US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Tuesday that a US AC-130 gunship launched strikes in Iraq against people allegedly responsible for an earlier missile attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in western ...

The AC-130 looks slow and outdated until it circles over a battlefield in the dark. From Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, the flying artillery platform became the weapon ground troops trusted when ...

A U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider gunship struck a vehicle Tuesday near Baghdad involved in recent attacks on the Al-Asad airbase in Iraq, a U.S. official told The War Zone Tuesday. It was the first ...

The lethal action follows other strikes in Syria, which Washington says it ordered against Iranian-affiliated groups in response to aggression against American ground and naval forces in the region. A ...

AN AIR BASE IN IRAQ — The U.S. Air Force has begun moving heavily armed AC-130 airplanes — the lethal "flying gunships" of the Vietnam War — to a base in Iraq as commanders search for new tools to ...

An AC-130 gunship lands on the airstrip to support Operation POLAR DAGGER on Shemya Island, Alaska, Aug. 29, 2023. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Cody Williams) An American AC-130 gunship on Monday struck a ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. struck back with an AC-130 gunship and airstrikes after Iran-backed militants fired a missile Tuesday at American and coalition forces at an air base in western Iraq, U.S.

Picture a slow-moving turboprop aircraft circling at low altitude in the dead of night, invisible to the naked eye but staring down at the battlefield with crystal-clear infrared eyes. Without warning ...

The U.S. military fired back at Iran-backed militants who wounded several troops in Iraq in a missile attack on Nov. 20 on U.S. forces who are based there. The Ain Al-Asad Airbase in western Baghdad ...

U.S. forces Tuesday hit a militant base in Iraq with an AC-130 gunship after Iranian-backed groups attacked American troops in the country this week in the latest tit-for-tat exchange in the Middle ...

An unknown number of terrorists were killed in Iraq Tuesday after they fired on U.S. troops in the western portion of the country and were met with return fire by a U.S. military AC-130 gunship. U.S.

AN AIR BASE IN IRAQ — The U.S. Air Force has begun moving heavily armed AC-130 airplanes — the lethal “flying gunships” of the Vietnam War — to a base in Iraq as commanders search for new tools to ...