"We had five convoys ready to go and for the last four days all of the five convoys could not go," Egeland told reporters.
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"The first convoys have entered the camp," said Abu Abdullah, a member of the civilian council that runs the camp and has coordinated with the U.N. on humanitarian aid convoys.
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It is moved across the world in heavily armed convoys.
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Israel has repeatedly struck Iranian arms convoys bound for Lebanon.
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Aid convoys cannot enter, they said, until conditions become safer.
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Around the square, car convoys were honking, celebrating the results.
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Armed groups have attacked bridges, military convoys and government buildings.
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Usual targets include convoys of Syrian military or Hezbollah members.
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The convoys on Monday included deliveries from Unicef and the World Food Program, along with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, the local Red Cross affiliate that takes part in all international aid convoys in Syria.
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Ceasefires and humanitarian convoys were planned and sometimes came to pass.
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And, if a war is on, such convoys make tempting targets.
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Convoys must typically sail full both ways to turn a profit.
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The U.N. has begun sending aid convoys to five besieged areas.
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Four of the convoys, he said, required approval by the regime.
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Yet devastating attacks on villages, convoys, government offices and hotels continue.
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Near its western gate, the column split into three smaller convoys.
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The Syrian government removed medical supplies from 28500 of those convoys.
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Egeland said aid agencies need sustained access to civilians, rather than the familiar "stop-go" situation whereby Syria's government switches approvals for convoys on and off and some aid convoys get only conditional or partial clearance.
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When asked about opposition demands for the government to lift sieges and allow humanitarian convoys into cities, including the rebel-held town of Mouadamiya, Ja'afari said the government had regularly sent convoys to it and other cities.
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It's no longer PMCs being hired to defend convoys and so on.
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Police escorts led traffic convoys along the highway during daylight hours Friday.
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"There have been no convoys to besieged areas in July," Mueller said.
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As convoys of police and military vehicles screamed past, Broussard stepped out.
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In December 2015, United Nations convoys delivered food for 2.5 million people.
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Police were providing escorts for aid convoys to prevent supplies being intercepted.
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Yet small convoys of smugglers attempt the crossing several times a week.
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Hotspots where armoured cars used to rumble now receive convoys of tourists.
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However, Venezuelan security forces halted the convoys with a barrage of teargas.
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Musk mentioned multiple Semis driving in convoys, but nothing specifically about platoons.
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On February 17th some aid convoys began to roll out of Damascus.
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Jordan long ago closed its border to aid convoys headed to Rukban.
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When those convoys are attacked, we lose soldiers, and we lose Marines.
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The families on those convoys had been forced to leave their homes.
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But convoys of armed merchantmen and their destroyer escorts were another matter.
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"The U.N. convoys and evacuation teams are ready to go," he said.
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Aid convoys arrive The second wave of aid convoys entered the besieged cities of Madaya, al-Fouaa and Kefraya on Thursday evening, delivering desperately needed food and humanitarian supplies to residents, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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Convoys of vehicles packed with evacuees and protected by soldiers streamed into Iligan.
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Aid convoys were languishing at the Turkish border as eastern Aleppo remained besieged.
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The UN and several other humanitarian groups said they were suspending aid convoys.
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Convoys of National Guard trucks rumbled through town, and boaters plied the streets.
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The militants attacked military posts and passing convoys, and planted bombs on roads.
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Gunmen intercepted military convoys delivering reinforcements and sprayed them with bullets, Sandoval said.
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Trilobites, we discovered, followed each other across the sea bed in long convoys.
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Our missions were often targeted by roadside bombs; my convoys were hit twice.
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Supplies must be delivered by air or sea, rather than with convoys of trucks.
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Turkey, which backs some of the rebels, said one of its convoys was hit.
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The Syrian regime also occasionally allows UN-sponsored humanitarian convoys to enter the suburbs.
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The latest word from the Assad regime is that it will allow food convoys.
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People danced in the squares as convoys of cars drove around honking their horns.
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In Idlib governorate, convoys also reached the rebel-surrounded towns of Foah and Kefraya.
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Some aid convoys began to roll from Damascus last week and more will follow.
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De Mistura asks that all sides stop firing and let aid convoys get through.
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The group posted photographs online of their convoys on highways near the Iraqi border.
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U.N. aid convoys are waiting for Syria's government to give them a green light.
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The convoys at times hurtle through cities, villages and towns at hair-raising speeds.
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The West Virginia National Guard sent convoys of tankers containing drinking water to Vienna.
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Daraya was not on the Syrian list of approved destinations for humanitarian relief convoys.
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It would also include mobile security by private contractors for convoys traveling the highway.
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Military convoys carrying tanks continued passing the border town all night and other days.
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An additional 800,000 Syrians received United Nations aid through cross-border convoys in November.
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Arnold often spent time working security details with private contractor convoys from Kuwait to Iraq.
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He volunteered for convoys and patrols so he could fight alongside and protect his brothers.
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When fleeing IS convoys left Fallujah, they were an easy target for prowling coalition aircraft.
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American warplanes have twice hit convoys of Iranian militiamen, raising tensions between Washington and Tehran.
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Last month, Venezuelan government troops blocked U.S.-backed aid convoys entering from Colombia and Brazil.
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The only way to effectively get aid around Syria is by UN troops protecting convoys.
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Self-driving convoys, for instance, could help mitigate the number of personnel lost to IEDs.
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The two convoys were carrying enough food for 80,000 people for a month, he said.
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Mined sand, sorted to bespoke criteria and requiring convoys of trucks, is more expensive still.
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And aid convoys have been reaching many thousands of desperate Syrians trapped by government forces.
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A Silicon Valley start-up called Peloton is focusing on truck convoys for fuel efficiency.
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In February Venezuelan government troops blocked U.S.-backed aid convoys entering from Colombia and Brazil.
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On Thursday, SANA said government aid convoys had reached Deir al-Zour city, Reuters reported.
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And supplies and workers can't just roll in on convoys from the next state over.
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When American military convoys were common here, it was a frequent target for roadside bombs.
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American military surveillance planes and satellites could track missile transporters and convoys of fuel trucks.
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Once the transport starts, no one will be able to join the convoys, he added.
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In February, Venezuelan government troops blocked U.S.-backed aid convoys entering from Colombia and Brazil.
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"It is highly distressing that Semafo made the decision to protect its expat workers by flying them to its mines precisely because of past attacks on ground convoys, and yet continues to rely on exposed ground convoys for its local workers," Mr. Wanless said.
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Altamimi's backstory is unique having driven convoys for the Marines before being captured by Al-Qaeda.
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Army convoys are coming from Hama and Brigade 93 in the northern town of Ain Essa.
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Unfortunately, those convoys became targets, and nearly 1,000 troops died delivering fuel in really dangerous areas.
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Even Western diplomats move freely without the convoys that accompany them in many other Arab capitals.
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Throughout the day, their supplies are replenished by pickup trucks and convoys of ox-drawn carts.
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They have attacked convoys on the highway in Kunduz and in the neighboring province of Baghlan.
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It took over 12 hours to make the usual five-hour trip, negotiating between military convoys.
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In February, Venezuelan troops blocked U.S.-backed aid convoys trying to enter from Colombia and Brazil.
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Witnesses reported renewed clashes in several districts Saturday as convoys of Iraqi military vehicles moved in.
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Police have escorted the caravan at times and stopped traffic to help the convoys stay together.
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This year, at least 12 have died and at least eight humanitarian convoys have been attacked.
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A Syrian military source denied the report, saying only insurgent convoys and positions had been hit.
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He traveled with military convoys and worked on Camp Black Horse and Camp Alamo in Kabul.
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The armed peacekeepers are accompanying convoys because of cases of looting and attacks on aid trucks.
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"Every day we would see convoys of people being brought to the train station," she added.
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And there is more: the pernicious improvised bombs the Taliban hide to attack convoys and patrols.
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The convoys heading to the towns in the north are currently being checked in Idlib city.
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However, the PMF later issued another statement saying that no medical convoys were targeted in Taji.
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The men ventured out only in convoys with a dozen armed companions for fear of being ambushed.
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Throughout the war, Israel has frequently struck convoys believed to be carrying weapons to Iran's regional allies.
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So Israel avoids hitting Hezbollah convoys or rockets inside Lebanon and prefers to strike it inside Syria.
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ALONG the banks of the swollen Mekong, aspiring politicians lead small convoys of vehicles through the countryside.
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He also wanted to get access for convoys to reach the Aleppo area and the Homs area.
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It was not immediately clear whether the convoys would begin on Wednesday, as de Mistura had indicated.
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Iranian convoys transporting militiamen and weapons by land would present ideal targets for Islamic State, for example.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad&aposs government routinely blocks aid convoys from reaching areas opposed to its rule.
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Most were aimed at weapons convoys and depots belonging to Hizbullah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shia movement.
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The UN's humanitarian office, OCHA, is ready to resume humanitarian convoys in Syria, said spokesperson Jens Laerke.
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Convoys were able to reach Madaya last month, but only with enough food to last into February.
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", while road signs graffitied in Creole appealed to passing aid convoys: "Please stop, we need help too.
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Navy ships offshore, dozens of helicopters and cargo planes flying overhead, military convoys heading into affected areas.
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Rebel forces are besieging Foua and Kefraya, two Shi'ite villages in Idlib that have received multiple convoys.
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Later he was assigned to a "real guerrilla group" and learned to throw grenades at German convoys.
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Méhaule and his colleagues set off in convoys of white Toyota Highlanders, searching for the displacement sites.
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They serve as aerial sentinels for convoys and raid teams and provide aerial support for interdiction missions.
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Since February 2014, medical supplies for over 650,000 treatments have been taken from aid convoys, O'Brien said.
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These show convoys of heavy weapons moving on the peninsula, including missile systems intended for coastal defense.
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We have to group in small units and do a lot of destruction of their logistics convoys.
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All the while rockets were somehow mysteriously being fired at American convoys and patrols in each war.
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The militants have attacked military convoys and installations, and they continue to carry out regular suicide bombings.
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Later it signified a traveling home for Roma, and still later it came to describe motorized convoys.
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Many years later I read another classic about the Arctic convoys: "The Cruel Sea," by Nicholas Monsarrat.
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Notably, Russia has not publicly complained when Israel has bombed convoys believed to be bound for Hezbollah.
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They are self-contained units — traveling in truck convoys with food, fuel and rescue supplies, including boats.
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Over the weekend, violence broke out when the Venezuelan military blocked aid convoys at the country's border.
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The Assad regime and its Russian partners have for years systematically targeted hospitals, clinics and humanitarian convoys.
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"Their convoys are moving from Manbij to Afrin ...they are passing through regime territory," Abdul Rahim said.
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Young people were waving Algerian flags or driving in convoys through the city center, where on Feb.
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Convoys of up to 2200 buses carrying 2230 people each leave as frequently as four times a week.
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Conditions for those being evacuated are grim, with evacuees waiting for convoys of buses in freezing winter temperatures.
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The minister and her entourage had driven in different convoys towards Rotterdam to avoid Dutch police, he said.
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Kinik said convoys were taking tens of thousands of refugees from an area around Homs in western Syria.
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One of the convoys consisted of 700 vehicles, said the commander of the Iraqi Air Force, Lt. Gen.
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And instead of leaving in convoys, the lorries now depart separately late at night, and take back streets.
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For a period, aid access was opened up and convoys of food and medicines were allowed to enter.
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Elsewhere in Syria, aid convoys reached the four besieged towns of Foua, Kufreya, Madaya and Zabadani this week.
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The U.N. had requested access for convoys carrying food and medical supplies in September, expecting approval by Sept.
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There have been many reports of similar roadblocks affecting aid convoys in other parts of the Tiburon peninsula.
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Other goods come by land convoys from Jordan and Oman and by ship from Jordan, Oman and Dubai.
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While the first convoys have brought welcome relief, ongoing access to the towns is needed, say aid groups.
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They practice defensive driving, move in convoys and are told to respond honestly if interrogated by the cartel.
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Russia proposes that these strikes should also target convoys with weapons, including those crossing into Syria from Turkey.
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Since the hurricane, police and U.N. forces have assisted aid convoys, which have been attacked by desperate residents.
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As of last week, U.N. and Red Crescent convoys had delivered 83 trucks of aid, reaching 61,000 people.
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Mr. de Mistura said there was hope that aid convoys would be able to head for besieged areas.
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But aid convoys idled, still waiting for word that routes into the besieged city of Aleppo were secure.
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This isn't the first time the UN has charged the Syrian authorities with taking supplies from aid convoys.
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The two organizations called for an end to sieges across Syria and for allowing access to aid convoys.
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Five aid convoys have reached the town, located near Damascus, over the last year, according to the report.
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Security is tight, with Chinese and other foreign visitors driven around in convoys of soldiers and armed police.
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Mr. Trump has been enamored with the idea of military convoys marching through Washington since his presidency's infancy.
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We heard that militias aligned with President Assad had attacked one of the convoys and killed four men.
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Barea took leave from the Mavericks to join his wife and several friends on two of the convoys.
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As many as 9,000 people have already been taken out of the besieged city in nine convoys since Thursday.
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The Pentagon pays companies to carry out many traditional functions, from feeding soldiers to maintaining weapons to guarding convoys.
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The operation sent US troops to Somalia to protect humanitarian relief convoys intended to feed the country's starving people.
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On Mondays convoys of white Toyota pickup trucks, each holding around 21 people, would roar off into the desert.
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A LOT depends on the convoys of lorries now rumbling through the rugged interior of Labrador in eastern Canada.
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Foreigners now take a cut, either trafficking goods and people themselves or, more often, intercepting convoys and demanding payment.
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And second, it uses its substantial airpower to bomb ISIS targets like weapons facilities, convoys, safe houses, and more.
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This can be used to "refresh" movement allowance, giving your convoys a way to reach previously too distant destinations.
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Past suicide attacks on such convoys have usually caused casualties among nearby civilians while leaving their targets relatively unharmed.
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" "Line the relief convoys up at the Turkish, Jordanian and Lebanese borders and dare the Russians to stop them.
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The convoys had been halted after a deadly airstrike on trucks carrying food and medical supplies, above, last week.
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"Those convoys were in the area of the militants, the area under the control of the terrorists," he said.
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He added that the parties to the conflict also continued to siphon off crucial medical supplies from aid convoys.
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Russia has also reinforced its presence in the neighboring Central African Republic, sending convoys of supplies across the border.
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Adnan Afrin, an SDF official, said the civilian convoys from Baghouz have included a growing number of surrendering militants.
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His team downs supply convoys, black-bags captives as if they're Gitmo detainees and tortures people to get information.
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The fuel thieves have fought back against the police and soldiers, blocking roads with burning cars and ambushing convoys.
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On our way home, we saw convoys of white bucket trucks, loaded with line crews from points far afield.
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Israel has carried out scores of strikes against what it says are advanced weapons and convoys destined for Hezbollah.
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The convoys were intended for 70,000 people in Douma, far less than the broader suburb's besieged population of 393,000.
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Convoys of ambulances and buses began on Thursday to bring about 3,000 civilians and fighters out of eastern Aleppo.
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The dispute led the Venezuelan military -- on Maduro's order -- to block aid convoys at the country's border on Saturday.
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" Netanyahu also admitted that Israeli airstrikes have targeted Hezbollah-bound convoys traveling through Syria "dozens and dozens of times.
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It included major battles involving very heavily armed gunmen carried in convoys of dozens of vehicles at a time.
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In bitter winter weather, convoys of buses from eastern Aleppo reached rebel-held areas to the west of the city.
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The statement added that the Russian military will ensure security for three U.N. humanitarian convoys entering the area on Monday.
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The UN has sought assurances from Russia and the Syrian regime that its aid convoys will be given safe passage.
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Israel has previously hit Iranian-backed militia outposts in Syria, mainly targeting arms convoys of the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah.
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A statement from the pro-Damascus military alliance that includes Hezbollah said more than 8,000 had left in 10 convoys.
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Smugglers avoid the main road, which is so infested with bandits that traders move in convoys, escorted by the army.
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In Idlib province, separate convoys reportedly entered Foah and Kefraya, two Shia majority towns that are surrounded by rebel factions.
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Everything, including sand for construction (the local stuff being too fine), had to be brought by long convoys of lorries.
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The police released the convoys to travel on their own once they were a safe distance south of Fort McMurray.
