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It was, says Lockley, Yasuke's first military campaign under Oda.
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The military campaign cost $22003 billion from 2100 through Feb.
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A military campaign forced them to relocate to eastern Congo.
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The United Nations condemned the Myanmar military campaign as ethnic cleansing.
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He said military campaign had progressed as he had expected it.
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The aggressive military campaign has also taken its toll on civilians.
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Prince Mohammed launched a military campaign in neighboring Yemen in March 2015.
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France takes part in the multinational military campaign against the Islamic State.
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The U.N. investigators concluded the military campaign was executed with "genocidal intent".
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The United Nations has condemned the Myanmar military campaign as ethnic cleansing.
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Riyadh's military campaign in Yemen and its support for extremists are well known.
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It represents a substantial escalation of the US military campaign in the region.
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Monday, Trump announced economic sanctions against Turkey for its military campaign into Syria.
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Ryan Dillon, the spokesperson for the anti-ISIS military campaign, told Al Jazeera.
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The U.N. and U.S. officials have called the government&aposs military campaign ethnic cleansing.
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We've seen Dany's dragons in battle before, but never in a proper military campaign.
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He praised the military campaign in Iraq in the first months after the invasion.
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Obama and the Saudis also butted heads over Riyadh's military campaign in neighboring Yemen.
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"Canada is engaging in a strong military campaign and humanitarian efforts there," she said.
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Given this unpromising picture, President Obama would be wise to postpone the military campaign.
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He was a believer, a campaigner for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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The military campaign against ISIS is on hold, giving terrorists a chance to regroup.
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Some of them have been flown in combat during Russia's military campaign in Syria.
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The military campaign has killed more than 900 civilians since it began on Feb.
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"Getting married and having a family is like a military campaign," the pamphlet declares.
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The military campaign has sent nearly 440,000 refugees fleeing to Bangladesh, most of them Rohingya.
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Russia's military campaign in Syria has shifted the balance of power in favor of Assad.
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The United Nations has said the military campaign against the Rohingya may amount to genocide.
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For its part, IS is taking advantage of the calm to continue its military campaign.
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Hezbollah, together with the Lebanese army, has waged a military campaign to recapture the territory.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have been displaced by the military campaign.
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The military campaign to oust the Islamic State from Mosul is in its sixth week.
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Saudi Arabia has reportedly recruited children from Darfur to join its military campaign in Yemen.
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Mr. Obama soon gave his approval for the Pentagon to support the impending military campaign.
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Turkey's military campaign has come hand in hand with a crackdown on criticism inside Turkey.
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Most are hesitant to believe a military campaign could significantly degrade ISIS's broader online propaganda.
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The crimes were allegedly committed during Sudan's military campaign in Darfur between 2003 and 2008.
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Some of them have been flown in combat during Russia&aposs military campaign in Syria.
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Officials have been planning an offensive against H.I.V. with the precision of a military campaign.
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First, a US-led military campaign is greatly underreporting the number of civilian casualties in Iraq.
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In Borodin's magnificent opera, an eclipse portends disaster for Prince Igor's military campaign against the Polovtsians.
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Their families lived in one of the areas most heavily targeted by the current military campaign.
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As if making America "great again" were as much a military campaign as a political one.
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"She knows everything," said U Zaw Htay, a spokesman for Suu Kyi, about the military campaign.
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Clinton called for an "intensification and acceleration" of Mr. Obama's military campaign against the Islamic State.
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A military campaign by Nigeria and its neighbors has chased fighters from villages they once controlled.
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Roberto is in trouble when the opera opens, having led a losing military campaign in Ireland.
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Action to end US support for Saudi Arabia's shameful military campaign in Yemen is long overdue.
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If the coalition closes the port as part of its military campaign, the food stops flowing.
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And as many as 70,000 ISIS militants have been killed during the US-led military campaign.
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Johnson called on the U.S. and Europe to make Russia "feel the consequences" of their military campaign.
