What is "bombardments"

Usage examples of "bombardments".

These Iraqi offensives at al-Faw, Fish Lake, Mehran, the Majnun Islands, and Dehloran were preceded by artillery bombardments involving massive amounts of chemical warfare--this at a point in the war when the Iranians had developed their own chemical weapons and could, to some extent, respond in kind.

Iraqi forces began clearing areas of Kurdish residence with massive bombardments of chemical weapons and high explosives, followed by army sweeps that often killed anyone left alive and razed to the ground anything left standing.

Over the next three Months, Iraq staged four more ground offensives, each of which was led by the Republican Guard, featured punishing artillery and chemical warfare bombardments, and smashed important elements of the Iranian armed forces.

Albanian army artillery bombardments, but when the KLA finally attacked it was stopped cold by Serbian forces after advancing only a mile or two.

Certainly children died in the invasion bombardments, and certainly children died on New Boston, but even when entire New New Hebridan villages were exterminated, the children were first removed.