Amid an ongoing conflict between Russia and the US-backed Ukraine, the Air Forces of India and the US will hold wargames at the Kalaikunda air base in West Bengal from April 10.
so, david, with donald trump also being able to celebrate this more than $100 billion now deal, economic deal, military deal, how does that color and dictate the reception of these muslim nations when they meet with donald trump tomorrow? again, i agree with the distinction you made. the leaders will welcome this arm s deal, but the average public will not. the obama administration sold a huge amount of weaponry to saudi arabia, roughly 60 billion, the saudis used american f-15s then to drop bombs on civilians in yemen as part of that civil war. at least 2,000 yemenese civilians have died by saudi air strikes using weapons that were sold to them by the united states. that s very unpopular with the public in the region. so this big arms deal doesn t solve the problem of, you know, islamic terrorism of isis.
scheduled to leave for the gulf in the coming days after the uss theodore roosevelt pulled out, leaving the u.s. for the first time in years without an aircraft carrier in the middle east. as the attack in paris was underway, two american f-15s flew from england to libya where the pentagon says they bombed a known isis leader, an iraqi believed to have been the voice on a recent execution tape showing coptic christians beheaded on the beach in libya. since the attack in paris, the french have not carried out any air strikes in syria, according to u.s. defense officials who i spoke to tonight. bret? we heard the chairman of the house homeland security committee say, and criticize the president for that contained isis in iraq and syria. it s important to point out that the u.s. and allies are having some success. they are. if you look at sinjar, i talked to somebody in iraq today, and the kurds have basically gone in and cut that highway from raqqa to mosul. you might wonder why it t
jennifer? kelly the target was not overall the leader of isis, al baghdadi. two american f-15s contacted the air strike against the head of isis s libyan affiliate. i m told he had connections to isis in raqqah and baghdadi. it took place as the paris a attack was under way. the american warplanes flew from lakenheath outside the port city of darna. in february, egyptian warplanes bombed islamist targets in and around darna after the islamic state released video of egyptian coptic christians killed on the shores of tripoli. the target of the libyan air strike may also have been the spokesman in the february 2015 coptic christian execution video. , on november 13th, the u.s.