 104 million euros ($116 million) as part of plans to boost its presence in emerging markets.
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Maybe you'll learn your girlfriend is always online shopping because she almost never shops at brick-and-mortars, or that she goes out to eat a lot because no one taught her how to cook.
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Militants defending Islamic State's last stronghold in Libya have been keeping Libyan forces back with sniper fire and mortars in Sirte where they are now surrounded after a two month campaign to take the city.
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He said jihadist fighters, riding in a vehicle with a machine gun mounted on its roof, had assaulted an Israeli reconnaissance unit with gunfire and mortars on the Israeli-controlled side of the contested territory.
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We used to count the mortars and rockets as they flew over the house and into the Green Zone — the fortified headquarters that housed the U.S. military command, the American Embassy and Iraqi government offices.
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The prime minister's statement, released within hours of the mortars landing in the embassy compound, appeared aimed at reassuring the Americans that the Iraqis were taking the attack seriously and would mount a vigorous response.
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Only two months ago, the militants would be firing 200 rockets or mortars at Iraqi forces in Mosul on any given day, Browning said, but in the past two days it dropped to about 30.
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While fighting slightly increased in July, the three-year old war, for the most part, has ground to a stalemate in which the two sides lob mortars and grenades from afar and trade sniper fire.
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Turkish officials say the Kurdish militias in Afrin have fired more than 100 rockets and mortars over the border into Turkey in that time, killing seven civilians and one soldier in a border observation post.
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In the Zuhour district, still controlled by Islamic State on Mosul's eastern bank, witnesses said that cars carrying mortars roamed the streets on Tuesday, but were not seen being fired - unlike in the previous two days.
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Later on Friday, air raid sirens sounded in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights when two mortars fired from the Syrian side of the frontier struck an open area, causing no damage or injuries, Israel's military said.
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More recent stories about the tenuous alliance to unseat Amazon cite Google as a bit player on the side of Walmart, rather than a tech giant dragging stodgy brick-and-mortars into the future of commerce.
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At a little over 50 years young, the chef has owned five restaurants, but he decided to leave brick-and-mortars behind in 2009 in favor of cooking for guests in the comfort his own home.
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The U.S.-led coalition said it repelled that attack near the Euphrates River by hundreds of troops aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who were backed by artillery, tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems and mortars.
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For the infantryman to be able once again to fire and move at the same time required new kinds of armament: light automatic weapons, rifle grenades, trench mortars, and the supporting fire of tanks and aircraft.
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"In Syria, what we are hearing and seeing is only fighting, offensives, counter-offensives, rockets, barrel bombs, mortars, hellfire cannons, napalm, chlorine, snipers, airstrikes, suicide bombers," said UN envoy Staffan de Mistura told reporters in Geneva.
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And though the vast majority of protesters were peaceful, some have used violence, setting fire to Israeli land with flaming kites and balloons, launching rockets and mortars into Israel, and shooting at Israeli soldiers, killing one.
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The use of weapons such as missiles, rockets, and mortars also causes severe damage to hospitals, water supplies, and electricity grids -- frequently leaving thousands of people without access to basic services for months or even years.
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If you want a vehicle drop or the ability to blast Santa Blanca's collective faces with mortars, you have to go out and get the rebels what they need in order to continue resisting the cartel.
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As we moved through the bombed-out streets, gun battles raged, and the insurgents' improvised mortars exploded among the narrow alleyways and rubble in a last-ditch effort to halt the advance of Iraq's security forces.
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With nowhere to go, the group has settled around 500 meters from Kurdish positions, living in tents made out of empty sacks and taking cover in makeshift trenches when Islamic State fires mortars at the peshmerga.
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Heavy fighting with machine guns, rocket propelled grenade launchers and mortars was heard by the Reuters TV crew coming from the area around the mosque, located in the old city and famous for its leaning minaret.
