Sentences with phrase «on civilian targets»

He attacked «the foul and despicable crimes committed by Isil and by the Assad government, including barrel bombs being dropped on civilian targets», but without mentioning Assad's backer, the supplier of those barrel bombs: Vladimir Putin.

In December he wrote to Theresa May condemning «all attacks on civilian targets, including those by Russian and pro-Syrian government forces in Aleppo» — but only after he had been heckled on Syria by Peter Tatchell.

This January, a UN expert panel accused Saudi Arabia of «widespread and systematic» attacks on civilian targets.

Not exact matches

On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to join France and Britain in launching targeted strikes in Syria, in retaliation for an attack on civilians that employed chemical weaponOn Friday, President Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to join France and Britain in launching targeted strikes in Syria, in retaliation for an attack on civilians that employed chemical weaponon civilians that employed chemical weapons.

That is, «by razing anything that still stands and by mercilessly targeting fighters, civilians, humanitarian workers, hospitals, and ambulances alike — as it does on a daily basis in Aleppo now.»

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

Russian warships heading for Syria could be used to target civilians in the besieged city of Aleppo, NATO Secretary - General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Tuesday, calling on Moscow to implement a lasting ceasefire.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

To return to the recent war in Lebanon: once a Muslim appreciates that a Christian partner in dialogue really cares about Muslim civilians who suffered in the attacks on their homes and on the infrastructure of civilian life, that Muslim can also appreciate the Christian's concern about Hezbollah's use of Katyusha rockets to target Israeli and Palestinian civilians in Haifa and Nazareth and other places in Galilee;

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, a radical offshoot of the PKK which criticizes its policy toward the Turkish state for being too lenient, claimed responsibility for the attack and has continued to launch attacks on military and civilian targets thereafter.

Targeted attacks on senior Libyan officials might be justified if this is the only way to stop attacks on civilians.

To begin, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, announced in late January the launch of an investigation into the «civilian impact» and «human rights implications» of drone attacks and other targeted killings by the U.S. and other states.

In other words, that paragraph authorises the use of force to prevent attacks on towns and cities, whether those attacks are directed at civilians or even at what would be legitimate military targets.

On the top of my head, Israel haven't put a time - limit on the blockade, it targets civilians and they don't let food and aid to civilians througOn the top of my head, Israel haven't put a time - limit on the blockade, it targets civilians and they don't let food and aid to civilians througon the blockade, it targets civilians and they don't let food and aid to civilians through.

That is why the hammer must be brought down on anyone using these things, it is not because they are militarily particularly effective, it is because if you are targeting the unprepared civilians they are very effective terror weapons for non state level actors and nobody wants the idea that you can get away with that gaining currency.

«The groups conducted numerous attacks on government and civilian targets that resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, the internal displacement of approximately 1.8 million persons, and external displacement of an estimated 205,000 Nigerian refugees to neighboring countries, principally Cameroon, Chad, and Niger,» the report said.

After all, they had ordered and presided over the direct and indirect killing of tens or hundreds of thousands - in attacks on civilian and half - civlian targets, in «collateral damage», through the debilitating sanctions in 1990s that resulted in a huge death toll, indirectly through stoking inter-ethnic and inter-religious strife and so on.

The Foreign Office said it was not prepared to give a running commentary on targeting, but said that a person can be a target if their behaviour is threatening civilians.

Because North Korea can inflict severe damage on Seoul and several other cities in South Korea (targeting literally millions of civilians) with its conventional artillery.

The Executive Secretary of Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC), Air Commodore Anas recently disclosed that there is nothing wrong in imposing targets on the military but due to the asymmetric warfare which Boko Haram is prosecuting against civilian «soft targets» the December deadline is unrealistic.

«She has been outspoken on issues ranging from holding Syria accountable for failing to support the peace process, condemning attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah on soldiers and civilians, furthering aid to Israel, calling on the U.N. to take to task the Iranian government for threats targeting Israel and reaffirming the right of Israel to defend itself.»

Taken together, the secret documents lead to the conclusion that Washington's 14 - year high - value targeting campaign suffers from an overreliance on signals intelligence, an apparently incalculable civilian toll, and — due to a preference for assassination rather than capture — an inability to extract potentially valuable intelligence from terror suspects.

The mayor will appoint an independent civilian to monitor the New York Police Department's counterterrorism activities, lawyers said in court documents on Thursday as they moved to settle a pair of lawsuits over surveillance targeting Muslims in the decade after the Sept. 11 attacks.

This time the governor permits the drone to fire on the convoy, but only after first weighing the military value of the target against potential damage to civilian structures.

M.I.C. Joseph Zimmer (Jake Abel), who also works on the team, argues with her worldview — noting that terrorists don't think about civilian deaths when they are targeting our citizens.

The pair is then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets, while also stopping a mysterious operative that is plotting to start a World War in the Middle East.

Eye in the Sky — This timely tale of drone warfare features a fierce Helen Mirren as a Colonel hellbent on killing her target despite the potential loss of civilian life.

The pair are then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets.

The bombings targeted chemical weapons research and storage facilities after a recent suspected chemical attack on civilians in Syria.

During the Blitz, bombing raids instead focused on civilian and industrial targets in London and other cities.

Putting your first round on target is by far the most important thing in a civilian fire fight, not who draws and fires first.)

And the IHL concept of proportionality — that attack on a military target is permissible even if there will be civilian casualties as long as the civilian casualties are «proportional» to the military value of the target — is expressly utilitarian and inconsistent with Kant.

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