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B-1s Part Of Airstrikes In Iraq And Syria

Handout file photo dated July 31, 2012 shows a B-1B Lancer from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, flies over the Atlantic Ocean before refueling from a KC-135 assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing, Royal Air Force Mildenhall, UK. B-1B Lancers from the 28th Bomb Wing launched early February 1, 2024, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, as part of airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups. U.S. military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from the United States. According to U.S. Central Command officials, the airstrikes employed more than 125 precision munitions. The facilities that were struck included command and control operations centers, intelligence centers, rockets, and missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicle storages, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces.

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Site of Gaddafi's residence

TRIPOLI, Libya - Photo taken in early July, 2012, shows the wreckage of Muammar Gaddafi's residence at the Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli.

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Sharp to slash 5,000 jobs in Japan, overseas

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken July 26, 2012, shows the headquarters of Sharp Corp. in Osaka's Abeno Ward. The company will slash some 5,000 jobs, or 9 percent of its consolidated workforce, in and outside Japan by the end of March 2013 through early retirements and other means to turn its business around after being hit by a slump in its television business, sources close to the matter said Aug. 2, 2012.

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Immigration booths

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows immigration booths at Narita airport near Tokyo on July 9, 2012, with faces obscured to protect privacy. Japan's Justice Ministry plans to test a system around early August to identify by computer embarking and disembarking passengers using photo image data registered in their integrated circuit passports.

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S. Korean president's brother arrested

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's elder brother, Lee Sang Deuk, formerly a six-term legislator, lowers his eyes before reporters in Seoul in the early hours of July 11, 2012, after he was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes.

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Gov't proposes Tanaka as new nuclear regulatory body chief

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (2nd from R) attends a meeting at the Diet building in Tokyo on July 26, 2012. The government proposed to the Diet that Shunichi Tanaka, an expert in radiation physics, be appointed to head the new nuclear regulatory authority it is aiming to launch in early September.

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Sharp mulls substantial job cuts

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken July 26, 2012, shows the headquarters of Sharp Corp. in Osaka. The consumer electronics maker is considering chopping some 3,000 jobs, or 15 percent of its parent-basis workforce, through early retirements and natural reductions mainly in Japan to turn its deteriorating business around, sources close to the plan said on July 26.

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Oi plant's No. 4 reactor starts capacity operation

OBAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor building (right) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on July 25, 2012. The reactor, which is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, started full-capacity power generation early on July 25 to ease electricity shortages in western Japan. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, the first to resume operation, is seen to the left.

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Oi plant's No. 4 reactor starts capacity operation

OBAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on July 25, 2012. The reactor, which is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, started full-capacity power generation early on July 25 to ease electricity shortages in western Japan. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, the first to resume operation, is seen in the back.

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Oi plant's No. 4 reactor starts capacity operation

OI, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor building (L) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, at midnight on July 24, 2012. The No. 4 reactor started full-capacity power generation early on July 25 to ease electricity shortages in western Japan. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility brought to full operation on July 9, can be seen to the right.

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Japan college guidebook goes on sale in China

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the cover of a guidebook on Japanese universities, which hit the shelves of bookstores in major Chinese cities in early July 2012 to attract Chinese students to Japan. The book gives the details of about 600 public and private universities in Japan and also gives readers tips on how to find jobs in Japan.

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U.S. Ospreys aircraft arrive in Japan base

IWAKUNI, Japan - Photo taken early in the morning of July 23, 2012, shows the U.S. commercial cargo ship Green Ridge off the coast of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, heading for the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station. Carrying 12 U.S. Osprey military aircraft, the ship arrived at the air station in western Japan amid mounting local opposition against the planes due to concerns about their safety, which have been heightened by two recent crashes abroad.

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Demonstration against Osprey deployment

IWAKUNI, Japan - People stage a demonstration in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 22, 2012, against the deployment of U.S. military MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft. A cargo ship carrying 12 of the aircraft for delivery to the U.S. Marines' Iwakuni Air Station is due to arrive in Iwakuni early on July 23.

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Theater shooting in Colorado

DENVER, United States - Flowers are offered near a movie theater in the Colorado town of Aurora, near Denver, on July 20, 2012. Twelve people were killed and 59 injured when a lone gunman opened fire early in the day at the theater during a screening of the new Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises."

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Theater shooting in Denver

DENVER, United States - The Stars and Stripes is flown at half-mast at the White House in Washington on July 20, 2012, after 12 people were killed and 59 injured when a lone gunman opened fire early in the day at a movie theater in the Colorado town of Aurora, near Denver.

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Theater shooting in Colorado

DENVER, United States - A police officer guards a site near a movie theater (back) in the Colorado town of Aurora, near Denver, on July 20, 2012. Twelve people were killed and 59 injured when a lone gunman opened fire early in the day at the theater during a screening of the new Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises."

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Brunei's 1st female Olympian

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Maziah Mahusin, a 19-year-old student, stands in an athletics stadium after finishing practice in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, in early July 2012. She will become the first Bruneian woman to compete in the Olympics when she runs in the 400 meters in the London Games, having been admitted under the International Olympic Committee's universality exemption rule, which allows countries that have no qualified athletes to compete at the Games.

