Sentences with phrase «american military strike»
The American military strike against Syria threatened Russian - American relations as the Kremlin denounced President Donald Trump's use of force and the Russian military indicated it would suspend an agreement to share information about air operations over the country that was devised to avoid accidental conflict.
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Although Paul's filibuster was technically against Brennan's nomination, his remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.
Pyongyang looks at states such as Iraq — where Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States — and Libya — its late leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nuclear ambitions for sanctions relief and aid, only to be toppled and killed after the United States intervened in his country's civil unrest — and believes that only being able to threaten the US mainland with a retaliatory nuclear strike can stop American military intervention.
And the Chinese government will guess that the timing of the American missile strike was a blunt message that without more robust Chinese help on dismantling Kim Jong - un's nuclear programme, the next target for pre-emptive American military action might be North Korea.
Some American military officials had also chafed at what they viewed as long and onerous White House procedures for approving strikes under the Obama administration.
Before that, air strikes had been used to force ISIS away from trapped civilians on Sinjar Mountain, averting another humanitarian crisis, and the bulk of American bombing has been in the Mosul Dam area, seeking to destroy the military hardware ISIS need to try and retake the dam off Kurdish Pershmerga militias.
[T] he Americans told Moscow in advance about the strike, to avoid casualties among Russian military personnel stationed on the airbase (source: BBC)
The American military is ready with a plan to strike North Korean missile sites in a preemptive attack if Donald Trump decides to do so.
Official Premise: Deep in the Appalachian mountains, a reclusive American military veteran (Robert De Niro) and a European tourist (John Travolta) strike up an unlikely friendship.
The Autobots (they're the good guys) have teamed up with the American military on a strike team hunting down the last of the Decepticons (they're the bad guys determined to kill the planet, out of spite, apparently) still lurking on Earth.
Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, a reclusive American military veteran (Robert De Niro) and a European tourist (John Travolta) strike up an unlikely friendship.
Her arrival practically coincides with the arrival of political prisoner Ramon Esperanza (Nero, Django Strikes Again), a South American despot who is being escorted in by the military to stand trial for his drug smuggling crimes.
Debt is a burden for many American families, but it might strike hardest at those who serve in the military.
His projects include a data compilation of every reported United States drone strike (Dronestream), a visual glossary of the Drone Papers, an initiative mapping the visual geography of American incarceration (Prison Map), and a quantification of military footprints (Empire.Is).