Sentences with phrase «military wing»

The Islamist group's military wing says it lost contact with some fighters in the area and that they and Hadar Goldin, 23, may have been killed.

By 1962, he had been instrumental in the founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation), the military wing of the ANC, charged with leading an armed struggle against the Apartheid government which had institutionalised South Africa's long history of racial injustice and taken it to new and bloody depths.

If the Israel government confirms its involvement in the killing of Mahmoud al - Mabhouh, a founder of Hamas» military wing, it could trigger a diplomatic row between the country and the UK, as well as the other European states whose passports were used: Ireland, Germany and France.

During testimony before a Senate panel, Ash Carter said «yes» when asked by Sen. Lindsey Graham whether the PYD and its military wing, the YPG, are aligned with the outlawed PKK terror group.

But to be more concrete, an important reason for the drop in terror attacks by Palestinians is that Palestinian political movements - at least their military wings but not just those - have been driven out or have left, partially or wholly, centers of activity outside of Palestine; most prominently, Jordan in 1970 and Lebanon in 1982 etc..

That is something they otherwise often do when members of their military wing are killed, by releasing photos of the deceased wearing their military uniform.

Innovative — though controversial tools — could be employed by the NTC and facilitated by Western policy makers such as anti-militia propaganda, engagement with the political rather than the military wings of the moderate Islamists, and reaching out to the «losers» of the revolution.

A total of 3,209 improvised explosive devices and 55 mines had been destroyed since the beginning of the Euphrates Shield Operation, which was launched last August against both the IS and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the military wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).

While specific Al - Quaeda connections are subject to debate and uncertainty - but see here for more evidence -, the fact that Saddam supported Islamist terrorism is indisputable (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Abu Nidal, Fatah's military wing, and many others).