Sentences with phrase «attacks civilian targets»
Hezbollah primarily attacks civilian targets with suicide bombers and rockets.
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Less than a day after U.S., British and French forces targeted suspected chemical weapons sites in retaliation to an attack that left dozens of civilians dead last week, Trump thanked the U.S. coalition partners.
On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to join France and Britain in launching targeted strikes in Syria, in retaliation for an attack on civilians that employed chemical weapons.
However, over the course of the conflict, the army also noted that it believed soldiers may have been the intended targets of Hamas cross-border tunnel attack, not civilians.
«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.
The Obama Administration's use of drones to attack terrorist targets has drawn scrutiny from those who point out that those same attacks sometimes kill civilians.
«Russia, with its unwavering support for the regime, ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks, targeting of countless civilians, and the suffocation of Syria's most vulnerable communities with chemical weapons.
Taliban spokesmen have said that the brutal attacks — which target innocent civilians — are revenge for military offensive campaigns against militants in the country...
To return to the recent war in Lebanon: once a Muslim appreciates that a Christian partner in dialogue really cares about Muslim civilians who suffered in the attacks on their homes and on the infrastructure of civilian life, that Muslim can also appreciate the Christian's concern about Hezbollah's use of Katyusha rockets to target Israeli and Palestinian civilians in Haifa and Nazareth and other places in Galilee;
This January, a UN expert panel accused Saudi Arabia of «widespread and systematic» attacks on civilian targets.
The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, a radical offshoot of the PKK which criticizes its policy toward the Turkish state for being too lenient, claimed responsibility for the attack and has continued to launch attacks on military and civilian targets thereafter.
Targeted attacks on senior Libyan officials might be justified if this is the only way to stop attacks on civilians.
To begin, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, announced in late January the launch of an investigation into the «civilian impact» and «human rights implications» of drone attacks and other targeted killings by the U.S. and other states.
In other words, that paragraph authorises the use of force to prevent attacks on towns and cities, whether those attacks are directed at civilians or even at what would be legitimate military targets.
«The authorisation of «all necessary measures» is broad and appears to allow the targeting of Gaddafi and others who act to put civilians «under threat of attack», words that go beyond the need to establish a connection with actual attacks,» he wrote in the Guardian last Friday.
In December he wrote to Theresa May condemning «all attacks on civilian targets, including those by Russian and pro-Syrian government forces in Aleppo» — but only after he had been heckled on Syria by Peter Tatchell.
«The groups conducted numerous attacks on government and civilian targets that resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, the internal displacement of approximately 1.8 million persons, and external displacement of an estimated 205,000 Nigerian refugees to neighboring countries, principally Cameroon, Chad, and Niger,» the report said.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned, «the cowardly attack in the holy month of Ramadan targeting innocent civilians in their daily life.»
After all, they had ordered and presided over the direct and indirect killing of tens or hundreds of thousands - in attacks on civilian and half - civlian targets, in «collateral damage», through the debilitating sanctions in 1990s that resulted in a huge death toll, indirectly through stoking inter-ethnic and inter-religious strife and so on.
In these circumstances constraints against targeting civilians or minimising civilian causalities when attacking military targets are relaxed.
He attacked «the foul and despicable crimes committed by Isil and by the Assad government, including barrel bombs being dropped on civilian targets», but without mentioning Assad's backer, the supplier of those barrel bombs: Vladimir Putin.
«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.
In March 2016, Abbott wrote: «over the past year alone, Britain has sold around # 6bn worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, whose campaign in Yemen is targeting civilians — 191 such attacks have collectively been reported by the UN, HRW and Amnesty.»
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.
«She has been outspoken on issues ranging from holding Syria accountable for failing to support the peace process, condemning attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah on soldiers and civilians, furthering aid to Israel, calling on the U.N. to take to task the Iranian government for threats targeting Israel and reaffirming the right of Israel to defend itself.»
The mayor will appoint an independent civilian to monitor the New York Police Department's counterterrorism activities, lawyers said in court documents on Thursday as they moved to settle a pair of lawsuits over surveillance targeting Muslims in the decade after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Monguno Local Government Area of Borno state is reported to have been attack by suspected members of the Boko Haram insurgents, who targeted particularly the volunteer youths known as civilian JTF.
«But we aim to get senior military people to publicly start to raise doubts about attacking certain kinds of civilian targets.»
North Korea has continued to launch DDoS and disk - wiping attacks over the years, targeting banks as well as other military and civilian systems in the U.S. and South Korea.
The pair is then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets, while also stopping a mysterious operative that is plotting to start a World War in the Middle East.
The pair are then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets.
The bombings targeted chemical weapons research and storage facilities after a recent suspected chemical attack on civilians in Syria.
Ultimately 16 attacks were made during the Bombing of Berlin against both strategic and civilian targets.
Most definitions of terrorism include only those acts which are intended to create fear or «terror», are perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to attack), and deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilians.
And the IHL concept of proportionality — that attack on a military target is permissible even if there will be civilian casualties as long as the civilian casualties are «proportional» to the military value of the target — is expressly utilitarian and inconsistent with Kant.