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Earlier Tuesday, Mr. Wickland had recounted what happened next: Mortars began to fall on the roof, killing two C.I.A. operatives, Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty, and gravely wounding two other men — including Mr. Ubben.
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Flags were raised at ceremony in the town on the insurgency-plagued island of Mindanao, but heavy gunfire resumed early on Tuesday, and the military continued to target the militants with mortars and helicopter-mounted machineguns.
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A recent report from Conflict Armament Research, a London-based organization that sent a team of researchers to eastern Mosul, said the Islamic State had been producing rockets and mortars on an "industrial" scale inside Mosul.
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"How we plan to do that isn't necessarily building out more brick-and-mortars in these cities but our expansion strategy sort of ties into that idea of cloud kitchens — sort of like ghost kitchens," Huo said.
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But progress has been slow as they have faced counterattacks by the jihadist fighters, who deployed hundreds of the suicide car bombs, as well as mortars and snipers, and used the city's million residents as human shields.
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It's been just a few months since Lockheed Martin gave the US Army the most powerful laser weapon ever developed, a ground vehicle–mounted system that can burn through tanks and knock mortars out of the sky.
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The U.S.-led coalition said it repelled an unprovoked attack near the Euphrates River by hundreds of troops aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who were backed by artillery, tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems and mortars.
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Armed with weapons accumulated over the years fighting alongside ISIS, the White Flags ride in four-wheel-drive pickup trucks through the folds of the mountains, finding shelter from patrols, mortars, and airstrikes launched by Iraqi forces.
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After the Somme, trench mortars were delivered at four times the rate before; for machine guns the ratio was nine times, for engines and aircraft and engines eight and nine times respectively, and for tanks 34 times.
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More than 70 people were killed in three days of fighting, the report said, and 182 buildings in the UN headquarters, which house more than 27,000 displaced people, were struck by bullets, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
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State media did not report the assault but said "terrorists" had fired mortars on residential areas in Harasta and the army responded by strikes in Eastern Ghouta that led to losses in the ranks of the insurgents.
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Clinton did a bit of this, then started lobbing word-mortars far over their heads at Donald Trump, making the kinds of Nixon comparisons that every Democrat, and lots of non-Democrats, have been making for months.
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In addition to the threats of tunnels, mortars and missiles, we will also be dealing with the pollution of the sea and beaches, pollution of drinking water and pollution of the water of agriculture in the area.
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He appears next to two mortars shouting to his men, "Strike hard enough to blow up Nawaz Sharif's home," referring to the prime minister of Pakistan who lives in Islamabad, the capital, 150 miles from the border.
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BAGHDAD — Militants fired mortars on a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad late on Thursday, and in the confusion that followed, three suicide bombers in military uniforms infiltrated the compound and blew themselves up, the Iraqi authorities said.
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Houthi forces, Iran-allied rebels from northern Yemen who triggered a war when they took control of the capital and forced the Yemeni government into exile, fire missiles or mortars almost daily into southern Saudi border areas.
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This meant that certain classes of infantry weapons were not included, among them mortars, shoulder-fired rockets and powerful Mark 19 automatic grenade launchers that were mounted on many American vehicles and also used in outpost defense.
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Similarly, the Islamic State seemed to struggle with a series of mortars filled with caustic soda, or lye, a strongly alkaline compound that is sold in a heavy flake form and sometimes used as a drain cleaner.
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Fragments of munitions gathered at the attack sites as well as interviews with six residents and witnesses suggested that the weapons used on Thursday were mortars, not missiles, indicating that the attacks were launched from the ground.
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Young people gathered at the scene of the mortar strike in Nusaybin were even questioning whether the mortars had been fired on the town by Turkish forces, although the trajectory indicated they had been launched from Syria.
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During the height of Iraq's civil strife, between roughly 2005 and 2009, both Al Qaeda in Iraq and anti-American Shiite armed groups lobbed mortars at the Green Zone in an effort to hit the American Embassy.
