When you look at the attack on the mercenaries in Syria, the Russian mercenaries.
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Then the government hired mercenaries to do it, and within weeks, those mercenaries did it.
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"During these clashes, the National Hospital was liberated and cleared from the Daesh mercenaries, and 22 of these foreign mercenaries were killed there," said Bali.
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And then, to catch the people that worked for him, because he had these mercenaries, ex-military mercenaries who were working for him as hit men.
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The mercenaries loosely coordinate with the Russian military in Syria, although Wagner's leaders have reportedly received awards in the Kremlin, and its mercenaries are trained at the Russian Defense Ministry's bases.
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"During these clashes, the National Hospital was liberated and cleared from the Daesh mercenaries, and 22 of these foreign mercenaries were killed there," said Bali, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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" The mercenaries, he said, were "almost like a murder squad.
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No one, the spokesperson said, died in the mercenaries' assault.
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Two of the "mercenaries" have been killed and one injured.
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The Kremlin suggested that any Russians were mercenaries, not soldiers.
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When mercenaries appear, I'm often silently cursing under my breath.
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Last month, Russian mercenaries fought against US forces in Syria.
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And that is who've we've entrusted to our security. Mercenaries.
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The drone video doesn't show anyone shooting back at the mercenaries.
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To make their escape, the mercenaries ran into UAE military vehicles.
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Several hundred Wagner mercenaries have now reportedly been flown to Venezuela.
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Mercenaries are resurrecting globally, and war is becoming privatised once more.
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Graham had investigated, and occasionally collaborated with gangsters, terrorists, and mercenaries.
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He says Bezoz describes two types of companies: missionaries and mercenaries.
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These are the countries where Russia's shadowy Wagner Group mercenaries operate
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It turns city kids from feeble hairless rats into hardened mercenaries.
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Russian mercenaries have battled American commandos and their Syrian Kurdish allies.
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A half-hour later, the Russian mercenaries and Syrian forces struck.
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"Mercenaries made illegal recordings thinking they can entrap me," he said.
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"The foreign mercenaries make money in that war," Mr. Keilberth said.
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Sometimes, Mercenaries evokes everything that first brought me to the series.
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In these snapshots, MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is exactly what I wanted.
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It accused both countries of supporting "foreign mercenaries" behind the attack.
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"Foreign mercenaries will never be allowed in this country," he said.
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Hardened mercenaries are also joining, lured by the promise of money.
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Last month, a court issued arrest warrants for six people accused of training mercenaries and being unauthorized fighters in Eastern Ukraine, and it is investigating four others, including Gnerre, for recruiting and supporting mercenaries in the region.
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We&aposve already killed 200 of your mercenaries and stop threatening NATO.
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Yet, as BuzzFeed News has previously reported, the US doesn't ban mercenaries.
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On February 7, Russian mercenaries fired at American troops in eastern Syria.
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Aegon is backed by the Golden Company, a formidable group of mercenaries.
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In 2015-2016, Wagner mercenaries moved from Ukraine to Syria, Sergey Sukhankin,
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In fact, the chemsex dealers Schierano came across weren't exactly cutthroat mercenaries.
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The U.S. strikes resulted in the deaths of scores of Russian mercenaries.
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The Cuban government dismisses dissidents as mercenaries seeking to destabilize the country.
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"Foreign mercenaries will never be allowed in this country," Mr. Ghani said.
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A secretive clinic in St. Petersburg has been treating mercenaries injured overseas.
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His classmates — needless to say, Hitler Youth — morph into 17th-century mercenaries.
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More than 1,400 Russian mercenaries were deployed with the LNA, he said.
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There are three broad categories of mission you'll take while playing Mercenaries.
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It's hard to deny that Mercenaries offers flashes of that old joy.
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Putin is trying to downplay the deaths of Russian mercenaries in Syria
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Many of the mercenaries hired by Nigeria in 2015 came from this network.
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It says a lot that mercenaries are more powerful than the army there.
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He's just with the Brotherhood without Banners (Beric Dondarrion's ragtag crew of mercenaries).
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She's got the Golden Company mercenaries on their way to fight for her.
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The Cuban government dismisses the dissidents as mercenaries seeking to destabilize the country.
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He has recruited hundreds of mercenaries, and has even talked of colonising Mars.
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The rights groups say the Gambian unit saw the migrants as suspected mercenaries.
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"They try to buy us…as if we are mercenaries," said the soldier.
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She boxes for fun, so we're prepared to see her scrap with mercenaries.
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"These foreigners are actually fake news mercenaries," Chamisa said at a news conference.
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Both sides have drawn on mercenaries recruited from southern Libya, Chad and Sudan.
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The government blamed those attacks on Liberian mercenaries who had fought for Gbagbo.
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It is the work, Libyan fighters say, of Russian mercenaries, including skilled snipers.
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He said CIA officers and 85033,000 mercenaries should take charge in the conflict.
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He said CIA officers and 6,000 mercenaries should take charge in the conflict.
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US troops killed perhaps dozens of Russian mercenaries in one battle in Syria.
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The Special Forces teams paired with indigenous mercenaries who opposed the North Vietnamese.
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Questions remain about exactly who the Russian mercenaries were, and why they attacked.
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Mr Prigozhin's alleged interests run from mining and mercenaries to internet troll farms.
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In Cuba, people who receive aid from the U.S. government are branded mercenaries.
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Turkey has already deployed Syrian mercenaries, estimated in the thousands, to the fight.
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Last fall, Russia deployed Kremlin-backed mercenaries to bolster the assault on Tripoli.
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Townsend said the incident underscores the influence of Russian mercenaries in the area.
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"Chapter Six — "The Mandalorian joins a crew of mercenaries on a dangerous mission.
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Meanwhile, her brother Erik Prince owns the Blackwater firm, which essentially sells mercenaries.
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Odyssey has its own system of checks and balances with the inclusion of mercenaries.
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Remember, Secretary Mattis said U.S. forces have killed over 200 Russian mercenaries in Syria.
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He's currently helping Cersei plot to attack Daenerys' forces with the Golden Company mercenaries.
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He found plenty of fellow mercenaries in the Russian-speaking regions of the Internet.
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The dialogue can feel stiff—far too formal for a ragtag group of mercenaries.
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As fighting slowed in 2015, mercenaries and volunteers returned home or sought employment elsewhere.
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Columbia Journalism Review: Journalists ambushed in Central African Republic during investigation of Russian mercenaries.
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The Angels are a band of mercenaries, but they're also something of a sorority.
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So much so that imported mercenaries are required to show them how it's done.
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Fecund mercenaries, dressed as empathetic clowns, would have us, the survivors, fund the funders.
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As the mercenary menu shows, she is in a big hierarchy of other mercenaries.
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Davos originally recommended that Stannis hire the mercenaries to beef up his armed forces.
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In televised remarks Sunday, Maduro vowed to capture the "mercenaries" responsible for the raid.
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But news correspondents covering the mercenaries said some were racists who killed with gusto.
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There are short-term patches, no doubt, like giving our mercenaries what they want.
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In a bid to seize the oil fields, Russian mercenaries attacked the areas, leading to a clash that saw dozens if not hundreds of Russian mercenaries killed in US airstrikes, an episode that Trump has touted as proof he is tough on Russia.
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Aram Roston exposed these American mercenaries in a story with crackling detail — a former Green Beret cradling an AK-47 and sucking a lollipop, dog tags imprinted with the mercenaries' blood type, and a charter jet stuffed with cases of Basil Hayden's whiskey.
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He's even linked to the deadly firefight between Russian mercenaries and American forces on Feb.
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If the mercenaries had killed a civilian in the street, who would have even investigated?
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Outside the US, hiring mercenaries to conduct combat missions is rare, though it has happened.
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Instead, Huck refers to their shared past as state-sanctioned mercenaries as a "government" job.
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However, investigative journalists and bloggers reckon scores more Wagner-linked mercenaries have died in combat.
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Competing Libyan armed factions frequently accuse each other of deploying mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa.
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From these two regions, Russia must remove all of its troops, mercenaries, and security officials.
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Mercenaries surrounded by the enemy take cover inside an abandoned tank, then can't get out.
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In that conflict, U.S. forces killed several Russian mercenaries supporting the government of Bashar Assad.
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As the mercenaries closed in, fears mounted for thousands of Europeans trapped in the city.
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Russia has been using mercenaries in Syria to support the regime and fight opposition forces.
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Cuba opposes anything that legitimizes dissidents, who it claims are mercenaries funded by foreign interests.
