ABC News (Australia)
| Mar 27, 2012
Hillary Clinton has said that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad will be judged by his actions after saying he accepted a peace plan for Syria.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Mar 27, 2012
Syrian activists filming in a street in Homs narrowly avoid being hit by what are claimed to be government shells in video uploaded to the internet.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Mar 27, 2012
Syrian state TV show footage purported to be of Bashar al-Assad touring the Baba Amr district of Homs, a rebel stronghold which was subjected to a lengthy and brutal artillery attack by military forces loyal to his regime.
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 23, 2012
Anger is growing in Syria over international community's failure to intervene in violent crackdown of the uprising against Bashar al-Assad's government, as regime forces continue attacks on residential areas of cities across the country, and civil...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 21, 2012
Sudan's South Kordofan region has seen heavy fighting since South Sudan became independent in July last year, with many civilians at risk from air raids and artillery bombardments by Sudanese forces fighting rebels. But injured civilians face a st...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 16, 2012
The movement for change in Syria has now reached Aleppo -- a town that has, until recently, been largely loyal to President Assad. Regime forces have launched a brutal crack down, and residents are suffering severe shortages of food, water, and el...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 14, 2012
Syrian government forces have been shelling the southern city of Daraa, which is where the uprising began a year ago. Activists say troops are targeting houses with tank and artillery fire, killing and injuring scores of people. Al Jazeera's Ze...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 14, 2012
The opposition city of Idlib is back under Syrian army control after four days of heavy fighting. But for a brief period, it was outside the control of Damascus, and served as the symbolic centre of the uprising. Anita McNaught reports from Idlib.
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 12, 2012
The Syrian army's crackdown on opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's rule appears to be intensifying. Al Jazeera journalists have witnessed Syrian forces using heavy weapons to bombard civilian areas in the city of Idlib in the northwest of t...
Al Arabiya
| Mar 7, 2012
Nearly one year after the uprising began in Syria, observers and analysts fear that the situation may lead to the country becoming the new Bosnia. In 1992, Sarajevo was subject to the most violent bloody attack waged by Serbians wanting to impose...
— Oct 6, 2012 at 03:40 am
...were also targeting villages around Homs and the rebel-held town of Rastan to the north. Homs, Syria's third largest city and a center of the up...
— Nov 13, 2012 at 06:50 am
...confrontation fueled new fears that the Syrian civil war could drag Israel into the violence, a scenario with grave consequences for the region....
— May 11, 2012 at 12:13 pm
...Foreign Military Sales (FMS) route of the US government. The purchase comes in the wake of Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh writing to Prime Mi...
— Jun 8, 2012 at 08:34 am
— Jul 22, 2012 at 06:00 am
Artillery is a weapon of war that operates by projection of munitions far beyond the effective range of personal weapons. Artillery comprise specialised devices which use some form of stored energy to operate, whether mechanical, chemical, or electromagnetic. Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.
Originally artillery was any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons. Since the development of cannon, the word "artillery" in practice has largely meant cannon; in contemporary usage it usually refers to shell-firing guns, howitzers, mortars, and rockets. In common speech the word artillery is individual devices, together with their accessories and fittings, although these assemblages are more properly called equipment. By association, artillery may also refer to the arm of service that customarily operates such engines.
Artillery is the most lethal form of land-based armament; in the Napoleonic Wars, World War I and World War II the vast majority of combat deaths were caused by artillery. In 1944, Joseph Stalin said in a speech that artillery was "the God of War".
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