Mortar fire has hit the University of Damascus, killing 15 students, Syrian state media say.
In October the Turkish army fired on military targets in Syria in retaliation for cross-border mortar fire.
The Guard claimed the Presidential compound was taking mortar fire from the campus.
It was June 25, 2007, and she was at an outpost in Nasir Lafitah when it came under mortar fire.
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At least five people have been killed by mortar fire in the centre of Damascus since Monday, AFP news agency said.
Indirect fire is a reference to rocket and mortar fire, and the U.S. military suspects hard-line Shiite militants stage such attacks.
He remembered the sand shaking under his feet from mortar fire and the dead bodies rolling in the surf, against his legs.
Shortly after the mortar fire and other explosions around 4:50 a.m.
Heavy mortar fire was also reported in the city of Aleppo.
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India, which has threatened punitive action against militants intruding into its side of Kashmir from Pakistan, launched heavy mortar fire at Pakistani posts earlier in the week.
"Marines responded to the attacks with overwhelming small arms and mortar fire, as well as close-air support, killing 36 anti-Iraqi forces, " the military said in a written statement.
Rocket or mortar fire also struck the Green Zone, the heavily secured neighborhood that is the U.S. seat of power, but no casualities were reported, the U.S. Embassy said.
Probably the world's most sophisticated and tightly-organized insurgents, the Tigers have relied on intense barrages of mortar fire, often using over 100 mortars at a time, inflicting hundreds of casualties.
Abulhoda al-Homsi, a rebel activist, told CNN that at least 10 airstrikes followed by artillery and mortar fire had hit Qusayr as well as the nearby villages of Dabaa and Hamidiya.
Days later, Weckerlein came under mortar fire again.
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K. Palta, an Indian army spokesman, said Wednesday that Pakistani troops fired at two Indian positions using small arms and mortar fire on Tuesday night in the Poonch sector of the Indian portion of Kashmir.
How could Israel possibly entrust physical control of the West Bank from which virtually the entire Jewish State's population can be subjected to rocket or even mortar fire to people with such a record?
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 base was hit by sustained mortar and artillery fire, our correspondent, who is in the area, says.
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.
Earlier in the week, witnesses said the clashes -- reportedly the heaviest between the sides in seven months, and involving artillery duels and mortar and canon fire -- began Wednesday morning on the so-called Old Road about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Kabul.
In recent days, as in previous times of tension, the two sides have exchanged heavy machine-gun fire and mortar rounds across the Line of Control, which marks the unofficial border in Kashmir.
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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But when his team was ambushed by a hurricane of Al Qaeda and Taliban fire, a mortar blast damaged his communications equipment.
We stayed there for an hour under mortar attack with machine gun fire until eventually I walked out of the forest with my hands in the air and gave us up and was arrested.
But militants have continued to fire dozens of rockets and mortar shells on southern Israel since Israel launched its military operation.
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.
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