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 .
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 explodedconflict.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 .
Out at sea for tomorrow 's launch and landing attempt pic.twitter.com/9LMsj6qryI — SpaceX ( @SpaceX ) January 17 , 2016 This was the second successful mission SpaceX has carried out since disaster struck in July . That 's when SpaceX 's rocket explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionshortly after launch , destroying an unmanned spacecraft carrying supplies to the International Space Station . It returned to space missions in December when the company successfully carried satellites into low orbit in a mission for Orbcomm ( ORBC ) .
German explosion injures 12 A 27-year - old Syrian man who had been denied asylum died in an explosion at a music festival in the German town of Ansbach . It is believed a device he was carrying explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion, although it was not clear if it was a suicide bombing or whether the man intended to plant the device : 12 people were injured . Germany is on edge after a shooting at a Munich shopping mall on Friday in which nine people died , and an axe attack on a train near Würzburg last Monday in which five were wounded . Ansbach blast : Syrian asylum seeker kills himself and injures 12 in Germany
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry , the shelling came from areas controlled by the al - Nusra Front and Faylaq al - Rahman militants . In a statement cited by Russian news agency Sputnik , the ministry said : “ The Russian diplomatic mission came under mortar shelling on October 3 . One of the mines explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionon the embassy area near its residential department . Fortunately , no one was wounded . The diplomatic mission sustained material damage .
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 explodedconflict.attack.bombingin 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 explodedconflict.attack.bombingshortly 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 .
49 53 Brussels March 22 , 2016 Nail bombings in Brussels Airport Two suicide bombers carrying homemade bombs in large suitcases attacked a departure hall at Brussels Airport in Zaventem . They explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionnine 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 in the city 's tourist - heavy historical centre
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 explodedconflict.attack.bombingas 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 .
Related : Video Shows Exploding Meteor Turning the Skies Green in Thailand Another 2,600-foot - wide asteroid is slated to pass by Earth at around the moon 's distance in 2027 . For comparison , the asteroid that is believed to have killed off the dinosaurs was a whopping six miles wide and released energy when it explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionthat was equivalent to a billion times the energy of an atomic bomb , NASA said . Stopping this sort of cosmic collision might seem impossible . But experts said it would probably be easier than the ordeal depicted by Bruce Willis in the 1998 disaster flick Armageddon , when astronauts split apart a Texas - sized asteroid using a nuclear bomb .
Reporter for Ukrainian Pravda and critic of leaders in Ukraine , Belarus and Russia was driving to work when car explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionA car bomb in Kiev has killed Pavel Sheremet , a pioneering journalist and outspoken critic of leaders in Belarus , Russia and Ukraine . Security camera footage showed the car had entered an intersection when an explosion ripped through it from underneath .
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry , the shelling came from areas controlled by the al - Nusra Front and Faylaq al - Rahman militants . In a statement cited by Russian news agency Sputnik , the ministry said : “ The Russian diplomatic mission came under mortar shelling on October 3 . One of the mines explodedconflict.attack.naon the embassy area near its residential department . Fortunately , no one was wounded . The diplomatic mission sustained material damage .
An explosion at the Chinese Embassy in the Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek left several dead and injured on Tuesday ( Aug 30 ) , according to the local emergency ministry . BISHKEK : A car driven by a suicide bomber on Tuesday ( Aug 30 ) explodedconflict.attack.bombingafter ramming a gate at the Chinese embassy in the capital of ex - Soviet Kyrgyzstan , wounding three people , the healthcare ministry said . " As a result of the explosion only the suicide bomber terrorist died . Security guards were injured , " Kyrgyzstan 's Deputy Prime Minister Jenish Razakov told journalists .
A Falcon 9 booster rocket explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionon the launch pad in Cape Canaveral , Florida , as tropical storm Hermine bore down on the area . An Israeli satellite that was to provide Facebook broadband to Africa was lost in the explosion , SpaceX confirmed . Moment of dramatic # SpaceX explosion A video posted by RT ( @rt ) on Sep 1 , 2016 at 12:45pm PDT
Watch video 01:19 Poland marks 1st anniversary of plane crash Now The committee head , Waclaw Berczynski , reiterated his theory that the Tupolev 154 explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionmid - air , without offering a stitch of evidence to substantiate his claim . " We can say with great probability , practically with near certainty , that the aircraft broke apart mid - air , " he told the Catholic weekly Gosc Niedzielny . But many , such as Rafal Grupinski , a lawmaker with the liberal opposition party Civic Platform ( PO ) , which was in power at the time of the crash , say some people simply have n't come to terms with reality .
The suicide bombers were also killed . Bozdag said one attacker “ first opened fire with a Kalashnikov then detonated himself ” at the airport entrance . — In total three bombs explodedconflict.attack.bombing, the governor told TRT . – One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement , while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport , Bozdag told CNN . — Authorities said no bombs exploded within airport buildings , according to the minister .
“ The response of the past weeks speaks for itself . ” On Wednesday , a mortar shell fired from Syria struck the northern Golan Heights . The projectile , the latest of a series of apparently errant rounds to hit Israel in recent days , explodedconflict.attack.bombingin an open field near Israel ’s border with Syria , causing no casualties or damage , the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement . It was the sixth such incident this week and came as fighting between President Bashar Assad ’s regime and the numerous rebel groups in southern Syria escalated in recent weeks . In response to the incidents , Israeli jets have targeted Syrian regime artillery batteries near the border several times , though there were no reports of any Israeli response in Syria Wednesday .
— In total three bombs exploded , the governor told TRT . –One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement , while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport , Bozdag told CNN . — Authorities said no bombs explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionwithin airport buildings , according to the minister . — A video posted to Twitter shows a view from a camera inside an airport terminal . A few dozen people are walking around when a bright flash and fireball erupt in the background .
Scientists fear asteroids , killer robots and deadly diseases could wipe out humanity This is the disarmingly named bomb which was devised during the Manhattan Project and then dropped on Hiroshima . It explodeddisaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosionwith the force of 15 kilotons of TNT , wiping out much of the Japanese city . The bomb worked by firing a " slug " of highly - refined uranium into a larger lump of the same element , causing a nuclear blast . When it exploded in the sky over Hiroshima , it destroyed more or less everything within a radius of a mile of the point of detonation .