Sentences with phrase «on coalition forces»

Tony Benn has called on coalition forces to enter peace negotiations with the Taliban at a protest against the war in central London.

The Pakistani president called on coalition forces in Afghanistan to do more to improve monitoring and policing on the Afghan - Pakistani border.

Not exact matches

The Iraqi military, with support from the US - led coalition, Kurdish forces, and Iranian - backed Shiite militia units, have been slowly closing in on Mosul since the start of an offensive on October 16.

A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the munition landed a few hundred yards from coalition forces and failed to explode.

U.S. and Kurdish officials said the YPG's power on the ground and its readiness to attack are already well - known to the Islamic State militants, who are getting pounded in the Raqqa region by coalition airstrikes and firefights with YPG forces.

More than 75 % of the city is now cleared of ISIS fighters, he said on Thursday, adding that Syrian Democratic Forces, a mainly Kurdish force partnering with the coalition, «have made clear progress and we are seeing ISIS begin to lose its grip on their self - declared capital in Raqqa.»

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

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenduOn June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenduon in the legislature or put to a referendum.

A coalition of adverse forces seemed allied against Foster's determination and high hopes: (1) there was potential for a strike, should Foster balk at union demands; (2) 1983 might have proved not even close to the bottom of the recession for heavy machinery; (3) who knew what EPA standards the former owner had let slide, that the new one might be called on to correct?

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.

Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill by threatening to force uncooperative lawmakers from office in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.

In one instance, the Air Force said two A-10 Warthogs almost collided head - on with an Su - 24 flying in Coalition airspace.

«It's interesting the Russians didn't raise these unfounded allegations until a New York Times article publicly exposed a serious matter the Coalition has tried diligently to address daily via the deconfliction line,» an Air Force official told Business Insider in an email on Tuesday.

Coalition forces have moved their bases closer to the front, relaxed their rules of engagement and during the push on Mosul airport coalition advisors were embedded with forward Iraqi rapid response and special forcCoalition forces have moved their bases closer to the front, relaxed their rules of engagement and during the push on Mosul airport coalition advisors were embedded with forward Iraqi rapid response and special forccoalition advisors were embedded with forward Iraqi rapid response and special forces units.

A US - led coalition has been launching air strikes on Isis 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.

That religious and ethnic factions have turned on the occupation forces, and on each other as the power vacuum was not fully filled by the coalition - backed new democratic government.

The ship's 5,200 sailors arm, repair, launch and recover seven to 20 Super Hornet fighter jets every day that drop on average 10 bombs each or reconnoiter in support of anti-ISIS coalition forces.

You don't have to thank me for the service and sacrifice I made or have to agree with me on my view about bombing by coalition forces on civilians and continued military intervention in the middle east, you have the freedom to do that.

Also congratulated PM on Iraqi Sec Forces success against ISIS & highlighted the partnership [between] them & US military & coalition partners,» he tweeted.

Rebel groups and Islamist mercenaries from Chad and Sudan joined forces in December to form a militant coalition called Seleka, which took the capital, Bangui, on March 24 and sent then - President Francois Bozize into exile in Cameroon.

The warning came as Iain Duncan Smith champions the rollout of the «claimant commitment», a key part of the coalition's welfare reforms which forces those on jobseekers allowance to treat looking for work as a «full - time job».

Clegg took care to criticise his partners in coalition, including a forced jibe about Cameron which he made with a pained expression on his face.

When I was there we weren't being shot at too much because despite what we were being told further up the chain we weren't so stupid as to not go into every village and say «we're not going to touch your poppy» and arguably the upturn in violence against coalition forces came in 2009 and in 2010 when the American marine brigade started saying «oh hang on, weren't we supposed to eradicating poppies?

George Osborne has denied the coalition is U-turning over payday loans - after confirming the government will force the loan shark regulator to impose a cap on the cost of last - minute credit.

The most chilling moment on election night was hearing Theresa May, when asked what she now wanted a Conservative government to do that it had been prevented from doing by having to work with the Lib Dems in coalition, answer that her first priority was to pass legislation that would empower the security forces and the police to conduct surveillance on the scale needed to keep the country safe.

Iain Duncan Smith placed his political credibility on the line this morning, as the coalition's benefit cap finally comes into force across the country.

Coalition forces conducted 10 strikes in northern, central, and eastern Syria on Sunday, in one of the highest number of raids for the campaign in weeks.

