Sentences with phrase «of airstrikes on»

Woodcock, who plans to vote in favour of airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria, was unimpressed by comments Lewis had made to the BBC and challenged him in Portcullis House, where MPs have their offices.

Hi Everyone, The United States, France, and the United Kingdom have carried out a series of airstrikes on the war - torn country of Syria.

According to the report, the military and political leaderships» assessment of the utility of airstrikes on tunnels was mixed going into the Gaza operation.

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Russia, an ally of the Syrian government, responded that there would be «chaos in international relations» if any additional Western airstrikes on Syria took place, Reuters said.

CAAT states that U.K. government data it has compiled show that since the Saudi - led coalition began airstrikes on Yemen in 2015, «the U.K. has licensed # 4.6 billion ($ 6.3 billion) worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, including # 2.7 billion worth of ML10 licenses (aircraft, helicopters, drones) and # 1.9 billion worth of ML4 licenses (grenades, bombs, missiles, countermeasures).»

The U.S. - led airstrikes, which U.S. President Donald Trump described as «perfectly executed,» came after the likely use of chemical weapons in an attack by the Syrian regime on the town of Douma earlier this month.

Hitler gassed his own people, many of whom were German Jews or others found undesirable to the Nazi movement, though it's true that Hitler did not order airstrikes with chemical weapons on civilian populations.

Charles Lister, Middle East Institute director of extremism & counterterrorism, and Thomas Karako, Center for Strategic and International Studies senior fellow, discuss the fallout from the U.S. airstrikes on Syria.

The airstrikes on Syria sent a «significant message,» but they won't achieve the objectives set to deter chemical weapons, says Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute.

Calls for airstrikes «would come from forces on the ground that an enemy's been identified, say, in this house,» US Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Robert Sofge, director of the Combined Joint Operations Center in Baghdad, told Business Insider earlier this month.

France has led airstrikes on Syria as part of the coalition and is believed to have special forces in Syria.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports oil prices are moving higher on news of the U.S. airstrike on Syria.

A U.S. - led coalition has been launching airstrikes on Islamic State militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for months as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive.

A Reuters report on Monday stated that the pace and volume of airstrikes had grown so thick that it was no longer safe to leave shelter to bury the dead.

Though it's unlikely that Obama would have sent a large force of ground troops into Syria in response to the sarin - gas attack, airstrikes on regime targets were on the table.

Russian diplomats have castigated the United States, Britain and France for their airstrikes last week on what they said were chemical weapons facilities in Syria, where the Kremlin is backing the government of President Bashar al - Assad.

The latest Israeli airstrike on the T4 airbase and the possibility of Russia providing Damascus with an S - 300 missile system have strained relations between Moscow and Tel Aviv.

Military forces often boast about the awe of airstrikes and missile launches, but what's it like to experience their deadly shock on the ground?

Syria is accused of launching a chemical weapons attack that led three NATO members — Britain, France and the U.S. — to launch airstrikes on Syrian targets.

Airstrikes take place almost daily as part of ongoing campaigns such as the battle against the Islamic State, but focused initial missile strikes and military operations can have an abrupt impact on markets.

The video also claims that some of the girls have been killed in recent airstrikes by the Nigerian military and it also shows bodies on the ground in certain frames.

Global leaders are calling on both Russia and Syria to cease airstrikes and bombing in order to provide an opportunity for relief to the quarter of a million civilians still trapped between the rebels and the regime.

The chief of human rights at the U.N. said, «If established as deliberate in a court of law, an airstrike on a hospital may amount to a war crime.»

A Syrian monitoring group and paramedics say government shelling and airstrikes on rebel - held suburbs of the capital, Damascus, killed at least 98 people on Monday.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in on the airstrikes, saying it was hypocritical to lament the loss of innocent Syrian children in chemical attacks while simultaneously forbidding those those children from entering the United States.

Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, gave a wide - ranging interview in New York where she called on the U.S. to carry out airstrikes on Syrian airfields in order to prevent more chemical attacks on its citizens, hours before that actually occurred.