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A U.N. inquiry blamed the exodus on a military campaign with "genocidal intent", which the government denies.
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They had stocked up food, water and petrol for a power generator when the military campaign began.
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The United Nations says 920,000 civilians have fled their homes since the military campaign began in October.
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Putin said the military campaign was "wrapping up" and called for a political solution to the conflict.
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The ongoing Saudi-led military campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels has prompted a string of humanitarian crises.
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The Saudi-led coalition's ongoing military campaign in Yemen has been an unmitigated disaster for Yemeni civilians.
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If he continues his military campaign, he risks destroying the historic city of over 1 million people.
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Mr. Obama has emphasized the military campaign against the Islamic State over efforts to dislodge Mr. Assad.
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Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the beginning of the Saudi military campaign in the country.
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Since then they have been held in Misrata, the city that led the military campaign in Sirte.
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We also look at how the military campaign may define President Obama's legacy as a wartime leader.
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From that point on, the messages became less frequent as the military campaign against ISIS stepped up.
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Mr. Barzani is a crucial player in the military campaign to retake Mosul from the Islamic State.
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Davis said the Mason was not directly involved in any military campaign and was performing routine operations.
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Washington has not yet said how it would respond to a protracted military campaign against its allies.
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The United States and the United Nations have called the military campaign against the Rohingya "ethnic cleansing".
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Haftar waged a military campaign in Benghazi against an alliance of Islamists and other opponents that Misrata supported.
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In August 2016 it launched a military campaign in Syria and drove Islamic State militants from its border.
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She wants to return to Qaraqosh after the military campaign is over and ISIS fighters are driven out.
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They warned that an intensified military campaign and possible increased Western troop presence could play into ISIS propaganda.
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The military campaign has forced nearly 100,000 people to flee Mosul since the Iraqi operation against ISIS began.
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Reuters quotes residents as saying that civilians and fighters have also been killed in the government's military campaign.
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Zarif also criticized rival Saudi Arabia's regional policy and military campaign in Yemen but also called for dialogue.
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Their expansion outside southern Philippines may be partly provoked by President Rodrigo Duterte's intensive military campaign against terrorism.
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Some of the defense ministers indicated their countries' intent to contribute more to the military campaign, he said.
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Last year Saudi Arabia began a military campaign in Yemen to stop an Iranian ally from gaining power.
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Academics have been targeted for speaking out against the government's military campaign against Kurdish insurgents in the southeast.
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But on Friday, he promised a sustained military campaign to prevent President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons.
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These groups charge that the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen has led to "indiscriminate attacks" on civilians.
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This military campaign will operate in an area that the United States and Russia have already agreed upon.
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Mr. Leahy also wants more clarity about Egypt's secretive military campaign against an Islamic State group in Sinai.
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Mr. Assad's government, with critical help from Russia and Iran, is reasserting control with a grinding military campaign.
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They accuse the government of waging the military campaign because of the party's surprising success at the polls.
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The Corps's resourcefulness, creativity and engineering expertise no doubt was a critical weapon in that victorious military campaign.
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Moms strategize about the best times to visit department store Santas with the precision of a military campaign.
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Unverified pictures and video footage of the bloodshed have emerged in the wake of the Turkish military campaign.
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United Nations investigators have said the exodus was the result of a military campaign executed with "genocidal intent".
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The LNA has been waging a military campaign since early April to try to take control of Tripoli.
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This option stages an even bigger military campaign targeting every known nuclear and missile site across North Korea.
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Going off mission, or outside of your core competencies, hurts the overall focus of a unit or military campaign.
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Under former President Barack Obama's administration, the US launched a military campaign against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria.
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"The continuation of these attacks will cause a long halt in our military campaign against (Islamic State)," it said.
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Under American pressure, the Pakistan Army recently waged a military campaign against the Taliban in the ungoverned border region.