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The role the mercenaries are playing in the country -- combat or advisory -- is still unclear.
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Unlike in Black Flag, where you fit into the big network of mercenaries in the world is made very clear to you through a menu that demonstrates exactly which mercenaries out in the world are more powerful than you and which of them are weaker.
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We don't really know a whole lot about the circumstances in which these mercenaries were hired.
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That gap will now fill with Iranian backed militia, friendly Syrian regime forces, and Russian mercenaries.
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Christmas passed with the mercenaries sharing their whiskey and plotting how exactly they should kill Mayo.
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As they went about their work in Yemen, the mercenaries stayed in huts, sleeping in cots.
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Oil-rich Arab states are building bases on the Horn of Africa and hiring African mercenaries.
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Punctilious in his work, Alexander expelled mercenaries, created an armed watch and overhauled the justice system.
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The series focuses on futuristic, elite corporate mercenaries and has spawned several spin-offs and expansions.
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In the mid-1990s, Mobutu used mercenaries in a last-ditch effort to stay in power.
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Officials of the Tripoli government say Russia is now bringing in more mercenaries by the week.
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Will Trump decide to fight the war in Afghanistan primarily with mercenaries, as he's reportedly considered?
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Take "Wolf Warrior 2", a blockbuster in which a Chinese commando kills American mercenaries in Africa.
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But reports citing U.S. unnamed officials said that "scores" of Russian mercenaries were killed and injured.
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Sudan's president brought in Russian mercenaries in January to help shore up his rule against protests.
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From their outpost, the commandos watched the mercenaries and Syrian fighters return to collect their dead.
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In 1512, Spanish mercenaries made matchwood of Tuscan defenses, the republic fell and the Medici returned.
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TRIPOLI, Libya — Russia has sent hundreds of mercenaries to back militias laying siege to Libya's capital.
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The case could mark a turning point in Silicon Valley's fight against private-sector espionage mercenaries.
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After hours of combat, 22018 mercenaries escaped by hijacking an Air India jet on the tarmac.
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U.S. officials have expressed concerns about the conflict amid reports of Russian mercenaries backing Haftar's forces.
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Russia and Turkey weigh in While Russian mercenaries support Haftar, Turkey backs the Tripoli-based GNA.
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In recent days, rumors have swirled about Russian mercenaries, massive bullion shipments and murky assassination plots.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed "foreign mercenaries" backed by the US for the attack on Sunday.
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I give this preamble to underscore the high expectations I had coming into MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries.
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We are ruled by mercenaries who feel no long-term obligation to the people they rule.
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Even in the movie, "blade runner" is a slick but random name for mercenaries who hunt replicants.
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We&aposve wiped out Russian mercenaries and we&aposre combating the Iranians in Syria, what the point?
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Hacking is a business, and if there's no money to be made, most cyber mercenaries aren't interested.
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Its classified section, where people would advertise to be hired as mercenaries, was the stuff of legend.
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Flitting between flags, depending on which offers the best career, exacerbates the suspicion that immigrants are mercenaries.
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She talks about the APY lands being a place of mercenaries, misfits and missionaries, a wild frontier.
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The Houthi-controlled Saba news agency described the demonstrators as "mercenaries" looking to stir up public anger.
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New Delhi sent troops to the Maldives in 1988 to foil a coup, purportedly involving foreign mercenaries.
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Cuba brands dissidents as mercenaries, funded by foreign governments and exiles and out to topple the government.
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"The factions that [Turkey] was backing were mercenaries who weren't competent to handle this mission," said Sultan.
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The war turned into a slog as my armies shrank and were filled-out by expensive mercenaries.
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Cuba brands all dissenters as mercenaries funded by foreign governments and exiles, out to topple the government.
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The airstrikes, it later turned out, killed dozens of Russian mercenaries in the process, American officials said.
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Mercenaries can accept contracts on Kassandra the same way that Kassandra can accept contracts on anyone else.
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Calling itself "anti-Communist," C.M.A. included American mercenaries who were active in the 230s in Central America.
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These mercenaries of aggressive swing take to the seas, fulfilling the dreams of punk rock pirates everywhere.
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The United Arab Emirates, Egypt and others have lined up behind him, and Russia has sent mercenaries.
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A peasant girl, she silenced a horde of ransacking mercenaries with a raised glass and defiant toast.
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Haftar is also backed by Egypt and more recently Russian mercenaries, according to diplomats and Tripoli officials.
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On Tuesday, Interior Minister Salah Eddine Dahmoune attacked people opposing the election as "traitors, mercenaries and homosexuals".
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To Leshchenko, it looked like an oligarchic coup, with mercenaries carrying out the will of a businessman.
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I shot blindly at the mercenaries and rushed to cover as Naybha charged towards the merc leader.
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From the broadest view, MechWarrior 233: Mercenaries follows the melody played by its predecessors note for note.
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With the exception of Finn, Stormtroopers are famous for being the faceless, pesky mercenaries that always induce chaos.
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She bought the Golden Company, led by Harry Strickland (Marc Rissmann), giving her thousands of healthy new mercenaries.
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Russian-trained mercenaries have also helped to establish a paramilitary unit serving Dodik, local media reported in January.
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Cuba considers dissidents to be mercenaries in the pay of the United States trying to subvert the government.
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Other Russian military contractors and mercenaries are already believed to be providing security support for the Maduro regime.
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The government dismisses the dissidents, who are funded by U.S. interests, as mercenaries seeking to destabilize the country.
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We know Euron Greyjoy went to transport these mercenaries from Essos for Cersei in the Season 27 finale.
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It's a world where animal rights activists fight alongside mercenaries and career soldiers in Africa's war against extinction.
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Mr Katumbi formally entered the race on May 4th, the same day that the accusations about mercenaries emerged.
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Read more: Video shows the inside of an abandoned US camp in Syria taken over by Russian mercenaries.
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First of these are the mercenaries, who like Alexios are in the murder game to make a buck.
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Seeing Ukraine slip from Russia's orbit, the Kremlin seized control of Crimea and dispatched mercenaries to the Donbas.
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Talon (Jessica Green) becomes the sole survivor of her race when her village is wiped out by mercenaries.
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The game casts players as futuristic mercenaries clad in armored metal suits that can be customized and personalized.
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The mercenaries earn of a share of the production proceeds from the oil fields they reclaim, officials said.
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The Special Forces were composed then of mountain tribal mercenaries led by experienced and canny Army noncommissioned officers.
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Two of the Russians told Bloomberg that more than 200 mercenaries, mostly Russian, were killed in the strike.
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He was also a technical adviser for "The Wild Geese," a 21989 British film about mercenaries in Africa.
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A U.S. strike in Syria on pro-Assad forces earlier this month may have killed numerous Russian mercenaries.
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Meantime, the Kremlin said Tuesday that it had no information about Russian mercenaries reportedly being killed in Syria.
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The second, and unfortunately the rarest, jobs you'll get are the hand authored missions of Mercenaries' main story.
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Two of the Russians told Bloomberg that more than 85033 mercenaries, mostly Russian, were killed in the strike.
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US warplanes hammered the Wagner mercenaries, forcing them to withdraw without doing substantial damage to the American positions.
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The Kremlin said on Tuesday it had no information about Russian mercenaries reportedly being killed in last week's attack.
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Lombardy-Russia also shared a sympathetic news story about of one of the alleged mercenaries on its Facebook page.
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They take jobs as mercenaries, completing odd jobs, while trying to solve the greater mystery of their disappearing home.
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Make eye contact with one of the mercenaries in riot gear we have onboard to keep you in line.
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Might not such systems attract data mercenaries, spamming firms with useless junk data simply to make a quick buck?
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Would Real Madrid – a team often characterised as being populated by vain and ludicrously talented mercenaries – be so feted?
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Far Cry 2 is a beautiful game about fighting mercenaries in Africa, running with gazelles, and blowing things up.
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In this way, many of the foreign mercenaries fighting with the Voloveka weren't so different from their Ukrainian brethren.
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On Wednesday, Congolese officials said they were opening an investigation into allegations that Mr. Katumbi was using American mercenaries.
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The lack of an exit wound is a signature of the ammunition used by the same Russian mercenaries elsewhere.
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A rebel army, backed by Western mercenaries, attempts to seize power, and the country is engulfed in civil war.
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But if groups are disbanded, and participation is individual, they may splinter into gangs of drug-traffickers or mercenaries.
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It's a mercenary operation, now staffed by mercenaries — ex-military correctional officers who see themselves as an occupying force.
