Sentences with phrase «coalition forces started»

A few years into the wars, American and coalition forces started to realize the twentieth century military mechanism wasn't going to work against a dangerous, dynamic and vastly decentralized enemy.

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The Iraqi military, with support from the US - led coalition, Kurdish forces, and Iranian - backed Shiite militia units, have been slowly closing in on Mosul since the start of an offensive on October 16.
As the coalition moved Iraqui forces south of the 36th parallel, the Kurds started to come home into northern Iraq.
When I was there we weren't being shot at too much because despite what we were being told further up the chain we weren't so stupid as to not go into every village and say «we're not going to touch your poppy» and arguably the upturn in violence against coalition forces came in 2009 and in 2010 when the American marine brigade started saying «oh hang on, weren't we supposed to eradicating poppies?
Business secretary Vince Cable has acknowledged the growth of Ukip as a force in British politics, saying the coalition parties need to start «engaging with them on major issues».
Belgium's Flemish separatist party, the New Flemish Alliance (NVA), has emerged as the largest force in parliament, with coalition talks set to start.
Nobre says: «We must unite forces in a wide coalition of the public and the private in Brazil and other Amazon countries, creating the best research and development centres, universities, start - ups, visionary companies and governments, with the participation of the peoples of the forest and the region.
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