Sentences with phrase «threat of air strikes»

He explained that even when the children did go to school, the constant noise and threat of air strikes meant it was hard for them to focus anyway.

Not exact matches

The S - 300 sale is potentially a threat to intervention by air in the Syrian Civil War by the U.S. or its allies (the U.K. and France, for example, also participated in the chemical weapons retaliation strike in April of 2018, and Turkish aircraft have intervened in parts of the Syrian Civil War as well, for example, shooting down a Russian jet fighter which was intruding into its air space).

Off the top of my mind, (1) «a very large military» is not necessarily good at fighting vs. rebels; air strikes won't «destroy»; they can only accompany ground invasion; (2) ground strike means attacker's losses; (3) invasion must be justified, no threat to Turkey yet; (4) a NATO member should agree its actions with the NATO HQ; (5) Kurds are considered a bigger threat for Turkey; (6) Turkey may not want help Assad's who has killed 10 times more civ's than ISIS

Fourth, The Prime Minister has avoided spelling out to the British people the warnings he has surely been given about the likely impact of UK air strikes in Syria on the threat of terrorist attacks in the UK.

He went on to say that while he was against proposals to extend air strikes to Syria, he could not «in good conscience» endorse the view of the Stop the War Coalition, who he described as «fundamentally wrong in their assessment and understanding of the threats the UK faces.»

«During the past three years of armed conflict, Yemenis have been continuously exposed to serious harm and trauma, including air strikes, threats and attacks from armed groups, forced disappearances, torture, a cholera epidemic, and food and job insecurity,» said Farea Al - Muslimi, a prominent Yemeni scholar and chairman of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies.

The new contract would includes a 10 percent raise over two years, likely bringing to an end the threat of a strike that has been in the air since the summer.

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.