Sentences with phrase «by army units»

The repression in Midnapore was particularly severe, and included «house - burnings, seizures of property, insults, rapes, beatings, torture and illegal detention, all heaped on the rebels by ordinary police, by Intelligence Branch police forces and by army units stationed in camps all over the district after September 1942.»
News of her firing comes on the same day that Zimbabwe's 93 year - old Robert Mugabe, the last of the generation of African leaders to take over from colonial rule, has had his hold on power broken by army units loyal to his former bodyguard Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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The troops would likely come from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit — currently on its way to the region — and the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, which recently made its way to Kuwait, according to a report in The Washington Post by TM Gibbons - Neff.
That unit topped the roughly 34,000 rounds fired in support of the invasion of Iraq, and it fired a little over half of the more than 60,000 rounds fired by the over 730 howitzers the Army and Marines used to support Operation Desert Storm, according to historical records seen by Marine Corps Times.
(One answer to that question could be a mix of twelve Iraqi army and peshmerga brigades reequipped and retrained as planned by the United States, along with Sunni Arab national guard elements and a more aggressive U.S. forward ground presence involving Joint Terminal Attack Controllers and unit advisors; limited American ground troops might be needed to augment such a local force, however.)
Citing US officials, the newspaper said the classified assessment also found that only about half of the Iraqi army's units are capable enough to be worth advising by American troops.
The memories of a dozen American soldiers, interviewed by the Associated Press and the persistence of two national councils of churches — Korean and American — have brought to light one of the few documented intentional killings of civilians by an American army unit.
UFood was awarded a contract by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) to build and operate three new UFood Grill units on the base in Aberdeen.
«The major findings of the Investigation Panel were as follows: There was no collusion on the part of the Nigerian Army and units operating in Taraba State with any bandit (s) as stated by Lieutenant General TY Danjuma (Retired).
The source, who spoke to The PUNCH on Thursday, said the 21 girls were discovered by troops of the 21 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, which supervises the military units in Banki, Borno State, while they were filing out of the forest.
Army Sergeant Edward H. Bolen died of wounds sustained when his unit was attacked by direct fire and an improvised explosive device while on dismounted patrol.
Instead, Keller took advantage of a mid-1960s program to produce better - educated cops by paying tuition costs in exchange for a commitment to work in law enforcement (Keller would fulfill his desire for military service a decade later when he enlisted in the Army Reserve and spent the next 20 years serving part - time with an elite Special Forces unit on training missions in Europe and Latin America).
According to sources, the soldiers complained that they have not been fully re-instated into the Nigerian Army, because attempts by them to report to their units were rejected at their bases since they have no re-instatement letters.
Add layers of strategy to your gaming experience by building mobile bases, wielding the power of terrifying Ion Storms on the battlefield, or customizing your armies by combining units.
Instead they walk into Midway City along with a special forces unit led by Flagg (Joel Kinnaman), who also happens to be June Moone's boyfriend, battle an army of faceless overlord minions indivisible from every other faceless movie overlord minions and lose everything that made them interesting in a swirling tornado of special effects.
Despite the fact that the diabolical Munroe also plans to use the army to eliminate his unit of «Expendables,» Ross nonetheless opts to follow through with what now looks like a suicide mission, in part because his heartstrings have been touched by the perilous plight of the suddenly - compromised Sandra.
But it came here by accident; two units sold in 1949, famously, just after the British army saved the company.
Their versality, tenacity and strength proved by the Serum Run and operation Highjump, Huskies made their way into the United States Military; serving in World War Two in the Army's Arctic Search and Rescue Unit of the Air Transport Command.
Siberian Huskies have often dominated in historic arctic sled races, and were even utilized by the United States Army Arctic Search and Rescue Unit during World War II.
Iain Mallory was born to be an adventurer, and he exploited his gifts for helping others realize their full potential by joining the Army where he primarily organized his unit's fitness program.
The potential hero of mankind is as an army combat veteran named Major Fletcher who is a soldier of the corporation combat unit CLN who is tasked with protecting the only remaining city inhabited by humans called Bezoar after the machines have broken through the protective barriers in their quest to assume control of a network containing billions of digitized human minds known as The Sanctuary.
The objective is to defeat the enemy force by either capturing their headquarters, destroying all of the enemy units, or completing a specific objective with your own army of units.
A quick search of Wikipedia reveals several uses of black flags, but the most interesting is: «The Black Flag was flown by certain irregular Confederate Army units in the American Civil War of 1861 - 1865 to symbolize that they would neither give, nor accept quarter; symbolizing the opposite of the white flag of surrender.»
In the game you can command your army by building different units and sending them into the fight.
Battle and strategize your way to total world domination by raising a powerful army to crush enemy military armies, forming powerful alliances to deploy devastating battle tactics, and leveling up commander units in War of Nations, a MMO war strategy game!
Units are further divided by tiers, meaning the longer a battle rages, the stronger your army grows; what starts off as basic infantry quickly escalates into huge mega units annihilating anything that dares step in their crosshUnits are further divided by tiers, meaning the longer a battle rages, the stronger your army grows; what starts off as basic infantry quickly escalates into huge mega units annihilating anything that dares step in their crosshunits annihilating anything that dares step in their crosshairs.
Two to four armies headed by a Commanding Officer would take turns building and moving units, while also launching attacks against their opponents and attempting to capture various strategic buildings.
The objective was to defeat the enemy army by either complete annihilation of their units, or by capturing their HQ.
When in battle, the game switches to a hex - based map where you and your opponent's armies take turns facing - off against each other by pitting individual units (each of which may have a special ability) against each other.
Medieval Kingdom Wars contains a grand campaign that puts the player in charge of a lordship entangled by domestic and international politics in Western Europe, with armies using over 30 siege weapons and units.
The Day Nobody Died was realised by Broomberg and Chanarin in June 2008 during a trip to Afghanistan, where they were embedded with British Army units on the front line in Helmand Province, arriving during the deadliest month of the war.
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José Latour, Crime of Fashion «I, Jennifer Scheindlin, an infidel, have been captured by a unit of the Islamic Army of Canada.»
More than 100 companies attended Project Maven's industry event, which was sponsored by DoD's Defense Innovation Unit - Experimental, the Strategic Capabilities Office and the Army Research Laboratory.
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