Euronews
| May 6, 2013
Israel is on high alert as it gears up for possible retaliation after launching a second set of air strikes on military targets in Syria. The Israeli government has sent more tanks to its northern border, and is arranging to station two missile ...
Associated Press
| May 5, 2013
Israeli warplanes have carried out a second set of air strikes against military targets in Syria, and Syrian officials are warning that the attack "opened the door to all possibilities" of retaliation. Several critical military facilities were str...
Euronews
| Apr 16, 2013
There have been fresh reports of more civilian casualties in Syria - opposition activists claim government air strikes killed 16 people on Sunday in the north east of the country. These unverified images are said to show Saturday's air attack i...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Apr 11, 2013
Human Rights Watch, a US-based rights group, today accused Syria of war crimes by indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate air strikes against civilians, killing at least 4,300 people since last summer. These include the targeting of crowds of peop...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 7, 2013
A NATO airstrike has killed 12 civilians in eastern Afghanistan. 11 of the victims were children. The attack happened overnight in Kunar province, near the Pakistan border after US and Afghan forces launched an operation targeting a senior Taliban...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 25, 2013
WARNING: Graphic Content. While diplomats seems to be making headway abroad, within the country the bombing in Syrian cities seems endless. Several people were killed in an air campaign in Douma in the outskirts of Damascus. Witnesses claimed th...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 9, 2013
Syrian rebels are making the largest gains in Aleppo City in months. The rebels have taken control of a key district, effectively blocking government forces from moving in by land. The battle looks to be a difficult one as government forces refuse...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 3, 2013
Violence in Syria has continued despite talks of a political solution. Activists say a Syrian army air strike on an Aleppo district has killed at least sixteen people and injured dozens of others.
Euronews
| Jan 31, 2013
Syria has lodged a formal complaint with the UN over an air strike inside the country blamed on Israel. There is confusion over what was actually hit, with Syrian state television reporting two people killed and five injured in the strike against ...
Euronews
| Jan 31, 2013
Russia has angrily condemned the reported Israeli air strike near Damascus, calling it an unacceptable violation of the UN charter. Syria says Israeli jets destroyed a research center, killing two people, while other reports suggest the jets targe...
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...the claim. Civilian casualties are a highly-sensitive issue in Afghanistan and have often roiled relations between Karzai and the US, which lead...
— Aug 7, 2012 at 09:02 pm
An air strike is an attack on a specific objective by military aircraft during an offensive mission. Air strikes are commonly delivered from aircraft such as fighters, bombers, ground attack aircraft, and attack helicopters. The official definition includes all sorts of targets, including enemy air targets, but in popular use the term is usually narrowed to tactical attack on a ground or naval objective. Weapons used in an airstrike can range from machine gun bullets, missiles, to various types of bombs. Also commonly referred to as an air raid.
In close air support, air strikes are usually controlled by trained observers for coordination with friendly ground troops in a manner derived from artillery tactics.
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