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 ...

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.

The AC-130 looks slow and outdated until it starts circling over a battlefield in the dark.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

The US military fired at Iran-backed militants from an AC-130 gunship after they launched a close-range ballistic missile against American forces stationed at al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq, ...