Sentences with phrase «u.s. against the strike»

That sparked a blunt response from Russia, which warned the U.S. against the strike.

Not exact matches

The moves came after President Donald Trump tweeted a threat about the U.S. military launching missiles strikes against Syria.

Drone strikes of the type I discuss here apparently occur only in four states: Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and Libya - though Libya's frail government requested U.S. help against the Islamic State, or IS, before the most recent round of strikes and Pakistan is widely believed to privately support the strikes.

These have included several air strikes against pro-government forces that have sought to advance towards a U.S. military base in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq, where the U.S. military has been training rebels to fight IS.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces struck Syria with more than 100 missiles on Saturday in the first coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, targetting what they called chemical weapons sites in retaliation for a poison gas attack.

China's ambassador to the United States explained to CNBC on Tuesday evening why his country was striking back against U.S. trade measures.

Older U.S. Air Force jets — including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, eyed in recent years for retirement, and the F - 15E Strike Eagle — are leading the air war against the Islamic State, statistics show.

SEOUL (Reuters)- North Korea said on Saturday U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Friday were «an unforgivable act of aggression» that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was «the right choice a million times over.»

Eric Brammer, 30, an information technology specialist from Roanoke, Virginia, who describes himself as Democrat, said he expects tensions to continue over Russia's support of the government of President Bashar Assad in civil war - wracked Syria, where the U.S., Britain and France last week launched missile strikes against Syrian chemical weapons facilities.

In the past, Bolton has recommended scrapping the Iran nuclear deal and justified the need for U.S. strikes against North Korea.

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.

In fact, the Swiss franc rose 1 percent against the dollar on Wednesday morning, as investors looked for safe options after North Korea said it was «carefully examining» a plan to strike Guam, where a U.S. military base is located.

A U.S. recession is nobody's strike against us - nobody's victory.

The second section explores the societal and political implications of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan against the backdrop of the unique geopolitical environment in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

European stocks close lower as geopolitical worries remain on traders» radars Software AG, Polymetal among the notable losersEuropean stocks ended lower Monday, as traders weighed the limited strikes on the Syrian regime over the weekend and news of potential fresh U.S. sanctions against Russia.

The U.S. just levied fresh sanctions against the Eastern European country for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and early last week President Donald Trump warned Russia that the U.S. military could soon strike its ally Syria in response to its use of chemical weapons — a promise he kept Friday evening.

The United States imposed major new sanctions against Russia on Friday, striking at senior Russian officials and some of the country's biggest companies in one of Washington's most aggressive moves to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other «malign activity».

Syria's air defense system failed to defend against the U.S. - led strike on the country's chemical weapons facilities two weeks ago.

The first salvos in the budding U.S. - China trade conflict struck old - school sectors like steel and agriculture, but Beijing is now bracing for moves against its strategic ambitions in hi - tech.

Unilateral military action against North Korea would likely differ from the list of U.S. missile strikes above.

I'm against the U.S. drone strikes that have resulted in the deaths of civilians.

Lavrov noted that despite the escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington, the U.S. made sure it didn't harm any Russian personnel and positions during the strikes against the regime of President Bashar Assad following a suspected chemical attack on the town of Douma.

Trump has given the CIA secret new authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected terrorists, U.S. officials said, changing the Obama administration's policy of limiting the spy agency's paramilitary role and reopening a turf war between the agency and the Pentagon.

Trying to reassure a nation on edge, President Obama said the Islamic State group «can not strike a mortal blow» against the U.S., and he warned that overreacting to the Paris attacks would play into extremists» hands.

New York state's highest court struck a blow Monday for home rule and against fracking, deciding that municipalities can use zoning laws to ban the natural - gas extraction method that has fueled a U.S. energy boom.

The strikes against the U.S. and its North American Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, as well as others against the Baltic nation of Estonia's information - technology infrastructure earlier this year, provide but a glimpse of the damage that could be inflicted should a full - scale cyber war erupt between countries.

Sacha Baron Cohen, no stranger to controversy or instigation, strikes a dark humored jab against U.S. presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

March 22, 2018 • After President Trump unleashes new tariffs, China has a number of key U.S. imports — from soybeans to airplanes and iPhones — that it can choose to strike back against.

During the 1994 Olympics, Tonya Harding was pitted against the more popular Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, where Kerrigan was attacked by a man who struck her a few inches above her knee.

Striking a blow against «set aside» policies, the U.S. Supreme Court limits the ability of school districts and state and local governments to reserve percentages of their construction contracts for minority - owned firms.

The Range Rover SVAutobiography will start at $ 200,490 in the U.S. when sales begin this summer, perhaps as a preemptive strike against a potential Mercedes - Benz GL - class - based Maybach model.

In its 2012 suit against Apple, the U.S. Department of Justice maintained that, by striking a coordinated deal to establish agency pricing for e-books, the publishers and Apple exhibited anticompetitive conduct by conspiring to fix prices.

Nonetheless, at least seventy percent of the books sold in the U.S. are still print, so Amazon's inability to get its titles into bookstores was a huge strike against the vision that it would be able to compete directly against general trade publishers on big fiction and nonfiction titles.

Yesterday (April 19,2010), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on videos showing illegal or extreme violence against animals.

In a decision that strikes a blow against the federal government's controversial practice of excluding industry from consent decrees with environmental citizen groups, a practice known as «sue - and - settle,» the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's approval of a consent decree between a coalition of environmental groups and several federal agencies in Conservation Northwest v. Sherman, No. 11 - 35729 (9th Cir.

The Federal Court of Appeal struck down U.S. Steel's efforts to overturn Canadian investment law — the second such court decision to go against the company — after almost two years of procedural and legal challenges by the Pittsburgh - based company.

No sooner did U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner issue her opinion this week blasting Harvard Law Prof. Charles Nesson for his «truly chaotic» defense in the file - sharing lawsuit against Joel Tenenbaum than Nesson struck back.

The major affecting events this year could be the jewellers strike against PAN card registration, the prediction of an interest hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Brexit vote, wedding season, festive season, Trump's victory in the US Presidential election, PM Modi's demonetisation reform to name a few.

One of the most striking examples of the global power of the new generation of internet companies is their ability (and willingness) to use smaller and developing countries as testing grounds for their new products — in particular, for initiatives they couldn't get away with in the U.S.. For years, Facebook has tried to violate the principle of net neutrality by striking deals to make Facebook not count against mobile data caps (in India, Facebook's Free Basics program was met with heavy criticism).

Didier Milleriot wasn't frightened about the backlash against France when his country opposed the U.S. military strikes against Iraq.