Sentences with phrase «weapons against the regime»

«When we see a crisis of this sort, the use of chemical weapons against the regime's own people, there needs to be a response and that response needs to come from the international community,» the PM's spokesman explained.

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In Europe, the frontrunner to the French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron, said that there should be an international military intervention against the Syrian regime if it is proved that it is using chemical weapons.

The sanctions are the latest against third - country companies and individuals in an effort to exert greater economic pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime, which has conducted regular missile and nuclear tests in defiance of United Nations resolutions and has developed weapons that may be capable of hitting the continental U.S.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

The Iranian regime has shown it will use destructive weapons against its neighbors and others.

The passions of war aroused, we diverted attention from Afghanistan to the prospect of a preemptive strike against Iraq, not simply to remove banned weapons but to replace the regime.

More than 500,000 Iraqi children were malnourished even before the war, partly due to United Nations sanctions against the regime for its weapons programs.

So President Obama is proposing a limited missile strike in order to send the message to foreign governments that if they deploy chemical weapons against their own people, the US might eventually launch an attack that wil leave the targeted regime intact.

There have been many questions about the Assad regime using chemical weapons against the rebels opposing him.

Tory MP Jesse Norman has been kicked off the Number 10 policy board after refusing to back the Prime Minister's call for action against the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons.

It essentially gives a free pass to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, which built the illegal weapons, used them against Iran and its own Kurdish opposition and failed to destroy them as required by numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions.