Sentences with phrase «air campaign against»

International development secretary Douglas Alexander has expressed his frustration after Israel refused to grant a 48 - hour ceasefire of its air campaign against Gaza.

The Bosnian War had raged from 1992 to 1995, and had stopped only after the NATO led an air campaign against the Serbian backed facted, and that only after a more moderate international intervention by the United Nation peacekeeping forces failed to stop the fighting and the massacres.

If the air campaign against IS is just, then it must be proportional and it must take due care to minimise the risk of killing innocent civilians.

The growing rhetoric about Iran — including talk from certain Israeli and American corners about an air campaign against Iran — had already begun to intensify in anticipation of the report, which will say more explicitly than previous IAEA assessments that Iran is indeed actively pursuing a nuclear weaponization program.

More recently, de Gaulle was involved in France's contribution to the air campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, codenamed Opération Chammal in France.

The Air Force has been conducting ongoing missions over Iraq and Syria, where US aircraft have led the air campaign against ISIS — though those operations have decreased considerably in recent weeks.

Not exact matches

Hecker said the success of the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria meant the A-10s could be deployed to Afghanistan instead of Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, where they would otherwise have been based.

Ankara launched a massive ground and air campaign, codenamed «Olive Branch,» against the US - backed SDF forces in Afrin on January 20 in response to the US's announcement that it would train and maintain a 30,000 - strong, predominately Kurdish force in the region.

US bases around the Middle East have been supporting the campaign against Taliban and ISIS militants in Afghanistan, and the number of US Air Force personnel on the ground there is relatively small compared to the scope of the US commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

There are ongoing, long standing campaigns against proposed expansions at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted by local residents groups and environmentalists who are particularly concerned about noise and air pollution.

The campaign against Air Mauritius yesterday may not have suceeded, but it was exemplary.

In her local borough of Camden, Berry has also campaigned against the Iraq war, genetically modified foods and air quality problems, and supported local services threatened by redevelopment projects.

The approval rating of Russian President Mr. Vladimir Putin is higher among his citizen due to the successful anti-terrorist operation in Syria where the Russian Air Force is conducting a successful campaign against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and the accession of the Crimean Republic into the Russian Federation.

Mr Khan said he would also focus on affordable public transport and confirmed he had changed his mind on the issue of a third runway at Heathrow Airport over air pollution fears, and would be campaigning against expansion.

Meanwhile, the governor's extensive campaign fund has paid for relentless, negative ads against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino, which were on the air before the GOP challenger had money to introduce himself on TV to voters.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo made it clear this morning he intends to back up his tough talk against the so - called «special interests» — chiefly, the public employee unions — with dollars in an air campaign war, if necessary.

And Whitman is not done yet - she still has just under seven weeks to go in her campaign against Democratic nominee Jerry Brown, the current state attorney general who has only just started airing ads after spending the summer using independent expenditure groups as his equalizer against the Republican's money juggernaut.

The ads, airing Tuesday through Oct. 23 on Syracuse broadcast and cable television stations, will inform voters of Buerkle's environmental record, according to the group.The League said it will spend $ 2 million on its «Flat Earth Five» campaign against Buerkle and four other House members who deny the existence of climate change.

Executive use of state aircraft has been a politically contentious subject in New York, and «Air Cuomo» was a campaign issue used by George Pataki in his 1994 campaign against Mario Cuomo, the current governor's late father.

The US and allied nations have launched a campaign of air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, the Pentagon says.

Knowing who and where people are talking about an advertising campaign on social networks, warning of a forest problem by geolocation data; developing a map of air quality through a collaborative application; improving European territorial cohesion through the comparison of data or developing a sound map playing a battle against noise are just some of the projects developed by this group at the UJI thanks to geolocation technology.

The proposed space corps would absorb the duties of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, a unit inside the Air Force that supports most of the country's... No CCTV — Anti CCTV Articles / News — The campaign against excessive use of surveillance cameras in the UK.

When you're playing the Nod campaign, the AI GDI player will always send its air strikes against your northernmost unit or building, whatever it is.

Sharkwater, and the «fin - free» campaign that grew out of it, was a main driver behind shark fin soup bans, China's decision not to serve shark fin soup at state dinners, and various companies» (Air Canada, UPS, DHL, etc.) policies against transporting shark fins.

The Clean Air Moms Action, part of the Environmental Defense Action Fund, has started a $ 100,000 campaign against President - elect Donald Trump's EPA nominee Scott Pruitt.

At the symposium, Kelley spoke about the campaign he leads in Port Arthur, Texas, against eight petrochemical plants that have poisoned the air and compromised the health of his community.

Throughout the past year, UN Environment campaigned on many fronts against the spiralling pollution of air, water and land around the world.