Similar attacks took place elsewhere in Paris the same night , killing an additional 41 people . The tactic -- to enter shooting , and then detonate explosives -- is called " inghimasi , " and it 's being used more and more frequently by terrorists . " The ' inghimasi , ' their ( modus operandi ) on the ground in Syria and Iraq , is to shoot up checkpoints and then they actually -- some of these guys actually run up to the enemy and hug them before detonating conflict.attack.bombing the bomb to take them out with themselves . So in a sense , the ultimate Kamikaze warrior , " Weiss said . JUST WATCHED Istanbul airport attacked despite heavy security Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Istanbul airport attacked despite heavy security 03:01

" It is not uncommon for the Coalition Air Operations Center to confer with Russian officials as a professional courtesy and to deconflict Coalition and Russian aircraft , although such contact is not required by the current U.S.–Russia Memorandum of Understanding on safety of flight . " Nevertheless , the Russians are claiming their Syrian allies have been killed by the U.S. military , just as the U.S. and Russia are trying to maintain the fragile , nationwide cease - fire that went into effect Monday . That cease - fire calls on the Syrian regime to cease all airstrikes over U.S.-backed opposition forces and limits it to striking conflict.attack.bombing ISIS targets . It also calls for increased military cooperation between the U.S. and Russia after a seven - day period of calm and the sufficient delivery of humanitarian aid . Six days since the start of the cease - fire no aid has been delivered .

In late April I was among the 25 Vermonters who occupied Congressman Bernie Sanders ’ Burlington office to protest his support of the NATO bombing conflict.attack.bombing of Yugoslavia and the ongoing war against Iraq . Calling ourselves the “ Instant Antiwar Action Group , ” we decided to bring our outrage at

The Latest on Paris security operation on Champs - Elysees ( all times local ) : 4:55 p.m. A French security official says that the attacker on Champs - Elysees avenue is probably dead and the bomb squad is on the scene . Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre - Henry Brandet says the driver whose car exploded conflict.attack.bombing as he tried to ram a police vehicle is ' most probably ' dead . Brandet said bomb squads were still securing the scene . He said the attacker appeared to have acted deliberately .

But the neocon empire struck back in 2014 , with Assistant Secretary Nuland orchestrating a “ regime change ” in Ukraine on Russia ’s border and with the neocon - dominated opinion circles of Official Washington placing the blame for the Ukraine crisis on President Putin ’s “ aggression . ” Faced with this new “ group think ” and still influenced by liberal interventionist advisers such as Susan Rice and Samantha Power Obama joined the chorus of hate - talk against Putin , ratcheting up tensions with Russia and agreeing to escalate covert U.S. support for Syrian rebels seeking the long - held neocon goal of “ regime change ” in Syria . However , Obama continued to collaborate behind the scenes with Russia to achieve an agreement to constrain Iran ’s nuclear program — to the dismay of the neocons who wanted instead to bomb - bomb - bomb conflict.attack.bombing Iran on their way to seeking another “ regime change . ” Bashing Iran As Secretary of State , Hillary Clinton was a hawk on the Iranian nuclear issue .

Turkey ’s president , Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , said the evidence pointed to the Syrian Kurdish group . “ Despite the fact that their leader says they have nothing to do with this , the information and documents obtained by our interior ministry and all our intelligence organisations shows that [ the attack ] was theirs , ” he said . On Thursday morning a bomb detonated conflict.attack.bombing by remote control hit security forces travelling in a military vehicle on a road linking Diyarbakır to the district of Lice . The military said six people died and one was seriously injured . Turkish artillery in the south of the country shelled positions of Kurdish fighters in Syria for the fifth day in a row on Wednesday , despite calls from both the US and Russia to cease all hostilities towards the YPG in Syria .