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"Syrian pro-regime forces included approximately 500 personnel in a large, dismounted formation supported by artillery, tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems and mortars," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, to offer new details on the incident.
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"They're fighting not against some tribesmen shooting arrows, but against people with serious technical capabilities—tanks, armoured vehicles and mortars," said Anton Sidorov, a salesman and veteran of the Russian navy, who brought his four-year-old son.
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Earlier state run Ikhbariya television station said in a news flash 14 were dead and at least 40 injured when mortars were fired by what it described as "terrorists" in rebel-held parts of Aleppo hit Sheikh Maqsoud.
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Such a breach is unprecedented, though only a few years ago mortars frequently rained down on the 10-square-kilometre Green Zone, which once housed the headquarters of the U.S. occupation and before that one of Saddam's palaces.
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Abbasiyeen Square, where mortars regularly fell, and nearby parts of the city are being decked out with lighting and Christmas trees, while musicians with a local scout troop are preparing for a Christmas march not seen for years.
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Jenzen-Jones said fighters in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere are using the small, stealthy drones to spot enemy positions, allowing weapons operators to more accurately fire artillery, mortars and missiles at their targets on the battlefield.
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Private First Class Hansen Kirkpatrick of Wasilla, Alaska, died on Monday when he was struck by "indirect fire," a military term that usually encompasses rockets, mortars, or artillery, the U.S. military command in Kabul said in a statement.
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Not surprisingly, the Yemen war is not limited to Yemen; the Houthi militias have taken some border areas and hills on the Saudi side of Yemen and have regularly fired ballistic missiles, mortars and artillery into Saudi territory.
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Israel had launched scores of airstrikes on Gaza over the past day, as Hamas militants fired rockets and mortars into its territory, prompting warnings over the risks of escalation amid efforts to achieve a long-term ceasefire agreement.
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Khetab was described in the release as being "directly involved" in fighting against the Afghan government and foreign troops, advising militants in the use of heavy weapons such as rockets and mortars and training for Taliban night attacks.
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But militants firing rockets and mortars killed one soldier on Monday as Turkish forces moved to set up such a post south of Aleppo, near the front line between rebels and pro-Syrian government forces, the military said.
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Like others strolling in the evening and sitting on park benches, they ignore the sound of mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and tubelike, anti-tank weapons known as SPGs that ritualistically begin to boom like fireworks in the distance.
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US military officials have previously told CNN that the US-led team was traveling with 30 Nigerien soldiers when they were attacked by approximately 50 ISIS-affiliated fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and heavy machine guns.
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Shortly before, Syria's state news agency said several members of a group of foreign journalists were wounded by mortars fired from the Turkish side of the border and that the area targeted had recently been seized from rebel forces.
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Experts estimate that there could be as many as 3,000 mines and other explosive devices littering the site, an area less than half a square mile, as well as other war detritus like unexploded rockets, mortars and artillery rounds.
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In my demo at last week's Game Developers Conference, the glasses made a real coffee table look like an animated game of Battleship, in which the ocean floor dipped through the wood and mortars arced inches above the surface.
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The clash, which left the area littered with shell casings and shattered glass, lasted more than four hours and saw protesters armed with homemade mortars pitted against hooded government loyalists with automatic, high-caliber weapons, reporters with CNN said.
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Horpynych was born as World War II broke out, she told me at her modest cottage, which has fallen into disarray after being pummeled by mortars and rockets, a consequence of living within sight of the destroyed Donetsk airport.
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The request, which alarmed then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other Pentagon officials, came after Iranian-backed militants fired three mortars or rockets into an empty lot on the grounds of the United States Embassy in Baghdad in September.
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Although the report said most casualties were caused by anti government forces, it noted a jump in those caused by security forces using explosive weapons like mortars and grenades and called on their use in civilian areas to be restricted.
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To keep us lining up outside their bicoastal brick and mortars (or online ordering from the comfort of our beds), they've just announced a brand new line of Peruvian alpaca sweaters that we can't wait to get our hands on.