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Even as her health failed, she worked to organize aid convoys to take food and medicine to refugees in Syria.
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Attacks on humanitarian convoys and personnel have been frequent in South Sudan's conflict and both warring sides have been blamed.
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Traffickers can cross that border freely he said, and convoys of as many as 25 vehicles then head north unhindered.
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They also believe the drone swarms could be effective in targeting ground forces and convoys of vehicles, among other things.
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As a result, Mr. O'Brien said, no convoys were dispatched in August, despite some successful, if limited, deliveries in July.
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"Nobody stopped them, until now" Jesús Hernández Méndez, 28, said convoys of big trucks frequently pass through Comitán at night.
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For now, residents of Comitán report fewer convoys transporting migrants since the National Guard arrived — although they're still showing up.
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We would see Batista's armed troop convoys leaving their garrisons in the morning, heading for the jungle of the mountains.
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In the past two months, U.N. convoys have delivered supplies to only 68,000 of the 400,000 trapped civilians, he said.
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Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter that more than 7,000 civilians had been evacuated in the first five convoys.
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Footage on state television showed top army commanders entering by the same route the rebel convoys had used to leave.
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During that conflict, Israel has carried out scores of other covert strikes in Syria against advanced weapons convoys and stores.
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The logistics required helicopters and dawn convoys of trucks through Red Square and drew on all of Bouvier's organizational flair.
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In the past few months, small bands of Zande rebels have attacked government convoys and the houses of government officials.
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He says the volunteer rescue group has convoys on the way to Savannah and Wilmington to stage in those locations.
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He had expressed hope that members of Venezuela's military would desert Mr. Maduro en masse and allow the convoys in.
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Next fall, its "Leader-Follower" technology will enable convoys of autonomous vehicles to follow behind one driven by a human.
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Medical teams traveling with the convoys on Thursday examined 387 people and said that some were severely malnourished, Ms. Hoff said.
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The United Nations has referred officially only to an "attack", which led to a brief suspension of its convoys in Syria.
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There have been no road convoys to the border since early September, though flights to Mogadishu now depart twice a week.
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Aid agencies that delivered two convoys of food and medicine said Friday that least 32 people had died because of malnutrition.
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The convoys will continue as long as it's safe to run them, which for about an hour on Friday it wasn't.
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On paper Nigeria has about 300,000 police, but perhaps half of them guard the homes, offices and convoys of political bigwigs.
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What condition the city will be in by the time these convoys arrive, the staff at the EOC shudders to think.
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The Venezuelan opposition and the United States dubbed the convoys "humanitarian aid," but aid groups and analysts alike have expressed skepticism.
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Convoys carrying food, water and fuel awaited police escorts to prevent pilfering before heading towards the city while residents streamed out.
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The statement came as aid convoys delivered food and medicine for the second time this week to three besieged Syrian towns.
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With no hope of getting convoys into Deir al-Zor by road, the U.N. hopes to do air drops of food.
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The six include officials with the National Guard and police blamed for their roles in blocking humanitarian aid convoys into Venezuela.
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Volvo and FedEx said that while fuel savings from platooning vary, running trucks in convoys using this technology should boost safety.
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The experiment is known as the European Truck Platooning Challenge, and involved trucks from six different manufacturers traveling in miniature convoys.
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Israel's air force says it has struck arms convoys of the Syrian military and Hezbollah nearly 100 times during the war.
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With war coming to the east bank of the Euphrates, the convoys were carrying amphibious armored vehicles, bridge parts and boats.
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Russia used the conflict as a pretext to send in "aid convoys," presenting itself as a benevolent responder in an emergency.
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Utah was one of several Navy ships tasked in 1918 with escorting US troop convoys as they approached the British Isles.
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According to the United Nations, soldiers routinely remove food and medicine from trucks, and have even attacked civilians waiting for convoys.
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We head out onto the roads of Iraq and avoid the US Army convoys, which have become frequent targets of IEDs.
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In Afghanistan, where I work a lot, there are typically embassies and international organizations that move around in armored car convoys.
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Soon after he was elected, Mr. Trump and his advisers floated the idea of a parade of military convoys through Washington.
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Convoys carrying food, water and fuel awaited police escorts to prevent pilfering before heading toward the city while residents streamed out.
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They chose to block the convoys, reinforcing Mr. Maduro's rule and weakening the efforts of Mr. Guaidó and the United States.
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Last week, they rumbled through cities like Bordeaux and Nantes in convoys of tractors and blocked a highway interchange near Lyon.
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Amir Eshel, the departing commander of the Israeli Air Force, said Israel had launched nearly 100 strikes on convoys since 2012.
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In the east, those forces will most likely exit overland and into Iraq in convoys, with some traveling via helicopter airlift.
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They could be delivered by ground convoys, C-130 transport aircraft and air drops, NBC reported, citing unnamed U.S. defense officials.
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Images from the region showed many houses draped in Turkish flags, while footage showed residents chanting slogans as convoys passed by.
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The smugglers move late in the night, sometimes in small convoys of old pickup trucks filled with oil cans, he said.
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The meeting followed a weekend of violent clashes in Venezuela, where the military has blocked aid convoys from entering the country.
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On a separate front, in the Syrian civil war, U.N. aid convoys reached two rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Friday.
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President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan usually uses the roads, moving in armored convoys that snarl traffic in the gridlock-weary capital.
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There, DSS officials instruct agents and other personnel about managing everything from convoys to terrorist attacks, particularly in a simulated city.
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Gareth Bayley, Britain's special representative for Syria, said just five of 25 planned aid convoys were able to make deliveries in November.
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Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida said U.S. forces should be put in a position to help move aid convoys into Venezuela.
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Amir Eshel, the outgoing commander of the Israeli Air Force, acknowledged that Israel had launched nearly 100 strikes on convoys since 2012.
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The aid convoys and their supplies offer only a respite in the slow-motion agony that is destroying Syria and its people.
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As the United States withdrew its troops from Syria this week, some Kurds threw food and stones at the departing American convoys.
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He said the dates and times of the humanitarian convoys will be set after Russia receives security guarantees from the United States.
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Convoys poised to deliver aid But for hundreds of thousands of besieged Syrians, the wait for humanitarian relief may last somewhat longer.
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They were escorting convoys with fuel and other products in some areas in the country, including the airport in the capital Brasilia.
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Though formally neutral in the civil war, Israel has targeted Hezbollah officials and arms convoys inside Syria several times during the conflict.
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Highways are crucial improvements that allow your military units and trade convoys to speed to their destination at drastically reduced movement cost.
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Physicians for Human Rights, in a report on Tuesday, said authorities removed dialysis supplies from several convoys headed to Douma last year.
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Aid convoys reached five besieged Syrian towns and delivered food to more than 80,000 people, according to the U.N. World Food Programme.
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Hundreds took to the streets in the evening, waving Algerian flags or driving in convoys through the city center, where on Feb.
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Two convoys of aid for Aleppo have been waiting in no-man's land to proceed to Aleppo after crossing the Turkish border.
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The Israeli air force says it has struck arms convoys of the Syrian military and Hezbollah nearly 100 times in recent years.
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The resolution provides for a 30-day nationwide ceasefire, weekly UN aid convoys and medical evacuations, but has several glaring weak points.
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Troops had turned back foreign aid convoys from Venezuela's border using teargas and rubber rounds on Saturday, killing at least two protesters.
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Convoys of volunteers have traveled to small towns in central Mexico that were closer to the epicenter of Tuesday's 7.1-magnitude earthquake.
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A witness said convoys of Turkey-backed insurgents, with armored vehicles and machine guns, were moving toward the frontline with the town.
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Police were overwhelmed as convoys of blue and white taxis operated by PT Blue Bird and PT Express Transindo Utama blocked thoroughfares.
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Residents are asking for a renewal of the truce and airdrops of food if the government continues to deny permission for convoys.
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Egyptian soldiers and conscripts are hunkered down inside heavily protected bases, venturing out in armored convoys that barrel down long, exposed roads.
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Then there are the casualties: one for every 24 fuel convoys, according to a 2009 report by the Army Environmental Policy Institute.
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The birds, dividing themselves into smaller convoys, theoretically by breed, circled the area, crisscrossing other groups to create layered patches of light.
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The fighting and regime gains have broken access to the principal north-south route that humanitarian convoys have used to reach Aleppo.
