The second rule is to avoid encirclement at all costs.
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Russia&aposs hatred of "encirclement"For decades, Russia has officially regarded the growth of NATO as an "encirclement" that threatens Russia, in much the same way that the West&aposs Cold War alliances did.
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Sarajevo was headline news through much of its 44-month encirclement.
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The encirclement tactics appear to be wearing down Islamic State, however.
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Eventually, the government established an innovative micro-cerclage -- micro-encirclement -- approach.
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The president can call in indigenous military support for new encirclement strategies.
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That would allow more than two weeks to complete the encirclement of Aleppo.
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After Maidan, he'd survived the disastrous encirclement of the Ukrainian army at Ilovaisk.
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Being out in the open, he knew, risked encirclement by Ramsay's superior ground force.
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Bombers and fighter jets from China's air force conducted encirclement drills around Taiwan on Friday.
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"We are completing the encirclement of the terrorists in the Old City," he told Reuters.
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Her forces had recently completed an encirclement of Raqqa, and victory appeared to be imminent.
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This encirclement made ground patrols perilous and in some places rendered resupply by road impossible.
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China has repeatedly carried out what it calls "island encirclement patrols" in the past few years.
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China has repeatedly carried out what it calls "island encirclement patrols" in the past few years.
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In recent months, Chinese strategic bombers have been conducting "island encirclement" flights, escorted by fighter jets.
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The southern encirclement also involves obtaining access to oil and gas infrastructure off Europe's southern shores.
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But as the antagonists get closer to Al Bab, the encirclement could become a flash point.
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"If rebels don't retake the area, the encirclement is about to get much more difficult," he added.
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Having largely completed the encirclement of Aleppo, the regime's next priority is to cut off and squeeze Idlib.
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The tightening encirclement is increasing civilian suffering, however, as food cannot get in and medical supplies run low.
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The H-6K have played a key role in the PLA's "island encirclement" drills over Taiwan since early 2018.
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True, a handful of Germans did escape the attempted encirclement around Falaise, but it was still a massive Allied victory.
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It seems like martial arts films are to blame for the idea of encirclement and defeating one attacker after another.
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Armed rivals of his Libyan National Army (LNA) have resisted encirclement to retain control of the eastern city of Derna.
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In Derna, the United Nations has warned of the devastating impact of the LNA encirclement and recent fighting on residents.
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Last week he said the militias would take part in encirclement operations but leave the army to storm the city.
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If he falls short of the Presidency, his admirers will have gained, at a minimum, fresh evidence of their encirclement.
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It has been flying what it calls "island encirclement" drills since 2016 when Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen first took office.
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Those who remained are already familiar with scarcity, after living through years of encirclement by the regime's troops and allied militias.
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They're manipulating things behind the scenes, with a clear purpose to instigate others to participate in the demonstration and the encirclement.
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Concerned about encirclement by Shia forces, Saudi Arabia started bombing Yemen in March 2015, soon after the Houthis established a government.
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In doing this, he wants to cast the West as the aggressor, and so conjures up the ancient Russian fear of encirclement.
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First, it fears encirclement by state-subsidised aircraft makers—not only Airbus and Bombardier, but ambitious state-supported Chinese and Russian producers.
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Also, Chinese state media recently have played up coverage of "island encirclement" exercises near the democratic island, including showing a Chinese bomber.
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We were located near Debaltseve and thinking, well, we're going to hold them in this encirclement for another month, it will drag on.
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Such encirclement is deeply disturbing to Russian elites, who have traditionally maintained a paranoid view about foreign threats around and inside their borders.
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The tactics used in Ramadi—encirclement and air strikes—are being applied to the city, which is now more or less completely cut off.
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An Iraqi military spokesman said troops were trying to tighten the encirclement of Falluja by advancing on the western front, near the village of Khalidiya.
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The stunning victory in the war of 1967, in which Israel launched a pre-emptive attack to prevent encirclement by advancing Arab armies, was bittersweet.
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An Iraqi military spokesman said troops were trying to tighten the encirclement of Fallujah by advancing on the western front, near the village of Khalidiya.
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The eastern Europeans are using it to get U.S. boots on the ground, while the Kremlin can raise it as the hobgoblin of NATO encirclement.
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Shi'ite militias assisting the army in its offensive have said they will take part only in the encirclement of Falluja, to avoid fanning sectarian tension.
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As the encirclement was finally lifted in April, I returned to Khe Sanh as a civilian correspondent for U.P.I., having recently finished my military service.
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He drew a map with a ballpoint pen on a tablecloth, to show the encirclement of these forces, apart from one small corridor to the south.
