Sentences with phrase «us bombing campaign»

Tora Bora, which is located in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, was Osama bin Laden's hideout until December 2001, when he narrowly escaped a botched US bombing campaign.

Trump's declaration came as Moscow, which is backing Syria in its long civil conflict, has denounced the bombing campaign with undisguised contempt.

During the London Blitz, Churchill instilled confidence amongst the British population by remaining in London during the heaviest bombing campaigns and often regularly visiting areas that were heavily damaged.

NATO would do good to start a bombing campaign with the Vatican as ground zero.

Mrs May is continuing to talk to world leaders in the wake of the bombing campaign in Syria as the US warned it was «locked and loaded» for fresh strikes.

The U.S. and a group of Arab nations have launched a new bombing campaign, targeting ISIS within Syrian borders.

There are reports of thousands of American troops on the ground supporting the American bombing campaign against ISIS.

In the middle of the afternoon, on the fourth day of the American bombing campaign in Afghanistan, David Martin, fifty - eight, the correspondent for CBS, is sitting alone in the dark.

In his first sermon after the onset of the American bombing campaign, a local Mennonite minister exhorted his congregation to «be not ashamed» of «your commitment to nonviolence.»

The bombing campaign has targeted hospitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites, killing and wounding hundreds of people in recent days.

A senior Catholic Church leader has expressed his sorrow of the amount of people that have been killed in the Syrian government's bombing campaign.

[If you question their sincerity, consider this: One of the authors, Shane Claiborne, actually went to Baghdad during the 2003 «shock and awe» bombing campaign to hang out with civilians.

At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station.

This summer, the Discovery Channel revisited his story in Manhunt: Unabomber, an eight - part drama about the FBI's search for the man behind the longest - running bombing campaign in U.S. history.

In the same interview with Goldberg, Cotton speculated on the potential consequences of a bombing campaign to stop Iran's nuclear program.

That is why it is so important that a bombing campaign incorporate contingencies for an extended and costly operation.

Maybe a bombing campaign would work out just as Cotton hopes.

The civil war has taken a terrible toll, with the situation having been exacerbated and fuelled by a year long Saudi - led bombing campaign.

Are the North Koreans still a little peeved about the U.S. carpet bombing campaign that killed some 20 % of the population?

It also includes an Isis «witness» describing the impact of Russia's bombing campaign on Syria, as well as commemorating the Sinai province's pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi one year ago.

Beyond the threat to «make Nigeria ungovernable» should Goodluck Jonathan lose, and the vicious walking - the - talk with the Avengers» creek bombing campaigns, the South - South has been largely quiet in articulating its own «restructuring.»

The drum - beat of war in Syria grows louder by the day — but MPs must hold firm against another bombing campaign

In the case of ISIS and Twitter, imagine a retaliatory attack on a hacker cell that ends up killing civilians in large numbers by accident, creating international pressure against the U.S. bombing campaign against the Islamic State.

Mr Dugher was one of 66 Labour MPs who defied Mr Corbyn last week by voting in favour of the RAF extending its anti-Isil bombing campaign from Iraq into neighbouring Syria.

Because if you think you're gonna go and do these precision strikes on North Korea where they have hidden — they have it on mobile sites — you know, they have the experience of surviving an indiscriminate US bombing campaign, do you think — and they have witnessed what has happened to Libya, what has happened to Iraq, do you think that — you know we think that we have another thing coming in terms of thinking that it would be a stealth mission — and so there would be a counter strike: There's 87 US bases, there are 30,000 US troops in South Korea.

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Many are demanding the UK up its presence in the anti-Isis bombing campaign to include Syria as well as Iraq in the wake of the attacks.

It's happening everywhere: on the right against open borders and the refugee wave, on the left against the coalition bombing campaign in Syria, in the establishment to push for more online surveillance, in the libertarian right to push for fewer gun controls, among atheists who see religion as the cause of all evil.

Only someone who thought the West is the source of all evil, or who did no reading of foreign affairs whatsoever, could believe the anti-Isis bombing campaign created the group it was intended to stop.

At the war's end, following the October Revolution, American authorities saw the threat of Communist revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

Labour MP David Winnick also expressed dismay at the failure of the government to call on Israel to stop its bombing campaign in southern Lebanon.

Or John McDonnell supporting the IRA bombing campaign.

He has failed to make the case for another bombing campaign.

Between 1982 and 1985, Alan Moore and David Lloyd started publishing V for Vendetta, the story of a masked Guy Fawkes - type terrorist conducting a bombing campaign into a future fascist London - based on Moore's assessment of what it would be like if Margaret Thatcher stayed in charge for another 20 years.

7) Do you think that the government should suspend arms exports to Saudi Arabia over its involvement in the bombing campaign of Yemen?

Do you think that the government should suspend arms exports to Saudi Arabia over it's involvement in the bombing campaign of Yemen?

President Clinton continued a bombing campaign in Kosovo 12 days past the 60 day timeline without explicit approval from congress authoring military force.

Mr Johnson's call came after Labour's Ann Clwyd urged those who care about the plight of Syrian civilians to gather outside Russian embassies across the globe until the country stops its bombing campaign.

The militants retaliated by stepping up their bombing campaign in cities and raiding small towns and villages.

NATO's decision to launch a ferocious bombing campaign to help Islamist rebels overthrow Colonel Gaddafi in 2011 hangs over Britain today like a toxic cloud, writes JOHN R. BRADLEY.

In 1944, Stromer's pleas to move his fossils to safety were ignored, and the bones were reduced to dust in a British bombing campaign.

Similar socio - political explanations followed Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building in 1995, Theodore «Unabomber» Kaczynski's anti-technology mail - bomb campaign in the US from 1978 to 1995, and Eric Rudolph's crusade against American abortion clinics, which he kicked off by detonating a bomb at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

By that point I was totally miserable because the whole bombing campaign in Germany had been such a dismal failure.

There are overhead shots of World War II bombing campaigns that are so captivating they make you forget, «Wait a minute, who's filming this?

More About The Movie «The Blitz» was a term referring to the bombing campaign by the Germans against cities in England during World War II.

As the Iran - Iraq War rumbles into its eighth year, a mother and daughter are slowly torn apart by the bombing campaigns on the city coupled with the country's bloody revolution.

As the countdown to a massive bombing campaign along the Santa Monica shoreline begins, Nantz and his battalion race to rescue a group of citizens trapped in a nearby police station.

MADRID, Spain - Police found a large load of explosives inside a van Thursday - the second such discovery this week - raising fears that Basque separatists are plotting a bombing campaign for the Christmas holidays.

She is surprisingly sympathetic to the Germans while condemning both the Italian Fascists and the Allies (whose indiscriminate bombing campaigns killed thousands of Italian civilians).

Varoufakis called for the arts to challenge the dissension wracking global politics, a topic haunted by the Syrian bombing campaign Putin launched the day before.