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On Thursday, Emirati jets bombed convoys of government forces, killing scores in a series of airstrikes to prevent them from retaking Aden.
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Since no one can rely on the police, the rangers protect locals from the militias, escorting convoys of vehicles through the park.
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Mr. Trump and his advisers first floated the idea of a parade of military convoys through Washington soon after he was elected.
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His work also demonstrated that aircraft carriers escorting Allied shipping could successfully protect convoys from enemy air attacks, if not from U-boats.
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In midwestern Mato Grosso do Sul, the group said, convoys of farmers fired shots at the Guaraní Kaiowá community to intimidate the tribe.
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"Out of 21 requests for convoys to access a total of 914,000 people, only one convoy was delivered for 40,000 people," she said.
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Singh said civilian vehicles will be stopped if there is a major movement of military convoys on the main highway following Thursday's attack.
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Doctors Without Borders said late Friday that five people had died just this week, since the humanitarian convoys began bringing food into Madaya.
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Drone footage shows convoys of busses and ambulances attempting to transport people out of the rebel-held area during a fragile cease-fire.
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"Humanitarian agencies and partners are preparing convoys for these areas, to depart as soon as possible in the coming days," the OCHA said.
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The access road is narrow and treacherous, and residents and delivery trucks have intermittent and very short windows when escorted convoys are allowed.
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NATO personnel traveling by road normally travel in convoys of three heavily armored personnel carriers which can resist all but the heaviest explosions.
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If you can get your hands on one of those, it's usually the best option to taking down supply convoys without much fuss.
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But when convoys of residents tried to approach the town last week from the west, armed men from GNA-linked brigades halted them.
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Heavy smoke on Saturday, however, forced the police to reduce by half the size of the convoys to 103 vehicles at a time.
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But aid convoys were only being allowed in at the rate of one per week, with no permission letters coming from the government.
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The United Nations resumed humanitarian aid convoys to Syria just as government forces and their Russian allies launched a major offensive in Aleppo.
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The Hawaii National Guard has prepared to use ground convoys and even helicopters to pluck hundreds of residents out of danger if necessary.
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Prepositioning aid in warehouses or in truck convoys at border posts for weeks, or sometimes months, is common while officials negotiate safe passage.
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Mr. Assad has continued to block humanitarian convoys, despite a warning that the United Nations would begin airdrops of food to starving towns.
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An enclosed conveyor belt has been constructed along one of the stairways to deliver goods and remove garbage without convoys of hand trucks.
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Rudskoi said that a point for collecting the aid and forming convoys has been established near Handarat, on the northern outskirts of Aleppo.
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The meeting come after convoys of U.S. aid were blocked at the Venezuelan border by forces and gangs loyal to President Nicolas Maduro.
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They began arriving in late February, as Maduro's troops at the border with Colombia drove back convoys of humanitarian aid requested by Guaido.
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Almost every day, convoys of Toyota trucks crammed with masked paramilitaries rolled into the rebellious towns south of Managua to demolish the barricades.
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Monday's convoys include supplies and vehicles from the WFP, International Committee of the Red Cross, the Syrian Red Crescent, and other UN agencies.
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On Thursday, the United Nations said it had been forced to halt convoys carrying relief from Jordan to Syria because of the fighting.
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The research will involve "platooning" technology where small convoys of trucks move in concert, like cyclists in a peloton, along the country's roads.
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When they do join the swelling convoys that pass by their windows, they are sucked into the chaotic death spasms of the war.
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The group has also attacked military outposts and convoys and still is regarded as a threat to soldiers and civilians in the region.
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Though Israel has largely stayed out of the Syrian conflict, it has struck weapons convoys destined for Hezbollah dozens of times since 2012.
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The mountain's elevation, boulders and view of the surrounding valleys made for ample protection against the military convoys navigating the single road below.
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Under the agreement, aid convoys are to be granted full access, but there is no assurance that they will be allowed to pass.
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Both the government and the rebels have attacked humanitarian convoys and warehouses, making it difficult to deliver aid to the hardest-hit areas.
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The agreement, and an accompanying cease-fire, has proceeded haltingly since it began on Wednesday, with gunfire on the route repeatedly stopping convoys.
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Following the National Guard convoys out of the city at night after my shift as a copy editor ended at The Newark News.
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Some of the ships observed in satellite imagery appeared to be operating in convoys or other formations, suggesting they were coordinating their movements.
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Truckers covering Mexico's vast territory often move in convoys to reduce the risk of robberies, which in 211 almost doubled to nearly 11,20163.
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In the end, none of the aid convoys were able to make it down the highway and into the rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
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In a statement, O'Brien, the UN human rights chief, said he was "pained and disappointed" the aid convoys weren't able to reach the city.
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Mr. O'Brien said United Nations convoys this year have reached less than a quarter of 487,000 Syrians long cut off from food and medicines.
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The Houthis and their allies have been cited for indiscriminately firing shells in civilian areas, obstructing aid convoys, and laying mines as they retreated.
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IS has lost the ability to move in large convoys, making it more difficult to replace fighters if it loses them in significant numbers.
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But so far that hasn't happened, much to the exasperation of UN agencies which have convoys ready to roll into the worst affected areas.
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"Even when we do gain access; serious concerns remain about the ongoing exclusion and removal of medical supplies and treatments from convoys," said O'Brien.
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Convoys shuttled more than 35,000 people - rebel fighters, their families, and civilians who fear Assad's rule, out of the city's last rebel-held pocket.
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Bands of remnant rebels still operate in the Andean area around Ayacucho and have moved into drug trafficking, occasionally attacking military and police convoys.
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In the last year, only 10% of all requests for UN convoys to reach hard-to-reach and besieged areas were approved and delivered.
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Each platoon is so far limited to two trucks, so you won't run into huge convoys of linked trucks taking up miles of roadway.
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The vehicles are being divided into convoys of about 50, with police cars at the front and back to keep them together and moving.
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Since 2013, Israel has carried out more than 100 airstrikes in Syria, primarily targeting the Iranian-funded Lebanese militia group Hezbollah and military convoys.
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Before they can move into besieged areas or across front lines, the convoys require letters from the government and security guarantees from armed groups.
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Most of those were protecting two fuel-tanker convoys at a toll plaza outside the city when some 150 gunmen in 30 vehicles arrived.
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But during prohibition the area was subject to blackhawk helicopter raids, military convoys, and armed stings for the same reasons it's being praised now.
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If the regime in Damascus blocks further convoys, Jordan must be convinced to allow access for humanitarians or to provide refuge for the displaced.
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Thirty percent of the causalities in Iraq and Afghanistan during the height of the war were caused by attacks on fuel and water convoys.
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Large convoys of fuel trucks were seen traveling the highways on Monday, the first time in several days those vehicles were out in force.
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The group no longer holds large swaths of territory in Nigeria but still stages regular suicide attacks and strikes on military convoys and outposts.
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Nineteen more people have died of starvation in Madaya since the last UN convoys pulled out of the town on the 16th of January.
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The streets, clogged with hundreds of people and convoys carrying politicians, became so chaotic that some victims were transported to hospitals in auto rickshaws.
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As the U.S. commander in Iraq's Al-Anbar Province a decade ago, I witnessed the aftermath of enemy attacks on slow-moving fuel convoys.
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Lawyers organized convoys traveling from city to city to support ousted chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, and the government was forced to re-instate him.
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In report after report, the United Nations has documented bureaucratic delays and the removal of goods from humanitarian convoys, including medicines and medical supplies.
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The government began another crackdown on Saturday when troops at the border blocked humanitarian aid convoys sent by the opposition from Colombia and Brazil.
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In separate statements, Jaish al-Islam and Failaq al-Rahman pledged to protect aid convoys that come into the besieged rebel enclave near Damascus.
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Mwancha, of the UNHCR, expressed confidence that Jubaland's new policy would be temporary, and that convoys would resume once more humanitarian assistance was in place.
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In reality, airdrops are a last resort by aid organizations -- one that's expensive, inefficient in comparison with road convoys and a possible hazard to civilians.
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Early on June 13th convoys of Yemeni fighters, backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), advanced north along the coast towards Hodeida.
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Following the recent bombing of a truck convoy and a warehouse, the United Nations announced that it was suspending its aid convoys in what nation?
