27 Mar, 2020 00:53 At least one rocket was fired in the vicinity of the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, where the American Embassy is located, according to local reports. Military aircraft were spotted hovering in the area shortly after. Source
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With the entire world getting ready to hunker down and quarantine themselves due to the coronavirus outbreak, grocery sales have been surging so far this month. Food retailers saw explosive new sales growth of 8% during the first week of March, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley. This is an unprecedented surge for a retail segment that generally moves in small ticks. The same analysts predict that […]
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday came close to blaming Iran for a rocket attack in Iraq last week in which two American troops and a British service member were killed. “Maybe we shouldn’t say yet,” said Trump when the question was posed to Pompeo at a White House news conference. Said Pompeo: “Let me just get back to you […]
DETAILS TO FOLLOW NASA suspends production and testing of its moon rocket, spacecraft hardware https://t.co/8MgU9lXjr4 — Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) March 20, 2020 Source
World 02:34 GMT 17.03.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107858/98/1078589842_0:0:1200:676_1200x675_80_0_0_315296ac81f81e9b33939cde2c09c551.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202003171078589814-falcon-9-rocket-with-starlink-system-satellites-to-be-launched-wednesday/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Falcon 9 carrier rocket with satellites for the Starlink system will be launched on Wednesday, private US aerospace manufacturer SpaceX said on Twitter. “Targeting Wednesday, 18 March at 8:16 a.m. EDT, 12:16 UTC, for Falcon 9’s launch of Starlink from LC-39A in Florida”, it said. Targeting Wednesday, March 18 […]
World 15:04 GMT 16.03.2020(updated 15:08 GMT 16.03.2020) Get short URL Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202003161078582498-us-led-coalition-closing-several-bases-in-iraq-following-rocket-attacks—reports/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US-led coalition against Daesh* is departing from several of its smaller bases in Iraq after several recent rocket attacks against them, CNN reported on Monday citing a statement it obtained from the coalition. “As a result of the success of Iraqi Security Forces in their fight […]
Two of the three US military personnel injured in the latest rocket attack on Camp Taji base north of Iraq’s capital are being treated at a military hospital in Baghdad, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Saturday. Earlier in the day, Iraqi military said a number of the nation’s soldiers had also been “critically injured” in the incident. The Taji base has come under rocket attacks twice […]
Three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded on Saturday in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad, US and Iraqi officials said, raising the stakes in an escalating cycle of attacks and reprisals. Iraq’s Joint Operations Command said 33 Katyusha rockets were launched near a section of the Taji base which houses US-led coalition troops. […]
Think the recent round of U.S.-Iran tensions died with the killing of Tehran’s top general Qasem Soleimani? Think again. Once again, a rocket attack attributed to an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq has killed two American troops and one British service member. And once again, the U.S. has carried out an airstrike on the same militia it says was behind both the recent attack and the one […]
The US and its coalition partners are bombing “Iranian” targets in Iraq, in retaliation for the earlier deaths of two US service members and a British nurse in a rocket attack on Camp Taji near Baghdad. Multiple outlets reported the strikes citing US officials speaking on condition of anonymity on Thursday afternoon. No information about the strikes or targets was offered. Earlier in the day, the […]
The UK Ministry of Defense has confirmed that a British serviceman was killed in a barrage of rockets fired at a joint base in Iraq, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Two American soldiers also perished in the attack. “Last night’s attack on UK and coalition personnel was a cowardly and retrograde act,” UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in a statement after the […]
Just in case a global viral pandemic and an oil price war weren’t enough, we could once again be on the precipice of another conflict in the middle east: two Americans and one British national have been killed in a rocket attack on the Taji military base in Iraq, according to U.S. Defense Officials. According to U.S. military officials, the attack took place on March 11 at […]
Three coalition service members have been killed and another 12 wounded in a rocket attack on Camp Taji, the Iraqi base outside Baghdad that hosts US troops, Operation Inherent Resolve has confirmed. A total of 18 rockets struck the base on Wednesday, the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) said in a statement. The dead and wounded have not been officially identified, pending the […]
Warplanes target area near Syrian town of Al-Bukamal & Iraq’s Anbar province after rocket attack on Iraq base – reports — RT World News icon bookmark-bicon bookmarkicon cameraicon checkicon chevron downicon chevron lefticon chevron righticon chevron upicon closeicon v-compressicon downloadicon editicon v-expandicon fbicon fileicon filtericon flag ruicon full chevron downicon full chevron lefticon full chevron righticon full chevron upicon gpicon insicon mailicon moveicon-musicicon mutedicon nomutedicon okicon […]
11 Mar, 2020 20:43 Two Americans and one British servicemember are dead after 15 rockets hit a coalition base outside Baghdad, US officials have reported, citing “preliminary information” – despite Iraqi claims the strike had produced no casualties. Source
Morocco has received a rocket launcher from China, Al Watan Voice reported yesterday. Reporting Russia Today TV, the news website said that the rocket system is referred to as AR2 and is a 12 round 300mm Multi Launch Rocket System (MLRS). It consists of rockets, launchtube group, launch vehicles, command vehicles and transport vehicle components. The system consists of six launchers and is able to launch 72 rockets in 30 seconds and can […]
The Pentagon wants to extend the reach of its satellites tens of thousands miles toward the Moon. And it’s working on a high-tech, atomic-powered “nuclear thermal propulsion” engine to make it possible. The military’s goal is to deploy maneuverable satellites into the vast space between the Earth and the Moon—“cislunar” space, it’s called—before China gets there with its own spacecraft. But this isn’t the first time […]
Middle East 23:54 GMT 24.02.2020Get short URL https://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/107831/18/1078311820.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202002241078397401-israel-closes-2-gaza-strip-border-crossings-following-rocket-attacks/ TEL AVIV/GAZA (Sputnik) – Israel is closing the crossings of Erez and Kerem Shalom at the Gaza Strip border as well as its fishing zone due to continuous rocket attacks, the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said. On Monday, 80 rockets were launched at the […]
Middle East 19:57 GMT 24.02.2020(updated 20:03 GMT 24.02.2020) Get short URL Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202002241078396560-rocket-sirens-sound-in-several-communities-in-southern-israel—reports/ Multiple rocket siren alarms were sounded off late Monday in Israel, urging locals situated along the Gaza Strip to seek shelter. Source
Middle East 17:46 GMT 24.02.2020(updated 17:47 GMT 24.02.2020) Get short URL Air raid sirens sounded across southern Israel for the second straight day on Monday, with the Israel Defence Forces reporting Sunday that they had preemptively attacked cells of a militant group reportedly preparing to fire rockets at Israel in neighbouring Gaza and Syria. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the IDF may have […]
It’s really a love-hate relationship with Russia. As early as 2014, the Pentagon admitted it “has no great solution” to reduce its dependence on Russian-made rocket engines. The US received a new batch of Russian RD-180 and RD-181 rocket engines in 2018, despite the US Treasury slapping tough new sanctions on the country. At least 40% of Russian titanium aircraft parts have been sold to Boeing in the last several […]
Air raid sirens sounded across southern Israel as a wave of rockets were launched from Gaza. The barrage came hours after the Israeli military killed a “terrorist” it said was planting explosives near the border fence. Sirens sounded in Sderot, Ashkelon, Sha’ar Hanegen, and several other regions of southern Israel on Sunday evening, as at least 20 rockets were launched from Gaza. Explosions were heard as […]
Daredevil Flat-Earther ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes has died after launching himself into the sky in a homemade rocket. Purported video of the accident shows the fatal launch. Hughes and a colleague built the steam-powered rocket in hopes of shooting the daredevil 5,000 feet (1.5km) into the air. The endeavor was being documented by the Science Channel, which wanted to feature him in a new series called ‘Homemade […]
A daredevil and “flat earther” who gained fame after vowing to launch himself into space on a steam-powered, homemade rocket was killed Saturday afternoon in a “rocket crash” in the desert, according to local media reports. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that a man had died in Barstow after a “rocket crashed in the open desert during a rocket launch event” but police stopped […]