Sentences with phrase «army had on»

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The Nigerian Army had on Sunday announced the arrest of 10 suspected militants specialised in disruption of oil and gas facilities and their weapons.

The Nigerian Army has on Thursday confirmed that it had arrested three Chadians in Borno as part of its ongoing anti terrorism war in the North - East.

In an effort to honour the falling heroes, the Nigerian Army has on Sunday released 257 suspected Boko Haram members that have been in its detention to the Borno State government.

Not exact matches

While many of the Sunnis who switched sides in the Sunni awakening had American blood on their hands, they could at least be said to have been fighting against what they viewed as an invading army.

An Army Magazine article from 1956 that made the rounds on Twitter predicted what the soldier of the future would look like.

They are mostly running on their 2014 budget, which they had an army of civil servants assist in drafting and costing the plan.

The Nazi strategic answer to this «vise» of attacks was an unexpected, but sharp and powerful attack in the West to drive the Allies back to the D - Day invasion beaches, freeing the Nazis to turn their armies on the Soviet Union.

China's Chengdu J - 20 stealth fighter has just officially entered active service with the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF): «China's latest J - 20 stealth fighter has been officially commissioned into military service, Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qian told global media in a September 28, 2017 press release on the Xinhua.net and the official state defense media website.

After the three teens» bodies were found north of Hebron on June 30 (confirming they had been killed in the hours after their abduction), rockets continued to rain down on Israel's south and the army turned its attention from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip.

Notably, the military has put a greater emphasis on tunnels, naming them as a primary threat in army chief Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot's «IDF Strategy» paper.

State officials on Monday ordered them to leave the snowy camp, which is on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land, citing harsh weather, but on Wednesday they said they would not enforce the order.

Tensions escalated on Sunday as the U.S. army brought down the jet near Raqqa and Iran launched missiles at Islamic State targets in eastern Syria — the first time each state has carried out such actions in the multi-sided Syrian war.

Wesley Clark Jr, a writer whose father is retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, met with law enforcement on Friday to tell them that 3,500 veterans may join the protest and the demonstrations would be carried out peacefully, protest leaders said.

Yet, according to the report, the army had not formulated clear guidelines for how to uncover and destroy such tunnels in wartime; rather, the procedure was created on the fly during the course of Operation Protective Edge.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

Protesters, who refer to themselves as «water protectors,» have been gearing up for the winter while they await the Army Corps decision on whether to allow Energy Transfer to tunnel under the river.

Before the start of the conflict, on July 2, 2014, Bennett had demanded the army come up with plans to demolish the tunnels.

«It is deeply concerning that the size of the Army has fallen yet again on this Government's watch,» Nia Griffith, Labour's shadow defence secretary, said on Thursday.

«The IDF has invested efforts and resources in the research, development and equipping of technological systems in accordance with their operational readiness... and with the classification of the level of the threat,» the army said on Tuesday.

When you're looking at your own financial strategies, are you going with the advice of an army of associates, or focusing on a few innovators you have reason to believe see the world in a smarter way?

After meetings this week, the service leaders hammered out an agreement that rejected Army and Air Force requests for a two - year wait and reflected broader concerns that a longer delay would trigger criticism on Capitol Hill, officials familiar with the talks told The Associated Press.

Swokowski said, further, that being transgender has no effect on ability or performance, noting that she maxed the Army Physical Fitness Test while serving.

Resentments of America returned, 50 years after General Eisenhower's (mainly American) armies had liberated western Europe, including most of Germany, 75 years after General Pershing's Expeditionary Forces saved the victory of France and the British Empire on the Western Front, and as soon as American firmness and economic and military power had induced the bloodless collapse of the Soviet empire and Union, and of international communism.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D - Ill., an Army combat veteran, said the Pentagon should not exclude people based on gender status.

Even worse, US air strikes that were first believed to have mistakenly killed 60 Syrian troops instead of IS now appear to have killed regime prisoners forced to put on Syrian army uniforms.

With machine learning, businesses can capitalize on information that would otherwise require an army of people to study, interpret and act on.

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The troops would likely come from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit — currently on its way to the region — and the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, which recently made its way to Kuwait, according to a report in The Washington Post by TM Gibbons - Neff.

«The reports that are on TV about... well, you know, about Syria and the 25 people that are wounded there from the Syrian f — army and — well... to make it short, we've had our asses f — kicked.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

Wexley has taken on some unusual projects — a mass paper - airplane launch, for instance — but the company's founders were still surprised when they got a call from a U.S. Army colonel who had read about them in Inc. and wanted to send his communications officer for a little on - the - job training.

Instead, she has chosen to stay on and build an army of damage controllers around her, regardless of what her departure could do to clean up any negative associations.

AMMAN (Reuters)- The Syrian army said on Sunday that rockets had struck several military bases in the Hama and Aleppo countryside in what it said was new «aggression» by its enemies, state television said.

GALLOWAY: The fall of 1951, you go to Seattle to visit your parents, you hitch a ride back, you've been drafted for the army, you're on a bomber and the plane starts to go down and down and down.

News of her firing comes on the same day that Zimbabwe's 93 year - old Robert Mugabe, the last of the generation of African leaders to take over from colonial rule, has had his hold on power broken by army units loyal to his former bodyguard Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Aside from the Marshall Space Flight Center, which employs around 6,000 people and has an annual budget of $ 2.5 billion, Hunstville is also home to the Redstone Arsental, a major army base that has offices for more than 60 federal agencies on its «campus.»

The Hellenic Army does have a presence on the small island, and earlier this month they fired tracer rounds at a Turkish helicopter that flew over its airspace.

While the Fins would eventually settle for a peace deal with the Soviets, the resistance exacted a heavy toll on Stalin's armies.

Why has the Commander in Chief not ordered tens of thousands of members of the US Army, Navy and Air Force into BP's crisis; boots on the beaches to help build the barriers that are needed or military helicopters to better spray dispersant?

Since this incident the Indian army has been launching «surgical strikes» on suspected Kashmiri militants inside Pakistan.

The agency had become known for employing hundreds of Russians to post pro-Kremlin propaganda online under fake identities, including on Twitter, in order to create the illusion of a massive army of supporters; it has often been called a «troll farm.»

In order to be eligible for the Army's Loan Repayment Program, the applicant is required to enlist in the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollment.

Thousands of people still don't have roofs on their homes, and are waiting for the US Army Corp of Engineers to install blue tarps.

I can tell by your comment, you never have been on the other side of An army invasion.

A series of exercises on Joint Base Elmendorf - Richardson has drawn participants from an Army unit in Fairbanks, as gunners in the unit's high - speed personnel carriers train with their weapons.

San Diego has made the first cut for a new U.S. Army Futures Command — a center focused on technologies that will shape next - generation battlefields.

You would have to go back to the pyramids of ancient Egypt or the building of the Terracotta Army by China's first emperor more than 2000 years ago to find comparable examples of resource wastage on such a grand scale.

In the aftermath of the worst ice - storm Toronto has ever had (but let's not forget hard - hit smaller municipalities in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), a virtual army of heroes has emerged — hydro workers, on 12 - hour shifts around the clock over the Christmas period, steadily restoring power to hundreds of thousands of «customers.»

Gerecht in a sense speaks for all of these voices in lamenting the passing of an opportunity, forced by the army's and the protesters» impatience on one hand, and by Morsi's inability to restrain his movement's worst instincts on the other, for this split to have happened (and with it, organic development of semi-moderate Islamism).