Sentences with phrase «isis control»

[5] Genocide Watch, a monitoring and prevention NGO, has declared Iraq a Genocide Emergency, 78 international genocide scholars (full disclosure: including myself) have signed a letter to the United Nations Security Council and European Union warning of extreme risks of further mass atrocities in areas of ISIS control in Syria and Iraq.

In our linguistic panic, we have let ISIS control the terms of the debate and even take hold within our own discursive community (p. 66).

The information behind such portrayals doesn't come from the files of secret British and US intelligence services that we're never allowed to see, but from the horrifying testimony of survivors, or those still trapped in areas of ISIS control.

But thousands of potentially lucrative archaeological sites are now under ISIS control.

The footage was released on Sunday, and featured Elsheik giving a limited insight into his life in Raqqa when it was under ISIS control.

Ostensibly, Syria is «unable» to sufficiently degrade or destroy ISIS because, as we can clearly see, ISIS controls a significant amount of territory within Syria's borders that its national army has not been able to reclaim.

Try Uganda or the ISIS controlled area in Iraq.

Especially compared to the people in their group who are still in Raqqa and are in ISIS controlled territory, collecting information covertly, risking their lives to do so, and then disseminating that information to the group on the outside.

King says at one point last year, ISIS controlled all three major dams in Iraq, a feat that he says quickly motivated an enhanced U.S. military presence there.

That minimum treatment can vary wildly (compare treatment in the U.S. with that provided in ISIS controlled areas of Iraq)

Not exact matches

Those high - profile attacks are important because even though neither ISIS or the Taliban control any urban territory, they gain international media attention and put them in the spotlight.

ISIS is currently locked in battle against an array of forces for control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq and the largest city under the militant group's control.

Jones said ISIS - K has been so surprisingly resilient because it mostly operates in parts of Nangarhar Province, particularly the Achin District, where neither the Taliban or the Afghan government have much control.

«ISIS - K controls virtually nothing other than a small segment of territory.

The Associated Press reported last month that ISIS generates up to $ 50 million a month through sales of crude from oilfields in Iraq and Syria that it now controls.

She reportedly told her family she was going to a sleepover at a friend's house, used a fake bank account to buy a plane ticket to Istanbul, then travelled via land to ISIS - controlled Syria.

One of the copts, identified as Mina F, told the advocacy charity: «None of us can travel to Egypt by the road because ISIS have controlled Sirte and they can take us captive during our trip by microbus.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

The result was that ISIS was able to strengthen and gain control of many of Iraq's Sunni areas.

«ISIS is clearly responsible for genocide against Yezidis, Christians, and Shia Muslims in areas it controlled.

Religion and belief in God (s) is a benevolent delusion the majority of the time, ISIS shows what happens when the psychosis gets out of control.

ISIS and Hamas show what happens when delusion gets out of control.

27 % of Americans agree with this statement: «ISIS is a true indication of what Islam looks like when Islam controls a society.»

(Religions act on their principles regardless of how the opposition responds) This implies that ISIS is nothing more than a business run by egocentric tyrants that happen to identify with a particular religion... thus tainting that religion with their insecurity as they attempt to use it as a platform to try and convince their selves of control and eliminate any challenge to their personal views... All because their figurative pee pees can't handle it.

Following the fighting between ISIS and the Syrian army, at least 1,400 families fled the town to safer areas or took shelter in the government - controlled city of Homs, reports the Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights.

When federal forces fled the ISIS onslaught in 2014, Kurdish militias stepped in, gaining control of significant new territory, including the disputed city of Kirkuk.

Also, unless we plan to use nukes, there is no destroying the oil under the control of ISIS.

My purpose in appearing before you to today is to assert that, in my judgment, Daesh [ISIS] is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control, including Yazidis, Christians, and Shia Muslims.

The city of Mosul is being liberated from ISIS, who destroyed churches and persecuted the population while in control of the area.

Three days after that, Secretary of State John Kerry met a congressionally mandated deadline by actually using the «G - word» — «genocide» — to describe ISIS's assault on Christians, Yazidis, and Shiites in the areas of Iraq and Syria under its control.

The power vacuum emerging from this rapid decline has heated up competition between the numerous parties in the conflict — regular forces of regional states and great powers, as well as various militias often acting as their proxies — to control former ISIS territories.

Or ISIS could manipulate the water and electricity governed by the dam to exert control over cities and areas dependent on it, as Saddam Hussein did when in power.

They can not stay there indefinitely in miserable conditions, but nor can they return whilst ISIS remains in control.

Also, I believe practical control isn't the main criteria: ISIS effectively controls a lot of territory, but few people consider it a state.

Some practical problems arising from the issues mentioned above in Iraq are: 1) the lack of security during and after displacement (between areas controlled by ISIS and the government controlled locations); and 2) the barriers to access basic services such as WASH, shelter, food, education, child protection and Gender Based Violence, among others.

In 2014, ISIS took control of large swaths of territory, including Fallujah, Hawija and Mosul.

US operations officer Major Michael Filanowski confirmed the destruction of the ISIS - controlled oil field to reporters in Iraq on Sunday.

Plus accepting ISIS would mean a loss of control in their communities, etc..

ISIS has rapidly expanded its control over Iraq and Syria by seizing towns and cities near major supply routes, critical infrastructure and border crossings.

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At 9 a.m., the state Bar Association 139th Annual Meeting continues, with events today including Challenges of music rights management, metadata, and emerging innovations, Recent developments in European Union Data Protection and Destruction of World Heritage Sites in ISIS - controlled territories, New York Hilton, 1335 Ave. of the Americas, Manhattan.

The Albu Kamal region, where Mari is located, came under the control of ISIS in June 2014.

Feature nominees were Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts,» about anonymous activists on the ground in ISIS - controlled Raqqua, Syria; Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles» «Dina,» an unconventional love story between an eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart -LSB-...]

Feature nominees were Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts,» about anonymous activists on the ground in ISIS - controlled Raqqua, Syria; Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles» «Dina,» an unconventional love story between an eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door greeter; «Faces Places,» documenting Honorary Oscar recipient Agnes Varda and muralist JR's journey of portraiture across rural France; Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin's «LA 92,» a meticulously assembled first - hand account of the 1992 Los Angeles riots; and Yance Ford's «Strong Island,» a deeply personal examination of miscarried justice.

The inherent safety of the spaceframe is enhanced by other safety systems controlled by ISIS (Intelligent Safety and Information System).

RIM is promoting a concept where they would hold the ISD, so RIM can roll out customized NFC services while AT&T wants ISD control on the devices that they roll out (this is in relation to the larger ISIS NFC payment project that they are a part of).

For example, the American Revolution was not held to invalidate private debts owed to British debtors (indeed, the U.S. Constitution was designed with constitutional protection for foreign creditors), but I am relatively confident that ISIS does not allow creditors from Syria or Iraq to enforce private debt obligations in the territory that it controls.