Tag: Tanks

Syrian troops and security forces backed by tanks killed 11 civilians on Wednesday when they stormed a town near Damascus, Syrian human rights campaigners...

Army tanks on Saturday entered a village bordering Turkey, where 10,000 Syrians have sought refuge, an activist said, as Washington warned Damascus over its...

Tanks Thursday swooped on another northern town as Syria’s army pressed its crackdown on dissent and the United States condemned the “outrageous use of...

Thousands of Syrians fled the historic town of Maarat al-Numaan to escape troops and tanks thrusting into the north in a widening military campaign...

Six civilians were killed Tuesday and tanks were deployed near Syria’s border with Iraq, activists said as President Bashar al-Assad came under sharp pressure...

Tanks shelled a Syrian border town for the fourth day on Wednesday in a military campaign to crush demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad, under...

At least 15 Syrian tanks pushed overnight into a rural area near the Lebanese border, where security forces have concentrated their latest crackdown against...

Army tanks shelled a residential district in Homs on Wednesday, a rights campaigner said in Syria's third city which has emerged as the most...

Syrian tanks stormed the flashpoint city of Banias Saturday, rights activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad ignored growing world outrage to press a violent...

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi launched a new armoured incursion into the besieged rebel city Misrata on Monday ahead of the funeral...

BRUSSELS - NATO refused to apologise Friday for a deadly airstrike on Libyan rebel tanks, saying that the military alliance was unaware that the opposition was using such vehicles.
"I'm not apologising," Rear Admiral Russell Harding, deputy commander of NATO's Libya operations, told a news briefing.
"The situation on the ground, as I said, was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid. Up until yesterday we had no information that the TNC or opposition forces were using

LONDON - British warplanes have bombed Libyan tanks, armoured vehicles and a surface-to-air missile site around Misrata, where rebels were pounded by Muammar Gaddafi's forces, officials said Thursday.
RAF Tornado aircraft flying from the Italian base of Gioia del Colle carried out the strikes Wednesday around the rebel-held city as part of a multinational operation to protect civilians, the Ministry of Defence announced.
"In the course of these patrols the aircraft launched

SANAA - Tanks were deployed in the Yemeni capital on Monday as top generals pledged allegiance to the "revolution" and the country's main tribal leader demanded President Ali Abdullah Saleh's exit from power.
Tanks took up positions in key locations across Sanaa including at the presidential palace, the central bank and the ministry of defence, but it was unclear what their orders were or who was in command. In the first of a series of body blows to Saleh's authority, General Ali

KABUL: The United States is sending battle tanks to Afghanistan next month for the first time in the drawn-out war against Taliban-led insurgents, the US military and NATO-led forces said on Friday.
A company of 14 M1A1 Abrams tanks and about 115 Marines is set to deploy in Helmand province in Afghanistan's southwest, long a Taliban stronghold, an official with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
The 68-ton tanks will give Afghan and US-led