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Watch the VICE News documentary Abu Yousef al-Muhajir, military spokesperson for the opposition faction and Islamist movement Ahrar al-Sham, acknowledged that rebels were mostly using locally manufactured mortars and "hell cannons" — rockets made from propane tanks packed with explosives.
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The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, which has monitored the violence, said 170 people were killed in the eight weeks of clashes between pro-Ortega forces armed with assault rifles and pistols and protesters armed with rocks, slings and homemade mortars.
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Rebels inside the area have fired mortars out towards Damascus and pro-Assad forces have shelled and bombed the enclave, despite a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30 day ceasefire, and a Russian bid for daily five hour pauses.
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Three fighters were killed and more than 30 injured during fighting on Friday after Islamic State militants were driven out of the residential 700 district in fierce clashes involving rockets, mortars and gun battles, a senior commander and hospital officials said.
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The Russian Defence Ministry said the SDF had taken up positions on the eastern banks of the Euphrates with U.S. special forces, and had twice opened fire with mortars and artillery on Syrian troops who were working alongside Russian special forces.
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They are using mortars, sniper fire, booby traps and suicide car bombs to fight the offensive carried out by a 100,000-strong force made up of Iraqi armed forces, regional Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Iranian-trained Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups.
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Abu Khatallah "didn't light the fires or fire the mortars, but is just as guilty" for planning the attack, setting it in motion and getting others "to do his dirty work," federal prosecutor John Crabb told jurors in his opening statement.
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" One police officer died after being shot while working to "re-establish public order" in the area of the fire, National Police said Monday, adding that their forces were "attacked by a group of hooded men with firearms, mortars and stones.
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He crossed the river earlier in the day to buy supplies and check in with his old workplace but was returning before nightfall to his neighborhood, where Iraqi forces are now in charge but mortars fired by Islamic State still land.
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He "didn't light the fires or fire the mortars, but is just as guilty" for planning the attack, setting it in motion and getting others "to do his dirty work," federal prosecutor John Crabb told jurors in his opening statement.
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Jaish al-Nasr, a group affiliated to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) which has backed the truce, said government forces had fired mortars, rockets and machine guns in Hama province and that warplanes had been constantly present in the sky.
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It wasn't just a rare battlefield win for the militants: it also allowed them to get their hands on crates of American ammunition, US mortars, a Toyota Hilux pickup adapted to carry a heavy machine gun, and new body armor.
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The enemy adapted, learned and began using larger artillery shells instead of smaller mortars for the blast effect, and some insurgents even started importing new explosively formed penetrators (EFPs), designed to penetrate heavily armored vehicles, from across the border in Iran.
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In ISIS' version of combined arms warfare, it has sent drones equipped with bombs even as it lobbed mortars and deployed suicide car bombers, whom the militants use as a primitive but often effective way to deliver precision-guided munitions.
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Soon after the initial barrage of 25 mortars, Israeli authorities announced a return to normal and schools and kindergartens in the area opened as usual, suggesting that the military was not expecting, or planning, an immediate escalation into a broader conflict.
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Since then, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups in the Strip have fired nearly 10,000 rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel — all the while denouncing an economic "blockade" that is Israel's refusal to feed the mouth that bites it.
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Abdulla said Islamic State was using suicide car bombs, roadside bombs, snipers and long range mortars to try to hold back the army advance in the north - all tactics it has used to lethal effect on the eastern front as well.
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Such a breach is unprecedented, though only a few years ago mortars frequently rained down on the 10-square-kilometre Green Zone, which once housed the headquarters of the US occupation and before that a palace belonging to Saddam Hussein.
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Since January, republican militias have targeted the police with bombs and mortars, killed a journalist and carried out dozens of "punishment style" attacks on ordinary people in an attempt to take over the policing of deprived Catholic neighborhoods like Creggan.
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