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So far Israel has confined its response to actions inside Syria, where it has occasionally bombed weapons caches and Iranian arms convoys bound for Hizbullah.
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So when three pickup convoys carrying Libya-based rebels were spotted 370 miles into Chadian territory last week Mr Déby had every reason to fret.
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On Saturday, convoys of U.S. aid were blocked from getting into Venezuela, met with violence from forces and gangs allied with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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At the same time, 2000 trucks in separate convoys delivered food and supplies to the largely Shia towns of Foua and Kefraya in Idlib province.
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At the same time, 21 trucks in separate convoys delivered food and supplies to the largely Shia towns of Foua and Kefraya in Idlib province.
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Israel and Hezbollah fought a brief war in 2006 and tensions rose again this year as Israel struck Hezbollah arms stores and convoys in Syria.
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Vehicles are being allowed to travel through the area on Highway 550 in single-file convoys protected and escorted by law enforcement officers, Graham said.
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Israel says it has hit arms convoys of the Syrian military and its Iranian-backed ally Hezbollah nearly 100 times in the past five years.
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Can convoys be established in an impromptu manner mid-drive, for example, or will they always have to start and finish in the same location?
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A spokesman for UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that "several" convoys were expected to leave Thursday but did not specify where.
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The deal officially starts Friday, but Wednesday's convoys -- authorized by the Syrian government -- are an early measure of the fighters' willingness to abide by it.
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Pawel Krzysiek, spokesman for ICRC Syria, tweeted that all trucks in the convoys had entered the blockaded cities, and offloading of their cargo had begun.
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Roving enemy convoys scattered all around the world offer a decent challenge, but that accounts for Rage 2 left me wanting in the best way.
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The convoys have no official ties, but Mellado reports each evening on what the doctors found to Puerto Rican and federal officials in San Juan.
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Over the past five years, though, it is believed to have carried out around 20 attacks, usually on arms convoys destined for Hizbullah in Lebanon.
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One of those was General Khan, the powerful Oruzgan figure who made a fortune as a highway militia leader providing security escort to NATO convoys.
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Where it stands: Aid convoys are lined up at the Colombian and Brazilian borders with humanitarian assistance requested by the interim government of Juan Guaidó.
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They built transient communities around shared values of spiritualism, anarchism, and ecology, and sustained through meet-ups, convoys, free festivals and pilgrimages to sacred sites.
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By some estimates, fully 70 percent of the convoys crisscrossing the theater of war are involved in "liquid logistics," the delivery of fuel and water.
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The military has made progress against the group but militants still attack villages and military and food aid convoys, as well as deploy suicide bombers.
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But Jordan halted regular cross-border deliveries years ago, leaving only the Syrian government in control of approving UN humanitarian aid convoys to the settlement.
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The cost can fall further — to 85 cents a mile, according to Tesla — if groups of trucks travel together in convoys, which reduces wind drag.
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As the fighting progressed, convoys of trucks from Baghouz started to include hundreds, and then thousands, of surrendering jihadist fighters, many hobbling from their wounds.
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King Haakon's convoys, painted white, played hide and seek among Norway's mountains and glaciers with German bombers strafing wherever they thought the king might be.
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In 1942, he enlisted in the Navy Reserves and spent four years on an armed supply ship that led convoys to Europe and North Africa.
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The San Diego was engaged in guarding European-bound convoys through submarine-infested waters during the first leg of their voyage from the East Coast.
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Syrian authorities have often removed such medical materials from convoys out of concern they could be used to treat wounded rebels, U.N. aid workers say.
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I saw first-hand that cutting down on the military's use of oil would reduce the number of dangerous fuel convoys, and save American lives.
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After the switch, convoys of trucks and protesters took to the streets of the provincial capital of Auki holding banners such as "Malaita for Democracy".
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"We hope that the convoy may proceed as planned and will be followed by other convoys," said Ali Al-Za'tari, the UN's Syria Humanitarian Coordinator.
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But over the last few years numerous airstrikes against weapons storehouses in Syria and convoys apparently destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon have been attributed to Israel.
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The Syrian government has yet to respond to a U.N. plan for aid convoys in Syria during the month of October, U.N. spokesman Jens Laerke said.
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Witnesses at the border said convoys of Turkish military vehicles had been crossing into Idlib since Friday, delivering supplies before turning back to return with more.
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The PMF says the convoys are charitable and nothing more, and that the weapons are to protect those bringing supplies on long drives from the south.
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"Humanitarian work ... does not mean demographic change," he added, saying the convoys were the "duty" of the PMF, and were to show solidarity and build trust.
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For much of the past seven years, Israel has carried out periodic attacks on convoys and depots of Iranian weapons destined for Hizbullah's arsenals in Lebanon.
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When they simulated actual convoys from the second world war they found that the software achieved fewer losses and faster travel times than had actually happened.
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Every time those close to the war think things have sunk as barbarically low as imaginable -- from bombing convoys to starving towns -- things get even worse.
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State television showed footage of convoys of police cars and motorcycles entering the village of Ruhaiba, with dozens of civilians gathering and cheering in the streets.
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Instead, he, his wife Nabila and their 7-month old infant are joining one of the last voluntary resettlement convoys bound for reception centers across France.
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Finger-pointing As officials work to get access for aid convoys, the two main players in the ceasefire deal accused each other of not meeting expectations.
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Pawel Krzysiek, spokesman for ICRC Syria, tweeted that all trucks in the convoys had entered the blockaded cities, and the offloading of their cargo had begun.
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No military air traffic control units on the tarmac directing planeloads of aid supplies, no bustling command center sending convoys of trucks to hard-hit areas.
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Vanessa Huguenin, a spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told CNN the convoys would be going into seven areas in Syria.
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Military and police escorted convoys of SUVs and pickup trucks from the border at Douglas, Arizona, on the four-hour drive south, mostly along dirt roads.
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I first began talking with Hussein after his cousin, Munir, messaged me from Turkey in January, when I was writing an article about stalled humanitarian convoys.
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In Iraq, one soldier was injured or killed for every 2888 fuel convoys, according to the Army Environmental Policy Institute, which is part of the military.
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Red Cross convoys have been stopped and searched by mobs of hundreds of Buddhist protesters; ICRC supply trucks have fatally crashed; supply warehouses have been looted.
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According to the UN, some 80,00 medical treatments have been removed or excluded from convoys in just the first months of 2016, mostly by the regime.
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"The clashes are continuing and the air force and artillery are targeting the headquarters and movements of the terrorist convoys in the area," said the source.
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Last year, Israel's outgoing Air Force chief said that Israel had carried out close to 133 airstrikes on weapons convoys bound for Hezbollah, a staggering number.
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Romain Flarion, 17, scanned the street for police convoys — vehicles with blacked-out windows had passed by slowly — and rolled a cigarette, looking a little sheepish.
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Armed pickup trucks sit on intersections and bridges, or snarl the sandy streets with long convoys manned by fighters brandishing sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
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It was beginning to take off when I arrived there — assassinations of government officials, sniper attacks on U.S. soldiers, IEDs hitting convoys driving through the city.
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Last week, UN aid convoys reached five towns with humanitarian supplies, in what was billed as a confidence building measure ahead of a cessation of hostilities.
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The United Nations worked out terms with the Houthi rebels on Sunday an moved out its foreign staff from Al Hudaydah in multiple convoys on Monday.
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Families with relatives on the island organized convoys of boats from as far away as Guadeloupe, bringing water, canned goods, fuel and the chance to escape.
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An opposition military source told Reuters that 15,000 Turkish soldiers were now in northwest Syria after numerous convoys had poured into the territory in recent days.
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That action was taken after the United States military failed to get the militias to reverse course by buzzing their convoys with aircraft firing a warning.
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"The Main Supply Route also has been cleared, and bus and cargo convoys will resume on a limited basis Monday," Pratama said in an emailed statement.
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Such convoys could improve fuel efficiency by letting vehicles draft each other and might even allow for going human-free in all but the lead truck.
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But it has frequently bombed convoys and stores of weapons destined for Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia fighting in Syria on behalf of Mr. Assad.
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Barred by law from carrying guns, the Andean truckers form convoys to protect themselves, text each other about trouble spots - and keep moving as fast as possible.
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It would ensure that government fighters pulled back in some areas, including around Aleppo, to allow convoys of humanitarian aid to reach civilians caught in the fighting.