Such remarks are unacceptable and Moscow is disappointed to hear " new typically U.S. claims for being a global judge " , Ryabkov said in comments to Interfax news agency published on Saturday . Referring to a resolution on Syria proposed by France for debate at the United Security Council later on Saturday , he said : " Unfortunately , we see less and less common sense in the actions of Washington and Paris " . The draft resolution demands an end to air strikes conflict.attack.bombing and military flights over Aleppo . Moscow has already said this draft is unacceptable . ( Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov ; editing by John Stonestreet )

Fighting began between the militia and the Kurdish Asayish police force . The Syrian army supported the militia with heavy weapons and the YPG counter - attacked successfully and surrounded the city . The Syrian Air Force then bombed conflict.attack.bombing YPG targets , killing several Kurdish civilians while others fled the city . For over a year the Syrian Army had been co - operating in Aleppo and elsewhere against Isis and the Syrian armed opposition , but both sides now swiftly emphasised their deep - felt and undying hostility . Mr Dibo says the Kurds simply want a decentralised federal system giving them autonomy while the government is a “ traditional dictatorship ” that has carried out dozens of massacres .

Nusra has called for redoubled attacks . Moscow and Damascus say they will continue to fight them , and other rebels say they fear this stance may be used to justify attacks against them too . The truce is the culmination of new diplomatic efforts that reflect a battlefield dramatically changed since Russia joined the war in September with air strikes conflict.attack.bombing to prop up Assad . Moscow 's intervention effectively destroyed the hope his enemies have maintained for five years -- encouraged by Arab and Western states -- to topple him by force . REPORTS OF VIOLENCE

Share on Facebook SHARE Share on Twitter TWEET Link Members of Brazilian bomb squad pack their gear after detonating conflict.attack.bombing a suspicious package near the men 's cycling road race final in Copacabana . Photo : AP News of the robbery came on a troubling opening day for security at the Rio OIympics , which had been overshadowed by the Russian doping scandal even as the world 's athletes gathered in Brazil .

Once they think they , you know , “ Well , let ’s not take any more casualties , ” they ’ll just leave — do n’t think you ’ve beaten them . I ’m watching now a film coming out of Ramadi where Iraqi soldiers are looking through holes in the wall to snipe back at the ISIS people that are 100 , 200 yards away , but we claim that Ramadi is now under our control . “ My own experience with these kinds of insurgents over time is that they just do n’t bomb for the sake of bombing conflict.attack.bombing ; it ’s part of a greater strategy . Even if it ’s just a car bomb in the street , it ’s intended to terrorize ; it ’s intended to kill a particular person . ” So we have a conflict now in which we ’re fighting two different wars .

Related : Russia Denies ' War Crimes ' After Hospitals and Schools Were Bombed in Syria The spokesperson said that due to " operational security , " they could not confirm details about ground operations involving the Syrian Democratic Forces , a predominantly Kurdish alliance that also counts Arab forces in its ranks . But Abdulrahman said the coalition strikes conflict.attack.bombing clearly coincided with fighting this week between Kurdish troops and Islamic State in Hasakah governorate . The Russian military has been criticized for killing civilians in large numbers in Syria , a claim it denies . At least 200 civilians were killed in just six attacks in Homs , Idlib , and Aleppo governorates between September and November , according to Amnesty International , while one Syrian rights group says more than 1,000 civilians have been killed by Russian warplanes since the start of its campaign .

July 23 , 2016 -- ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on a peaceful demonstration in Kabul , Afghanistan , that killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 260 others . Two ISIS fighters detonated their suicide belts among the protesters , according to ISIS ' media wing , Amaq . A third attacker was killed by security forces before detonating conflict.attack.bombing his bomb , according to an Afghan security official speaking on condition of anonymity . The attack was one of the deadliest in months in Afghanistan .

The United States - led bombing conflict.attack.bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria surpassed a stunning milestone this month , underscoring the magnitude of the coalition ’s quest to crush the militant group . Coalition drones and warplanes unleashed 49,917 bombs and missiles against ISIS targets through June 30 , according to new official figures released this week by the U.S. Air Forces Central Command . Daily airstrikes by America and its allies throughout July has since pushed that number above 50,000 , according to Airwars , a watchdog group that monitors the U.S.-led air campaign against ISIS .

Rawlings said one of those held was an African American woman . " Breaking : The chief said the gunman who engaged in the standoff " said he was upset about the recent police shootings . " He was killed when police detonated conflict.attack.bombing an explosive . -- Trump just issued a statement calling this " an attack on our country " : “ It is a coordinated , premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe . We must restore law and order .

