Sentences with phrase «attacks against a civilian»

«Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course, inconsistent with the Cessation of Hostilities, as demonstrated by their intensified attacks against civilian areas, targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need,» the statement said.

But this time, with the US considering its response to another attack against civilians blamed on the Syrian government, Russian officials threatened to shoot down US missiles, and potentially the ships that launched them, if they attacked Syria.

The Executive Summary Report of a U.S. Medical Task Force investigation of contra attacks against civilians, from January 1988, states:

Yet several scholarly works state that the British used air attacks against civilian demonstrators.

In fact, UN bodies quickly became seized of the crisis and condemned the attacks against civilians by Gaddafi's forces.

The United States fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria on Thursday night in retaliation for this week's chemical weapons attack against civilians.

Although the Nigerian army has dislodged Boko Haram from much of the territory it claimed as a caliphate in 2014, the group continues to launch attacks against civilians, government officials and troops.

«It is imperative that the council urgently adopt a strong resolution condemning attacks against civilians by both Israel and Hamas and demanding that such attacks cease immediately.»

During a stop at the New York State Fair, Gillibrand said there's a humanitarian crisis in Syria that must be addressed by the United States and other countries, adding that Syrian President Bashar al - Assad must be put on notice that recent attacks against civilians are unacceptable to the world community.

Aim of this paper is not only to condemn Boko Haram's attacks against civilians but also to put pressure on the Nigerian government in order to take substantial measures to deal with terrorism.

The United States, France and Britain launched military strikes in Syria to punish President Bashar Assad for an apparent chemical attack against civilians.

Not exact matches

While crashing a vehicle into civilians recalls recent terrorist attacks, including one on a Christmas market in Berlin in 2016 that killed 12 people, German police and federal officials warned against jumping to conclusions about the incident on Saturday.

The Pentagon holds a briefing Friday about the joint military action against Syria in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on civilians in the town of Douma.

But it's unclear how rebels or terrorists, who live among Syrian civilians in east Ghouta, could retain sufficient territory to stage mortar or artillery attacks against medical evacuations or aid convoys under such heavy bombardment.

On Monday, Haley had told the Security Council that the US will respond to the Assad regime's alleged chemical attack against Syrian civilians as she excoriated Russia, saying its hands are «covered in the blood of Syrian children.»

The measures come as President Donald Trump is threatening an imminent military strike against Syria, vowing to respond «forcefully» to Saturday's apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians.

For Muslims, that talking point is code for whitewashing decades of atrocities committed against the people of Gaza: the kids killed on the Gaza Beach, the civilians bombed in the most densely populated cage in the world, and the attacking of civilians who resort to donkey carts for transportation.

The attack was Pakistan's deadliest overall «since the December 2014 massacre at an army - run school that left 143 people dead, most of them children, and marked a devastating new turn in militant violence against Pakistani civilians,» reports the Los Angeles Times.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

Taliban spokesmen have said that the brutal attacks — which target innocent civilians — are revenge for military offensive campaigns against militants in the country...

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.

Congressman John Katko (R): «The horrific and barbaric chemical attacks by the Assad regime against innocent civilians, including children, warranted strong and measured action.

Therefore, as Yoram Dinstein claims, «even after the endorsement of the principle of proportionality... the danger of incidental injury to civilians — as a collateral damage resulting from attacks against military objectives — can not be lightly dismissed.»

In these circumstances constraints against targeting civilians or minimising civilian causalities when attacking military targets are relaxed.

Many Palestinian militant organizations, including Arafat's Fatah, engaged in terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, violating the PLO's renouncement of violence.

He continued «We are here in court to institute a criminal case against the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kauttal Hore and some Fulani herdsmen who instigated attacks on innocent civilians between December 31, 2017 and January 1, 2018 in Guma and Logo local government areas of Benue State.

The expression «attack directed against any civilian population» is defined as meaning «a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack.»

Lord Ahmed defended the letter, however, saying that it was intended to unite civilians in Britain and abroad against these attacks.

The northern border region is now the home of a local preacher, Ibrahim Malam Dicko, who radicalised and has claimed recent deadly attacks against troops and civilians.

«Today's incident was a horrible attack carried out by Al - Shabab against innocent civilians that was not aimed at specific Somali government targets,» he said in a televised address to the nation.

From the first time he came to mainstream media's attention in 1994 proclaiming that the Gay Games in New York that year would spread AIDS in the city, to his resignation from the Civilian Complaint Review Board because of the constant protest from the LGBT community, to his attacks on the Harvey Milk School and his bussing in evangelical Christians from the tri-state area to stage a protest against gay marriage on the steps of the Bronx County Courthouse, he has crusaded against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

The attack is the latest against a mosque in northeast Nigeria and the wider Lake Chad region, as part of a campaign of violence by the Islamist group against civilian «soft» targets.

** KILL 3 ARMED BANDITS IN KADUNA STATE The Nigerian Military in a joint operation involving the Army, the Air force and Civilian JTF at the weekend, overcame an ambush attack launched by Boko Haram terrorists against troops at their camp in Chukungudu, Sambisa Forest -LSB-...]

The Nigerian Military in a joint operation involving the Army, the Air force and Civilian JTF at the weekend, overcame an ambush attack launched by Boko Haram terrorists against troops at their camp in Chukungudu, Sambisa Forest vicinity, killing 19 terrorists including one of their wanted Commanders.

The executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence says the weapon used in the attack, an AR - 15, has no purpose for civilians other than to kill other civilians.

Military action against the Libyan regime will continue until Colonel Gaddafi stops his attacks on civilians, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.

Working with Amnesty International and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, AAAS documented past attacks by the government - backed Janjaweed against civilians in Chad and Darfur, Sudan, in 2005 and 2006, and is building methods for tracking current attacks.

Ultimately 16 attacks were made during the Bombing of Berlin against both strategic and civilian targets.

Free Terrorism Term Paper: Terrorist's Attack «The unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives» - FBI Free Terrorism Term Paper: Global War on Terrorism Before you start writing free terrorism term paper, you should determine the meaning of the term.

On 26 February 2011, by way of a unanimous UNSC Resolution (1970) which invoked Chapter VII / Art 41 on the basis, inter-alia of «gross and systematic violation of human rights» and, noting that «widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity», the UNSC has:

There is a long list of crimes against humanity, embracing all the most serious crimes of violence, but the ICC only has jurisdiction when such crimes are committed «as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of that attack.»