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Al Shabaab has previously targeted foreign vehicles and convoys traveling along the road between Mogadishu and the international airport, which is also near the United Nations compound.
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Israel has carried out scores of strikes in Syria against what are said to be convoys of advanced weapons destined for Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese organization.
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The city of Fort McMurray has been devastated, damage witnessed by thousands of people who drove through Friday in evacuee convoys headed to Edmonton and other cities.
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For much of the past seven years, Israel has carried out periodic, pinpoint attacks on convoys and depots of Iranian weapons destined for Hizbullah's arsenals in Lebanon.
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The United Nations is looking at "contingency planning of using alternative ports such as Aden" and land convoys from Saudi Arabia and other neighboring countries, he said.
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The Syrian government has not issued the necessary permits to allow convoys delivering aid to access some of the hardest-hit areas, the United Nations said Thursday.
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The Syrian government has previously stripped medical equipment from aid convoys to prevent the treatment of anyone involved in the fighting, an apparent breach of international law.
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"Between now and Sunday, let us be realistic, we have seen in the past on certain convoys supplies have been taken off, mainly surgical supplies," he said.
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But only 7,200 people from four villages have received food, while regular aid convoys to the area have not been restored, according to the UN's humanitarian agency.
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Instead of helping get aid to civilians, Russia and Assad are bombing the humanitarian convoys, hospitals and first responders who are trying desperately to keep people alive.
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Four village residents brought in General Jose Montoya, the National Guard commander for Bolivar state, to help convince the military convoys not to go to the border.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and U.N. spokesman Jens Laerke later confirmed that the joint convoys had entered the four towns carrying vital supplies.
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In recent years, Israeli jets have repeatedly struck Hezbollah arms stores and convoys in neighbouring Syria, where the group fights alongside Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army.
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The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on four state governors in Venezuela as it ramped up pressure on President Nicholas Maduro for blocking humanitarian aid convoys.
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Hundreds of Algerians took to the streets of the capital after Bouteflika's resignation, waving Algerian flags or driving in convoys through the city center, where on Feb.
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On Highway 63, convoys of trucks from utilities as well as Telus, the regional telecom, have joined the columns of wildfire fighters in pickup trucks heading north.
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But it did not, as many such convoys do, have the extra shield of United Nations staff members on board, because the Syrian government had blocked them.
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Help has still not reached those who need it most, despite promises at the start of the truce that the government would allow aid convoys to travel.
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Britain's Princess Anne has been among those attending events honouring those who sailed and protected the convoys carrying supplies to aid the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.
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Iranian clout in Syria's seven-year war has alarmed Israel, which has struck targets it describes as Iranian deployments or convoys of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
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For Doug Moorehead, a former Navy Seal from Cambridge, Ohio, the number of soldiers killed while escorting fuel convoys in Iraq motivated him to start a business.
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Since 2013, Israel is estimated to have carried out more than 100 airstrikes in Syria, primarily targeting the Iranian-funded Lebanese militia group Hezbollah and military convoys.
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Egeland said a "two-way" humanitarian corridor was needed, with several convoys each week into eastern Ghouta, while 1,000 priority medical cases must be evacuated for treatment.
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After ambulances rushed off the wounded, new buses arrived and the two convoys eventually reached their destinations - one in government territory and the other in rebel territory.
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The route became perilous during the hostilities surrounding Israel's creation in 1948 as Arab militants ambushed convoys bringing essential supplies to the besieged Jewish residents of Jerusalem.
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This week the World Food Program threatened to cut aid to Houthi-controlled areas where it accuses officials of blocking aid convoys and interfering with food distributions.
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The tide of the war eventually turned as the U.S. Navy began to anticipate and counter U-boat attacks, and merchant vessels were escorted by Navy convoys.
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The United Nations' only unified radio room in Mogadishu — which maintained contact with its humanitarian and development convoys throughout the area — remained at our now-abandoned compound.
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So there was another option: evacuate on convoys of green buses that would take fighters and their families to another part of Syria still under rebel control.
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After months of losing territory, the militant group has staged regular suicide bombings in markets and camps for displaced people, and attacks against soldiers and military convoys.
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Convoys of tractors set out in the early morning, first for the city of Utrecht and later to The Hague, causing long traffic jams across the country.
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As Turkish military convoys continue to enter northern Syria, Shahine and others near the border have pinned their hopes on Erdogan's pledge to force Damascus to retreat.
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Turkey has sent thousands of troops and convoys of military equipment to reinforce its observation posts in Idlib, established under a 2018 de-escalation agreement with Russia.
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The cartel convoys ran into the state police and soldiers on the west side of town, with one especially fierce firefight breaking out near a gas station.
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In late 2016, military convoys began shipping some 13 million pages of paper documents and 30,000 artifacts to a former furniture store in suburban Hoffman Estates, Ill.
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It's 2017 and the war goes on much as before, half-forgotten in a country that long ago tired of hearing about besieged outposts and ambushed convoys.
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Along with the migrants who make their way from Algeria to Niger on foot, thousands more Nigerien migrants are expelled directly home in convoys of trucks and buses.
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After a tense two weeks, on the night of June 3, convoys of armed troops entered Beijing with an aim to clear the square by whatever means necessary.
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Plummer also said the Department of Homeland Security has been slow to issue security clearances and send out "circuit riders," the convoys that handle interviews with refugees abroad.
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Saber said he watched as convoys of Palestinians filed through Hiribiya, one of the last places to evacuate, en route to Gaza and a new life as refugees.
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Typically U.N. aid convoys to Syria's hotspots are composed of many more trucks and supplies, and it was not immediately clear on what basis distribution would be made.
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The Iraqi military provided different numbers, saying coalition and Iraqi forces destroyed a total of 750 ISIS vehicles in the two convoys and killed hundreds of ISIS militants.
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Separately, news media reported that Turkey had shut its last open border gate with Syria to all traffic except for humanitarian aid convoys and Syrians wishing to leave.
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Foreign vehicles and convoys traveling along the road between Mogadishu and the international airport, which is also near the United Nations compound, are often targeted by militant attacks.
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What's new: This week at Texas' Fort Bliss, the Army demonstrated the first 10 driverless trucks it is developing for convoys, one of several robot-vehicle projects underway.
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But convoys still haven't been able to get humanitarian aid to those in need, and such delivery is an important way to judge if a ceasefire is successful.
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Instead of helping get lifesaving aid to civilians, Russia and Assad are bombing the humanitarian convoys, hospitals, and first responders who are trying desperately to keep people alive.
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But in the southeast the group "struck a deal with Arab armed groups around Al Kufra to protect its convoys", establishing a "small operational presence" in the area.
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Specifically, the U.N. worried that because the cease-fire had been rejected by rebel groups, necessary security measures for emergency aid convoys and personnel had not been met.
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It is not clear why the drivers abandoned their passengers, but rival militias and militants seeking money often stop migrant convoys and are a constant hazard for smugglers.
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Supply-truck convoys driven by military personnel can be attractive targets for bad guys, for example, so making those deliveries by air can avoid both IEDs and ambushes.
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According to the police, Dujana was responsible for planning various armed attacks on Indian security convoys, including an attack in Udhampur in 2015, that killed two security personnel.
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"We will continue to monitor the convoys in real time ... and take advantage of known ISIS (fighters) in open areas away from civilians and strike them," he said.
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Maybe it will be brought from a prehistoric beach by convoys of trucks, or from a Bahamian shoal, or maybe the counties will fall into another sand war.
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On the desert road back from Deir al-Zor to government-held areas in the west, a stream of military convoys was passing, according to the Reuters journalists.
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Yet the next day the thud of mortars and rockets could still be heard inside the supposedly liberated city, and armoured convoys were still rumbling into the fray.
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However, some of its fighters remained in the rugged desert areas around and have carried out attacks on army positions and convoys, a pro-Damascus source has said.
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The area east of Damascus had been "completely sealed off" since September, leaving U.N. aid convoys and evacuations as a potential lifeline facing a "bureaucratic wall of inaction".
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Syria's government has blocked United Nations aid convoys from delivering food and medicine to besieged rebel-held cities across the country, in a breach of international humanitarian law.
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Over the past two years, Israeli artillery and fighter jets have carried out several strikes against weapons convoys in southern Syria that Israel said were destined for Hezbollah.
