Sentences with phrase «military attack on»

He was blinded in a military attack on his uncle's home in a Damascus suburb in 2012.

The art scene in China has changed radically since the June military attack on student - led demonstrators in which perhaps thousands of people were shot and killed.

While that was appreciated around the globe, the subsequent severe military attack on the territories of Afghanistan that began on October 7 has cast severe doubts on the USA government's intensions.

DUBAI, April 15 - Most Gulf stock markets rose on Sunday due to firm oil prices and relief that the weekend's military attack on Syria was relatively limited in scope and there was no immediate retaliation.

This followed series of military attacks on suspected hideouts in the two states which had led to the arrest of several members of the militant group while some reportedly lost their lives during gun battles with soldiers.

On 29 August 2013, the Conservative - led coalition suffered a defeat when Parliament voted against UK military attacks on Syria.

More breakthroughs follow: secret Scientology documents, footage of the Japanese nuclear reactor meltdown, half a million 9/11 texts, and video of US military attacks on civilians.

For instance, uncertainty about the 1994 - 1998 Rwandan refugees» future in exile is compounded by the recent resolution of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to launch military attacks on refugees based in the DRC.35 No account has been taken concerning the fact that they are survivors of the 1996 - 2000 massive forced repatriation and that they have been more vulnerable to extremely stressful and traumatic events that took place since the invasion of Rwanda on October 01, 1990.36 Although they are indeed susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, high level of fear and anxiety (psychosomatic) and / or malnutrition caused by the persecution and destruction of the war, no one who wants to empathise with them.

As economic collapse draws ever nearer we will see massive releases due to military attacks on oil fields and infrastructure.

«The military's role isn't to prepare for all risks, just those risks that are related to military attacks on the nation..»

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Tehran blamed Israel and vowed unspecified retaliation, drawing Israeli counter-threats to broaden attacks on Iranian military assets in Syria.

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Asked about reports of the missile attack, an Israeli military spokesman said: «We don't comment on such reports.»

AMMAN (Reuters)- A false alarm led to Syrian air defense missiles being fired overnight and no new attack on Syria took place, Syrian state media and a military commander said on Tuesday.

An attack on Save the Children's Jalalabad office on January 24 that killed six people and an attack on Kabul's military academy on January 29 that killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers were claimed by ISIS» Afghan branch — known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Khorasan Province (ISIS - K).

North Korea is developing long - range missiles and practicing for nuclear war — and the US military is considering preemptive attacks on the isolated nation's military facilities.

Prosecutors have painted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an equal partner to his brother in the bombing, citing al Qaeda propaganda found on his computer and a note he wrote that cast the attack as retribution for U.S. military campaigns in Muslim lands.

France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

Although there have been several recent cross-border attacks and incursions, the Eurasia Group team does not see a broader military conflict in 2017 given that both countries» prime ministers are focused on domestic issues.

The Pentagon holds a briefing Friday about the joint military action against Syria in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on civilians in the town of Douma.

After strong words from President Donald Trump promising «fire and fury» in response to continued threats from Pyongyang, North Korea threatened to launch a nuclear - missile attack on the US military in Guam.

President Donald Trump warned Russia of imminent military action in Syria on Wednesday, in response to a suspected poison gas attack over the weekend.

But the North's decision to send former military intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol as delegation leader to the closing ceremony has enraged families of 46 sailors killed in the torpedo attack on their ship and threatens the mood of rapprochement that Seoul wants to create at what it calls the «Peace Games».

The U.S., France and the U.K. launched military strikes Friday night on what the Pentagon said were three Syrian chlorine and sarin gas research facilities in response to a suspected chemical attack by Syrian leader Bashar al - Assad.

Those prerequisites include terminating America's military presence in South Korea as well as ending the U.S. regional nuclear umbrella, a security arrangement in which Washington promises in - kind retaliation on behalf of close allies if they are attacked with nuclear weapons.

«It seems new national security advisor John Bolton could be starting his first day in the White House in the worst way possible: by having to plan a military strike on Assad's ability to deliver chemical weapons attacks in Syria,» Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told CNBC.

On the other hand, such strikes, he said, also act as a deterrent to Hezbollah, whose missile capabilities could mean that the air force and the rest of the Israeli military will fight any future Lebanon war with their own bases under attack.

German police on Tuesday detained a second soldier suspected of involvement in what prosecutors believe was a plan by a military officer and a student, both in custody, to carry out an «extremist» attack and blame it on migrants.

«For example, the President could conceivably have no choice but to authorize the military to use such force if necessary to protect the homeland in the circumstances of a catastrophic attack like the ones suffered on December 7, 1941 and on September 11, 2001.»

Kirby declined to comment on the report's details but acknowledged the danger posed by «insider threats» and that the military had drawn lessons from its experience in Afghanistan, where some NATO troops have been attacked and killed by Afghans in uniform.

This was part of the US military's Castle Bravo test series, and the blast was equivalent to exploding 15 million tons of TNT, or roughly 1,000 times as powerful the US attack on Hiroshima that inflicted some 150,000 casualties.

Israel's state comptroller took military and political leaders to task for their failure to prepare adequately for the threat of attack tunnels ahead of the 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in a pair of long - awaited, highly critical reports published on Tuesday.

The initial call for the Pakistani actor ban came after attacks by a Pakistani faction of the Taliban on the military outpost of Uri, close to the Line of Control in Indian - administered Kashmir, on September 18th.

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Wednesday that the US is «still assessing the intelligence» on the recent chemical attack but noted that the US military is on standby should Trump give the order for a strike.

After 9/11, the biggest foreign attack on American soil in history, it took George W. Bush almost a month to issue his first orders to take military action against Afghanistan.

Oil prices rose by nearly $ 5 a barrel on concerns that a US and allied attack on Syrian military installations would lead to a wider war.

The US did provide Russia with advance warning via military channels shortly prior to the April 2017 missile strike on the Syrian air base believed responsible for a previous chemical weapons attack.

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Wednesday the US is «still assessing the intelligence» on whether the Assad regime is to blame for the recent suspected chemical attack but added that the US stands ready for military strikes in Syria.

The measures come as President Donald Trump is threatening an imminent military strike against Syria, vowing to respond «forcefully» to Saturday's apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians.

Syrian war monitors say government forces and their allies are on alert and taking precautionary measures at military bases across the country amid fears of a U.S. military attack.

Trump's take: The president blasted the raid at a meeting with senior military leadership Monday night, calling it a «disgraceful situation» and an «attack on our country in a true sense... an attack on what we all stand for.»

The Trump administration has repatriated a longtime inmate at the Guantanamo Bay military prison to Saudi Arabia, where he will serve out the remainder of his 13 - year sentence in connection with a 2002 attack on a French ship, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

While the attack did take out several military positions and research facilities linked to chemical weapons, it had little effect on degrading Assad's power to wage further war on rebel factions.

William, In the words of david berlinski: «Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons?

Dozens of suspected Islamic militants allegedly responsible for attacks on Christian churches in Egypt which left 75 people dead have been referred for a military trial.

A CNN poll says that most Americans feel Israel's attacks on Hamas in Palestine are justified, with 57 % of respondents saying the military action was called for.

However, as a person with great passion for history and especially military history, I am inclined to correct a lot of the false attacks on the bible.

It was his defense of democracy (which had so recently been under military attack), and a corrective of its traditional defense (which he felt was based on an overly optimistic estimate of man's moral capacities).

The military operation was launched by Israel on 8 July in an attempt to halt rocket attacks on the country but the UN says the majority of the people dead are innocent civilians.