* * * The Soviet Union had a long tradition of bumping off its enemies . They included Leon Trotsky ( ice - pick in the head ) , Ukrainian nationalists ( poisons , exploding conflict.attack.bombing cakes ) and the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov ( ricin pellet fired from an umbrella , on London ’s Waterloo Bridge ) . There was a spectrum . It went from killings that were demonstrative , to those where the KGB ’s fingerprints were nowhere to be found , however hard you looked .

But it had been plain for nearly as long that the proto - fascist Erdoğan intended to turn this policy to his own purposes , which no one of any decency could countenance . Seymour Hersh ’s pieces in the London Review of Books have been revelatory in this context . In April 2014 he gave persuasive evidence that , in an attempt to frame Assad , Erdoğan provided extremist Sunni militias with the crudely concocted poison gas that exploded conflict.attack.bombing in a Damascus suburb the previous August . In his latest piece , Hersh documents the Pentagon ’s many failed efforts to pull the administration off its obsession with developing a coup in Damascus and recognize Islamic terrorists as the threat that matters in Syria . “ The assessment was bleak , ” Hersh writes of a classified document the Joint Chiefs brass sent the White House in 2013 .

The video was broadcast just after analyst reports said North Korea had made a fourth failed attempt in two months to test - launch the Musudan — a missile designed to strike at targets as distant as Guam and the Philippines . The missile exploded on launch . Earlier on April 15 , North Korea 's military attempted a launch from a mobile launching system , but it exploded conflict.attack.bombing shortly after liftoff . Just two weeks later , as North Korea was preparing for the congress of the Worker 's Party , there was an attempt at a dual launch — with both missiles crashing into the sea . The Musudan , also known as the BM-25 , was introduced in 2003 .

The monitor -- which relies on a network of sources inside Syria for its information -- says it determines what planes carried out raids according to their type , location , flight patterns and the munitions involved . Asked about the Al - Tukhar strike , the US - led coalition said it had " conducted air strikes near Manbij ... recently " and that it was looking into the reports alleging civilian casualties . " As with any allegation we receive , we will review any information we have about the incident ... such as the proximity of the location " to coalition air strikes conflict.attack.bombing , it wrote in an email to AFP . " We take all measures during the targeting process to avoid or minimise civilian casualties or collateral damage and to comply with the principles of the Law of Armed Conflict . " Al - Tukhar lies 14 kilometres ( nine miles ) north of the town of Manbij , a key IS stronghold that has been repeatedly targeted in raids by the US - led coalition .

The victory is a fragile one . The area is still a conflict zone and it may be some time before a secure corridor for food and medical supplies can be set up , and the regime has called in reinforcements . “ We expect revenge bombing conflict.attack.bombing by the regime , including , possibly , chemical weapons , ” said Zaher Sahloul , a Syrian - American doctor who coordinates medical aid in the city . Still , for the rebels , it has been a remarkable triumph against the odds . After months of retreat under pressure from government forces and Russian airstrikes , they have not only broken the siege , but overrun a key base the regime had used to enforce it and apparently taken possession of a large cache of weapons and artillery .

The head of security in Hadramout province escaped assassination when a second suicide bomber targeted his convoy , but six others were killed . The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate . May 20 , 2016 - Two members of the Egyptian security forces were killed when a roadside bomb detonated conflict.attack.bombing close to their vehicle near the town of Al - Arish , in northern Sinai . ISIS claimed the attack in its daily bulletin of operations . The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate .

Deir al - Zour , where the airstrike took place , is far from the populated western region where the separate civil war that is the subject of the cease - fire is focused . The Islamic State controls much of the province , although there are some scattered Syrian military installations . The Central Command statement said that U.S. surveillance had been “ tracking ” an Islamic State fighting position “ for a significant amount of time before the strike conflict.attack.bombing . ” The Defense official , among several officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the developing situation , said that the militants appeared to have a number of vehicles and a tank . Coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are coordinated through U.S. military planning cells located in the Middle East . Target tracking is done through a variety of means , including aerial reconnaissance by surveillance drones and communications intercepts .

ISIS appointed an emir for its followers in the Philippines . The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate . May 18 , 2016 - The ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan and Pakistan , known as Wilayat Khorasan , claimed it had detonated conflict.attack.bombing two IEDs in Peshawar , Pakistan . There was no confirmation from Pakistani authorities . The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate .