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In 2018, there were about 2,500 Wagner mercenaries in Syria, according to the BBC, but the figures have varied.
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"He can fulfill any task for Putin, ranging from fighting the opposition to sending mercenaries to Syria," she said.
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Russia may have lost dozens of its mercenaries in a humiliating recent encounter with American forces near the Euphrates.
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The British Army and their Hessian mercenaries were coming to kill them, destroy their homes and rape their women.
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The special representative for the Syria conflict was asked about a widely publicized clash in February involving Russian mercenaries.
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There is a never a moment where I am confused about my power level in relationship to other mercenaries.
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The E.U. gives its terms for postponing Brexit, digital mercenaries are open for business, and waters recede in Mozambique.
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So you had a lot of restless mercenaries around, who knew the coastline like the back of their hands.
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To generate a steady source of income, NORG came up with the idea to lend out SeeD as mercenaries.
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"You could call them mercenaries," said a fighter named Khatab, who asked to be identified by his surname only.
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Sometimes you get them by talking to fixers, who find mercenaries like V to come in and solve problems.
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Haftar is backed by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Sudanese and Chadian fighters, and most recently Russian mercenaries.
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Family members of some of the Russian mercenaries killed in Syria are starting to publicly complain about the incident.
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Erdogan, however, has said Turkey will not stay silent over mercenaries from the Kremlin-linked Wagner group supporting Haftar.
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Erdogan, however, has said Turkey will not stay silent over mercenaries from the Kremlin-linked Wagner group supporting Haftar.
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"If anything, bringing in foreign mercenaries would be likely to provide terrific recruiting slogans for the insurgents," she added.
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Cersei has used the Tyrell gold to buy the services of the Golden Company, an army of mercenaries from Essos.
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"He's not hiring mercenaries to find out what happened," says the source, addressing reports that surfaced shortly after that incident.
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Three years later, after releasing Mercenaries 2, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest , and The Saboteur, Pandemic itself shut down.
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The mercenaries had gathered in Phuket, a tropical resort island off the west coast of Thailand, to discuss a job.
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Russia has been playing for power in Africa in recent years by sending arms, offering mercenaries and cinching mining deals.
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Moscow also has Kremlin-linked troops, which it labels as mercenaries, in the country to help fight anti-Assad forces.
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Justice Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba said authorities had proof Katumbi was involved in recruiting mercenaries including several retired American soldiers.
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Rastorguev was murdered in murky circumstances last July while making a film about Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic.
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The LNA insists this is not a power grab, but rather an effort to rid southern Libya of foreign mercenaries.
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Dizzy and the younger vets on the bond drive were all privateers—mercenaries if you're the protesting, virtual-petition type.
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But Prince was adamant that the contractor forces would not be mercenaries, or fighters trying to profit off the war.
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I'd traveled into the Manila underworld and found former employees, including ex-military mercenaries who'd worked as Le Roux's enforcers.
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The mercenaries involved reportedly belonged to Wagner, the Russian counterpart to American private security force Academi — once known as Blackwater.
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When the Lusitanians dispatch their own set of mercenaries to the proxy war, she's given a second chance at redemption.
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In the 1960s, Belgian mercenaries fought a short-lived war to split this province off from the rest of Congo.
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What's more, they don't think of themselves as mercenaries: They are a brotherhood of exiles and the sons of exiles.
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The Kremlin has sidestepped questions, saying that any Russians who were killed were mercenaries, not members of the armed forces.
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Hoare and a team of mercenaries traveled to the Seychelles in November 1981, intending to overthrow President France-Albert René.
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Haftar is backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Jordan, Sudanese and Chadian fighters, and most recently Russian mercenaries.
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Other recent actions by Moscow include quietly deploying mercenaries and political advisers to several countries, including the Central African Republic.
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"Soldiers burnt houses and killed civilians... the lake was filled with dead bodies, including those of white mercenaries," Adizua said.
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She recalled being in Beirut playing Army of Two, in which two "dude-bro" American mercenaries fight terrorists in Afghanistan.
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An avowed patriot, he was shot to death in 1776 by Hessian mercenaries during the British occupation of the city.
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The difference is that though both the actor and the general are mercenaries, Keith does not have a hero's authority.
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An official in Libya's internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) told Reuters that Russian mercenaries appeared to be responsible.
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Now he finds himself on the run from all the other mercenaries seeking him and the mysterious infant he rescued.
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The U.S. official said the involvement of Russian mercenaries so far has not tipped the conflict in favor of Haftar.
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But in retrospect, one entry in this list that I should've paused for longer for was Activision's MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries.
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Prigozhin "almost certainly" controls Russian mercenaries in Syria who are fighting on behalf of Assad, according to U.S. intelligence reports.
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They are apparently trying to market themselves as corporate mercenaries willing to abuse the legal system to silence legitimate advocacy work.
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So that suggests that mercenaries are more powerful, or at least as powerful as, the most powerful military in West Africa.
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The second question is, what does it mean, more generally, that we have a rising industry of mercenaries around the world?
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U.S. personnel have been seen at the Buriqa base, along with Colombian mercenaries, according to two prisoners and two security officials.
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Instead, she and Steve recruit a pallid A-team of stock male mercenaries to fight, while Etta stays behind in London.
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The US draws the line at combat; it does not hire mercenaries to carry out attacks or engage directly in warfare.
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The State Department has never approved any contractors "to provide direct command functions, combat troops, combatants, or mercenaries," a spokesperson said.
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It has become clear that US airstrikes last week killed an unknown number of Russian mercenaries fighting for the Syrian government.
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There are plenty of other dangers, too — station leaks, 3D-printed drones, disgruntled mercenaries, and space junk, to name a few.
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This has created a troupe of globe-trotting mercenaries, hopping from auction to auction and ignoring the pleas of national selectors.
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Their hunt throws them into conflict with bands of mercenaries, corrupt police officers, and some of the gods that inhabit Dinétah.
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On February 7th American-led forces killed scores of Russian mercenaries who were fighting alongside pro-regime forces in eastern Syria.
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The candidate, Moise Katumbi, was indicted last month after he was accused of hiring mercenaries in a plot against the state.
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She has money, sure, but that money can't buy mercenaries who can take on three dragons and an army of Dothraki.
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These efforts have reportedly been supported by troops from Iran, fighters from Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement, and even mercenaries from Afghanistan.
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For Key, however, the British mercenaries were scoundrels and the Colonial Marines were traitors who threatened to spark a national insurrection.
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Iran's enemies see the Shiite militia as little more than mercenaries, but Freidawi and his comrades sincerely believe in their cause.
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Bosen realized this—check the thread—and used the money out of Lenny's wallet to hire mercenaries to attack the Imperium.
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There are multiple sides racing to find the same treasure; Nathan and Sam are up against a literal army of mercenaries.
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"The Armenian armed forces have been suffering losses, mainly mercenaries of Armenian origin," the Azeri defense ministry said in a statement.
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It is impossible to comprehend Golub's breadth without an understanding of these epic works and the related Mercenaries and Interrogation paintings.
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The case appeared suddenly, barely a month after the government had accused him of hiring American mercenaries and plotting a coup.
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"We did not want to kill the revolution in Rojava and return to the regime and its Russian mercenaries," he said.
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The surprise takeover of Crimea was bloodless, but in the Donbas the mercenaries were unable to build popular support for separatism.
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Russia and its mercenaries in the Donbas have failed to implement the cease-fire agreed in the February 2015 Minsk accords.
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Private military contractors (PMC), sometimes referred to as mercenaries or guns-for-hire, are the silent majority of today's military activities.
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Our heroes are Jane (Ella Balinska) and Sabina (Kristen Stewart), mercenaries in the employ of some shadowy agency (it doesn't matter).
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But days after that clash, Borodin wrote about the deaths of men thought to have tangled with U.S. troops as mercenaries.
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New Zealand honors victims of the Christchurch terrorist attack, confusion around Brexit thickens and digital mercenaries create a new global battleground.
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The two countries signed a military cooperation agreement last year, and Wagner Group mercenaries began showing up in Central African Republic.
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"America is the head of evil, as well as the Saudi regime and the mercenaries of the Saudi regime," he said.
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Since September, Russian mercenaries have joined the LNA forces, helping to make small gains on the Tripoli frontline in recent weeks.
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He has also been linked to the Wagner Group, a private security firm that has deployed mercenaries in Ukraine and Syria.
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Trump's fixation on transactional alliances risks turning the American armed forces into a band of mercenaries divorced from our sustaining values.