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But Russia continued its military campaign in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad, bombarding opposition groups in northern Syria.
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But in 2014, President Obama ordered a stepped-up military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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We should think of advancing democratic ideas abroad primarily as an educational project, almost never as a military campaign.
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Barring a reversal of policy in Baghdad or Washington, it is almost certain that the military campaign will succeed.
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Until the launch in 2012 of a peace process, which has since collapsed, it was a largely military campaign.
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The military campaign was launched some two weeks ago to recapture the southern province, near the border with Jordan.
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The victory in Afrin has emboldened Mr. Erdogan, who has vowed to continue his military campaign across northern Syria.
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The Russians were furious when NATO forces launched a military campaign in Kosovo without United Nations Security Council authorization.
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Rarely has a great power undertaken a major military campaign with such a flawed understanding of the challenges ahead.
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The American-led military campaign against the Islamic State has diminished the threat in the United States and Europe.
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But they noted a range of contributing factors for the rise in tempo and lethality of the military campaign.
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In a tent inside the cave, a Hezbollah commander gave a briefing with colored maps about the military campaign.
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Do not begin a military campaign unless the benefits to national security justify the inevitable loss of American lives.
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They hope he will increase support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen against rebels aligned with Iran.
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On Monday, the US-led coalition fighting ISIS announced a "shift in focus" in its military campaign in Iraq.
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The military campaign, which the government describes as a "clearing" operation, has largely targeted civilians, human rights groups say.
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He added that the military campaign was not against the Syrian government or its people but against terrorist organizations.
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The United Nations has condemned the military campaign there as ethnic cleansing, a charge Buddhist-majority Myanmar has rejected.
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Coalition air strikes that kill civilians prompt warnings from rights groups, but Western support for the military campaign continues.
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We welcome the role sanctions play in increasing pressure on the Syrian regime to turn away from its military campaign.
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Some speculated that Russia might expand its military campaign to Idlib, southwest of Aleppo, where Nusra fighters are also operating.
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Turkey said it launched the military campaign to improve security and clear the Sunni terror group from the border region.
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Rohingya fled to refugee camps in Bangladesh after a bloody military campaign against the Muslim minority in Myanmar's Rakhine State.
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The multi-purpose Il-76 plane has been used by the Russian air force during Russia's military campaign in Syria.
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Pakistan's army is fighting a military campaign against Taliban and other militants in the country's northwest near the Afghan border.
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"The military campaign will have achieved a great short-term success, but perhaps little else of enduring impact," she said.
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A year ago, Iraqi forces launched a military campaign to oust the hardline extremists from Mosul and surrounding Nineveh province.
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Haftar's forces have been waging a military campaign against Islamists and other opponents in Benghazi for the past two years.
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Dunbar, who was from Austin, Texas, was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the military campaign against ISIS that began in 2014.
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Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton has outlined a vision to turn around, or withdraw from, a flailing military campaign.
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Lasting consequencesNumerous unverified pictures and video footage of the bloodshed have emerged in the wake of the Turkish military campaign.
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The eagerness of senators to admit ignorance of the Niger military campaign revealed an astonishing lack of shame and embarrassment.
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The American-led coalition has focused intensely for months on the military campaign to retake Mosul — a dauntingly complex task.
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They had staged a protest on campus against other students who organized a rally in support of the military campaign.
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Context: The U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign started during the Obama administration, where Biden was vice president.
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The first was in October 2015, shortly after Russia launched its military campaign in Syria to shore up Assad's forces.
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At the time, of course, we could not know that and a prime focus throughout was the military campaign itself.
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But Mr. Obama's aides believed that the Saudis saw a military campaign in Yemen as a tough message to Iran.
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OK, last but not least on our menu of options: What about a larger military campaign aimed at regime change?
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It marks a rare case of a military campaign that has not gone his way since Russia intervened in 2015.
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The so-called "War on Terror" doesn't make news headlines like it used to, but the military campaign rages on.
