Sentences with phrase «attacks on civilians»

More breakthroughs follow: secret Scientology documents, footage of the Japanese nuclear reactor meltdown, half a million 9/11 texts, and video of US military attacks on civilians.

The devices are not illegal, but are now being exploited by the Syrian authorities to block messages about protests and government attacks on civilians.

NGOs in Burma provided AAAS with information concerning attacks on civilians in Karen State carried out by government forces in 2006/2007 and then again in 2009.

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

A retired army chief, Captain Budu Koomson has suggested that soldiers behind attacks on civilians and police officers should be made to face the law.

The year after entering parliament in 2005, together with other Muslim MPs and peers and Muslim community organisations, he wrote to Blair (then still PM) criticising the Iraq war and UK Middle East policy including attacks on civilians arguing that it put civilians at increased risk in the UK and abroad.

«The Green Party has always condemned attacks on civilians by any side.

He warned that the international community may have to take «quite tough steps» to prevent attacks on civilians, including fighting off Libyan tanks if they try to enter the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

It calls the Iraqi war a «debacle» and says that the failure to end attacks on civilians in the Middle East, such as the current fighting in Lebanon, is making the UK a threat to extremists.

Is at its core a terrorist organization, fully officially supporting terrorist attacks on civilians, perpetrating rocket attacks on cities, and kidnappings as political tools

Regular attacks on civilians last month throughout this Beni - Butembo route have been said to be the activity of bandits placed there by Mbusa Nyamwisi, a local politician (also former warlord) running for the post of president.

Targeted attacks on senior Libyan officials might be justified if this is the only way to stop attacks on civilians.

One could of course make the argument that limited civilian casualties would be tolerable (assuming adherence to the principles of discrimination and proportionality) to the extent that the air campaign proves successful in forestalling widespread and systematic attacks on civilians.

It was on the basis of this pressing need to protect that prompted members states to table, and ultimately pass, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, authorising the use of «all necessary means» to halt attacks on civilians.

The poll also found that majorities in the US and Israel (both 56 %) did not favour attacks on civilians.

From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

A disturbing new investigation from the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and first reported by Reuters, has determined that Syrian government forces used deadly chlorine gas during attacks on its civilians.

But now that Assad's forces are dominant, Kupchan says, Russian has little influence over Assad, who brings negative attention to the alliance through his attacks on civilians, including with chemical weapons.

«The warning will probably suffice in dissuading the Assad regime from conducting another mass terror, mass casualty attack on civilians using chemical weapons,» Hof wrote on Tuesday.

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.

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.

Macron said in February that «France will strike» in the event of lethal chemical attack on civilians by government forces in Syria.

Tillerson responded by emphasizing the horror of the Assad regime's recent chemical weapons attack on civilians, which killed dozens last week.

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.

Last week an attack on civilians in Syria killed at least 126 people - including 68 children - on the outskirts of Aleppo.

Most of those guys were planners of terrorist attacks on civilian populations.

This January, a UN expert panel accused Saudi Arabia of «widespread and systematic» attacks on civilian targets.

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.

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.

Tweeting this morning from Ghana, again on his @BukolaSaraki handle, the Senate President wrote, «I commend the @UN Secretary - General @AntonioGuterres for his commitment to remain in Northeast Nigeria following the recent attack on civilians, humanitarian workers and security operatives.

Dirk Dons was part of Doctors Without Borders team that visited soon after the worst ever chemical weapons attack on civilians

This package chronicles such incidents before and after Syria's recent alleged chemical weapon attack on civilians outside Damascus

The bombings targeted chemical weapons research and storage facilities after a recent suspected chemical attack on civilians in Syria.

Jeremy Deller's burned - out car, destroyed during an attack on civilians in Iraq, is one of the most overtly politically pieces on the shortlist and is bound to provoke a reaction.

Not exact matches

Trump, a political neophyte then inside his first 100 days in office, attacked an ally of Russia and Iran after intelligence services concluded that Assad's forces had used chemical weapons on Syrian civilians, many of them children.

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.

Since that shift, there's been a significant spike in both civilian casualties and insider attacks; on Oct. 19, the increasingly - emboldened Taliban virtually wiped out a 60 - man Afghan National Army unit like it was nothing.

A total of 74 people — 68 soldiers, 11 of whom were killed in cross-border tunnel attacks; and 6 civilians — died on the Israeli side of the conflict.

With the world growing more concerned about attacks by militant groups on civilians, Microsoft Corp. on Friday outlined new policies to crack down what it called «terrorist content» on some of its consumer services.

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.

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.»

Deliberate assaults on civilians, the murder of religious figures, indiscriminate bombings in markets and buildings, hijacking and ramming planes full of civilians into buildings occupied by civilians, attacks on and destruction of churches and mosques — all carried out by al - Qaeda, IS, and Boko Haram — violate the clear limits set in Islamic law for the conduct of a jihad.

A spokesman for the UN Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon said: «The Secretary - General is alarmed by the preliminary findings of a fact finding investigation by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) into the attack on Hotel Terrain in Juba on 11 July, in which one person was killed and several civilians were raped and brutally beaten by men in uniform.

Three security officials and two civilian guards were also wounded in the attack early on Friday.

«On this occasion, the Taliban chose to hide amongst civilians and then attacked Afghan and U.S. forces.

I neglected to include the 3,000 US civilian deaths resulting from the 9/11 attacks... who knows what the economic (and social) impact was on this country but they certainly were not trivial.

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.

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.

The military operation was launched by Israel on 8 July in an attempt to halt rocket attacks on the country but the UN says the majority of the people dead are innocent civilians.

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;