The Spanish government is now reviewing the permit for refuelling at its enclave of Ceuta in north Africa . The UK said it would be " extremely concerned " if the refuelling went ahead . Nato expressed concern that the ships could be used to help bomb conflict.attack.bombing civilians in Aleppo , but said the final decision on resupply rested with Spain . The battle group has been sailing for the past week from Russia via the English Channel to the Mediterranean . It was expected to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar on Wednesday .

PALMYRA , Syria Islamic State militants retreating from Palmyra laid thousands of mines that they planned to set off simultaneously as the army moved in , a Syrian officer told Reuters in the ancient city after its recapture from the jihadist fighters . The officer said main streets and side roads in Palmyra had been rigged with explosives weighing up to 50 kg . More than 3,000 had already been safely detonated conflict.attack.bombing since government forces , backed by Russian jets , retook the city on Sunday , he said . He did not say why the Islamic State fighters failed to set off the explosives before pulling out , but his assertion echoed comments from Syria 's antiquities chief , who said the militants intended to dynamite a greater area of the city 's 2,000-year - old ruins than they already had . The officer , who did not give his name , said the bombs left behind were linked so they could go off together .

The terrorists stormed the airport Tuesday nigh t , opening fire and detonating explosives -- two of them at the international terminal building , and the third in a parking lot , according to officials . History of airport attacks Preliminary findings suggest all three attackers at Ataturk airport opened fire and then detonated conflict.attack.bombing explosives strapped to their bodies , similar to the mass shootings and suicide bombings at Paris ' Bataclan concert hall in November . ISIS claimed responsibility for that massacre , which left 89 people dead . Similar attacks took place elsewhere in Paris the same night , killing an additional 41 people .

This included at least 138 civilians , of whom at least 42 were children . By now victims of U.S. drones number in the thousands worldwide . What makes Obama ’s drone joke particularly non - funny is that on the same night in 2010 — just a few hours before Obama spoke — a Bridgeport , Conn. , man , Faisal Shahzad attempted to detonate conflict.attack.bombing a car bomb in New York City ’s Times Square . After Shahzad was captured , he stated that one of his main motivations to kill Americans was “ the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan . ”

Hide Caption 35 of 38 Photos : World War II in pictures A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over Nagasaki , the result of an atomic bomb dropped on August 9 , 1945 . An estimated 60,000 to 70,000 were killed in the Nagasaki blast conflict.attack.bombing . Six days later , a little after noon local time on August 15 , Emperor Hirohito 's announcement that Japan had accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration was broadcast on radio . Japan had surrendered .

This was supposedly humanitarian imperialism implementing “ R2P , ” the “ responsibility to protect . ” Perhaps as many as — many numbers were bandied — 10,000 Libyans . R2P did not extend to protecting the estimated 200,000 Syrians that have been killed since 2011 by Bashar Assad ’s tanks , artillery , bombers , barrel bombs and poison gas . Writing for Foreign Policy online , Micah Zenko notes “ just hours into the intervention , Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from a British submarine stationed in the Mediterranean Sea struck conflict.attack.bombing an administrative building in [ Khadafy ’s ] Bab al - Azizia compound . ” A senior military official insisted “ [ Khadafy ’s ] not on a targeting list . ” This was sophistry in the service of cynicism : For months , places he might be were on targeting lists . The pretense was that this not - really - NATO operation , with the United States “ supporting ” it , was merely to enforce UN resolutions about protecting Libyans from Khadafy .

Moscow is also dropping what appear to be fuel - air bombs , ­described by one arms expert as “ a mini nuclear bomb ” next to residential areas . Former British Army explosives expert Major Chris Hunter called it “ a very , very irresponsible act ” . Thermobaric weapons generate a high - temperature explosion followed by a blast conflict.attack.bombing wave that lasts far longer than a conventional explosive . “ It is a breach of the Geneva Convention to use these weapons off the battlefield , ” Major Hunter said . “ The effect on civilians is horrific . ”