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However, the attempted encirclement of Raqqa is not like the battle raging on the other side of the border, to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-biggest city.
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"861,000 Syrians are now besieged, meaning full military encirclement, no humanitarian supplies going in and no freedom of civilians to go in or out," he said.
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Although the laws of physics prohibit the new installations from targeting Russia's nuclear systems, missile defense serves the Kremlin well as an example of NATO encirclement.
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"861,000 Syrians are now besieged, meaning full military encirclement, no humanitarian supplies going in and no freedom of civilians to go in or out," he said.
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Pakistan views any Indian presence in Afghanistan as strategic encirclement by its longtime rival and has used that presence to justify its relationship with the Taliban.
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One American was killed and two were wounded there in early January as Afghan and American troops sought to break a Taliban encirclement of the Marja district.
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In recent years, it has stepped up its military drills around Taiwan, including regularly flying what Beijing calls "island encirclement" exercises and sending warships into surrounding waters.
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The encirclement of the rebel-held districts has left residents with dwindling supplies, and Syrian and Russian airstrikes frequently target civilian areas, damaging homes and medical facilities.
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The island this year lost three allies who switched diplomatic allegiance to Beijing, and saw its giant neighbor send bombers and fighter jets for encirclement drills around Taiwan.
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The Telegraph quoted a police spokesman from Hamburg on Tuesday as saying that, at least in his city, they've seen this strategy of encirclement, harassment, and robbery before.
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On Wednesday, the Syrian government announced that its army had entered Deir al-Zour Province from the west to try to increase its encirclement of Islamic State positions.
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That would magnify Chinese worries about the effectiveness of its nuclear deterrent, and entrench Chinese fears of encirclement by a coalition knit together by a shared antimissile system.
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China has in recent years stepped up its military drills around Taiwan, including regularly flying what Beijing calls "island encirclement" exercises and sending warships into the waters around Taiwan.
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Counter-terrorism forces specialized in urban warfare have taken up positions around Falluja and should begin advancing in inside the city when the encirclement is complete, the TV said.
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Roger Cohen WASHINGTON — The Putin policy in Syria is clear enough as the encirclement of rebel-held Aleppo proceeds and tens of thousands more Syrians flee toward the Turkish border.
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They are taught to see themselves as inhabitants of a land shaped by a history of suffering, a sense of hostile encirclement, and a do-or-die insistence on survival.
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A prominent leader of the Popular Mobilisation units said Shi'ite forces had linked up with peshmerga fighters west of Mosul and completed the encirclement of the city and Tal Afar.
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Airwars has recorded a spike in fatalities from coalition airstrikes in villages and towns around Raqqa, as proxy ground forces advance to attempt to complete their encirclement of the city.
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Pakistani generals fear a Kabul-New Delhi axis would lead to Pakistan's "strategic encirclement," with the Indian military along a contested eastern border and hostile Afghans on its western border.
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The 9th Armoured Division and the Interior Ministry's Rapid Response units are aiming for the Tigris river bank to complete their encirclement of the Islamic State-held Old City center.
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The war highlights the fear the Saudis and their allies have of encirclement by Iran and its allies, who sometimes boast of controlling four Arab capitals—Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Sana'a.
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Re-imposing these sanctions will be harder and is likely to make them less effective, potentially undermining the kind of international consensus needed to check Iran's strategic encirclement of the region.
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Fearing encirclement, the Saudis helped Hadi escape the Houthi-Saleh advance and announced that it would lead a military coalition of Sunni-majority states to oust the Houthis and reinstate Hadi.
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Michele Pred's "Encirclement" is on view as part of the For-Site Foundation's exhibition Home Land Security in the Presidio (Fort Winfield Scott at Langdon Court, Presidio, San Francisco) through December 18.
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ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces said they were about to complete the encirclement of Islamic State's stronghold in the Old City of Mosul, after taking control of a neighboring district on Thursday.
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But Islamic State remains in control of the 60-km (40-mile)road between Mosul and Tal Afar, hindering the forces battling the jihadists from completing the encirclement of Mosul from the west.
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The Hong Kong government said in a statement it strongly condemned the demonstrators' "malicious encirclement" of the Liaison Office building, while a spokesman for the office expressed "severe condemnation" at the "radical demonstrators".
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Rebels in the east of what was once Syria's largest city managed to break out following their encirclement by government forces, but have since come under heavy bombardment by government and Russian planes.
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China's air force last week conducted "island encirclement patrols" near Taiwan, after a senior Chinese diplomat threatened that China would invade the self-ruled island if any U.S. warships made port visits there.
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Mr. Hekmatyar said he knew Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, in the 1980s and once saved the future terrorist leader's life by breaking a Soviet Army encirclement of Arab fighters.