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And the deaths of Russian mercenaries who launched attacks on US and US-backed forces February 7 remain shrouded in mystery.
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In early 2017, Russian mercenaries began appearing in Libya to support Haftar as well, mostly in logistical, support and intelligence roles.
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Late on February 7, the Russian mercenaries attacked the US troops, who responded with such fury that they decimated the attackers.
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On Thursday, a leading opposition presidential candidate, Moise Katumbi, was indicted for allegedly hiring mercenaries in a plot against the state.
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Rich countries should make it harder for ex-spooks to pursue second careers as digital mercenaries in the service of autocrats.
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"The group of mercenaries which are working in the Central African Republic are indeed connected to Mr Prigozhin," he told CNN.
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Reports citing friends of the dead and injured and unnamed officials have said "scores" of Russian mercenaries were killed or hurt.
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For the last two years 23,212 to 212,000 Iranian advisers operating out of Beirut and Damascus have been directing thousands of Lebanese pro-Iranian Shiite Hezbollah mercenaries, Syrian Army forces funded by Iran and some 10,000 pro-Iranian Shiite mercenaries from Afghanistan and Pakistan — to defeat Sunni Syrian rebels and ISIS in the Syrian civil war.
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In both Ukraine and Syria, Russia has turned to mercenaries to project power abroad while minimizing its own role in the fighting.
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"As with most of our major investments, and acquisitions, we're always looking for mission-driven entrepreneurs — missionaries instead of mercenaries," Bezos said.
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The detainees could not say whether the Americans, some of whom wear military uniforms, are members of the U.S. government or mercenaries.
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In February, the local Catholic diocese published a report stating that paid mercenaries were deliberately fueling conflict between the Lendu and Hema.
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The DOJ alleges the pair worked for Huaying Haitai Science and Technology Development Company and were contracted by China as cyber mercenaries.
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Mr Dagalo had previously sent at least 3,000 mercenaries to fight for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Yemen.
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Several Russian mercenaries working in Syria were killed by U.S. airstrikes last week, according to reports in Russia and in the West.
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Drift is a colorful, and not always competent character who has surrounded himself with an intriguing mix of mercenaries, hackers, and muscle.
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The tie's origins date back to the 17th century, when mercenaries hired by Louis XIII of France wore a form of cravat.
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These include engaging in covert operations, such as spreading disinformation, encouraging cyber-crime or using mercenaries, all masked as non-state actors.
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You recruit a band of misfit, amateurish mercenaries, then begin waging a guerilla war across a huge map of the entire country.
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Katumbi fled abroad in May 2016 as prosecutors announced their intent to try him on charges of hiring mercenaries, which he denied.
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This account, which includes the histories of the Salem witch trials and the Scourers (a rogue band of magical mercenaries), explains why.
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Few believe the accusation about mercenaries: despite raiding Mr Katumbi's homes, the Congolese government has arrested only a few unarmed security guards.
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"It is a plan for 32 mercenaries to enter [Venezuela] to try to assassinate me and leaders of the revolution," Maduro said.
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A video shows the inside of a US military camp in Syria shortly after it was abandoned and overtaken by Russian mercenaries.
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According to the Telegraph, his mercenaries are trying to secure the deep-water ports of Tobruk and Derna for the Russian Fleet.
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Haftar needs considerable help to recruit fighters and mercenaries from abroad as he was unable to recruit enough Libyans to his army.
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Townsend, meanwhile, said at his confirmation hearing that he has a "pretty significant concern" about the way Russia uses mercenaries in Africa.
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What's worse, however, is the product the Times has allowed Prince to shill: mercenaries that, under Prince, committed war crimes in Iraq.
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The pollsters said that could be due to his two-year absence from the country after being accused of hiring foreign mercenaries.
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The opera's pair of young officers dress up here not as the libretto's Albanians but as the African mercenaries known as Dubats.
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The victory, supported by the Navy and local mercenaries, helped secure US ships and trade at a critical time in America's development.
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The Kremlin has sent as many as 1,400 mercenaries with the private security company Wagner Group to aid his assault on Tripoli.
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The State Department on Saturday expressed concern about the escalation of a conflict in Libya amid the reported presence of Russian mercenaries.
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Haftar enjoys the support of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Russian mercenaries and some African troops, while Serraj is backed by Turkey.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed "foreign mercenaries" backed by the United States for the attack on the military parade on September 22.
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By October, as many as two hundred Russian mercenaries had arrived, and within weeks the number grew to more than a thousand.
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"The government's case is based on the testimony of mercenaries, who traded their testimonies for leniency," Lambert, the Guzmán team lawyer, said.
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Those are American forces, after all, not mercenaries that are hired by South Korea, as Heritage Foundation scholar Bruce Klingner has noted.
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But if Russian mercenaries are deliberately attacking Americans anyway, it's fair to say the cooperation agreement isn't worth much as it is.
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Certainly no apology is necessary; the Russian mercenaries were warned and failed to halt their attack; the U.S. struck in self-defense.
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I had killed all the Talon mercenaries, checked every computer terminal, and opened up every strong box looking of items to sell.
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That's how many casualties Russian mercenaries reportedly suffered in Syria last week when the U.S. hit pro-Assad forces in retaliatory airstrikes.
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Wagner has come under intense scrutiny after widespread reports that roughly 100 of its mercenaries were killed in a clash with U.S. forces.
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Prince is one of the shadiest people on the planet and oversaw Blackwater when its mercenaries were indiscriminately committing war crimes in Iraq.
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Because there is no formal police service in Greece, citizens will employ mercenaries to take out people who have wronged them, including you.
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We are seeing their increasing use elsewhere—for example, at present in Yemen, where South American, ex-special forces mercenaries are being used.
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Specifically the fact that some of those mercenaries hired to fight in Nigeria appear to have been former apartheid-era South African military?
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When confronted with Drogon's firepower, these mercenaries fled and were quickly dispatched, led by their commander, the out-of-his-depth Harry Strickland.
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While US law makes it illegal to "conspire to kill, kidnap," or "maim" someone in another country, the United States doesn't ban mercenaries.
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For Americans who don't call themselves contractors, it is surprisingly easy to serve in foreign militaries or work as mercenaries in private armies.
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However, Ghassan Salame told reporters that an arms embargo was being violated by both sides and that new mercenaries were still arriving Libya.
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Some of the intellectuals view the other faction as crass mercenaries more interested in protecting their access than in fighting for lofty principles.
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Even with the help of Russia, Iran and Shia mercenaries, Mr Assad can at most retake the populous western end of the country.
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Both sides accuse the other of using mercenaries from southern Libya and sub-Saharan states across the border, and of carrying out abuses.
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Taking Tripoli may require far more Russian support than a couple hundred mercenaries, given the bloody block-by-block nature of urban combat.
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"Security services in the capital detained a number of mercenaries tasked by the aggressors to plant rumours and disturb public peace," Saba reported.
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We are entering an escalating war, with computerized mercenaries as our infantry against ever-active digital bomb-throwers taking aim at our democracy.
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Second, the immediate U.S. emphasis must be on inducing Russia to stop its war in the Donbas and withdraw its forces and mercenaries.
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Earlier this year, though, U.S. forces bombed and killed hundreds of Russian mercenaries when they crossed a deconfliction zone in Deir el-Zour.
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They tend to be OK with spending that flows into the pockets of private-sector friends, whether it's mercenaries or for-profit colleges.
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Others are essentially Olympic mercenaries, including Frisch, who had mixed feelings about competing for South Korea when the host nation initially approached her.
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When some of their weapons were discovered at the airport, the mercenaries commandeered an Air India plane and flew back to South Africa.
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Renewed fighting could be even worse, many Tripoli residents said, because it would be between professional soldiers and trained mercenaries, not Libyan amateurs.
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Russia claims the troops are not tied to Moscow; it has used the same explanation to describe its mercenaries in like in Ukraine.
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"We are the mercenaries," read one sign, as people in the crowd sang the European Union anthem and waved E.U. and Hungarian flags.
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He pushed unorthodox proposals, like substituting mercenaries for American soldiers, which were greeted with disdain by military commanders but appealed to the president.
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In recent weeks, General Hifter's forces have been buoyed by the arrival of Kremlin-backed Russian mercenaries armed with sophisticated drone-jamming technology.
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His avowed support of the government makes his words significantly troubling for a country that frequently paints dissidents as mercenaries on Washington's payroll.
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Haftar is backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Jordan, Sudanese and Chadian fighters as well as and most recently, Russian mercenaries.
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Nomeko lists the Sogaz unit that runs the clinic treating mercenaries as one of its partners on its website, without providing more specifics.
