The city has been the scene of rebel activity and heavy government bombardment for weeks.
Hundreds were killed here by rockets during months of bombardment during the early 1990s.
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It reported bombardment again Thursday of several Syrian cities, including Idlib, Aleppo and Homs.
The Moon is saturated with craters, caused by billions of years of asteroid bombardment.
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And now the annual bombardment of public-service strikes that regularly spoil Italy's Christmas season has reopened.
Elsewhere in Syria, a grim tit-for-tat of pinprick rebel assaults and indiscriminate retaliatory bombardment continues.
The bombardment of Damascus' suburbs, with MiG warplanes and helicopter gunships, has been unprecedented.
In response, it mounted a campaign of aerial bombardment in support of ground attacks by the Janjaweed.
From the west, the familiar rumble of Col Gaddafi's rocket bombardment was longer and louder than usual.
X-rays and gamma rays that Eros gives off in response to bombardment by solar and cosmic radiation.
And we can surmise that bombardment by small cosmic particles over a long period might do similar damage.
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Homs in central Syria and Herak and Deraa in the south were subjected to bombardment, the Observatory added.
After weeks of air and missile bombardment, the 100-hour land battle dubbed Desert Storm routed Iraq's million-man army.
Hutson said analysts could not determine whether the destruction was the result of ground fighting or aerial bombardment.
Our photographer shot, with night vision, pictures of the aerial bombardment from 81-millimeter mortar rounds, from 150-millimeter Howitzer artillery.
Certainly it is possible that a continual bombardment of such reminders of your behaviour could be classde as such.
Israel scaled back its aerial bombardment of Lebanon for 48 hours after talks with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Others took crash courses in first aid, learning how to act under bombardment.
UNITA's artillery, and thus halting the rebels' bombardment of the government-held main cities.
On Wednesday, rebel fighters said Qusair had come under bombardment by aircraft and heavy artillery for the fourth consecutive day.
Thus the allies can conduct a constant, low-level bombardment without creating the furore that accompanied their air campaign in December.
However, the same activist confirmed Abou Zeid's death, saying he was killed in a French bombardment rather a Chadian attack.
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He sips double espressos in a trendy coffee shop in a Beirut neighborhood which escaped bombardment during the latest war.
Inhabitants built a mirror city in the caves surrounding Vicksburg proper caves provided the only available protection from the incessant bombardment.
The LCC as well as the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Avaaz reported a heavy bombardment of Homs.
Due to an intense Israeli aerial bombardment, rescue workers said they could not reach Qana until early the next morning.
Meanwhile, aerial bombardment has continued to target rebel forces and civilian villages believed to support them, in defiance of U.N.
Despite heavy Israeli bombardment of Hezbollah's weapons stores in southern Lebanon, the barrages of cartouches show no sign of ending.
Once holed up in their mountain fastnesses, they can be dislodged only by a full-scale military assault and aerial bombardment.
During Nato's air bombardment of Yugoslavia last year, three bridges over the Danube at Novi Sad in northern Yugoslavia were destroyed.
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