Sentences with phrase «civilian targets»

Still, there is a difference between stealing in to rupture pipelines, and launching missiles against civilian targets elsewhere.

So too will the frequency of terrorist attacks on western civilian targets.

Earlier this year a UN panel investigating the Saudi - led bombing campaign said it had found «widespread and systematic» attacks on civilian targets in violation of international humanitarian law.

Hezbollah primarily attacks civilian targets with suicide bombers and rockets.

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

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Kim also has large quantities of VX, an even deadlier chemical weapon, and has already shown a willingness, and ability, to use it against civilian targets abroad.

Though clergy and ecclesiastical officers must refrain from partisan political activity, as I have cautioned elsewhere, condemning the taking of innocent lives is not partisan, whether through protesting abortion clinics or (as the British clergy did in World War II) denouncing a government for bombing 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.

The militants have increasingly attacked civilian targets since being pushed out of territory they controlled by a military offensive.

«Speaking at the G20 summit in St Petersburg, the Prime Minister said much of the new money will go towards medical training and equipment to help civilians targeted by chemical attacks.

«But we aim to get senior military people to publicly start to raise doubts about attacking certain kinds of civilian targets.»

I know what it was like for my uncle to be involved in bombing raids to civilian targets in WWII.

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.

A big part of the problem with chemical weapons is that nobody wants to admit that something relatively effective against a civilian target can be comparatively so very simple, these are generally terror weapons.

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.

Despite the authorities» insistence that the group has been vanquished, in recent months Boko Haram fighters have stepped up their attacks on military and civilian targets.

However, the militants continue to control rural areas and launch attacks on military, government and civilian targets in Somalia, as well as terrorist raids in neighbouring Kenya.

The movie examines the early days of the titular hero (O'Brien), an Arab linguistics student turned CIA assassin, as he and his mentor, Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Keaton), are assigned to investigate a series of what seems to be random attacks on military and civilian targets.

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 air is then enlisted by the CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently ransom attacks on both military and civilian targets.

Ultimately 16 attacks were made during the Bombing of Berlin against both strategic and civilian targets.