Sentences with phrase «using military strikes»

Another danger of such an approach of using military strikes to promote a political solution is that it will be very difficult to get the balance right between the threat of continuing and escalating military action against the regime and shifting the balance of power just enough to create incentives on both sides to negotiate.

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The S&P / TSX composite index was up 17.31 points to 12,757.81 as investors wondered if the United States will end up leading a military strike against Syria, which it accuses of using poison gas against its own civilian population.

A U.S. official familiar with the military planning said there could be more air strikes if the intelligence indicates Assad had not stopped making, importing, storing or using chemical weapons, including chlorine.

Trump noted that the strike was underway and did not give further details of the targets or the military assets used.

Earlier this month, the New York Times, quoting an unnamed Israeli military source, reported that Israel struck a Syrian air base that Tehran used.

Although Paul's filibuster was technically against Brennan's nomination, his remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.

Cohen has worked on an alternative system that would use live data on lightning strikes and the radio waves they emit to build a more resilient navigation system for the military that would be much more difficult to disrupt.

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 U.S. just levied fresh sanctions against the Eastern European country for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and early last week President Donald Trump warned Russia that the U.S. military could soon strike its ally Syria in response to its use of chemical weapons — a promise he kept Friday evening.

Nervous investors are waiting to see if the U.S. will launch a military strike on Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons.

The American military strike against Syria threatened Russian - American relations as the Kremlin denounced President Donald Trump's use of force and the Russian military indicated it would suspend an agreement to share information about air operations over the country that was devised to avoid accidental conflict.

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.

Regardless of where you stand on these strikes, there is no question that President Trump must come before Congress and seek an Authorization for Use of Military Force before any escalation of this conflict.

Russian elites have used Obama's striking change of opinion as proof that Moscow's military interventions in Ukraine and Syria have boosted Russia's international status.

It's only later that it strikes me how strange it is that I'm corresponding with a retired navy commander about military strategies that may have been used in British and US elections.

The greatest set - back to military cooperation came when Britain U-turned on plans to make its next generation F - 35 joint strike fighter able to land on French aircraft, which use a different launching system, due to costs.

Cameroon teachers on strike in battle over English or French Cameroonian forces have cracked down on protests in the English - speaking region that erupted last October, beating and arresting protesters, some of whom face the death penalty in military courts — under the same anti-terrorism law used to prosecute the journalist Ahmed Abba.

They can be used to open additional sidequests or call for military grade distractions such as flares for air strikes.

As a commanding officer of the German forces your task is to use blitzkrieg military and strike back to the invading Russian army.

With Real Strike, players can use their smartphones to turn any location into a first - class military simulation field.

A great example of disruptive patterning would be the razzle - dazzle patterns used on WWI military ships, where an accumulation of graphic, black and white shapes were painted of the vessels so that the enemy would be confused where to strike.

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Project Maven involves using artificial intelligence to improve the precision of military drone strikes.