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Logistical infrastructure is important to any military campaign and Kyros needed more people to salvage arms and armor after battles.
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However, a majority of Americans still think the fight is going poorly and believe the military campaign isn't aggressive enough.
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This brutal military campaign has destroyed much of the country's infrastructure, causing the spread of easily preventable diseases like cholera.
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Myanmar says the military campaign was a legitimate counter-insurgency operation launched in response to militant attacks on security forces.
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Military campaign funding is not being spent on diplomacy, commercial development, foreign humanitarian assistance, or domestic infrastructure and social programs.
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But analysts said Mr. Obama planted the seeds for the victory by orchestrating the multinational military campaign to begin with.
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Dasuki was arrested in 2015 for allegedly awarding contracts with funds meant for Nigeria's military campaign against Boko Haram insurgents.
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America's support to the YPG in Syria strengthens Kurdish insurgents that have waged a decades-long military campaign against Turkey.
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Saudi Arabia and the UAE have led a military campaign since March 2015 to quash Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
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"The military campaign is a punishment from Allah because some Muslims no longer follow the way of Islam," he said.
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The budget will include a proposal to double the spending on the military campaign against the Islamic State, Mr. Carter said.
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The military campaign has been so effective, according to Nigeria's president, Muhammadu Buhari, that he recently declared the group "technically" defeated.
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The UAE is a major coalition partner in the Saudi-led military campaign to quash Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Crimea, formerly part of Ukraine, was annexed by the Russian Federation in 2014, which coincided with a Russian military campaign there.
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Since the Sudanese military campaign began in January, Amnesty International says up to 250 people have been killed by chemical weapons.
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President Bill Clinton -- the husband of Trump's rival, Hillary Clinton -- was commander in chief at the time of the military campaign.
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"This unilateral military campaign against Tripoli is endangering civilians and undermining prospects for a better future for all Libyans," he added.
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The mission, Mr. Carter contends, has gained substantial momentum, and the coalition should seize on it to accelerate the military campaign.
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He has called Obama "weak" and "spineless" on national security, and has criticized the president's military campaign against the Islamic State.
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The LNA prevailed last year in a long military campaign against Islamists and other opponents of Haftar for control of Benghazi.
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It might not have if the performance of the army, once the successful initial military campaign was over, is any guide.
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Speaking about the latest military campaign targeting militant groups, Musharraf argued that the root cause of extremism had to be addressed.
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That motion was adopted as part of a measure to withdraw U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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In fact, the retaking of Ramadi was merely a tactical victory with significant firepower after a long-drawn-out military campaign.
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Ali Mohammed, a Kurdish security officer in Dibis, estimated that about 7,000 people had fled Hawija since the military campaign began.
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A military campaign can be only as astute as the larger geopolitical strategy that provides the context and sets the goals.
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The American-led military campaign has slashed the group's oil revenue in half, but it still generates $150 million a year.
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Others contend that such devastation was necessary to force Japan's surrender and avoid a deadly military campaign through the Japanese mainland.
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A Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign a year ago to prevent the Houthis from taking complete control of Yemen.
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The military campaign led to the heaviest fighting of the Vietnam War and marked a turning point at home and abroad.
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The area is in northern Rakhine State, where a military campaign against Rohingya Muslims has raged for more than three months.
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Nearly 700,000 have been driven out of Myanmar in recent months by a military campaign of murder, rape and other atrocities.
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The silencing of these North Vietnamese "antiwar" voices was intimately connected to the strategy deliberation for the upcoming 1968 military campaign.
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Protests have been broken up with tear gas and scores of people have been arrested for criticising the military campaign online.
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Protests have been broken up with tear gas and scores of people have been arrested for criticizing the military campaign online.
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But there's hope that he'd be inclined to ask some pretty tough questions before launching a risky and costly military campaign.
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"The benefit is that it allows the military campaign to go forward without undue pauses, interruptions or delays," Ms. Flournoy added.