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Juma Enad Sadoon, called critics like Mr. Jiboori "barking dogs and mercenaries" and said they should not interfere in security matters in Tikrit.
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That editorial was published just after a stunning expose on how even ICE agents were horrified by the heartlessness of McKinsey's consultant mercenaries.
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They often work as mercenaries and bounty hunters, though it looks like one Mandalorian character in the series is an armorer of sorts.
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Those mercenaries are believed to be involved in an attempted strike against U.S. forces and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces earlier this month.
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Moscow has provided no details of what the mercenaries were doing, but accounts of the operation have emerged in interviews with family members.
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The U.S. strike in Syria on forces supporting the government of Bashar Assad last week killed several Russian mercenaries, according to multiple reports.
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It turned the Syrian rebels into mercenaries to fight in other parts of Syria but not against their main enemy, the Syrian regime.
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Currently, he's on another mission to fetch the Golden Company from Essos—a group of expert mercenaries that Cersei spent hard earned coins on.
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Money does exist, but it is accumulated solely by the government through trade, and is used to pay for mercenaries in times of war.
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Russia has previously downplayed its direct role in the advance, where it used mercenaries as well as directing battles, according to Western intelligence sources.
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In February, Wagner's mercenaries were reportedly involved in a four-hour attack against US forces by hundreds of pro-Assad fighters in eastern Syria.
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The prime minister and his inner circle have cited on multiple occasions the claim that Soros has 2,33 "mercenaries" working for him in Hungary.
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Prince, the former head the infamous private security firm Blackwater, also proposed installing an American "viceroy" to run the country and oversee the mercenaries.
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He wants to join The Confederados, a gang of ex-Confederate soldiers-turned-mercenaries who are not fighting the "revolutionaries" south of the border.
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Katumbi fled the country in May 2016 in the face of accusations he had hired mercenaries as part of a plot against Kabila's government.
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Russian sources told Bloomberg more than 200 mercenaries were killed, while a U.S. official said 100 died and another 200 to 300 were injured.
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And you can add the 1913 Ludlow Massacre to this list, where paid mercenaries of the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp.
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They can finish the work against ISIS, and assure that there will be no end-of-conflict land grabs by Russian or Iranian mercenaries.
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What the American right needs is good trial lawyers, mercenaries for hire who will defend the president no matter who they might privately think.
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They traded with city dwellers, supplying them with goods from the wild—such as honey, hides, and amber—as well as slaves and mercenaries.
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A video shows the inside of a US military camp overtaken by Russian mercenaries working with Syrian forces, shortly after American troops abandoned it.
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He had fled Congo the previous month in the face of separate charges that he had hired mercenaries and was plotting against the government.
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Meanwhile, a hardened and semi-criminal ban of mercenaries called the Ravens have been press-ganged into a desperate mission to save the world.
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The popular former governor of Congo's copper-mining region is accused of hiring mercenaries, including former U.S. soldiers, in a plot against the republic.
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What is so striking about this, for me, is that you can always see where your character is in the global network of mercenaries.
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Ooh they're good, he replied, as if they were a landscaping company instead of an army of mercenaries who kill people for a living.
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Other provocative bits of information appear to corroborate a theory that South African or Belgian mercenaries may have forced Mr. Hammarskjold's plane to crash.
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Advisers have offered conflicting advice, with former White House senior strategist Stephen Bannon even suggesting the U.S. hire mercenaries to fight in the country.
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Both President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, whose countries have mercenaries on the ground, attended the meeting.
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Turkey has sent soldiers and foreign fighters to fend off the LNA, which is supported by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Russian mercenaries.
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Ukrainian intelligence officials have shown me flight paths of Russian aircraft that they say have been dropping off Russian mercenaries in Benghazi and Tobruk.
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In the past two weeks, US forces have twice repelled Syrian government fighters backed by Russian mercenaries, killing more than 100 in one encounter.
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The report of Russian mercenaries being killed by US-backed forces is just the latest scuffle in Syria between various countries and regional actors.
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Given lethal aid to the Ukraine, thrown out the Russian diplomats, left and right, Russian mercenaries have been killed because of our actions in Syria?
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A powerful Brute, formerly of the Covenant, by the name of Atriox, has built a formidable army of fellow Brutes and ruthless mercenaries, The Banished.
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VICE: The recent employment of mercenaries by Nigeria in its fight to subdue Boko Haram has attracted rather a lot of attention in some quarters.
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Venezuelan social media was alive with theories - that it had brought mercenaries, was there to escort Maduro into exile, or was loading up with gold.
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Cuba's Communist government accuses the dissidents of being mercenaries of the United States and routinely detains activists for short periods on charges such as disorder.
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In that time, he's become the leader of a band of mercenaries, and ends up trying to bring a 400-year war to an end.
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Moscow also had to shrug off the deaths of an still-unknown number of Russian mercenaries in Syria in a US counterstrike on February 7.
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"The malware most probably comes from a Chinese group of mercenaries who carry out targeted attacks and campaigns on the internet for money," he said.
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Just seven months earlier, U.S. airstrikes defending the Kurds killed hundreds of Russian mercenaries when they attempted to reclaim Kurdish-controlled oil fields for Damascus.
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The new intervention of private Russian mercenaries, who are closely tied to the Kremlin, is just one of the parallels with the Syrian civil war.
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The barbarians began to decline partly because they sold out to the state, becoming slavers and mercenaries, until the enhanced state made its borders universal.
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One scheme, promoted by Mr Bannon and devised by Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a controversial security firm, involved replacing American troops with mercenaries.
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Turkish forces marched into Syria last Wednesday, displacing thousands of Kurdish people and leaving the SDF to ally with Russian mercenaries and the Syrian government.
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In the process it ceded control of the base to mercenaries from the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company that supports Syrian military operations.
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To avoid Nisour incidents in the future, he wants to place all mercenaries under U.S. military law, known as the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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"The malware most probably comes from a Chinese group of 'mercenaries' who carry out targeted attacks and campaigns on the internet for money," he said.
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Throughout Syria, the volatile mix of forces — including Russian mercenaries whose fate is causing headaches at home — risks amplifying the violence and deepening Russia's involvement.
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Concerted campaigns to highlight the roles of Russian troll farms or Russian mercenaries in Ukraine and Syria could have a profound effect, Mr. Stengel said.
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The coalition enjoys logistical and intelligence support from the US military, and has deployed Latin American mercenaries under the guidance of the United Arab Emirates.
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Piss enough people off, and they will put out contracts on your head, at which point mercenaries will begin swarming you at every possible opportunity.
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"Our battle with America and its mercenaries is now open to all possibilities," the militia group said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.
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Such a plan is not likely to gain traction, any more than Mr. Bannon's proposal that the United States substitute mercenaries for soldiers in Afghanistan.
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" He also said Moscow had deployed those same Russian mercenaries to the Central African Republic where Russia was "extracting minerals and attempting to buy influence.
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Mattis said that Russia was able to get the mercenaries to pull back, following high level talks between the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen.
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The Mozambique government hired the Russian mercenaries to help beleaguered local security forces combat an insurgency that claimed to be affiliated with the Islamic State.
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Granma accused U.S. diplomats of seeking to destabilize the country, recruit mercenaries and identify new sectors of the economy to sanction rather than boosting ties.
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Because Prince and his gang of mercenaries are not government actors, federal and military courts' power to review their actions would also be severely limited.
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Cardona and his fellow-trainees, who ranged in age from fifteen to thirty, were given assault rifles and coached by mercenaries from Colombia and Israel.
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But pacifying northern Mozambique may be beyond a few dozen Russian mercenaries and a poorly-trained and equipped Mozambican army that's largely relying on artillery.
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MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries introduced me to the intriguing world of BattleTech, with its many adaptations across gaming, novels, cartoons, and of course high concept arcades.
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But through the first seven "reputation levels" (about 212 hours of play) in MechWarrior 173: Mercenaries, I never came close to going into the red.
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The NY Times reports that roughly 200 Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group are in Libya, taking Moscow's backroom support for Haftar onto the battlefield.
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And details of just why the mercenaries were in the oil-rich region -- and the target of their ill-fated operation -- are starting to emerge.
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Even in the presence of an ADF escort, Westerners like ourselves were often confused for mercenaries in the government's employ by angry and frightened villagers.
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Amanda and Zach call down their scapegoats to join them in Armageddon before TJ reveals mercenaries Cory and Devin are actually competing in the face-off.