On 21st May, an American airstrike killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

The vast majority of the British public do not believe that British airstrikes on Syria are the right response to the Paris massacre, says a poll published today.

MPs voted 397 to 223 — a comfortable majority of 174 — on Wednesday night to extend UK airstrikes from Iraq into Syria to hit ISIS territory.

In a statement on Monday night Cameron said: «ISIL poses a very direct threat to the United Kingdom — and as we have already seen in Iraq, British airstrikes can play a key role in degrading them; but they are only part of a comprehensive strategy for Syria.

Corbyn called on MPs who were considering voting for airstrikes to «think again», telling BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show on Tuesday: «Think of the complications and the implications of what we are doing and please cast your vote against supporting this government's military endeavours in Syria.»

The 66 Labour MPs who voted with the Government on the main motion to support «taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria» represented well under a third of the 231 current Labour members of Parliament.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said MPs should be given a «free vote» on the issue of Syrian airstrikes.

David Cameron, prime minister of a majority government, had to carefully time his parliamentary vote on airstrikes over Syria in order to win.

For the first time, the United States and Russia conducted combined airstrikes on an Islamic State - controlled oil field in Raqqa in eastern Syria, a major part of a half a billion dollar crude industry sustaining the jihadist group, the Sunday Express reported.

A quick recap of Trump's first year in office: an airstrike on a Syrian airbase, FBI Director James Comey's firing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the GOP healthcare fiasco, U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, North Korea's ongoing threats of nuclear annihilation, «Crazy Mika «tweets, the Mooch, Charlottesville, #MeToo, Democratic gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey, Roy Moore's Alabama Senate run, Paul Manafort's indictment, Mike Flynn's plea deal, an ongoing battle over the Consumer Financial Bureau, the annihilation of ISIS, a resurgence of al - Qaeda terrorist networks, the repeal of net neutrality, the move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Republican tax reform, Steve Bannon's fall from grace, «shithole» countries and continuing Fire and Fury fallout.

On Tuesday, NYU's president, Andrew Hamilton, received a letter claiming the Pulse nightclub shooting was revenge for the death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who was killed in a May airstrike, cop sources said.

If Cameron can get some sort of movement towards a deal with Putin on a solution to the Assad problem, if he can convince that there is a wider diplomatic and military strategy at play, it's yet possible that he will win over enough Labour MPs to get his way on the airstrikes.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

Beginning a lengthy debate on airstrikes over Syria in the Commons, Cameron emplyed a rather different tone as he said there was «honour» in voting on either side of the motion.

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WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States is calling for no new U.S. military action in Iraq, including on - the - ground troop deployment and airstrikes.

On Syria Labour party members divide two - to - one against airstrikes and three - to - one against the use of British ground forces in Iraq or Syria.

Indeed, suggestions the missile strikes in Syria were meant to distract from the FBI raid on his lawyer's home and office were reminiscent of Clinton's 1998 airstrikes against an aspirin factory in Sudan — the same day Monica Lewinsky appeared before a grand jury.

General Irabor explained further that, contrary to the figure flying around on the number of casualty of the Airstrike in Rann in Kalabalge local government area of Borno state, the total casualty figure recorded by the Theatre Command stood at 112 dead, while 97 were injured and are receiving treatment in various hospitals within the state.

The United States recently unleashed a barrage of new airstrikes on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, but a few members of Congress warned this morning that Iran is still the «the greatest danger» that the world faces.

Edward Djerejian, director of the Baker Institute and former ambassador to Israel and to Syria, discusses the prospect of a U.S. airstrike on Syria in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack.

A Yemeni man stands at the site of an airstrike in the capital, Sanaa, on Sunday.

A terrorist supposedly assassinated in an airstrike turns out to be alive — and likely plotting an attack on Americans — in Episode 404 («Iron in the Fire») of Showtime's espionage thriller «Homeland.»