She went on to say that there was “ no perfect approach to this thorny dilemma ” and that “ people of good faith and high intelligence can reach diametrically opposing conclusions . ” But , she concluded , “ I believe the best course is to go to the United Nations for a strong resolution ” that calls “ for complete , unlimited inspections with cooperation expected and demanded ” from Saddam . “ If we get the resolution the president seeks , and Saddam complies , ” Clinton added , “ disarmament can proceed and the threat can be eliminated . … If we get the resolution and Saddam does not comply , we can attack him with far more support and legitimacy than we would have otherwise . ” This international support is “ crucial , ” she added , because , “ after shots are fired and bombs conflict.attack.bombing are dropped , not all consequences are predictable . ” Then came , from today ’s vantage , the key passage : “ Even though the resolution before the Senate is not as strong as I would like in requiring the diplomatic route first … I take the president at his word that he will try hard to pass a United Nations resolution and seek to avoid war , if possible . Because bipartisan support for this resolution makes success in the United Nations more likely and war less likely — and because a good faith effort by the United States , even if it fails , will bring more allies and legitimacy to our cause — I have concluded , after careful and serious consideration , that a vote for the resolution best serves the security of our nation .

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The United States has called on Assad to step down but has refrained from directly targeting his forces . Communication between the United States and Russian militaries on Syria has been limited to contacts aimed at avoiding an accidental clash as they carry out separate bombing campaigns and small numbers of U.S. forces operate on the ground . Although no U.S. forces were in the area at the time of Thursday 's strikes conflict.attack.bombing , the U.S. military activated the emergency communications channels with Moscow to tell Russia to stop striking the area , the official said . Some time passed after that communication but Russia carried out a subsequent strike , the U.S. official said . Carter suggested either Moscow struck the fighters intentionally or faced significant intelligence gaps .

Ukraine authorities said Moutaux ' aimed to blow up a Muslim mosque , a Jewish synagogue , tax collection organisations , police patrol units and numerous other locations ' French regional newspaper L'Est Republicain identified the man as Gregoire Moutaux and said investigators raided his home ( pictured ) in Nant - le - Petit near the eastern city of Nancy in late May. It managed to murder 130 people , with suicide bombers exploding conflict.attack.bombing their devices around the Stade de France during a football friendly between France and Germany . Abdeslam is currently on remand in a high - security prison in Paris , and has confirmed that ISIS want to attack again , while the eyes of the world are on France during Euro 2016 . France remains under a State of Emergency following last November 's attack , with thousands of soldiers joining police on the streets .

Antar , dubbed " Kurdish Angelina Jolie " by the Western media for her good looks , had become the poster girl for the Syrian Kurdish Women 's Protection Units ( YPJ ) in the war - ravaged country . She stopped the cars being driven straight at the Kurdish frontline position , the Times reported on Wednesday ( 9 September ) . " She and her fellows blew up two of them but the last was very close to her when it exploded conflict.attack.bombing , " Commander Shirin Abdullah , YPJ spokeswoman , said . YPJ is the all - female brigade of the Syrian Kurdish People 's Protection Unit ( YPG ) — both of which are the armed wings of a Kurdish coalition that has taken de facto control over much of Syria 's predominantly Kurdish north , Rojava . Antar , a machine gunner and a feminist , was one among the female Kurdish fighters guarding the village of al - Yashli when the militants launched the attack .

The attacks are believed to have been carried out by an affiliate of ISIS . July 20 , 2016 - ISIS claimed to have killed seven Yemeni soldiers in a bombing in Aden . A statement distributed on Twitter said its fighters had detonated conflict.attack.bombing an IED against " a gathering of soldiers in the city . " Local reports spoke of five soldiers being killed in the attack . The attack is believed to have been carried out by an affiliate of ISIS .

One proposed way to get around the White House ’s long - standing objection to striking the Assad regime without a U.N. Security Council resolution would be to carry out the strikes covertly and without public acknowledgment , the official said . The CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff , represented in the Deputies Committee meeting by Vice Chairman Gen. Paul Selva , expressed support for such “ kinetic ” options , the official said . That marked an increase of support for striking conflict.attack.bombing Assad compared with the last time such options were considered . “ There ’s an increased mood in support of kinetic actions against the regime , ” one senior administration official said . “ The CIA and the Joint Staff have said that the fall of Aleppo would undermine America ’s counterterrorism goals in Syria . ”

The two boxes affixed to the turret glow red when active , but in the February video it appears that the system is either turned off or not working . In the case of this strike , however , the tank ’s crew was saved by the tank ’s armored plating — known as Kontakt-5 reactive armor . The oddly shaped square panels are meant to defeat incoming projectiles by actually counter - detonating conflict.attack.bombing and disrupting the missile ’s main charge from penetrating into the tank . The T-90 is one of Russia ’s most advanced tanks , although the version in the video is an older variant from the early 1990s , according to War is Boring . The T-90 started to appear in Syria shortly after Russian forces arrived in northern Syria in September alongside a sizable detachment of aircraft .