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In March, President Trump granted the military expanded authorities to operate in Somalia, paving the way for an accelerated military campaign.
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The reports of heavy civilian casualties have come at a critical point in the military campaign to defeat the Islamic State.
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Myanmar says its military campaign across hundreds of villages in northern Rakhine state was in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents.
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Khalifa Hifter, whose forces are waging a military campaign to take over Libya and overthrow a government the United States supports.
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Normandy has made a modest industry of visitors and their pilgrimages to the markers of a make-or-break military campaign.
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This has been going on since June; it's like a military campaign takeover [of the space] by contemporary art and artists.
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King Abdullah's Jordan, while a US ally against ISIS, has played a limited role in the military campaign in Iraq and Syria.
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As president of Colombia, Uribe led a brutal military campaign against the FARC between 2002 and 2010, funded by massive US aid.
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Humanitarian catastrophe The coalition, which involves several Arab countries, started a military campaign in Yemen last year after Houthis took over Sanaa.
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"The continuation of these attacks will cause a long halt in our military campaign against (Islamic State)," it said in a statement.
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The Truman has been instrumental to the United States' military campaign against ISIS, known as Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq and Syria.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission last year said the 2017 military campaign that pushed out the Rohingya was orchestrated with "genocidal intent".
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More than 20 years ago, he led the most brutal military campaign Europe's seen since World War II, killing thousands of people.
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"The momentum has shifted," Kerry told an international conference to raise funds for Iraq at a critical juncture in the military campaign.
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Yet he sued President Obama last week, making a persuasive case that the military campaign is illegal unless Congress explicitly authorizes it.
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At times it can seem as if she is publicly reckoning with the personal trauma of buying into the failed military campaign.
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Last year, an ISIS-allied militant group was driven out of the southern Philippines city of Marawi by a concerted military campaign.
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During the day the LNA had turned up pressure on Tripoli, warning of a military campaign to "liberate the homeland from terrorism".
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Jean Bosco Kazura, whose résumé includes the military campaign to end Rwanda's 0003 genocide and a nice kick serve to the backhand.
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The airstrike came from the Saudi Arabia-led coalition that's been leading a military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Despite building a powerbase in the east of the country, he is distrusted in the west, where his military campaign has faltered.
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The legislation is expected to pass both chambers, in a significant break with Trump over the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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The government's gains have brought it to a point where any new military campaign risks putting it in conflict with foreign powers.
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The military campaign to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, is in its sixth week and bogged down in a grueling fight.
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Min Aung Hlaing, the architect of Myanmar's scorched-earth military campaign to eject the Rohingya, met China's president Xi Jinping last week.
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Friday, the Pentagon called on Turkish forces to cease their attacks on the Kurds, threatening "serious consequences" if the military campaign continued.
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While the military campaign is showing signs of progress, American officials fear that renewed political turmoil in the country could hinder it.
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Another prong of the military campaign was an escalation of cyberattacks against the United States and its allies in the Middle East.
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In doing so, he has sidestepped the question of whether Mr. Obama's military campaign against the Islamic State complied with the resolution.
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The scenes are reminiscent of the mass evacuations that occurred when regime troops overran Aleppo in a brutal military campaign in 2016.
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Pence said Trump spoke with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier Monday and called for an immediate end to Turkey's military campaign.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 50,000 Syrians in Idlib have tried to escape to bordering Turkey amid the renewed military campaign.
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In recent weeks, Syrian and Russian planes have conducted scores of airstrikes in Idlib, where a large-scale military campaign is looming.
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Gheryan was the headquarters for General Hifter's military campaign to seize control of Tripoli, which his forces have been fighting since April.
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The government denies committing those atrocities and says its military campaign across northern Rakhine was in response to attacks by Rohingya militants.
