What the records say
- When
- 20 Aug 1998
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 15.65° N, 32.56° E
- Description
- 1998 American bombing campaign
Operation Infinite Reach
1998 American strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan
Operation Infinite Reach was the codename for American cruise missile strikes on al-Qaeda bases that were launched concurrently across two continents on 20 August 1998. Launched by the U.S. Navy, the strikes hit the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan, and a camp in Khost Province, Afghanistan, in retaliation for al-Qaeda's August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224…
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в ответ на теракты против американских посольств в Африке ВМС США атакуют крылатыми ракетами предполагаемые объекты террористической инфраструктуры в Судане…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “الولايات المتحدة تقصف مصنعا للأدوية بالسودان”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page