Sentences with phrase «us army spokesman»

Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman told CNN, «We stumbled on the girls and may find more,» but added they are «not the Chibok girls,» referring to the group of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last spring that sparked the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

«The engineering department of the Egyptian Armed Forces has started to rebuild the church in Atfeeh today at the same exact location,» Army spokesman Maj. Mohamed Askar said.

An Israeli army spokesman has suggested militants firing rockets near the school could have caused the deaths.

«I've never had a question about it» in four - plus years at the Pentagon, Army spokesman George Wright said.

An Army spokesman confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the award had been approved for three members of the Junior Reserve Officers» Training Corps who «gave their lives during the shooting.»

Senegalese troops have entered The Gambia to ensure Adama Barrow assumes power as the country's new president, a Senegalese army spokesman has said.

The army spokesman also disclosed that five motorcycles as well as five rounds of 7.62 mm special ammunition belonging to the fleeing bandits were recovered by the troops on Wednesday.

In a statement by the Army spokesman, Brig. - Gen.

Egypt's army spokesman said wreckage and passenger belongings were found 290 km (180 miles) from Alexandria.

«Furthermore, they stated that they escaped from the terrorists» hideout at Buk village in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno state,» the army spokesman quoted them as saying.

Pentagon Army spokesman George Wright said a lot of the cuts will take place through attrition.

Asked about the chances of cuts impacting Fort Drum, an Army spokesman, Dov Schwartz, said «no decisions have been made.

Army spokesman, Sani Usman made the disclosure in a statement.

This was made known in a statement issued on Thursday by the Army spokesman, Brig - Gen.

Responding however to the call for the EFCC to probe Buratai, Army spokesman, Sani Usman, in a statement described the allegation as «mischief».

«The public should please regard this ugly incident as an isolated case which is not true reflection of the Nigerian Army,» the Army spokesman confirmed.

Brigadier General Sani Usman, army spokesman said on Saturday that the story was «completely false and should be ignored.»

The Army spokesman said that the wounded soldiers and their Civilian JTF counterparts had been receiving medical attention and were in a stable condition.

Confirming the killing of the terrorists in a statement, Army Spokesman, Brigadier General Sani Usman said -LSB-...]

Aside the Army spokesman, other colonels promoted to the rank of Brigadier Generals are Colonel IY Dogara, Colonel EO Aikhomu, Colonel Aminu Bande, Colonel IFD Briggs, Colonel PA Alamba, Colonel UU Bassey, Colonel UT Musa, Colonel AS Ndalolo, Colonel AI Taiwo, Colonel Y Hassan, Colonel IOO Olotta and Colonel UT Utaru.

A statement issued by the army Spokesman, Col. Sani Usman, in Abuja, said the girl was discovered while the troops were screening some escapees from Boko Haram terrorists» hideout in Sambisa forest at about 6 a.m.

Nigerian army spokesman Sani Usman said Saturday that suspected militants on speed boats had launched a deadly attack against troops at Efut Esighi in Cross River State.

«The wounded soldiers have since been evacuated by Nigerian Air Force and are responding to treatment,» according to the army spokesman.

The army spokesman said that preliminary investigations indicated that the suspects participated in operations, coordinated by the Boko Haram insurgents at various times.

The army spokesman said residents of the affected states must show «understanding and cooperation during the period of the exercise» and must not panic owing to the «increased movements of troops and equipment.»

«During preliminary investigation, they claimed that they were fleeing from the terrorists» hideout at Talala and Buk in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State because of the unbearable military onslaughts and bombardments on their various locations,» the army spokesman said.

The Army Spokesman, Brig. - Gen.

The army spokesman emphasized that the items given to Orakwu were not to compensate him but to show that the Nigerian Army cares and respect rights of individuals.

The US Army spokesman said the army was investigating other potential vaccines as well as gp160.

However, the seriousness of the Uganda action can be questioned after its army spokesman Lt. Col Paddy Ankunda down played the seriousness of sexual exploitation allegations made by Human Rights Watch by saying «reports of sexual exploitation are a small matter» (Daily Monitor, 2014, November, 6).

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But US Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the US - led coalition fighting Islamic State, told reporters the drone meant to attack them and dismissed the possibility it had fired a warning shot.

Speaking at a regular news briefing, Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said the message the People's Liberation Army was sending with its exercises was «extremely clear».

ISTANBUL, March 18 - Turkish - backed Syrian rebel fighters took control of parts of the town of Afrin on Sunday after Kurdish YPG forces pulled out, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army rebel fighters said.

Army Col. Steve Warren, a US military spokesman, said in November that the Army was «reasonably certain» that a drone strike in Syria had killed Emwazi, who spoke in beheading videos with a British accent as he wielded a knife.

A spokesman for the Army of Islam, Abu Musanna, denied the allegation Sunday, saying the group had no link to the attack.

«What happens here is normal,» said Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Carleton W. Birch, spokesman for the Army Chief of Chaplains.

Within a day, Tehrik - e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan provided a chilling justification for the attack: «Malala Yousafzai was playing a vital role in bucking up the emotions of Murtad (apostate) and the army and Government of Pakistan, and was inviting Muslims to hate Mujahideen... Malala is targeted because of her pioneer role in preaching secularism and so - called enlightened moderation.

But in a statement issued by its spokesman, Sani Usman, on Thursday night, the army said it would carry out its operation «Python Dance» to «logical completion» in the state.

Amouzoun Codjo, the Military Spokesman for UN mission in Congo, said the fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) army and Uganda's Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels left 39 people dead in Beni territory in North Kivu province.

Disclosing further, the spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Colonel Sani Usman, added: «Preliminary investigations shows that the IED was buried long time ago undetected.

The spokesman for the pro-Biafra group claimed that the security agencies, particularly the army, police and the Department of State Services, had planted explosive devices at strategic places in the state, waiting to set them off during the election.

In this regard, the defence spokesman said, «the Chief of Defence Staff held a Briefing session with the Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Air Staff, the Theatre Commander and Senior Principal Staff Officers of the military high command at the Military Command and Control Centre on 1st August 2017, on the reviewed strategic direction and operational plans, in compliance to the directive of the Acting President.

Sani Usman, a Brigadier - General, has been replaced as spokesman of the Nigerian Army.

Police spokesman, Don Awunah, told PREMIUM TIMES the raid and the arrests were carried out following complaints filed by lawyers for the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai.

War could break out «today or tomorrow», the spokesman for the general staff of the Korean People's Army said.

Colonel Abdou Ndiaye, a spokesman for the Senegal army, told Reuters news agency that Senegalese troops arrived at the Gambian border late on Wednesday.

The group's spokesman, Emma Powerful, in statemen on Friday, said a combined team of police and Army personnel attacked its members who were returning from the burial of one of their members, Odika Esieme Chukwuma from Igbo Ukwu, Anambra State.

In Zamfara State, they raided and destroyed suspected armed bandits camps at Rafe and Ajah forests in Gusau Local Government Area, spokesman of the Army, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman disclosed in a statement.

Later on Friday, however, a spokesman for the speaker said he had since learned that the flag was part of a narrative portraying how the Union Army defeated the Confederacy at Gettysburg and wasn't as controversial as he first thought.

«The barricade was obviously a deliberate attempt to assassinate the chief of army staff and members of his entourage while on a legitimate official assignment as special guest of honour at the passing out parade which has earlier been widely publicized,» Sani Usman, spokesman of the army, had said in a statement.