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With the official status of talks between Washington and Tehran uncertain and ahead of a meeting in Pakistan on Monday with key regional players, daily salvoes of strikes across the region have continued unabated.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Aware of the threat, Mr Ramaphosa fired salvoes at his predecessor, without naming him.

From BBC • May 26, 2024

The tone of the early salvoes dismayed Noura Bittar Søborg, a Syrian asylum seeker who fled Homs in 2011 and has managed to bring her father, mother and younger sister to Denmark.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2015

Artillery salvoes were fired from an area that Nalyvaichenko said is under the control of a Cossack unit manned by Russian citizens.

From US News • Feb. 15, 2015

It was while our ships were thus turning, and were, so to speak, bunched up in the loop formed by the turning operation, that they suffered severely from the enemy salvoes.

From The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War by Knight, E. F. (Edward Frederick)