Sentences with phrase «military official tells»

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«We have consistently called on China, as well as other claimants, to refrain from further land reclamation, construction of new facilities, and militarization of disputed features, and to commit to managing and resolving disputes peacefully with other claimants,» a Pentagon official told CNBC when asked about China's recent military activity in the area.

China's Chengdu J - 20 stealth fighter has just officially entered active service with the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF): «China's latest J - 20 stealth fighter has been officially commissioned into military service, Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qian told global media in a September 28, 2017 press release on the Xinhua.net and the official state defense media website.

Then - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and John Kelly, then Homeland Security secretary, told Mexican officials the US military wound not get involved in enforcing immigration policy.

«I think that in the Syrian theater, Russia is unlikely to interfere with the coming US operation or take military steps to prevent it or in retribution, despite their comments,» Cliff Kupchan, a former US State Department official who is now chairman of the Eurasia Group, told Business Insider.

China «has certainly expressed its interest» in upping its military presence on Vanuatu, an 80 - island archipelago 1,750 kilometers (1,090 miles) east of the Australian coast, a senior defense official told 9News.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

Official records reveal that Paladino was on active duty only from Aug. 5, 1971, to Nov. 4, 1971, and that he was at the sprawling Texas military base for an «acad,» or, as a military expert told The Post, «academic» program aimed at training new officers.

«Another police official told reporters that a lorry load of elderly Sikhs who surrendered on the first day of the military operation, were brought to the main city police station and tortured there by the army.

Six people were killed, including four government officials and a soldier, in an attack by Boko Haram jihadists on a Chadian army checkpoint on an island in Lake Chad, a military source told AFP Sunday.

Whether by photographing secret military installations from afar, or by parsing official documents to identify telling omissions, the aim is to see that which has been purposefully obscured in hopes that visualization leads to consideration.

The Pentagon is closing down three of the 20 NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) early - warning radar sites in northern Alaska because the ground they're built on in some cases is literally crumbling into the Arctic Ocean as a result of erosion caused by waves on ice - free waters, military officials at the U.S. Northern Command tell me.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

We found that some military documents, including confidential information, have been hacked,» the official told the Yonhap news agency.