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In truck "platooning", connectivity and automated driving improve safety within the vehicle convoys, support drivers and enhance efficiency with closer distances between the connected trucks, the company said.
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The convoys are crossing into an area controlled by the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a Turkish ally, and are heading to the frontlines of Manbij, TRT World said.
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GENEVA — The United Nations suspended all aid convoys in Syria on Tuesday, the day after a deadly airstrike on trucks loaded with crucial supplies of food and medicine.
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The United Nations resumed aid convoys to besieged communities in Syria on Thursday for the first time since a deadly attack on trucks loaded with supplies on Monday.
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The Israeli air force says it has struck arms convoys of the Syrian military and its Lebanese ally, the Iran-backed Hezbollah, nearly 100 times in recent years.
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Two aid convoys destined for Aleppo were still stuck on the Turkish border after several days while the sides argued over how the supplies were to be delivered.
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Used in concert with one another in convoys, they can transport significant amounts of cargo cleanly and efficiently when compared with today's big rig gas-powered freight trucks.
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The Nigerian military has struggled to gain the upper hand against fighters now armed with drones, machinery and weapons they have stolen from raiding military encampments and convoys.
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But it has continued Al Qaeda's double act of solidifying support in local communities—by establishing relief departments, for example, and running food convoys— while gradually implementing Sharia.
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But troops blocked convoys of aid trucks sent from Colombia and Brazil, leading to clashes that killed at least six people along the Brazilian border, rights groups say.
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Using convoys — Tesla Semis yoked together with connected Autopilot technology, operating like road-going trains, with one semi as the leader — Tesla's cost drops to $0.85 a mile.
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Captain Hardegen's marauding and the sinkings carried out by fellow U-boat captains led the Navy to organize convoys of merchant vessels escorted by warships along the coastlines.
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Or how the United Nations field operations that couldn't discontinue without people dying would cease if not for his crew's tracking our convoys and keeping our communications running.
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This was experienced in Afghanistan, where the most dangerous mission you could be assigned to was to escort convoys of oil tankers to remote posts in the countryside.
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In truck platooning, connectivity and automated driving improve safety within the vehicle convoys, support drivers and enhance efficiency with closer distances between the connected trucks, the company said.
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Convoys of up to 60 commercial and aid trucks have been stranded for more than a week after local authorities demanded "high amounts of unjustified extortions", it said.
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Collectively protected by America's plentiful armed escort ships, convoys were the key to saving Britain from defeat and allowing American ground forces to arrive in Europe nearly unscathed.
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A Canadian who protected convoys in Afghanistan from attack by young suicide-bombers has not been able to hug his own children since he came home four years ago.
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" Speaking to reporters aboard a US military aircraft, he said the 1,000 troops are withdrawing via helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and ground convoys, and will "reposition into western Iraq.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Convoys of evacuees traveled from a rebel-held area of Aleppo and from two Shi'ite villages besieged by insurgents on Monday after a days-long stand-off.
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The biggest killer of soldiers is improvised explosive devices, so if the work is being done on automated convoys, there would not be anyone in those vehicles at all.
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Aid agencies say they have humanitarian aid standing by and ready to be delivered, but the route, which remains under heavy bombardment, is too dangerous for convoys to enter.
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" He would not say how much of the road is expected to be opened to allow unimpeded movement of UN convoys, but that "it urgently needed to take place.
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According to the UN's humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien, the Syrian regime has systematically removed medical supplies, including surgical equipment from humanitarian convoys, even after a February ceasefire took effect.
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Indigenous groups that live near the dam, and other people downstream, worry that rotting vegetation in the reservoir will release mercury and that the construction convoys will damage roads.
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Syria's government has been largely obstructing U.N. attempts to reach civilian populations in other besieged zones — rejecting requests, blocking convoys at the last moment or issuing only conditional approvals.
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Desperate people who have lost their houses and are living in rubble or in crowded shelters blocked streets on Tuesday to force convoys to stop and pay them attention.
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Assad's movement did not go unnoticed by the United States: There were at least four incidents in which coalition planes bombed regime armor convoys that were approaching US allies.
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The aid organisation said convoys were delivered to Madaya and Zabdani near Damascus and to the villages of al Foua and Kefraya in Idlib province in the north west.
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The Syrian regime reportedly approved safe passage for humanitarian aid to the city of Madaya on Thursday, but the aid convoys have yet to make it to the city.
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A U.N. report earlier this week charged the Syrian regime with "inhumane actions" against Syrian civilians on a scale that "amounts to extermination" by denying access to humanitarian convoys.
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Kenyans are used to politicians showing up in convoys of luxury cars around elections, handing out small banknotes while asking for votes, a practice that is illegal but ubiquitous.
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The U.N. says 3 million people in the northeast are in urgent need of food aid, but that some roads within Nigeria are unsafe for convoys due to mines.
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For a decade, convoys of up to 50 of the syndicate's vehicles have rattled into Kano without obstruction, because bigwigs in the capital were paid to let them pass.
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In addition, the Turkish government would have to help — or at least not stand in the way — of landing transport planes or sending cargo convoys by land or sea.
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Britain's top diplomat described the convoys as a cynical gesture by the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and suggested that the promised airdrops would soon begin.
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But troops loyal to Maduro blocked convoys of aid trucks sent from Colombia and Brazil, leading to clashes that left at least five people dead along the Brazilian border.
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Even in convoys that are allowed through, the UN and aid organizations say shipments of vital medical equipment, including materials to treat victims of airstrikes, are inexplicably being blocked.
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Small teams tapped communication lines, sabotaged convoys, snatched captives and peppered enemy territory with fake documents, counterfeit money and exploding ammunition intended to confuse, demoralize and kill communist troops.
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The Sicario movies summarize these fears: Trips to Mexico always take place in convoys of armored Humvees and, even then, the law enforcement officers with assault rifles are attacked.
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Then there were transport planes, C-130s mostly, the Hercules, supplying them now because evidently no more convoys, but it pleased him the pilots followed the old convoy rule.
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But in the past few months, Boko Haram has raged back, attacking military convoys and outposts and dispatching a steady stream of suicide bombers to attack checkpoints and crowds.
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With reports of hospitals being bombed there and shortages of food and water, the cease-fire was intended to allow humanitarian convoys to bring in food and medical supplies.
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He said United States troops moved regularly among these bases in convoys of five to 10 armored cars, escorted by guard vehicles belonging to an American-backed Kurdish militia.
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Earlier evacuation efforts from eastern Aleppo crumbled earlier this week, amid conflicting reports that rebel fighters had opened fire on convoys at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Aleppo.
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From the silence of my living room I heard neighbors banging pots as a protest against the results, as well as car convoys on the street, honking to celebrate.
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The Israeli air force has said it struck arms convoys of the Syrian military and Lebanon's Hezbollah nearly 100 times during more than six years of the Syrian war.
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The proclamations keep coming even as Boko Haram has unleashed an unrelenting stream of suicide bombers on mosques and marketplaces, carried out high-profile kidnappings and attacked military convoys.
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Venezuela's opposition, led by Juan Guaidó, had an ambitious plan to peacefully import foreign aid in truck convoys, but it degenerated into deadly skirmishes Saturday along the country's borders.
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Pyongyang residents unable to attend at the square on Sunday lined the streets around town to cheer and applaud convoys carrying the troops after they completed the parade duties.
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"Convoys need to come in with food and supplies - and the last convoy was only half unloaded," Henrietta Fore, executive director of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, told Reuters.
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The U.N. had information that abducted women, including from the Yazidi minority, were being "distributed" to fighters or told they would be used to accompany Islamic State convoys, Shamdasani said.
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Since the start of the conflict Israel has carried out more than 100 strikes in Syria, attacking missile convoys, storage warehouses and military bases linked to Iran and its militias.
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One of those exceptions: They have retained the right to attack if they believe government convoys are using the period of calm to supply areas otherwise out of their reach.
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But in its attempt to capture Tripoli the LNA has used hundreds of vehicles, with convoys going west non-stop from Benghazi, carrying anything from soldiers to ammunition to food.
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On Wednesday, Moscow bowed to international pressure when it announced a daily, three-hour, full cessation of hostilities in Aleppo to allow safe passage for aid convoys into the city.