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You know, they forget just a couple of months ago Trump ordered a strike on 200 Russian mercenaries and wipe them off the battlefield in Syria.
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Ironically, FSW—developed by California's Pandemic, the studio also behind (the original) Star Wars: Battlefront and Mercenaries —was originally inspired by the most outlandish Hollywood fantasy.
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Even though it failed to kill Mayo, the mercenaries' bomb attack seems to have ushered in a new phase in the UAE's war against Al-Islah.
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Abu Dhabi was the grazing patch for Erik Prince, the scandal-tarnished founder of Blackwater, who helped the UAE set up an army of Colombian mercenaries.
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Euron Greyjoy, the worst goth boy who ever roamed the seas, has returned to King's Landing with the army of mercenaries and horses he promised Cersei.
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He was a leading backer of the "Wonga Coup", a farcical plot by British and other mercenaries to topple the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004.
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The group is funded by Cuban exiles in the United States, and the government says its members are mercenaries doing the bidding of the U.S. government.
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"We will look for arms caches and detect mercenaries, so that we can restore calm," Marcel de Souza, president of the ECOWAS commission, told reporters overnight.
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Nigeria, a democracy whose government—for all its flaws—is far less impotent than Somalia's, is bound to resent foreign navies or mercenaries off its coast.
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Russia could have blitzkrieged through Ukraine, but instead used covert means: special forces, "little green men," proxy militias and mercenaries—all while waging a disinformation campaign.
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Neither the eastern nor western camps have much control over Libya's south, where communitarian violence sometimes erupts and where smugglers, Islamist militants and mercenaries are active.
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A patriotic action adventure set in war-torn Africa, "Wolf Warrior 2" depicts a lone Chinese commando rescuing Chinese and African hostages from wicked American mercenaries.
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One scheme, promoted by Mr Bannon and devised by Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a controversial security firm, involved replacing American troops with 83,28 mercenaries.
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The tensions appeared to simmer on, with Al Raya, a government-owned Qatari daily, publishing pictures on its front page of UAE journalists it called "mercenaries".
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They were 51% less likely to say they would sign up as mercenaries for $1,000 and 43% less likely to say they had met with recruiters.
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"Let the Libyan south be the start for countering terrorists and mercenaries together, until we rid the country of them," the GNA said in a statement.
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It backed troops with air strikes on the "terrorists" and "Chadian mercenaries", the officials said, using a pejorative for Chadian opposition groups active in south Libya.
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When we last left off, Mercenaries Hunter and Ashley crashed the Armageddon party to fight for a spot in the main house against Faith and Angela.
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The letter, sent on Friday, recommended that the U.S. government "enhance its ability" to prevent former U.S. intelligence officials from becoming mercenaries for foreign intelligence services.
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The Bougainville uprising was the longest running conflict in the Pacific, with the central government at one point deploying mercenaries to try to end the fighting.
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Likewise, Ghana is under pressure to bring justice for 44 Ghanaian migrants allegedly murdered in 2005 by Mr Jammeh's security forces (who mistook them for mercenaries).
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Russian mercenaries splashed their good fortune over social media and took selfies in front of US equipment, while Russian reporters gave walking tours of the base.
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Russia continues to back Syrian President al-Assad, providing military equipment, including air-defense systems, and has sent Russian troops and paid Russian mercenaries to Syria.
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If there's a DC property that meshes with Snyder's dark, cynical, and serious aesthetic, it's Suicide Squad — a film about antiheroes who become black-ops mercenaries.
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Earlier this year, Maxim Borodin, a Russian reporter known for his investigations into Russian mercenaries in Syria, died after a fall from his apartment in Yekaterinburg.
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The mercenaries loosely coordinate with the Russian military in Syria, and, in the past, have seized oil and gas fields on behalf of Mr. Assad's government.
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Because, as annoying as they are, the mercenaries that mess up your plans are doing to you what you are constantly doing to the game world.
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The Kremlin has played down its involvement by suggesting they were merely mercenaries — but it appears the U.S. and Russia came very near on the battlefield.
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Addressing legislators from his party along with a few independents, Mutharika accused the opposition of trying to sabotage the economy and engage mercenaries to spread chaos.
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Fresh from helping the Assad regime secure victory in the Syrian civil war, Russian aid and mercenaries have made Haftar's forces in Libya even more formidable.
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"There's a neocolonialist school of thinking which makes use of some Algerians, or rather pseudo-Algerians — traitors, mercenaries, homosexuals," said the interior minister, Salah Eddine Dahmoune.
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The magazine labeled the people on the list — which included journalists and advocates at nongovernmental organizations — as "mercenaries" who were working to bring down the government.
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Turkey has sent soldiers and foreign fighters to fend off the LNA which is supported by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Russian mercenaries, diplomats say.
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Haftar is embroiled in Libya's civil war and there have been reports that Russian mercenaries have been providing muscle to Haftar's cause, the wire service noted.
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Finally, the carrot that can go along with the sticks mentioned above is an offer to provide Moscow sanctions relief for withdrawing these mercenaries from Syria.
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You can listen to the full episode with our Game Awards predictions and Austin Walker talking us through Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries and read an excerpt below.
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Friends and families of the Russian military contractors said the mercenaries were among the many killed in retaliatory US airstrikes in northern Syria earlier this month.
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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza described the group as "mercenaries" based in Peru, describing the attack as part of a regional strategy to destabilize the country.
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The Pentagon has not confirmed the composition of the pro-Assad forces involved in Wednesday's incident, but reports previously said Russian mercenaries were among the group.
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But I stuck with Odyssey to the end, puzzled over how it fits into the bigger franchise, and killed a hell of a lot of mercenaries.
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In season eight, it's become increasingly clear that Cersei has literally bet everything she has on this legion of mercenaries to help her keep the Iron Throne.
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Cersei is the reigning Queen of Westeros, but she faces threats from all directions, including from the company of mercenaries she just hired to vanquish her enemies.
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It became clear on Tuesday that US airstrikes last week in eastern Syria killed an unknown number of Russian mercenaries fighting on behalf of the Syrian government.
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"Our entry into the ports is to protect them, not to occupy them or to be substitutes for the mercenaries or thieves who preceded us," Nazhuri said.
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An ardent anti-communist, he led a group of mercenaries in the Congo in the 1960s whose aim was to fight a revolt called the Simba rebellion.
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President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday he knew nothing about Russian mercenaries being killed, and only knew about Russians deployed within the armed forces.
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Alongside local separatists and regular Russian army units were groups of Russian volunteers and mercenaries, among them Mr Utkin and an early iteration of the Wagner force.
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Although he sympathized with the conscripts on the Ukrainian government side, he also argued that Ukrainian forces had killed civilians and hired "mercenaries" from Poland and Chechnya.
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Port of Shadows by Glen Cook Glen Cook made a name for himself with his Black Company series, a gritty story of a group of elite mercenaries.
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It could also mean bad news for Cersei, who just invited mercenaries to King's Landing who have every reason to dethrone her and crown their own king.
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Cuban dissidents, whom the government considers mercenaries funded by U.S. interests, said it was a positive sign that she had been invited, but only a first step.
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Bloodthirsty superhumans, talking pigs, child mercenaries, lovesick clones — call us crazy, but these are just the kinds of characters we're itching to snuggle up with right now.
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Global Risk Advisors "introduced [Qatar] to cyber mercenaries in various countries to coordinate technical aspects of the illegal intrusion" into Broidy's emails, according to the amended filing.
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US troops formerly based at the camp willingly left it to Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group, an SDF official near Manbij told Business Insider's Mitch Prothero.
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But reports citing friends of the deceased and injured as well as unnamed officials have said "scores" of Russian mercenaries were killed or injured in the attack.
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Iran has bragged about the formation of Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria, as well as the deployment of vast numbers of mercenaries from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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My army couldn't reinforce because it was in enemy territory, so I had to start recruiting mercenaries to plug the gaps, at three times the upkeep costs.
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The Kremlin has tried to downplay reports that some 300 Russian mercenaries were killed or injured in a firefight with American forces in Syria on February 7.
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It has stressed repeatedly since last Wednesday that no members of the Russian armed forces were killed, and that any Russians fighting alongside the Syrians were mercenaries.
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Despite widespread criticism of these tactics at the time, local authorities in the United States opted against prosecuting the C.M.A. mercenaries, at least for violating kidnapping laws.
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But some think the journalists were targeted for investigating Russia's use of mercenaries in Africa as part of its efforts to regain a presence on the continent.
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My friend, who asked to use the pseudonym Jonathan, was intrigued by accounts of a fiercely independent tribe that has almost entirely resisted incursions by Christian mercenaries.