While Ed Miliband floats around the country playing the role of a man with integrity, it's worth noting that despite «marching for the alternative» a few years ago with the people he claims to represent, he turned his back on public sector workers and those on «Workfare», whilst allowing changes to employment law to go through virtually unchallenged, allowing the coalition to force through it's anti-worker agenda.

Many Tory party activists refused to believe the Lib Dems would go ahead with the threat during last autumn's party conference season, but are now being forced to confront the coalition's junior party intransigence on the issue.

Similarly, in his remarks to the Commons on 20 March 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron argued that coalition forces had a «just cause» to use force.

Likewise, though there have been denials of direct support from the air for rebel operations on the ground, the media reported that rebel advances on towns like Ajdabiya (and others) was only made possible because of coalition attacks against Libya military forces defending those towns.

The Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy applauded the task force for drawing a new Asian - American majority Senate district in Queens and a new Assembly district but criticized the group for dividing Flushing.

While British forces are taking part in air strikes on IS targets in Iraq, they are not involved in the US - led coalition targeting Syria due to resistance from opposition parties still mindful of previous unpopular interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If this is not possible, then a Labour - led coalition with the Liberals would be preferable to a Tory government or a Tory - Lib coalition — for the same reason that this gives the working class a slightly better relationship of forces within which to resist the assault on its living standards which will be unleashed by any government arising from the current election.

The tide of the conflict in Afghanistan has turned in favour of coalition forces, Nick Clegg has said on a surprise visit to Helmand province.

As Iraqi «Chemical» Ali was constantly on television lying about the imminent defeat of Iraq by the Western Coalition Forces, telling Iraqis that the forces of Saddam Hussein were fending off the Coalition Forces whereas the opposite was actually occurring on the ground, so is President «Comical» Mahama doing to GhanForces, telling Iraqis that the forces of Saddam Hussein were fending off the Coalition Forces whereas the opposite was actually occurring on the ground, so is President «Comical» Mahama doing to Ghanforces of Saddam Hussein were fending off the Coalition Forces whereas the opposite was actually occurring on the ground, so is President «Comical» Mahama doing to GhanForces whereas the opposite was actually occurring on the ground, so is President «Comical» Mahama doing to Ghanaians.

Business secretary Vince Cable has acknowledged the growth of Ukip as a force in British politics, saying the coalition parties need to start «engaging with them on major issues».

According to an IEC spokesman, President Hamid Karzai and General David Petraeus, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, reviewed the proposed list of polling stations on Saturday, which led to the electoral body removing an additional 100 stations that the security forces had said were safe.

This in turns makes cabinet formation more difficult and forces parties to rely on the larger, sometimes uneasy coalitions that are usual in other parliamentary democracies with proportional representation.

After incumbent president Hamid Karzai accepted the need for a second round yesterday coalition forces are contemplating preparing a second round of voting to take place on November 7th, less than three weeks away.

«Jamaica» coalition talks collapsed on Sunday night after Christian Lindner (Fdp) said no to governing with the CDU and Greens, and Angela Merkel was forced to acknowledge that the margins for negotiation were depleted.

Mr Brown focused on the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan where the Taliban hold «safe havens» against coalition forces.

The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York, a Binghamton - based organization representing landowners who had hoped to lease their gas rights to energy companies, had previously sued the Cuomo administration in an unsuccessful attempt to force a decision on fracking prior to the ban.

«Forcing a vote to the floor is not the way the IDC and the coalition was put together,» Savino said on the program.

The New York Farm Bureau has joined a broad coalition of groups that have joined forces to oppose a constitutional convention as the November vote on whether to hold one nears.

Unlike Tim Montgomerie, I don't believe that the formation of the Coalition was a mistake, for one reason: if the Liberal Democrats had forced a second election, David Cameron wouldn't have won it on present boundaries (any more than he won that of May 2010); and if they hadn't forced such an election, they would simply have joined with Labour to vote down radical Tory legisaltion in any event.

Testone also sits on the board of CenterLink, a nationwide coalition of LGBTQ community centers, on the Executive Board of the City University of New York Institute for Health Equality, and on the Bronx Borough President's LGBT Policy Task Force.

The breadth of that coalition was evident at Gallo's victory party at Frank Guido's Little Italy on Thomas Street Tuesday night, where the same Democratic Party establishment that spurned him at the party's June nominating convention turned out in force to celebrate the win.

The prime minister claimed the coalition is «shining a spotlight on that waste» by forcing councils to reveal everything spent over # 500.

David Cameron has been forced to defend the coalition's decision to end the «spare room subsidy» on a weekly basis in recent prime minister's questions.