Euronews
| Apr 2, 2013
March was the bloodiest month yet in Syria's conflict, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It estimates that over 6,000 people were killed, a third of them civilians, including 300 children. Almost nowhere is sacred...
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Mosaic
| Mar 28, 2013
Fifteen students were killed and a number of others injured, some critically, after mortar shells fell on the college of architecture at Damascus University. At Damascus International Airport, the Free Syrian Army targeted an Iranian cargo militar...
Associated Press
| Mar 19, 2013
A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen more during mountain warfare training in Nevada's high desert. The mortar round exploded prematurely in the firing tube. The blast was the deadliest training accident in the US...
Euronews
| Feb 9, 2013
At least five people have been killed in a dissident camp in Baghdad after a rocket attack. The United Nations mission in Iraq said it was aware of a number of deaths. It's understood one of the dead was a woman while over 20 have been wounded in ...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Nov 12, 2012
The Israeli military says it has scored "direct hits" on targets in neighbouring Syria after responding to stray mortar fire from the country for the second time in the past days. The exchange came just hours after an appeal for restraint from al...
Euronews
| Nov 12, 2012
Israel has fired a missile as a warning into Syria in the first direct military confrontation between the nations since the 1973 war. Officials took action after a mortar shell fired from Syria landed near an Israeli army post in the Golan Heigh...
A mortar is an indirect fire weapon that fires explosive projectiles known as bombs at low velocities, short ranges, and high-arcing ballistic trajectories. It is typically muzzle-loading and has a barrel length less than 15 times its caliber.
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