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Then the city of Afrin was invaded and occupied by jihadist mercenaries, sponsored by the Turkish government, who have displaced its people and engaged in widespread looting.
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The journalists were making a documentary about the mysterious activities of a group of paramilitary mercenaries in the Central African Republic, which is undergoing brutal sectarian strife.
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Some Russian mercenaries have been pulled back in recent weeks from the Tripoli frontline, undermining recent progress by Haftar's forces as Russia pressures him for a ceasefire.
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Embarrassed by the use of mercenaries — an accusation the Tripoli government's supporters often hurl at Mr. Hifter — the authorities there may be seeking to hide their presence.
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He wields guns galore, poison arrows and a tank to wipe out the mercenaries led by the villainous Big Daddy, a swaggering, sneering American soldier of fortune.
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Washington (CNN)Russia is using mercenaries and arms sales to gain access to Africa's natural resources, the top general overseeing US military operations in Africa said Thursday.
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" He did not wish for the indebted nation and its armed forces "to become mercenaries for people who would like to have a few British troops around.
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Dmitri S. Peskov, the presidential spokesman, denied that Russia was intervening in clandestine ways, such as supplying mercenaries to protect Mr. Maduro and perhaps important government assets.
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The Broad's selection, which includes the finest examples of Golub's work anywhere, cycles through the artist's evolution from the abstract red oxide fields, gleaned from Imperial Roman frescos, across which his soldiers of fortune are arrayed like paper cutouts ("Mercenaries III," 1980), to the more realistic settings of "Interrogation I" (1980-81), "Mercenaries V" (1984), and "White Squad V" (1984) and their explicit acts of torture and brutality.
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Like soccer mercenaries, they have been shipped out of their countries in South America, Africa and, more recently, Asia, by talent spotters to join rich clubs in Europe.
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"Security services in the capital detained a number of mercenaries tasked by the aggressors to plant rumours and disturb public peace," said the Houthi-controlled Saba news agency.
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One of the mercenaries, according to three sources familiar with the operation, used to work with the CIA's "ground branch," the agency's equivalent of the military's special forces.
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Private mercenaries operate outside the US military's chain of command, so if they make mistakes or commit war crimes, there is no clear system for holding them accountable.
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John Nicholson — was staunchly opposed by Bannon, who latched onto an idea by former Blackwater founder Erik Prince to send private mercenaries to Afghanistan to replace US soldiers.
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Gillespie says there were a lot of mercenaries in that area at the time ... so it could be any white woman in the pic -- the features aren't recognizable.
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On the other side, Bannon argued against sending in additional US forces but was open to a proposal by private contractor Erik Prince to replace troops with mercenaries.
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Dr Davies and his colleagues were there because, to bolster Colombia's still-small regular army of pertinent experts, the country's government has recruited several groups of foreign mercenaries.
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After an explosive Armageddon that brought in a new set of mercenaries, Challenge winners Amanda and Zach were sent packing along with their favorite scapegoats, Jozea and Da'Vonne.
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Saudi Arabia then warned its citizens against travelling to the tiny country, and accused Hizbullah of smuggling drugs into the kingdom and sending mercenaries to Yemen and Syria.
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And Lasso accused government-paid "foreign mercenaries," whom he insinuated were Venezuelan, of trying to attack him with rocks, sticks, and knives after a soccer game on Tuesday.
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"There are big clashes happening on the Ain Daqna axis, between us and the Turks and their mercenaries," Rojhat Roj, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia said.
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Katumbi's lawyer, Joseph Mukendi, told Reuters on Friday that Katumbi could return to Congo now to defend himself in the mercenaries case, which has not yet been tried.
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BuzzFeed reporter Aram Roston has published a blockbuster exposé on the growing use of mercenaries by a key American ally to carry out a murder spree in Yemen.
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The Americans were not messing around: on one February night they may have killed dozens of Russian mercenaries trying to assist Assad's forces in retaking an oil field.
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A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments: Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market.
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The United States troops on the ground, now roughly 40 in all, braced their defenses as the mercenaries left their vehicles and headed toward the outpost on foot.
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And Trump's suggestion that we will be well paid for defending Saudi Arabia is an insult to our troops, casting them as mercenaries working for a thuggish potentate.
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Sandford has been working on Lucas for more than two dozen books, and by now Lucas can handle just about anything, including a group of bad-apple mercenaries.
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In the battle for Tripoli, Mr. Hifter's forces have been backed by Russian mercenaries and Emirati warplanes and drones, as well as support from Egypt, Jordan and France.
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Buoyed by the arrival of Kremlin-backed Russian mercenaries, and armed with sophisticated drone-jamming technology, they have pushed farther into Tripoli, tightening their grip on the capital.
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The armies that are usually deployed in defense of Democratic policies are mercenaries who are mostly happy to work for the orcs, too, if the price is right.
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There, he uses mercenaries, soldiers out of uniform and small numbers of Russian Special Forces, or Spetsnaz, along with limited amounts of airpower and the occasional missile salvo.
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While the storytelling and characters are dry and uninspired (especially in contrast to last year's eminently flavorful BattleTech), these main story quests remain Mercenaries is at its best.
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After the U.S. forces in Syria inflicted more than 100 Russian casualties in breaking up an attack by mercenaries a few weeks ago, a Russian response was inevitable.
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This themed board game has you purchasing mercenaries for hire instead of properties and features a few fun twists to the classic game that only Deadpool can provide.
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And in less charismatic and capable hands, Aquaman and the Flash would have been soulless mercenaries — that's the limited extent to which Justice League develops the two heroes.
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The bow tie was first worn by Croatian mercenaries during the 17th century, where men tied scarves around their necks to hold the openings of their shirts together.
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Two other security officials, who were once close to the Emiratis, said that mercenaries including Americans are present at all the Emirati military camps and sites, including the prisons.
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He is intrigued by the derring-do of David Stirling, Billy McLean and other British mercenaries who fought against the republican regime which took power in Yemen in 1962.
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" There were also "mercenaries" coming in from Los Angeles, outside the district, he said, that those billionaires "hired to come down here and steal this election from the patriots.
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Left: Business cards for Spear Operations Group; Right: Gilmore's dog tags From that base, the mercenaries took a UAE Air Force transport plane to another base in Assab, Eritrea.
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Soon after, it dispatched weapons and mercenaries to shore up Mr Touadéra's regime, as well as a former GRU (military intelligence) operative to act as the president's security adviser.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, one of the most famous foreign mercenaries to have played a role in Africa's violent transition from colonial rule, has died aged 100.
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Sloane's crew, along with a team of hired mercenaries called the ZV Group, are stuck: they can't enter the station, or escape into space, without tripping AegiSKADA's defense systems.
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There's also a new feature reminiscent of the "nemesis" system from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, in which mercenaries will hunt you down, unless you get to them first.
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Chief among them is Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins), a rival archeologist who's commissioned poor migrants and gun-toting mercenaries to blast through the rock in search of Himiko's tomb.
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As in the original, players control Cloud and a group of mercenaries known as Avalanche as they bomb reactors and fight to stop Shinra from draining the planet's energy.
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He fled the country in 2016, months after resigning from the ruling party, after prosecutors announced their intent to try him on charges of hiring mercenaries, which he denied.
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In the Taliban's letter, they write that if the war couldn't be won with professional troops, it will never be won "with mercenaries, notorious contractor firms, and immoral stooges."
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They were occupied by Russian special forces and mercenaries who have been deployed in Syria for five years to protect the tattered regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
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Ms. Gascard told the Hall Art Foundation that Golub, whose work explored dire political conditions such as in his "Mercenaries IV" (1980), gave her and her husband some works.
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Although the Russians were reportedly mercenaries working for Wagner Group, a private military company, the fighters have been accused of acting as an expendable paramilitary unit for the Kremlin.
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A former accountant, Hoare gained fame -- and inspired a movie -- for leading mercenaries in 53-5 during the Congo Crisis and later organizing a failed coup in the Seychelles.
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His mercenaries, while paid to fight, were largely motivated by anti-communism and lust for adventure, crushing larger, less well-armed Congolese forces and sometimes saving civilians from massacres.
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"We cannot use our power to lift the blockade," Abdulhadi Lahweej told journalists in Geneva, alleging that the Tripoli government was using revenues from oil to pay for mercenaries.
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The Russian fighters killed were said to be mercenaries for the secretive Russian private military group Wagner, which has provided thousands of contract soldiers to help the Assad government.
