Sentences with phrase «civilian casualties from»

Are you incapable of distinguishing between targeting warriors and having unintended civilian casualties from targeting civilians?

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

Not exact matches

«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.

Transitioning into civilian life, Ryan is making a career promoting startups that develop the powerful and specialized software he wishes he'd had as an intelligence officer in Iraq — programs that can map and visualize useful information like casualties from IEDs, the market price of flour at a local bazaar, or the tribal affiliations of local townspeople.

The Ukrainian government is issuing some very ominous warnings, instructing civilians to stay away from the capital «to avoid casualties» and authorizing security forces to use «extraordinary measures.»

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

The vote does not compel EU member states to act but it does increase pressure on Riyadh, in the wake of criticism from the UN and growing international alarm over civilian casualties in Yemen.

From 1 January 2014 through 31 October 2015, UNAMI / OHCHR recorded at least 55,047 civilian casualties as a result of the conflict, with 18,802 people killed and 36, 245 wounded

William Hague has decided to expel five Libyan diplomats from their embassy in London following civilian casualties in the north African country.

He said that a team from the Police Explosive Ordinance Department was promptly drafted to the scene to restore law and order, adding that there was no civilian casualty.

His stories range from civilian casualties in Afghanistan, where he embedded with NATO forces in 2010, to the first experimental test of people's ability to distinguish paté from dog food.

One current challenge his team is working on is, «How do you take a lot of reporting on civilian casualties in a certain area and then make it into a map - based Web site that both provides a lot of information and is actually a research tool — but doesn't do it in such a way that you basically scare people away from the issue» because it's too complicated or horrific, Bromley says.

I was given access to military personnel at every level of the civilian casualty — tracking system, from the collection and quality - checking of CIVCAS data to the analysis that leads to new combat directives.

The Iraq Body Count (IBC) Web site has tallied Iraqi civilian casualties — over 100,000 and counting — from media reports since the U.S. - led invasion in March 2003.

Following on from the several civilian casualties during a mission in Nigeria, the ethics of the Avengers is put into question, and they're posed with the idea of being Government run, to cut down on the collateral.

No reference to civilian casualties, or even civilian existence, is ever made, so there's no tragedy in the «glassing» of Africa, just the mild satisfaction that comes from having survived it.

This includes data visualizations from civilian casualties in the drone war, video documentation from acts of terrorism, tracking the impact of invasive species on local ecosystems and crime scene studies from mass shootings.

There have been more civilian casualties in the back of Ted Kennedy's car than there have from radioactivity in US nuclear power plant accidents.

Granted, even if erstwhile civilian facilities are military objectives potentially subject to attack as a result of Hamas» actions, Israel would be precluded from attacking such faciliites where the likey civilian casualties would be «clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated».

The high casualty rate from the indiscriminate use of drones in civilian areas and use for extrajudicial executions.

Regarding autonomous technology in warfare, all systems must observe the laws of war, and will be prohibited from uses that could increase violent conflict or civilian casualties.

At the Chatham House conference, there were several panelists that were quite open that the value of human dignity required a human in the loop on such a momentous decision as who to kill that the ban should be in place even at a time when fewer civilian casualties would result from use of autonomous weapons.

While a utilitarian would be focused on whether civilian (and military) casualties would be less if autonomous weapons were used, a Kantian would object to the removal of humans from the lethal decisionmaking altogether.