Sentences with phrase «bomb civilian areas»

There is a something undeniably strange and seemingly hypocritical about focusing relentlessly on one series of deaths in Syria when Saudi Arabia is able to bomb civilian areas in Yemen while still being given the red carpet treatment when Mohammed bin Salman visits Britain.

It also includes allegedly bombing civilian areas of territories held not by the Islamic State but by those moderate rebels, driving tens of thousands of people toward Turkey and the European Union, both of which Putin vehemently dislikes.

Not exact matches

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

One of the authors actually went to Baghdad to hang out with civilians when the U.S. starting bombing the area as part of its «shock and awe» military campaign.

Before that, air strikes had been used to force ISIS away from trapped civilians on Sinjar Mountain, averting another humanitarian crisis, and the bulk of American bombing has been in the Mosul Dam area, seeking to destroy the military hardware ISIS need to try and retake the dam off Kurdish Pershmerga militias.

Cluster bombs, which can either be dropped by planes or launched as artillery, are scattered over a large area but frequently fail to detonate, resulting in a serious hazard for civilians once conflicts have resolved.

Cluster bombs pose particular risks to civilians because they release many small bomblets over a wide area