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In an exclusive CNN interview, Saakashvili praised President Trump for agreeing to supply anti-tank weapons to Ukraine and for taking recent military action against Russian mercenaries in Syria.
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The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Tuesday the United States needs to be "alert" about Russia using mercenaries to hide its activities in Syria and elsewhere.
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After entering the season late as Mercenaries, Ashley Mitchell and Hunter Barfield fought every possible moment while still making their way to the grueling final Challenge against three other teams.
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American military forces engaged in a deadly firefight with Russian mercenaries in Syria in February, reportedly resulting in some 300 casualties for the Russian side (though none for the Americans).
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With her new army, she marches along to Yunkai, determined to continue kicking ass and breaking chains, but the city is protected by some shady mercenaries called the Second Sons.
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The security executive Erik Prince, now entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, set up shop there for a time, helping the UAE hire Colombian mercenaries.
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The shorts range widely in tone and subject matter, with everything from mercenaries fighting Dracula to a thought experiment about silly ways Adolf Hitler could have died in alternate timelines.
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Limited resources and risk appetite have left Russia falling back on tools like sending Kremlin-connected mercenaries to conflict zones or offering consulting services to autocratic regimes on election manipulation.
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Brooks adopts standard sci-fi conventions like cybernetic mercenaries, interstellar spies, and frontier mining planets, but he keeps the story humming along with vivid characters and a fully realized universe.
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The core of what strength she has stems from her alliance with Euron Greyjoy, who provides what seems to be her entire navy and thus her link to Essos mercenaries.
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Those companies, in addition to handling school lunches for Russian children and overseeing the Internet Research Agency, also reportedly supply mercenaries to support Russia's interests in the Syrian civil war.
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The victims included 44 Ghanaians, 10 Nigerians, two Senegalese, three Ivoirians and one Togolese, and were killed because security forces feared they were mercenaries coming to try to oust Jammeh.
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Silent Wolf's clear boredom with the mercenaries' lack of skill, and his rakish smirk when he pulls off a particularly contemptuous move against them, suggest a looser, more playful film.
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Instead, she sent punk rock pirate boytoy Euron Greyjoy off on a secret mission to retrieve the Golden Company mercenaries: 20,000 warriors — with elephants — who can defeat dragons, I guess?
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Last week, Congo's justice minister announced that the government had "documented proof" that Mr. Katumbi had hired hundreds of mercenaries, including Americans, possibly in a plot to overthrow the government.
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NH: In addition to the threat of regime change there have also been reports that the UAE was looking at an invasion into Qatar perhaps with the use of mercenaries.
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The only thing that could have improved on this situation would be, in the name of latching to Game of Thrones, a backing band composed of a troop of mercenaries.
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It was the strongest U.S. statement since Russian mercenaries were first sighted in Tripoli in September fighting alongside the LNA, which is allied to a parallel government in eastern Libya.
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It was the strongest U.S. statement since Russian mercenaries were first sighted in Tripoli in September fighting alongside the LNA, which is allied to a parallel government in eastern Libya.
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As matters stand, U.S. soldiers are one mishap away — such as killing more Russian mercenaries or downing a Turkish plane — from a regional war with Russia, Iran, Turkey, or Syria.
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Russian troops or mercenaries are also believed to be embedded in a Syrian convoy headed toward Manbij, Syria, a major city once held by ISIS, according to The Washington Post.
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After winning a series of hard-fought battles outside Veii, I hired a few regiments of mercenaries to bolster my numbers and set up for the siege of Veii itself.
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Its relationship with the Kremlin is murky and unconfirmed, but its leaders have reportedly received awards in the Kremlin and its mercenaries are trained at the Russian Defense Ministry's facilities.
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In February, a column of tanks carrying about 500 pro-government forces, including Russian mercenaries, crossed the river in what appeared to be a push to seize an oil field.
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"Any consideration of a permanent ceasefire should be contingent on a complete withdrawal and dismantling of Haftar's militias, full departure of his foreign mercenaries, and upholding international law," he said.
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Meanwhile, the equally lethal Scottie, head of a private military intelligence firm whose mercenaries tackle the morally ambiguous situations that governments like keep to clear of, offered him a job.
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The SDF had earlier reported that a group of "mercenaries of the Turkish army" had killed a number of civilians on the road after infiltrating the area, without identifying them.
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Some of those Russians killed were said to be mercenaries for the secretive Russian private military group Wagner, which has provided thousands of contract soldiers to help the Assad regime.
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Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government has been accusing Colombia for years of sending "mercenaries" to its territory with the sole purpose of destabilizing the country, although the evidence has been scarce.
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Heat Signature has a very loose narrative about your little faction of space mercenaries slowly taking control of more and more space stations from the other warring factions in the game.
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One is at Aden&aposs Buriqa base — the headquarters for the Emirati forces and where American officers were seen along with Colombian mercenaries, according to two prisoners and two security officials.
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One of the targets for the operation was Anssaf Ali Mayo, a local leader of the Islamist political party Al-Islah, whom the American mercenaries targeted in a botched assassination mission.
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There's a mode where you can race as the mechanical hamster ball Hammond, and another where a group of spies have to stealthily claim locations from a team of powerful mercenaries.
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The mercenaries' plan was to attach a bomb laced with shrapnel to the door of Al-Islah's headquarters, located near a soccer stadium in central Aden, a key Yemeni port city.
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With a businesslike demeanor, he admitted not only to arming a 200-man militia in Somalia but also to hatching plans to use mercenaries to overthrow the government of the Seychelles.
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If you played MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries, you quickly learned that one key to success was running around blowing-off enemy Mechs' legs so that you could salvage all their valuable gear.
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The team was simply massive: roomy enough to house Rodriguez's redemption and Jeter's stagy grace, a whole faction of mercenaries, reams of pat language about the singular pressure of the Bronx.
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You can watch CYBERWAR's Cyber Mercenaries episode on VICELAND on Tuesday, at 10:30 PM ET. Meanwhile, read some of Motherboard's best articles about the spyware, Hacking Team, and government hacking:
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Dissidents in Cuba's one-party political system have remarked on the government's willingness to promote dialogue for foreigners while dismissing political opponents as mercenaries doing the bidding of the United States.
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Industry experts warn that this is attracting the wrong employees, a new breed of high-paid, in-demand mercenaries who companies are constantly at risk of losing to a better offer.
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Erik Prince, the founder of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater, is making a new pitch for his proposal to turn U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan over to mercenaries.
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"The Arab kingdoms tried Daesh mercenaries to implement their malicious plans in Iraq and Syria, and they failed," a statement from Kataib Hezbollah said, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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When Ukrainian forces threatened to defeat Russian mercenaries, an invading Russian army shattered Ukrainian forces and forced Ukraine into an unfavorable peace process backed by Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
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America pulling out of Iraq — and for that matter, out of Syria, leaving the country at the mercy of Iranian mercenaries — is an idea that U.S. policymakers should bury for good.
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Without magic, Indy is just an archaeologist punching Nazis, Nathan Drake is just a rogue fighting faceless mercenaries, and Croft is just a bad ass platforming her way through scattered tombs.
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That makes it no less legitimate, but a dogpile of mercenaries will never be as affecting as one comprised of kids that fans have dreamed on from the amateur draft on.
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Dealing with mercenaries is Odyssey's way of constantly reminding the player that they are a part of a big world, and that not all desires in this world are their desires.
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The group's relationship with the Kremlin is murky and unconfirmed, but its leaders have reportedly received awards from the Kremlin, and its mercenaries were trained at the Russian Defense Ministry's facilities.
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Miyazaki's vision evokes the chaos of this moment: the deep clannishness of country people; the roving packs of samurai, now homeless and jobless, forced to become raiders; monks moonlighting as mercenaries.
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Turkey committed to military support for the Tripoli government in December after the arrival of Russian mercenaries helped Haftar's Libya National Army (LNA) make some small gains along the Tripoli frontline.
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But bear in mind that Russia has mercenaries in Syria -- despite denials -- who have come into contact with US troops, so any military action in Syria could involve confrontation with Russia.
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Sources in the country also told CNN that the Russians are poorly equipped for combat in the dense bush and that the relationship between the mercenaries and Mozambique army is strained.
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There have been a number of skirmishes in the past several months, including a U.S. strike against pro-Assad forces in February that reportedly killed Russian mercenaries and private military contractors.
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In a genre filled with procgen soldiers and empty canvas mercenaries who are little more than a collection of gear, stats, and abilities, Valkyria Chronicles gives you a collection of characters.
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