Indirect fire is a reference to rocket and mortar fire, and the U.S. military suspects hard-line Shiite militants stage such attacks.
In October the Turkish army fired on military targets in Syria in retaliation for cross-border mortar fire.
It was June 25, 2007, and she was at an outpost in Nasir Lafitah when it came under mortar fire.
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Heavy mortar fire was also reported in the city of Aleppo.
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Days later, Weckerlein came under mortar fire again.
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The Americans are still investigating an incident two weeks ago in a village near the Macedonian border, when a morning of mortar-fire wounded ten Kosovar civilians, and killed three people.
The ITV is also an important component of the Expeditionary Fire Support System, which allows a mobile mortar system to provide long-range indirect fire support to infantry forces as part of the Marine Corps' "Ship to Objective Maneuver" doctrine.
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The base was hit by sustained mortar and artillery fire, our correspondent, who is in the area, says.
Soldiers fire a captured M2 60mm mortar, originally a weapon produced by the United States for use in World War II and the Korean War.
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.
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.
In conferring the medal, President Barack Obama described the conditions faced by Romesha and 52 other soldiers when they came under attack from mortar, rocket-propelled grenade, machine-gun and sniper fire on October 3, 2009, at Combat Outpost Keating in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.
The investigation will focus on whether the Marines followed procedures to properly fire the weapon, whether there was a malfunction in the firing device or in the explosive mortar itself, the official said.
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.
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