air strike
or airstrike
noun
the bombing or strafing of a city, enemy force, etc., by military aircraft: The air strike devastated the enemy's submarine base.
Origin of air strike
1First recorded in 1940–45
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How to use air strike in a sentence
The American military may have launched hundreds of airstrikes on Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThat makes it incredibly difficult to determine the effects of airstrikes, for example.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe U.S. campaign against ISIS leans on two pillars: conducting airstrikes, and beefing up local forces.
Pentagon Insider on New Plan to Fight ISIS: ‘Of Course It’s Not Enough’ | Nancy A. Youssef | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTU.S.-led coalition airstrikes recently have been increased on Raqqa.
Did ISIS Shoot Down a Fighter Jet? | Jamie Dettmer, Christopher Dickey | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFears that the plot was in the final stages helped prompt U.S. airstrikes against al Qaeda positions in Syria.
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