Sentences with phrase «own civilian casualty»

The increase in air strikes has led to concerns over civilian casualties, particularly after the United Nations reported a spike in deaths caused by air strikes last year.

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

Additionally, Iraqi forces have opted to use slower tactics focused on cordoning off and clearing one neighborhood at a time in order to minimize civilian casualties.

The Pentagon is currently uncertain as to whether or not the airstrike was successful in eliminating the senior leader, although it noted that there was no sign of civilian casualties.

Sofge, who stressed coalition forces» efforts to avoid civilian casualties, said the actual process likely takes less time to complete than it does to describe, in part because of the experience they have doing it and because parts of it happen concurrently.

Since that shift, there's been a significant spike in both civilian casualties and insider attacks; on Oct. 19, the increasingly - emboldened Taliban virtually wiped out a 60 - man Afghan National Army unit like it was nothing.

That works out to 80 civilian casualties a month under Obama and 360 a month during the Trump administration.

The Central Command statement said US forces «took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties.»

«The [US] military is trying to minimize civilian casualties and use precision weapons.

The crown prince is also due to meet with members of the U.S. Congress, some of whom have been critical of the Saudi campaign in Yemen, particularly the humanitarian situation and civilian casualties.

Some of these launching pits are located in areas near hospitals and schools in the heart of populated areas and institutions attended by a large number of people, making them difficult to attack because of the risk of civilian casualties.

The missiles struck infrastructure at the airfield, according to the administration, but did not target chemical weapons storage facilities because of the potential for civilian casualties.

If you can't name him right away, check Google... for reliability use Google to find out a report made public by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg School of Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclusion...

General Westmoreland (particularly as time went by) was conducting carpet bombing and large - unit movements that made civilian casualties more probable while failing to address the insidious rifle - to - rifle guerilla warfare that was arousing the fears of ordinary Vietnamese villagers and peasants.

As reports of civilian casualties mount, we see that, just as Jesus warned, human attempts to «root out evil» on our own, by force, result in the destruction of innocent lives.

We're still talking about airstrikes and minimizing civilian casualties.

Between some 245,000 to 415,000 South Korean civilian deaths were also suggested, and the total civilian casualties during the war were estimated as 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 (most sources estimate some 2,000,000 casualties).»

Are you incapable of distinguishing between targeting warriors and having unintended civilian casualties from targeting civilians?

Yes, there is colateral damage, and there are civilian casualties, but fewer than with other methods, and those hazards exists in all forms of war (hence why I would understand religion protesting war in general).

There is too much we simply do not know about the war and the conduct of the war, or even how many civilian casualties there have been.

(It has never attempted to report civilian casualties publicly or accurately.)

«We know that that's driving civilian casualties and death, so this is not the time to resign ourselves toward the inevitable but to recognise our own responsibility in it.»

It's notoriously difficult to collect real data on civilian casualties.

The strikes raise questions about rules of engagement, and whether some of the laws put in place to minimize civilian casualties have been relaxed under President Donald Trump.

What makes this war tactic even more controversial is that U.S. officials rarely mention civilian casualties as a result of drone strikes.

What's your source to show that the civilian casualties aren't accurate?

The real «worst truth» here is that drone pilots still cause fewer civilian casualties than the alternatives.

In the UK prior to the bombing all except one poll, which asked the question, showed a majority against bombing if it caused civilian casualties.

«There is no frontline fighting or shelling any longer; and the number of civilian casualties has gone down.

According to Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, «the [Saudi - led] Coalition is responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as all other forces put together, virtually all as a result of airstrikes».

For certain critics, even one civilian casualty incurred in a campaign designed to save lives will be viewed as too many.

One could of course make the argument that limited civilian casualties would be tolerable (assuming adherence to the principles of discrimination and proportionality) to the extent that the air campaign proves successful in forestalling widespread and systematic attacks on civilians.

What will this intervention do differently to ensure that there are limited civilian casualties?»

The Justice Department's core argument is that the U.S. is likely to have only «a limited window of opportunity within which to defend Americans in a manner that has both a likelihood of success and sufficiently reduces the probabilities of civilian casualties.»

An interesting question to discuss here would have been whether callous targeting that brings about multiple civilian casualties may blur this distinction.

The resignation of the Foreign Office minister will be a huge embarrassment for Cameron, who was warned recently that centrist Tories were uncomfortable with his unwavering support for Israel despite the extent of civilian casualties in Gaza.

In sum, the definition of imminence that the Obama administration is promoting is extraordinarily broad, opening the door to killings in cases where there is no evidence of a specific attack being planned in the immediate future, and — by implication (since more attacks would be made possible)-- to a higher risk of civilian casualties.

While parts of this logic make sense in the abstract, and do make an attempt to come to grips with the unusual nature of the threat posed by terrorism, the rationale conforms neither to the experience with drone attacks to date (which have incurred heavy civilian casualties) or to the efforts of other countries, such as Israel (more on this below), to respect the imminence restraint.

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 Labour leader said: «Whether it's the lack of a strategy worth the name, the absence of credible ground troops, the missing diplomatic plan for a Syrian settlement, the failure to address the impact on the terrorist threat, or the refugee crisis and civilian casualties, it's become increasingly clear that the prime minister's proposals for military action simply do not stack up.»

There is broad consensus that civilian casualties must be minimised in warfare and they can not be legitimate military targets (See Geneva Convention (I), § 50; Rome Statute, § 8 (2)(b), Walzer, 152 - 9).

The vote does not compel EU member states to act but it does increase pressure on Riyadh, in the wake of criticism from the UN and growing international alarm over civilian casualties in Yemen.

From 1 January 2014 through 31 October 2015, UNAMI / OHCHR recorded at least 55,047 civilian casualties as a result of the conflict, with 18,802 people killed and 36, 245 wounded

UNHCR reported in 2015 there estimates of civilian casualties in the Syrian conflict but didn't specify who killed them

Allowing so called «rebels» to leave certain territory in order to avoid civilian casualties and further destruction became a norm in Syrian civil war, at least on SAA and Russian side.

The resolution called for an «immediate ceasefire», and permitted the international community to use «all means necessary short of military occupation'to prevent further civilian casualties.

In the lead up to the vote, Arab League secretary - general Amr Moussa's outspoken attack over alleged civilian casualties raised concerns in Westminster about the extent of international support for the mission.

William Hague has decided to expel five Libyan diplomats from their embassy in London following civilian casualties in the north African country.

He said that a team from the Police Explosive Ordinance Department was promptly drafted to the scene to restore law and order, adding that there was no civilian casualty.

The capital Kabul is now the most dangerous province for civilians - 19 % of civilian casualties in the country in 2016 were in the region.