Sentences with phrase «areas under government control»

As residents have poured out of rebel districts, including into areas under government control, the army has begun making arrests, Zughbi said.

Not exact matches

Conflict diamonds are defined as those which originate from areas under the control of forces in opposition to elected and internationally - recognised governments.

Adding to their woes, they have not been paid since the government suspended salaries to its employees in areas under Islamic State control nearly three years ago.

Government forces are fighting to maintain control of the areas west of the Ramadi, but are currently under serious threat.

Boxing is under fire these days from portions of the press, government and clergy — because some fighters have been badly hurt and a few killed, and because criminals allegedly control large areas of the sport.

This means that different governments control the Gaza Strip and Palestinian areas of the West Bank, but as these areas are under Palestinian control, and as Israel granted the Palestinians these areas, there is little controversy as to whether or not these areas should be under Palestinian control.

Nwachukwu dismissed as «misleading», reports indicating that seven of the 27 local government areas of Borno State were still under Boko Haram control.

Pakistan's «tribal areas» which are the source of many bombings like the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Israel which is home to many bombers when this was a common occurrence in Israel, are both only weakly under the control of the central national government's authority, but it is much more practicable for Israel to wall off the areas that it does not fully control (which was the single most important policy decision that led to fewer bombings in Israel) than it is to do so in Pakistan.

The facility that housed these rooms was under the control of the Southern Reach, the clandestine government agency that dealt with all matters connected to Area X.

With all three branches of government securely under their control, the ideological shift left few areas of state policy untouched.

Land tenure categories characteristically include private holdings (5 — 25 % of national area), communal land (usually small percentage) and state lands (the majority of the land under government control).