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Three former allies - El Salvador, Burkina Faso and Dominican Republic - switched their allegiances to Beijing this year, and the Chinese military has stepped up encirclement drills around Taiwan, which Taipei has denounced as intimidation.
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Putin, a pure Soviet product, traffics in lies — the supposed Western encirclement of Russia, the preposterous notion that all the Russian forces and materiel in eastern Ukraine have been figments of the world's imagination.
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Kurdish fighters are stationed in the north, the Iraqi Army's 15th Division is to the city's east, and the 92nd brigade and the country's Shiite militias have also joined the encirclement of the city.
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His foreign policy is a fairly consistent continuation of Soviet policy — preventing Western encirclement by moving into Ukraine; fighting proxy battles to support Russian interests, as in Syria; and challenging American power wherever possible.
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Though China has denied the accusations, such views have helped to stoke fears in India of potential encirclement by China, and that analysts say, is playing into India's renewed push to consolidate regional alliances.
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Chinese state media has given broad coverage to "island encirclement" exercises near Taiwan this month, including showing pictures of Chinese bomber aircraft with what they said was Taiwan's highest peak, Yushan, visible in the background.
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The Iraqi army and a Shi'ite paramilitary group called the Abbas Division recaptured the Badush area in recent days as they cut remaining Islamic State supply lines to Mosul, completing the encirclement of the city.
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The loss of Daraya, which once symbolized rebel defiance in the face of encirclement and relentless bombing attacks, reflected Mr. Assad's strengthened position in the conflict since Russia intervened to help him a year ago.
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A key part of the northern encirclement is building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to supply gas to Germany, as well as building TurkStream pipeline via the Black Sea to Turkey by circumventing Ukrainian transit.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Bombers and fighter jets from China's air force conducted encirclement drills around Taiwan on Friday, the latest round of increasingly frequent military maneuvers near the self-ruled island that Taipei has denounced as intimidation.
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It is a very Grant-like touch to have protected the boats from fire with hay and grain, needed for food after the encirclement began—a provisioning and a tactical problem solved at the same time.
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In the Raqqa mission, United States Special Operations forces assisting Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters in their encirclement of the city, in eastern Syria, have also taken unspecified precautions against possible retaliatory attacks, military officials said.
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Against the backdrop of a stronger Ukrainian military, an ever-sluggish Russian economy, Moscow's hostility to NATO "encirclement," and Putin's continued desire to destabilize Ukraine, Savchenko could well become part of a Cold War-style trade.
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The opening phase of the battle is essentially an ever-tightening encirclement operation intended to cut off the IS fighters inside the city from reinforcements or supplies and to seal off their escape routes west into Syria.
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It announced this month the start of a new phase in the offensive, aiming to complete its encirclement of the city and cut off the road to the militants' stronghold in Deir al-Zor, southeast of Raqqa.
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If Trump can escape his Washington trench warfare -- be it the encirclement of Russia's election meddling or the pressure to deliver on health care -- he may find in Macron a leader willing to engage where he can.
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Their historic hypersensitivity to a strategic encirclement in their own Asian neighborhood, which may have been exacerbated by the U.S. "pivot" to the region, means they have no desire for a similar outcome on the Korean peninsula.
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"No matter whether it's political brains, strategy and tactics, objectives and orientation, organizational means or operational efficiency, it's all been very much like a successful war of encirclement," a message said on a website for Chinese veterans.
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There is a gap in the encirclement to the west of the city, which seems to have a purpose: to draw out any ISIS fighters who do not want to fight to death in the heavily populated city.
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Russian air strikes in recent weeks have made it possible for regime forces, augmented by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and various Iranian-backed proxy militias, to come close to a complete encirclement of pre-war Syria's biggest city.
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The Shi'ite groups are attacking militants deployed between Mosul and Tal Afar, 60 kilometers (40 miles) to the west, trying to complete Mosul's encirclement, with the army and Kurdish security forces controlling access from the other three sides.
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Lieutenant-General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi told state TV his elite Counter Terrorism Services (CTS) were advancing steadily in the Rifaie and Najjar districts, aiming to reach the western bank of Tigris river and complete the Old City's encirclement.
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Another week of fighting would give Syria's government and its Russian, Lebanese and Iranian allies time to press on with the encirclement of Aleppo, Syria's biggest city before the war, which they are now on the verge of capturing.
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The advance by the Syrian army and allied militia in the Ramousah area of southern Aleppo has reopened the main route into the government-held west while resulting in the complete re-encirclement of the city's rebel-held east.
