Sentences with phrase «us military campaigns»

Prosecutors have painted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an equal partner to his brother in the bombing, citing al Qaeda propaganda found on his computer and a note he wrote that cast the attack as retribution for U.S. military campaigns in Muslim lands.

President Donald Trump hailed the U.S. - led intervention in Syria as «perfectly executed,» adding that the military campaign to degrade Bashar Assad's chemical weapons capability had accomplished its goals.

The French official said the Turkish offensive in northern Syria «must stop,» saying it is threatening the broader U.S. - led military campaign against the Islamic State group.

The north is well aware that even in the crude terms of oil and supplies, it almost certainly lacks the funds to pay for any kind of sustained military campaign, despite having one of the world's largest standing armies.

This option stages an even bigger military campaign targeting every known nuclear and missile site across North Korea.

Police said that due to fears of violent protest over the deadly Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip, they would bar men under the age of 50 from Jerusalem's flashpoint Al - Aqsa mosque for what are usually packed prayers on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.

He left a note in that boat suggesting that the attacks were an act of retribution for US military campaigns in Muslim - dominated countries and that he viewed his brother as a martyr.

He dismissed the U.S. - backed military campaign against Islamic State in Syria as «only a few raids», and said a more comprehensive approach was needed.

The military campaign has undermined U.S. - Myanmar ties that had improved with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest and return to power.

Timur led military campaigns through a large chunk of western Asia, including modern Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, and he founded the Timurid Empire.

Three foreign powers who have shaped Syria's civil war will discuss ways to wind down the fighting on Wednesday despite their involvement in rival military campaigns on the ground.

But the Pentagon said on Saturday that their worry had been eased by the fact that there were no Russian casualties as a result of Friday's military campaign.

Government spokesman Bekir Bozdag said the military campaign would continue to secure areas around Afrin and make sure food and medicine were available.

President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday discussed tensions with Iran and a Saudi - led military campaign in Yemen which has come under criticism in Congress.

And when they ran trade deficits or undertook military campaigns, central banks restricted the supply of domestic credit to raise interest rates and attract foreign financial inflows.

It also enabled the U.S. Government to wage foreign policy and military campaigns without much regard for the balance of payments.

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Kenney also noted that Canada's Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson was in Saudi Arabia last month for a meeting with dozens of international military commanders from countries opposed to Islamic State, including about 25 actually involved in the military campaign against the terrorist organization, among them top officers from key Middle Eastern countries.

A broader military campaign against North Korea could be considered similar to a NATO regime change operation, but with some differences.

Another big controversy was his plan to offer 100 Bentleys to 100 Saudi pilots involved in the military campaign against Yemen.

As for the British military campaigns in India, the corpses are beyond numbering.

Every one of the listed regions was taken, within the space of a hundred years, from Christian control by violence, in the course of military campaigns deliberately designed to expand Muslim territory at the expense of Islam's neighbours.

Congregational disagreements in response to the denominational stance on the military campaign have also been reported in some Mennonite churches (although there have also been reports of newcomers who have begun attending precisely because of the peace position).

(9) He was hoping to get the military leaders, princes and nobles to support him with soldiers, food, supplies and money for the upcoming military campaign.

Of course, religious pacifists recognize that it is not enough to point out that the massive military campaign currently under way will not work, and in fact will do more harm than good.

Polls indicate that over 90 percent of Americans continue to support the military campaign in Afghanistan.

1991 A US - led military campaign forces Iraq to withdraw in February.

Perhaps the Allies didn't have the resources to both liberate prisoner's behind enemy lines and at the same time run the largest military campaign ever in the history of the world.

So does the sheer drama of military campaigns waged by hundreds of thousands of men and women with limited if ingenious technologies across three continents and five centuries.

Tearfund said a man named Ali and his family escaped from Mosul during the military campaign to retake the city which began on 17 October 2016.

But the anger came early, and it's still there» even after the remarkable success of our country's military campaign in Afghanistan.

In the primary history, he is mentioned as a 100 percent Israelite patriot, a prophet who predicted and encouraged the military campaigns by which Jeroboam II recovered much of the lost territory of the Northern Kingdom (2 Kings 14:25).

In a series of military campaigns, Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylon and released the Jewish exiles to return and rebuild Jerusalem.

This self proclaimed prophet organized around 65 military campaigns in the last 10 years of his life and personally led 27 of them.

The danger was the popular understanding that the Messiah would free Israel and usher in the age of peace by Davidic methods, that is, by a victorious military campaign.

Judges 4 - 5 famously recounts Deborah's successful military campaign against Sisera.

One of the authors actually went to Baghdad to hang out with civilians when the U.S. starting bombing the area as part of its «shock and awe» military campaign.

In 1980, Reagan made it a point to show that he was anything but eager to launch military campaigns.

This change is most obvious in our extended military campaign to form a state and expand it at the expense of Palestinians.

Tens of thousands of people are thought to attempting to flee the north - east of the country as the government continues its military campaign against the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

It worked for the British, as any military campaign history of north Africa, northern Europe, Italy or Burma will testify.

What explains the spending of half a trillion dollars on a military campaign that was avoidable in the first place and has in the end ripped apart Afghanistan's intricate ethno - political fabric?

Ironically, this international military campaign is playing into al - Qaeda's hands in several ways: by targeting al - Qaeda's own domestic enemies; by employing sectarian rhetoric that plays up Sunni - Shi» ite fault lines previously insignificant in Yemen; by destroying Yemen's military hardware that had been used against al - Qaeda; and by enabling al - Qaeda to exploit the lawless war - torn environment to expand its influence and build alliances among southern and eastern tribes to combat the mutual Houthi foe.

With the military campaign in Afghanistan in the middle of its eleventh year, NATO has firmly moved from what is idealistically desirable to what is realistically achievable in the war - torn country.

Due to their successful military campaign against ISIS, the Iraqi Kurds could expand their territory by about 40 %.

«Drones» evoke recent American military campaigns, rather than the dusty Ministerial offices in the German capital.

«I think Jeremy Corbyn indicated in his speech that it's not just on the Labour side, it's also on the Tory side, and people with wide military experience, that the increased threat of terrorist attacks here must be a significant possibility given what is likely to take place, that Britain will be taking part in this military campaign in Syria.

In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte, at the heights of his power, set out for the most adventurous, and ultimately fatal, military campaign.

Hitler, Stalin and Napoleon, for example, all appeared incapable of empathy and of comprehending the value of human life, condemning thousands to death in suicidal military campaigns.

In terms of China's priorities, policy analysts tend to agree that if China were to begin a large - scale military campaign, Taiwan would most likely be the focus of its aggression [vii].