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Tourists on Cebu

CEBU, Philippines - Tourists stroll along a beach on southern Cebu Island in the Philippines in early July 2012.

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Newborn panda at Tokyo zoo dies after 1 week

TOKYO, Japan - Toshimitsu Doi, chief of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, wipes tears from his eyes during a press conference in Tokyo on July 11, 2012. Doi became teary-eyed while discussing the death early that day of a giant panda cub born at the zoo on July 5. The cub, the first giant panda cub born at the zoo in 24 years, died of pneumonia.

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S. Korean president's brother arrested

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's elder brother, Lee Sang Deuk, formerly a six-term legislator, answers reporters' questions in Seoul in the early hours of July 11, 2012, after he was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes.

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S. Korean president's brother arrested

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's elder brother, Lee Sang Deuk, formerly a six-term legislator, answers reporters' questions in Seoul in the early hours of July 11, 2012, after he was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes.

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Prince Mikasa's heart function deteriorates

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters gather on the night of July 7, 2012, in front of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, where Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito, has been hospitalized. The 96-year-old prince, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, experienced a deterioration of heart function the same day at the hospital and was moved to the intensive care unit, the Imperial Household Agency said early on July 8.

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Prince Mikasa's heart function deteriorates

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2008 shows Prince Mikasa, uncle of Emperor Akihito. The 96-year-old prince, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, experienced a deterioration of heart function on July 7, 2012, at a hospital in Tokyo and was moved to the intensive care unit, the Imperial Household Agency said early on July 8.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa to form new party

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, speaks after being approved as the head of a new party at a meeting at a Diet facility in Tokyo on July 4, 2012. Ozawa and lawmakers close to him held the meeting to prepare for the planned launch of a new party as early as next week, following their departure from the ruling DPJ in protest at the government's sales tax hike proposal.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa to form new party

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa (C), former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, smiles after being approved as the head of a new party at a meeting at a Diet facility in Tokyo on July 4, 2012. Ozawa and lawmakers close to him held the meeting to prepare for the planned launch of a new party as early as next week, following their departure from the ruling DPJ in protest at the government's sales tax hike proposal.

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Day following reactor reboot at Oi nuclear plant

OI, Japan - Security guards stand near the entrance to Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast, on July 2, 2012. The No. 3 reactor at the plant attained a suspended nuclear fission chain reaction, or criticality, early in the day after it became the previous night the first reactor in Japan to be rebooted after regular checkups since 2011's Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Oi nuclear plant's No. 3 reactor attains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 2, 2012, shows the No. 3 reactor building at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast. The No. 3 reactor attained a suspended nuclear fission chain reaction, or criticality, early in the day after it became the previous night the first reactor in Japan to be rebooted after regular checkups since 2011's Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Oi nuclear plant's No. 3 reactor attains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 2, 2012, shows the No. 3 reactor building (R) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast. The No. 3 reactor attained a suspended nuclear fission chain reaction, or criticality, early in the day after it became the previous night the first reactor in Japan to be rebooted after regular checkups since 2011's Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Oi nuclear plant's No. 3 reactor attains criticality

OI, Japan - Employees work on the morning of July 2, 2012, in the central control room at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast, after the No. 3 reactor at the plant attained a suspended nuclear fission chain reaction, or criticality, early in the day. It became the previous night the first reactor in Japan to be rebooted after regular checkups since 2011's Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Protest against nuclear reactor restart

OI, Japan - People confront police around the Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast, in the early hours of July 1, 2012, in a protest against the reboot of a reactor at the plant. Kansai Electric Power Co. said it plans to pull out control rods that have contained fission reactions from 9 p.m. on July 1 at the plant's No. 3 reactor.

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Protest against nuclear reactor restart

OI, Japan - People sit on a road around the Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast, in the early hours of July 1, 2012, in a protest against the restart of a reactor at the plant. Kansai Electric Power Co. said it plans to pull out control rods that have contained fission reactions from 9 p.m. on July 1 at the plant's No. 3 reactor.

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Protest against nuclear reactor restart

OI, Japan - People block a road leading to the Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast, in the early hours of July 1, 2012, preventing workers' access in a protest against the restart of a reactor at the plant. Kansai Electric Power Co. said it plans to pull out control rods that have contained fission reactions from 9 p.m. on July 1 at the plant's No. 3 reactor.

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Protest against nuclear reactor restart

OI, Japan - People sit on a road around the Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast, in the early hours of July 1, 2012, in a protest against the restart of a reactor at the plant. Kansai Electric Power Co. said it plans to pull out control rods that have contained fission reactions from 9 p.m. on July 1 at the plant's No. 3 reactor.

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New "Dragon Quest" title hits Japanese market

A girl holds up the 11th title in the popular "Dragon Quest" game series in Tokyo on July 29, 2017. Fans of the series dating back to 1986 lined up from early in the morning as Japanese game developer Square Enix Co. released a new title of the main series for the first time since 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New "Dragon Quest" title hits Japanese market

A man holds up the 11th title in the popular "Dragon Quest" game series in Tokyo on July 29, 2017. Fans of the series dating back to 1986 lined up from early in the morning as Japanese game developer Square Enix Co. released a new title of the main series for the first time since 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo