Sentences with phrase «strike on civilians»

This requires distinguishing between combatants and civilians and taking precautions against strikes on civilian areas and infrastructure.

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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.

Macron said in February that «France will strike» in the event of lethal chemical attack on civilians by government forces in Syria.

But the negotiations crumbled this week and air strikes resumed on Friday, killing 40 civilians according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

So far stocks are up since the United States launched a limited military strike against Syria, over allegations it used poison gas on civilians.

The measures come as President Donald Trump is threatening an imminent military strike against Syria, vowing to respond «forcefully» to Saturday's apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians.

Hundreds of rockets were fired, military force was striking back and civilian deaths were mounting on both sides.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

Maybe, you know, if we weren't fighting wars in Muslim countries, that is to say, invading them, f *** ing up our drone strikes to kill civilians, going on the occasional shooting rampage and body desecration, and supporting Israel.

Secondly, while the notion of «surgical» air strikes, and «precision - guided» weaponry lends itself to the impression that air campaigns carry minimal risks to civilians on the ground, this is clearly not the case.

Before that, air strikes had been used to force ISIS away from trapped civilians on Sinjar Mountain, averting another humanitarian crisis, and the bulk of American bombing has been in the Mosul Dam area, seeking to destroy the military hardware ISIS need to try and retake the dam off Kurdish Pershmerga militias.

Elsewhere, the Britain - based Observatory said the toll in Thursday's air strikes on the town on Albu Kamal on the Syrian border with Iraq had risen to 49 people, at least 31 of them civilians.

She drew scrutiny for secretly meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad and criticizing the U.S. strike on Syria following Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians.

Relations between Afghanistan and the West have been more strained than ever of late following a Nato air strike on Friday, ordered by a German commander, which was said to have killed up to 70 civilians.

In the succeeding months, which brought the collapse of France, the threat of invasion across the Channel, and the heavy air raids on London and other cities, the Daily Worker seemed to be implementing this policy by encouraging unrest in the forces and among the civilian population, and by advocating stoppages and strikes in industry.

However, on the last day of the fund - flows week the Dow witnessed a 218 - point decline as Trump suggested he was considering a military strike in Syria after a suspected Assad - led chemical weapons attack in the rebel - held town of Douma over the weekend killed an estimated 43 civilians and injured hundreds more.

The proceeds from the sale of graffiti artist Banksy's Civilian Drone Strike, 2017 — a work depicting three Predator drones dropping bombs on a framed illustration of a house and stick figures — will go to two humanitarian organisations: Campaign Against Arms Trade and Reprieve.

The striking difference was that while in a common law faculty, first year students are inundated with judgments, civil law students read a half - dozen judgments and mostly relied on a text, «doctrine» as civilians call it: a book that summarized the area of law, usually by the prof or another leading scholar.