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Titled "Encirclement," it consists of hundreds of small items confiscated from airports that she has collected since 2002 — scissors are the most represented — and piled up and organized into a large ring that gives off an aura of sacredness.
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Jayadeva Ranade, a former China specialist on the Indian government's National Security Advisory Board, said India saw the Silk Road as a strategic Chinese initiative, and that the Pakistan corridor was particularly worrying because it raised fears of encirclement.
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Moscow uses its military not only to subjugate Armenia, but also to threaten Azerbaijan and Georgia; project power into the entire Middle East and Black Sea; and contribute to the aerial and naval encirclement of our NATO ally Turkey.
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The Yuen Long attack and the encirclement of the Liaison Office marked new fronts in a protest movement that has intensified over the last two months and sparked the most direct challenge to the authority of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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There is emerging in the Middle East, not a Shia Crescent, but actually an Iranian Shia encirclement from Iraq in the north to both the Persian Gulf and Red Sea waterways and Yemeni land area to the south, east and west.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed forces seized control of the last route into Islamic State-held city of Manbij in northern Syria on Friday, completing their encirclement of the main target in a major advance against the militants, a monitoring group said.
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China, which suspects Tsai of pushing for the island's formal independence, has been ramping up military pressure on Taiwan, which includes encirclement drills around it and flying jets across a maritime border separating the two sides, a move Taipei called "provocative".
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Backed by Shi'ite militias on the ground and airstrikes from the US-led coalition, the army is about to complete the encirclement of the city in an operation that started on May 23, state TV said Sunday citing military statements.
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The effective encirclement of Manbij by a militia called the Syria Democratic Forces is part of an assault launched last week, backed by U.S. air power and American special forces, to seal off the last stretch of Syrian-Turkish frontier.
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Capturing or isolating Tal Afar from Mosul is a key part of the U.S-backed offensive to take back Islamic State's last major city stronghold in Iraq, by allowing the ground forces taking part in the campaign to complete Mosul's encirclement.
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"There are three major offensives going on right now, at the same time," he said, citing the battle for West Mosul; the encirclement of Raqqa, Syria, the Islamic State's de facto capital; and the fight for the Tabqa Dam in Syria.
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Russian and Iranian military involvement in Syria's six-year civil war is reinvigorating the Syrian government's fightback, bringing swift gains for Assad in recent weeks and putting full encirclement of the rebel stronghold of Aleppo, a major symbol of the uprising, within sight.
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"The world, Europe and the Middle East can expect more refugees, and nobody wants that," said Valerie Szybala, the executive director of The Syria Institute, adding that using encirclement to force people from their homes also risked sowing the seeds of future conflicts.
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RAQQA PROVINCE, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) - An alliance of U.S.-backed militias started a new phase of its campaign against the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa on Saturday, aiming to complete its encirclement and sever the road to militant strongholds in Deir al-Zor province.
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Moreover, Russian claims of NATO encirclement hold little weight considering that until its March 2014 invasion of Crimea virtually no permanent NATO troops were stationed in the territory of former Soviet satellite states as is visually depicted in this infographic by the Atlantic Council.
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Pakistan has not been able to convince the United States of the validity of its primary interest in Afghanistan — preventing it from becoming a "proxy for India" and stemming fears of "encirclement" in Pakistan despite India's proclamations of merely offering economic assistance to Afghanistan.
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A rebel source told Reuters the Turkish army and rebels had mounted a joint operation to storm the town of Nairab, push the army away from the M4 highway, and relieve the encirclement of five Turkish observation posts on the outskirts of the crossroads town of Saraqeb.
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China's air force and navy have sent warplanes including Su-35 fighter jets, H-6K strategic bombers and advanced KJ-2000 airborne early warning aircraft to conduct "encirclement" drills around Taiwan since 2018, as Beijing applies pressure on the self-ruled island that it sees as part of its territory.
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Although the Turkish-backed insurgents and Russian-backed government forces are not openly coordinating their moves — and in other circumstances, might be attacking each other — the joint encirclement of Al Bab appeared to reflect a strategic desire to rout the Islamic State, a group that both parties describe as an enemy.
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"I am well known as being a strong friend of Israel but I have to say the first time I visited Jerusalem and had a proper tour around that wonderful city and saw what has happened with the effective encirclement of East Jerusalem — occupied East Jerusalem — it is genuinely shocking," Mr. Cameron said in Parliament.
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A Houthi-Iran victory in Yemen would spell defeat for U.S. national security interests in the region, because it would pave another step by Tehran to establish control of the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb strait and the Persian Gulf, and encirclement of the entire Arabian Peninsula and the Two Holy Cities — Medina and Mecca.
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