ISIS claims its " fighters " launched the attacks in the Belgian capital . Hide Caption 1 of 68 Photos : The ISIS terror threat Syrians gather at the site of a double car bomb conflict.attack.bombing attack in the Al - Zahraa neighborhood of the Homs , Syria , on February 21 , 2016 . Multiple attacks in Homs and southern Damascus kill at least 122 and injure scores , according to the state - run SANA news agency . ISIS claimed responsibility .

( CNN ) Regime airstrikes on a school complex in northwestern Syria killed at least 35 people , including 20 children , the Syria Civil Defense volunteer rescue group said , in what could be one of the deadliest strikes yet on a school in the nation 's five - year war , according to the UN . The death toll is expected to rise as dozens of others were injured in the Wednesday attacks , said Majd Khalaf , a communications officer with the rescue group , also known as the White Helmets . Another rescuer told the activist - run SMART News Agency that around 50 children were leaving the front door when the strikes conflict.attack.bombing hit . An abandoned classroom after it was hit with airstrikes on Wednesday in the Syrian village of Hass . The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights blamed the strikes on the Syrian regime and Russia , but it is generally difficult to distinguish between Syrian and Russian jets .

Wolfowitz made a different and stronger point about Iraq ’s nuclear capabilities . He cited a March 2002 New Yorker article that included an interview with August Hanning , the BND chief . " It is our estimate that Iraq will have an atomic bomb conflict.attack.bombing in three years , " Hanning said . But about a year later , Hanning ’s views seemed to have shifted . In February 2003 , according to an article in Der Spiegel at that time , Hanning and one of his analysts briefed the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag , Germany ’s parliament .

Russian jets however , reportedly attacked the base a second time 90 minutes later , despite warning signals sent from U.S. aircraft . U.S. officials and rebel leaders claim cluster munitions were used in the attacks and that four people were killed . According to Interfax 's source in Moscow , the strike conflict.attack.bombing took place because the U.S. refused to provide Russia with information on their activities regarding the areas where moderate Syrian opposition were active and observing a cease - fire . Russia had warned the U.S.-led coalition of imminent Russian air strikes in the area of At - Tanf , the source claimed . “ The Russian side has already given a full explanation on this matter , " the source said .

They exploded nine seconds apart . Another explosion took place just over an hour later in the middle carriage of a three - carriage train at Maalbeek metro station . 35 340 Istanbul January 12 , 2016 Suicide bomber detonates conflict.attack.bombing in the city 's tourist - heavy historical centre Nabil Fadli , a Syrian member of the Islamic State walked up to a tour group standing in Sultanahmet Square and blew himself up . Most of the victims were German but also came from Peru , South Korea and Norway .

Andrew Weber , a former Obama administration official who served as the assistant secretary of defense for nuclear , chemical and biological defense programs , also cautioned against increasing the US atomic stockpile . He cited excessive costs and the unnecessary power of some US nuclear weapons . The US B83 gravity bomb , for instance , has a yield of over one megaton , roughly 75 times the catastrophic yield of the Hiroshima " Little Boy " bomb conflict.attack.bombing that killed nearly 150,000 Japanese civilians . " It has no legitimate use today , " said Weber at the Arms Control Association conference . " We do n’t need nuclear weapons in the megaton plus range of yield . "

The organization hopes the harrowing eyewitness footage will spur the international community to re - double its demands on the Syrian government to grant immediate lifesaving humanitarian access to Daraya and all areas still under siege . Although no barrel bombs have been dropped on Daraya since the partial “ cessation of hostilities ” came into effect on 26 February , there have been attacks with other weaponry and thousands of civilians who remain in the city continue to suffer from severe food and medical shortages and no electricity . “ This video conveys the sheer terror experienced by besieged civilians coming under relentless pummelling by the Syrian government ’s barrel bombs conflict.attack.bombing . It shows in shocking close - up detail what civilians in Daraya have had to live through , ” said Magdalena Mughrabi , Middle East and North Africa interim Deputy Programme Director at Amnesty International . This video conveys the sheer terror experienced by besieged civilians coming under relentless pummelling by the Syrian government ’s barrel bombs .

Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction , and in mankind ’s willingness to use it . ” [ 5 ] World War III will , in all likelihood , turn nuclear . The Nuclear weapons stockpiled today are 50 times more powerful than the two atomic bombs conflict.attack.bombing the U.S. dropped on Japan in 1945 . In the next war they could cause 1,000,000,000 ( one billion ) military and civilian deaths , or more . It may happen sooner than we think .

They were freed as part of a larger deal which saw the last remaining Syrian rebels in central Homs city evacuate their positions and free captives in several locations in northern Syria 16/32 Syria crisis A Syrian woman and two children walk past heavily damaged buildings in the northern city of Aleppo 17/32 Syria crisis A man carries a wounded girl following a reported bombardment with explosive - packed " barrel bombs conflict.attack.bombing " by Syrian government forces in the al - Mowasalat neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo 18/32 Syria crisis A wounded man sits as he is treated at a makeshift hospital following a reported bombardment with explosive - packed " barrel bombs " by Syrian government forces in the al - Sakhour district of the northern city of Aleppo 19/32 Syria crisis Debris rises in what Free Syrian Army fighters and Islamic rebels said was an operation to strike Al - Sahaba checkpoint , which is considered a gateway to Al - Dayf valley , and remove forces loyal to Syria 's President Bashar Al - Assad in Maarat Al - Nouman , Idlib province

February 3 , 2016 - ISIS publishes photographs of executions of several men in Libya described as spies . All were executed in the ISIS stronghold of Sirte . On the same day , ISIS claims that fighters of its Barqah Province in Libya attacked a military checkpoint with remotely - detonated conflict.attack.bombing explosives , killing more than 20 soldiers . There is no independent confirmation of the attack , but there are reports of clashes between ISIS fighters and army forces in Benghazi on that day . February 4 , 2016 - ISIS claims an IED attack in north Sinai on a military vehicle .

26/32 Syria crisis A Free Syrian Army fighter works on a locally made launcher before firing it towards forces loyal to Syria 's President Bashar Al - Assad in Mork town 27/32 Syria crisis Syrian policemen and citizens inspecting the site of a car bomb at the entrance of Moadhamiyet al - Sham neighborhood in rural Damascus . According to Syria 's Arab News Agency ( SANA ) , a car bomb explosion has gone off in the countryside of Damascus and initial information say there are casualties , where a car rigged with explosions was remotely detonated conflict.attack.bombing at the entrance of Moadhamiyet al - Sham neighborhood in rural Damascus during engineering units it was trying to dismantled it 28/32 Syria crisis Opposition fighters carrying a rocket launcher during clashes against government forces in the Sheikh Lutfi area , west of the airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo 29/32 Syria crisis A Syrian man helps a woman to make her way through debris following reported air strikes by government forces in the Halak neighbourhood in northeastern Aleppo

“ We have n’t seen a you - can’t - trust - these - guys tone like this since the days of Ronald Reagan , ” said Stephen Sestanovich , who served in President Bill Clinton ’s State Department and is the author of “ Maximalist : America in the World from Truman to Obama . ” “ But even that was more a systemic criticism of the Soviet Union . This is focused on Putin himself . ” In a reversal of political roles , Mrs. Clinton , the Democratic candidate , is the one portraying Mr. Putin as America ’s newest archenemy , whose underlings hack into her Brooklyn campaign headquarters , bomb conflict.attack.bombing Syrian civilians and threaten Ukraine and NATO allies in Europe . For a woman who presented a big red “ reset ” button to her Russian counterpart in March 2009 ( with the word incorrectly translated into Russian ) , the change in tone was more striking than ever in her debate with Donald J. Trump . She , and the Obama White House , insist they were on the right course until Mr. Putin decided he had more to gain from reviving Cold War tensions than from a quarter - century effort to integrate with the West .