Sentences with phrase «led bombing campaign»

The civil war has taken a terrible toll, with the situation having been exacerbated and fuelled by a year long Saudi - led bombing campaign.

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In the early 1900s, the islands were used as a gunnery and bombing range by the Mexican government, but when oceanographer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau came across them in the 1960s, he began a campaign to have their unique and pristine ecosystem protected — a campaign that ultimately led to the creation of the Marieta Islands National park in 2005, eight years after his death.