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The US provides Saudi Arabia with military assistance for its military campaign in Yemen, which the UN said has killed thousands of civilians.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, already weakened by Israel's failed military campaign in South Lebanon in 20133, was convicted in a 22013 bribery case.
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But the insurgency has largely been suppressed over the past decade by a ferocious military campaign, without snuffing out tribals' complaints of injustice.
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But in public remarks on Thursday, he said Israel would only undertake a broad military campaign in Gaza after exhausting all other options.
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Months later, Saudi Arabia and a multinational coalition of Arab nalaunched a military campaign to push by the Houthis and restore the government.
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Filming, in Turkey's northwestern province of Bursa, started a few weeks before the military campaign on Afrin was launched in January, he said.
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Turkey has been angered by U.S. support for Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters who have spearheaded the Western-backed military campaign against Islamic State.
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But none failed to be deemed appropriate to use for the military campaign against IS (often referred to as ISIL by US officials).
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Eastern-based LNA commander Khalifa Haftar has been waging a military campaign for nearly three years in Benghazi against Islamists and other opponents.
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Saudi Arabia: Senators will vote on a resolution this week aimed at ending U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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The International Criminal Court said on Thursday it had approved a prosecution request to investigate crimes against humanity committed during the military campaign.
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"You know the president has said, I think he's right, you never telegraph a punch when you're in a military campaign," he added.
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The Senate on Wednesday voted to advance a resolution ending U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in the Yemeni civil war.
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Government spokesman Bekir Bozdag said the military campaign would continue to secure areas around Afrin and make sure food and medicine were available.
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Western nations are calling for an end to the Saudi-led military campaign, launched by Prince Mohammed, as a humanitarian crisis there worsens.
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Trump and White House officials say they are not endorsing or taking part in the military campaign and threatened economic sanctions against Turkey.
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The Kurds are trained and equipped by the United States, which views them as critical in the military campaign against the Islamic State.
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Ahead of the vote, Erdogan has launched a "wag-the-dog" military campaign that looks like an effort to bolster his patriotic support.
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The strikes in Surt on Monday were part of a new military campaign against the extremists' stronghold in North Africa, the Pentagon said.
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" Pentagon's response -- Caught off guard by the president's announcement, officials only say that the military campaign against ISIS is continuing "at this time.
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In the Senate, he called for Congress to pass a new authorization for Mr. Obama's military campaign against the Islamic State, something Mrs.
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Haftar launched his military campaign in Benghazi in May 2014, in response to a series of bombings and assassinations blamed on Islamist militants.
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Nevertheless, American officials are convinced that the military campaign is making progress and that they have the right strategy to defeat the group.
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Robert E. Lee led a long-term military campaign designed to keep black slaves in bondage; this is what statues of him commemorate.
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Some senators have drafted a bill to end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen, partially in response to the killing.
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In 2014, Pakistan's army finally mounted a serious military campaign against the Pakistani Taliban, which threatens the Pakistani state, and suffered many casualties.
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The military campaign that drove out the jihadists in October left two-thirds of the city's buildings damaged or destroyed, local officials said.
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Erdogan has also promised to strip the word "Turkish" from the name of the national medical association after it opposed the military campaign.
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Gambia has accused Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention in a military campaign that expelled more than 730,000 Rohingya from the country.
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Near the town of Sittwe, south of where the military campaign is being carried out, more than 100,000 Rohingya live in internment camps.
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He told Netanyahu and Barak that a military campaign would be foolish and could undo all the progress the covert campaign had made.
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Mr. Islam was purged from his university position this year after he signed a letter condemning a military campaign in several Kurdish cities.
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During the military campaign, which began on the night of June 3 and ended the next day, hundreds or perhaps thousands were killed.
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And in Libya, the United States has conducted more than 350 air strikes since August as part of its military campaign against ISIS there.
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However, an increased military campaign against ISIS will exacerbate one of our most pressing national security challenges -- identifying and interdicting returning foreign terrorist fighters.
