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 ...

A U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider attacked a vehicle with Iranian-backed militia fighters early Nov. 21 after the gunship linked them to the launch of a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) fired at ...

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.

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 ...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- Turkish helicopters swooped into Iraqi territory Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, firing on villages in renewed pressure to dislodge Turkish Kurd guerrillas from bases in ...

A US Air Force (USAF) Lockheed Martin AC-130J Ghostrider fixed-wing gunship struck targets in Iraq on 21 November, following an attack on American forces in the country. The Pentagon confirmed the ...

As tensions flared across Asia and the Middle East, the AC-130J Ghostrider moved from training exercises to live combat missions. From joint strike drills with South Korean fighters near North Korea ...

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 ...

From the deserts of Iraq to today’s Special Operations exercises, the AC-130 gunship has defined American close air support for more than six decades. During the Gulf War, one Spectre stayed over ...