Sentences with phrase «years of terrorist attacks»

The medieval street plan of narrow streets and years of terrorist attacks have made it an almost impenetrable fortress for any vehicle with more than two wheels!

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Xinjiang has been racked for years by a series of violent attacks which Beijing blames on exiled Uighur separatist groups whom it says are aligned with foreign terrorist networks.

France remains in a state of emergency following deadly terrorist attacks over the past two years.

In the more than 10 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, between 2.5 and three million U.S. soldiers have served in active duty.

Last year, three executives of a Chinese railway construction company were killed in a terrorist shooting in Mali, and in 2014 a series of kidnappings and attacks targeted Chinese workers in Nigeria, Zambia and Cameroon.

The city has seen a mounting number of terrorist attacks in recent years, including last year's coordinated gun and bomb attacks targeting bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France, which left 129 dead and hundreds injured.

In a country where more than 230 people have been killed by terrorist attacks since January 2015 and unemployment still stands at 10 % nine years after the financial crisis, a growing part of the population is ready for a radical change.

A veteran of D - Day, he capped a lauded career on Wall Street and in the State Department by shepherding the first years of the city's fractious effort to rebuild after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

When the most devastating terrorist attacks on America in the last 20 years come overwhelmingly from people of a single faith, and are performed in the name of that faith, a special obligation falls on that faith's leaders to respond,» Pompeo said McClatchyC - SPAN

France is still under a state of emergency after Islamist terrorists murdered 130 and wounded many more in attacks across Paris last year.

There'd been a number of terrorist attacks on churches, bombings of churches, continued instances of churches being closed down, so this has been building up for some years.

During the past two years, reports of terrorist attacks against Christians have steadily emerged from the Muslim world: 7 Egyptian Christians executed on a Benghazi beach, 165 Christian girls kidnapped from school by Boko Haram, and 21 Coptic Christians beheaded near the Mediterranean Sea, among other incidents.

We are all aware of the horror of the terrorist attacks in recent years and of the senseless attack outside the mosque in Finsbury Park, London.

But recent research by the libertarian Cato Institute found that «the chance of an American being murdered in a terrorist attack caused by a refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion per year.»

More than 8,500 terrorist attacks killed nearly 15,500 people last year as violence tore through Africa, Asia and the Middle East, according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.

In the United States, seven people died in 11 terrorist attacks last year, six of them in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

According to the writer, if Obama is elected president, evangelicals can expect «hardship,» «persecution,» and «suffering» in the years to come... not to mention an inevitable surge in terrorist attacks, vandalism at Christian bookstores, and the demise of Boy Scouts of America.

On the ten - year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, many Americans are wondering whether the risk of a terrorist attack against America has been reduced.

A few years ago a male dressed in a full facial covered outfit attempted a terrorist attack in Europe and a few years after 9/11 one of the uk bombers attempted to flee the country while dressed in the same.

But 15 years after the worst terrorist attacks in American history, we are still having to defend the existence of a facility and a process when not a single verdict has been reached in those attacks.

Today marks the 16th year of The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al - Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

Maybe jack didn't fancy moving his family to turkey for just a one year loan, in light of recent terrorist attacks and needing to up root his family.

Seven - year - old Julian Alessandro Cadman has been confirmed as a victim of the Barcelona terrorist attack.

The Norwich City team observe a minutes silence to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the USA

The terrorist attacks of the following day defined her next eight years.

In addition to the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, the state primary this year would also fall on the last day of Rosh Hashanah.

Add to this that the people of US had not experienced any major terrorist attack for many years, it was easier to radicalize them using even small scale attacks, which trump did successfully.

«So, I was 19 years old, and I get in the car and I drive to Washington to get justice for the victims of this terrorist attack.

«When we met at the council of ministers on July 13th last year, after the terror attacks in London, we came to the conclusion that a united Europe will win the battle with terrorists.

Trump enraged civil libertarians a year ago by calling for an outright ban on Muslims entering the nation, following the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., that resulted in the deaths of 14 state workers at a holiday party.

«Although concern over a terrorist attack remains disquietingly high, over half of all New Yorkers and slightly more Gotham residents must be somewhat reassured by their belief that the U.S. is safer today than it was ten years ago.

A special ceremony honored the memory of 35 Syracuse University students who were killed in a terrorist attack nearly 30 years ago.

NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement today on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks: «As New Yorkers and Americans, we stand united in remembering the lives lost 16 years ago today.

The similar work done to improve safety in the wake of the terrorist attacks in September 2001 «gives us a 10 - year head start on dealing with unexpected events,» argues NEI president Marvin Fertel, and FLEX builds on that approach.

NSEERS, the National Security Entry - Exit Registration System, known informally as the «special registration program,» commenced exactly 1 year after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and since then hundreds of thousands of people have registered.

And their flexible, intelligent arms are the envy of roboticists and artificial intelligence engineers worldwide.But these animals, which have evolved over hundreds of millions of years, can teach us even more about security in the 21st century than camo and communications, Rafe Sagarin argues in his new book Learning from the Octopus: How secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters and disease (Basic Books, April 2012).

does just that, 15 years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York.

In addition to the recent one - year anniversary of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's assassination by U.S. military forces in Pakistan, a CIA drone strike earlier this week in Yemen killed AQAP head of operations, Fahd Mohammad Ahmed al Quso, an alleged planner of the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a two - year, $ 16 million study of the twin - tower collapse that will address three pressing questions: whether current testing standards and building codes are adequate to resist catastrophic fires; whether building codes sufficiently take into account what engineers call progressive collapse, the chain reaction that leads to extremely rapid collapse (in the case of the World Trade Center towers, about 10 seconds); and how existing buildings can be made less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

First conceived after the shock of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Holtec's record of storing used nuclear fuel in a retrievable configuration below - the - ground is now 12 years old.

In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in Paris, discussion continues in Canada regarding the federal government's plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by year's end.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Western Recounts Religious Fanaticism Which Led to Mormon Massacre September 11, 2001 wasn't the first time that religious fanatics launched a bloody terrorist attack in the name of God on that day of the year.

Fuqua: «Actually this film was written a few years ago before all of the current nuclear stuff, but we went out of our way to make it more about extremist terrorists as opposed to the country itself attacking us.»

Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock are the parents of a uniquely strange nine - year - old who is doesn't know how to cope with the fact that his father has been killed in the terrorist attacks.

That the attacks, which took the lives of the Ambassador (Matt Letscher), Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith (Christopher Dingli), Tyrone «Rone» Woods (James Badge Dale) and Glen «Bub» Doherty (Toby Stephens), occurred on the 11 - year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks serves to heighten the drama.

Ten years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the profound impact on the United States is not hard to see, from heightened domestic - security measures to the U.S. role in conflicts deemed part of a war on terror.

With the 14 - year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaching, now is the time for you and your students to commemorate that infamous day in American history.

With the murder of an 85 - year - old physicist, it's left to one of his colleagues, the victim's granddaughter, and her nine - year - old son to thwart a complex scheme to launch the «most devastating terrorist attack in human history.»

One year ago, a cowardly terrorist attack at Garissa University College robbed this nation of 148 souls.

Last year, Dozer and Lupe were deployed to the scene of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, along with two English Labrador retrievers.