Tag: Rocket

The Israeli air force hit three targets in Gaza on Saturday, hours after a rocket fired from the territory exploded near a house in...

Four persons including women and children were killed and three others injured when a rocket fell on a house in Orakzai Agency on Tuesday. Security...

A spokesman of Satellite Research and Development Centre on Friday said that a family fair in connection with World Space Week being celebrated currently...

A Chinese rocket on Saturday successfully launched a Venezuelan earth-observation satellite into orbit, state media said. The satellite, dubbed "Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda" after the...

The US weapons sales to the world tripled in 2011 to a record high, driven by major arms sales to Persian Gulf allies. The United...

Bomb blasts and a rocket attack have killed 11 civilians including at least four children in the space of 24 hours in southern Afghanistan,...

North Korea’s heralded long-range rocket test ended in failure Friday, disintegrating in mid-air soon after blastoff and plunging into the sea in a major...

At least one person was killed while six others were injured when a rocket hit a security checkpost in North Waziristan Agency (NWA). According to...

Insurgents on Thursday fired a rocket near the venue of a major meeting in the Afghan capital Kabul discussing the presence of US troops...

Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a vehicle and killed four people in northern Kenya Thursday, police said. "The vehicle was carrying eight people but...

A rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday landed in Egypt and wounded a woman, the official MENA news agency...

At least three Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed and 25 others wounded on Sunday in a rocket attack on their camp in a restive...

Afghan Vice President Karim Khalili and Interior Minister Besmullah Mohammadi escaped unhurt after a rocket attack targeted a police centre in central Afghanistan on...

Unidentified persons fired three rockets at Och Power Station, which exploded in an open field. Police sources said that unknown miscreants fired three rockets...

BANGALORE - India launched a rocket carrying three satellites into orbit on Wednesday in its latest effort to gain a share of the global commercial space market. The main satellite in the launch from the Sriharikota space centre in Andhra Pradesh was the remote-sensing Resourcesat-2, which will study the effect of human life on the Earth's natural resources.
The rocket also carried an Indo-Russian satellite for stellar and atmospheric studies and an imaging orbiter built by the

BANGALORE - India launched a rocket carrying three satellites into orbit on Wednesday in its latest effort to gain a share of the global commercial space market.
The main satellite in the launch from the Sriharikota space centre in Andhra Pradesh was the remote-sensing Resourcesat-2, which will study the effect of human life on the Earth's natural resources.
The rocket also carried an Indo-Russian satellite for stellar and atmospheric studies and an imaging orbiter built by

BEIRUT - Libyan government forces struck the coastal city of Misrata with dozens of Grad rockets on Thursday, killing eight people, a rebel spokesman said.
Misrata, Libya's third-biggest city, is the only major rebel stronghold in the west of the country. It has been the scene of major fighting between rebels and Gaddafi's forces for several weeks.
"They fired Grads at a residential area called Kasr Ahmad near the port this morning. They fired at least 80 rockets on that