• The base was hit by sustained mortar and artillery fire, our correspondent, who is in the area, says.

    BBC: Burma attack breaks Kachin truce near China border

  • Georgia said it launched an operation in South Ossetia on Thursday after artillery fire from separatists killed 10 people.

    CNN: Olympic shooters hug as their countries do battle

  • There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.

    CNN: Inaugural Address

  • As they shared cigarettes and talked easily with each other, the Cambodian commander showed us bullet holes and scars from artillery fire in the temple stones.

    BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

  • According to the Committee to Protect Jounralists (CPJ), four journalists of Baghdad TV were injured on 1 March when the TV came under artillery fire by insurgents.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • Responding to the Palestinian deaths, Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisen says the country's army has suspended artillery fire into Gaza while it investigates what she called a tragedy.

    NPR: Israeli Gaza Attack Kills 18, Including Children

  • Two initial British attempts failed to rescue Lucknow, only emboldening more Indian soldiers and landowners to revolt until 30, 000 rebels, by some estimates, bombarded the Residency with artillery fire.

    NPR: Lucknow Is For Lovers

  • The Americans reportedly calculated that the operation to recapture Hue would be a "24-hour job", but it quickly turned into a prolonged battle, with exchanges of mortar and artillery fire.

    BBC: 24 February

  • Hours before the artillery fire incident occurred America's top envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, said that the US could not "contemplate resuming negotiations while active programmes are under way".

    BBC: North Korea firing: Why now?

  • There had been some airstrikes, some artillery fire today.

    NPR: After Turkish Airstrikes, Rice Visits Kirkuk

  • There were also unconfirmed reports that refugees were being shelled by mortar and artillery fire in the Pagarusa Valley, along Kosovo's western border with Albania, British Air Commodore David Wilby said.

    CNN: 'Just go': Refugees describe terror in Kosovo

  • In addition, when we were not in front of the front line intercepting the communications, we were either at the battalion headquarters or the division tactical headquarters, which are major targets for any enemy artillery fire.

    NPR: Women in Combat: Rules and Reality

  • Ironically, Israel has tapped air power more frequently in recent weeks, in part because it's seen as a more pinpoint or precise way of killing rocket-launch teams than artillery fire, which sprays shrapnel over a wide area.

    NPR: Israel Apologizes, but Strikes to Continue

  • Each day he slings a brown sack over his back and trudges through the filth and stench to feed his family who have been living in a primary school since their home was destroyed by artillery fire.

    BBC: Aleppo's winter of discontent

  • Ankara has tried not to escalate tensions over the past year in response to events that have included the deaths of Turkish citizens in cross-border artillery fire, a car bomb in February that killed 14 people on the border and the shooting down of a Turkish jet by Syrian antiaircraft guns.

    WSJ: Turkey Blames Syria for Bombing

  • In the exchange the skies filled with the smoke of multiple rocket launchers, artillery and antiaircraft fire.

    CNN: Capital has look of a battlefield

  • British units opening fire with artillery on the southern city of Basra after what UK officials said were attacks by Iraqi forces.

    BBC: Coalition troops are within 100 kilometres of Baghdad

  • Residents of the island recounted harrowing experiences of fleeing the artillery shells as numerous buildings caught fire.

    FORBES: North Korea's Attack Brushed Aside By Asian Investors

  • An incoming Indian unit is bringing artillery and attack helicopters greatly increasing the UN's fire-power.

    BBC: UK exit strategy for Sierra Leone

  • Artillery set a four-story house in Aracinovo on fire, blanketing the eastern part of the village with heavy gray smoke.

    CNN: Residents flee Macedonian fighting

  • The Army's C-RAM (Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar) system, for example, which is used to protect American bases in Afghanistan, can fire on its own, using its six-barrel gun to blow up incoming mortars.

    WSJ: Could We Trust Killer Robots?

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