September 07, 2014 Military Aviation News
09/07/2014
American warplanes continued their airstrikes on the Islamic State militant group in northern Iraq on Friday and Saturday, destroying some of its military vehicles, the U.S. Central Command said. A mix of attack, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft were used to conduct two air raids in support of operations near Irbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, the Central Command said in a statement.
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09/07/2014
s many as 12 RAF Tornado GR4s jets could join eight members of the US-led “core coalition” for strategic bombing raids over Northern Iraq. Details of the countdown to combat emerged as Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond renewed Britain’s pledge to tackle the “pernicious threat” of IS at source, telling the Sunday Express that, while there would be no British boots on the ground, “we have ruled nothing else out at this stage”.
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09/07/2014
David Cameron used the runup to the Nato summit in south Wales to focus attention on the Islamic State (Isis) threat. The prime minister left the clear impression that Britain was moving closer to launching air strikes in northern Iraq in concert with the Americans, who are already conducting limited attacks.
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09/07/2014
The disclosure that the U.S. military is flying surveillance sorties over Syria to collect information on the Islamic State and identify potential targets means that one service’s fleet is busy in the region, experts say. The mission calls for a fleet that can best thwart Syria’s advanced air defense systems, the threat of which led military leaders to argue against enforcement of a no-fly zone over the country last year.
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09/07/2014
A tentative peace deal for Ukraine reached Friday raised hopes for a resolution of the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War, even as the U.S. and Europe beefed up sanctions aimed at pressuring Russia to leave the battlefield. After a day of continued fighting, Ukrainian forces and the pro-Russia separatists in the east of the country said they had stopped their military operations when the cease-fire went into effect at 6 p.m. local time.
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