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In addition to rebel-controlled eastern Aleppo, UN convoys with the right permits are willing to go to Moadameya, Al-Waer, Talbiseh, Douma and other besieged areas, according to Egeland.
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" Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Syria, said Tuesday night that there was a "need of assurances that the drivers and the convoys will be unhindered and untouched.
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"Large convoys of (government) troops are moving from the airport and from Ashrafiyat Sahnaya (the next town south)," said Abu Samer, spokesman for the Liwa Shuhada al-Islam rebel group.
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Another besieged population, 42,000 people trapped in the town of Madaya, has received two convoys of aid supplies this month, but local aid workers have reported 32 deaths from starvation.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Aid convoys arrived in four Syrian towns on Thursday but U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said the government was still stopping aid getting to six others under siege.
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This is a practice already in service in some tests, with convoys of autonomous trucks playing a fairly rigorous game of "follow the leader" based on established pre-set rules.
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El-Kassaby said the United Nations has this year been able to take six humanitarian convoys to Eastern Ghouta but access had decreased "rapidly" as the food crisis had escalated.
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Britain's Princess Anne has been among those attending events honoring those who sailed, and the thousands who died, protecting supply convoys dispatched to aid the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.
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"Large convoys of [government] troops are moving from the airport and from Ashrafiyat Sahnaya [the next town south]," said Abu Samer, spokesman for the Liwa Shuhada al-Islam rebel group.
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Some Israeli commentators saw the latest strike - a departure from the previous pattern of attacks on weapons convoys - as a show of Israeli dissatisfaction with the United States and Russia.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations voiced concern on Thursday over stalled aid deliveries to besieged areas in Syria, with convoys delayed or surgical equipment being removed, mainly by government forces.
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U.N. officials suspended all humanitarian convoys in Syria, a day after a deadly aerial attack on a convoy of 31 aid trucks authorized to travel in the war-ravaged country.
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The Syrian government eased limits on aid convoys, allowing the first trucks with food and medicine to reach the besieged rebel-held town of Daraya, on the outskirts of Damascus.
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It has repeatedly targeted military positions in Syria near the border after stray projectiles crossed into Israeli-controlled areas, and it has struck Hezbollah convoys and weapons caches inside Syria.
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Aghast at the attack on Monday night, United Nations officials on Tuesday suspended all aid convoys in Syria, describing the bombing as a possible war crime and a cowardly act.
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The U.N., which is legally obliged to coordinate with Damascus, has repeatedly criticized the Syrian government for restricting access, especially to besieged areas, and for removing vital items from convoys.
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Although the highway has been secured after driving out the jihadists, the threat of hit-and run attacks on convoys and the army are ever present, according to security experts.
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Simultaneously some advanced autonomous technologies will take to the roads in the form of long-haul convoys for shipping and logistics, and finally in industrial applications for agriculture and mining.
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Helicopters and convoys of sport utility vehicles descended on the city on Sunday, choking it with traffic after the highway, blocked for the better part of a week, was reopened.
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Civilian traffic was banned for two days a week to allow military convoys to move freely, triggering angry scenes as motorists left their cars to confront heavily-armed Indian troops.
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On Saturday, troops loyal to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blocked convoys of U.S. humanitarian aid from crossing from Colombia to Venezuela, using teargas and rubber bullets and killing two protesters.
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Israel has carried out scores of strikes in Syria in recent years, largely targeting what it says are advanced weapons stores or convoys taking weapons to Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon.
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Convoys of people appeared heading toward the land and sea borders of Greece, which was a gateway for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers into Europe in 2015 and 2016.
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While it is not unusual for such kits to be removed from aid convoys, it is nonetheless devastating for the estimated 227,22016 people in Eastern Ghouta needing immediate medical attention.
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Op-Ed Contributor As the North Korean Army slashed its way down the Korean Peninsula in 1950, 15-man units inflitrated South Korean lines to ambush convoys and demolish bridges.
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Across Syria, millions of civilians have no access to care for chronic illnesses, and the health ministry routinely prevents U.N. convoys from delivering medicines and surgical supplies to besieged areas.
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At least three people were killed and almost 300 wounded during protests and clashes on Saturday as U.S.-backed aid convoys attempted to enter Venezuela to deliver food and medicine.
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The number of migrants sent home in convoys -- nearly all of them Nigerien -- has also shot up, to at least 14,13 since August 2017, compared with 9,290 for all of 2016.
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The number of migrants sent home in convoys — nearly all of them Nigerien — has also shot up, to at least 14,446 since August 13, compared with 9,290 for all of 2016.
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In a country that has just a few hundred trained soldiers and where the government controls about a quarter of the territory, aid convoys must be protected by the UN peacekeepers.
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As United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently noted, only 620,000 Syrians were able to receive aid from UN-coordinated aid convoys last year, compared with 2.9 million in 2013.
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According to Ms. Hoff, Syrian security forces have repeatedly taken medical supplies from aid convoys going into rebel-held areas, including rehydration salts, which are used to treat children with diarrhea.
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So far, the agreement has been fairly successful at maintaining peace, but aid convoys still haven't been able to get humanitarian aid into areas of the country that need it most.
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"The preparation for these convoys has now resumed and we are ready to deliver aid to besieged and hard-to-reach areas as soon as possible," OCHA said in a statement.
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Witnesses told Reuters the attackers detonated their bombs near a large refugee camp, outside which crowds of displaced people were gathering around trucks to form convoys before trying to return home.
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U.N. agencies have said that supplies including surgical material for treating war wounds and even baby milk have been removed from U.N. convoys at government checkpoints throughout the five-year conflict.
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Bolton decided to stay in Washington to focus on events unfolding in Venezuela, where the military faces a pivotal decision on whether to allow in convoys of humanitarian aid, Marquis said.
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Crude from northern Syria's abundant oil fields, which the Democratic Union Party largely controls, is exported in tanker convoys to Damascus, and an overland route links Rojava to regime-controlled Aleppo.
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Though German attacks on the convoys were a constant threat, Pop knew life at sea -- though not without risk -- was better than the life of a foot soldier in the trenches.
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After a dawn departure from the Mediterranean coast, Russian helicopter gunships buzzed overhead as separate convoys of buses, with the press and the string section, drove east into the Syrian desert.
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The group's demand that Mr. Assad allow unfettered aid to civilians by June 1 went unheeded, despite its warning that air deliveries would commence if truck convoys continued to face obstacles.
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On another potential frontline, a resident in Ras Lanuf, an oil town located on the coastal road, said tanks and military convoys were seen heading westwards in the direction of Sirte.
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International aid convoys bring in a meager supply of bulgur, rice, sugar and baby formula at irregular intervals every few months, barely enough to keep the 40,000 civilians trapped inside alive.
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Russia says it will halt military action in the Syrian city for three hours each afternoon, to let in humanitarian convoys, but it's not clear if rebel groups will follow suit.
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Israel has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of the conflict, hitting convoys and bases of Iranian-backed militias that fight alongside Syrian President Bashar al- Assad's forces.
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But the move won't be enough to allow for aid convoys to enter the devastated region to relieve its widening humanitarian catastrophe, an aid worker based in Damascus told VICE News.
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I once wrote a story for Outside magazine about the Marines' (then-)new Expeditionary Energy Office, meant to make increasingly power-hungry forward deployments more independent of fuel convoys through, e.g.
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In the years after the invasion, the United States Army viewed artillery as secondary to having as many soldiers as possible running patrols, staffing guard towers and escorting convoys of supplies.
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In Florida following Irma, a Reuters witness saw convoys of utility vehicles around the state, but in Puerto Rico, signs of activity were sparse, with just the occasional utility crew seen.
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Turkey has so far sent thousands of troops and hundreds of convoys of military equipment to reinforce its observation posts in Idlib, established under a 2018 de-escalation agreement with Russia.
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The group swiftly came undone, however, when al Qaeda-backed extremists intercepted them and their sophisticated weaponry -- paid for by the US taxpayer -- hours after they drove their convoys into Syria.
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As an intelligence analyst, he spent some of his time "behind a sophisticated computer terminal in a secure area," but he also made dozens of dangerous forays in convoys into Kabul.
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"We do not permit the establishment of barracks and bases or the convening of patrols and convoys belonging to the French occupiers, to wage war against the mujahideen," the statement read.
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