'Strip alerts' refer to warplanes at ready-to-go condition that can take off at short notices.
A considerable number of Israeli warplanes were seen at al-Asad base in Iraq, reported a source close to prominent Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sader's group.
Libyan warplanes launched new air strikes Thursday against the key eastern oil port of Brega, a day after rebels drove forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi from the city.
Israeli warplanes bombarded a port city in southern Lebanon.
On Thursday, Libyan warplanes launched strikes against the rebel-held city of Brega, a key oil port.
The warplanes will fly in Iranian airspace over the gulf and the adjoining gulf of Oman, a transit point for around 40% of the world's crude oil.
Israeli warplanes were again in the skies over the Gaza Strip, hitting what military officials said were Hamas targets in retaliation for two rocket attacks on southern Israel on Sunday.
Air Tractor, another firm that makes cropdusters, branched out into warplanes last year.
Such things have a powerful impact in the tiny Gulf state, and may explain why Qatar is so far the only Arab country that looks likely to dispatch warplanes to help impose the no-fly zone.
At least four high-flying warplanes had to take evasive action.
Turkey on Friday delayed opening its airspace to U.S. warplanes for strikes against Iraq despite parliamentary approval for the overflights, diplomats and military officials said.
Doctors said there had been no sign of Nato warplanes over the city.
The dangers of this approach became evident in 1999, with an explosion of anger across urban China about the accidental bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade by American warplanes.
Shen added that multiple types of warplanes participating in the open-sea training flew over the Bashi Channel and Miyako Strait at the same time, with the established training objectives achieved.
Israeli warplanes are in the skies over Lebanon today.
That highlights worries elsewhere, particularly in Norway, where fighter jets scramble on average once a week to intercept Russian warplanes buzzing close to their country.
Qatar has decided to send four warplanes to join the international air campaign, the first Arab country to do so.
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