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Myanmar denies widespread wrongdoing and says the military campaign across hundreds of villages in northern Rakhine was in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents.
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"This military campaign has had a deeply troubling impact on civilians," the lawmakers wrote in the letter, which was first reported by Foreign Policy.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission last year said the military campaign, which refugees say included mass killings and rape, was orchestrated with "genocidal intent".
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Why is it willing to put its own people in danger in service of a brutal, ineffective military campaign led by a theocratic dictatorship?
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"The impact of the Mosul military campaign on civilians will be devastating," the U.N. said in the summary of its Iraq humanitarian response plan.
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Millions of people across West Africa have been uprooted by Boko Haram and the sometimes ruthless military campaign against the group through the years.
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That's because Gadhafi was overthrown in a US-backed military campaign in 2011 and ultimately executed by rebels -- a prospect Kim hopes to avoid.
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"One thing we learnt from Iraq is that we mustn't let the military campaign get too far ahead of the political process," he said.
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The Senate and House both passed legislation earlier this year that would have barred U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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Similarly, American officials have cited progress in the military campaign as a measure of success in draining the Islamic State's power, resources and influence.
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While the brutality of the Islamic State has provoked a multinational military campaign, the persistence of sieges seems to produce only strongly worded statements.
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George Washington and the French general Comte de Rochambeau had met at the Webb House in May 1781 to plan a joint military campaign.
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Anaya has proposed a continuation of the ongoing military campaign against drug cartels, which has so far shown no evidence of solving the problem.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday welcomed a commitment by U.S. President Donald Trump to step up the military campaign against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
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But it is hard to assess the claims by Mr. Carter, General Dunford and other senior administration officials that the military campaign is succeeding.
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Western and Muslim countries have condemned the military campaign, and terror groups such as al Qaeda have issued statements in support of the Rohingya.
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It also criticized the United States' financial connections to Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's human rights abuses, and the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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The area was under a curfew imposed by the Turkish government as part of a counterterrorism military campaign against Kurdish militants in the region.
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Myanmar denies widespread wrongdoing and says the military campaign across hundreds of villages in northern Rakhine was in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents.
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More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after a military campaign in late 2017 that the United Nations has said was executed with "genocidal intent".
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That fight, which has raged for months, has become the most intense military campaign that the Islamic State has supported outside Syria and Iraq.
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Min Aung Hlaing has led the military campaign to drive out Rohingya Muslims, an effort that the U.S. has declared to be ethnic cleansing.
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But Turkish troops still on the move: Turkey advanced its assault in northeastern Syria on Tuesday after Trump announced sanctions over its military campaign.
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President Barack Obama (2009-2017) - In anticipation of potential military campaign in Syria in after the regime allegedly used chemical weapons in 20173, Rep.
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A Saudi-led coalition of Arab states began a military campaign a year ago to prevent the Houthis from taking complete control of Yemen.
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"What the Department of Defense is worried about is a three-plus-year military campaign against ISIS going down the drain," Mr. Hof said.
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The Taliban ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, imposing a harsh interpretation of Islamic law before being ousted by a U.S.-led military campaign.
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Gambia accused Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention over a military campaign that drove more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
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How Saudi Arabia will respond in other ways -- such as redoubling its military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen -- is yet to be seen.
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France has roughly 4,000 forces deployed to the region, part of a military campaign that began in 2013 to drive Qaeda militants from Mali.
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Once Daenerys landed in Westeros and launched her military campaign, however, the show began to frame her ambition as evidence of her unfitness to rule.
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It has gained from the Saudi military campaign of the past two years that has targeted the Houthi minority, one of AQAP's enemies in Yemen.
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The military campaign was touted as a pivotal moment for a nation that has been suffering from sectarian strife since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
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Ferdinand sent the letters to Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, known as the Great Captain, during a military campaign in Italy in the early 16th century.
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Benghazi has been plagued by violence since Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar launched a military campaign against the Shura Council two years ago.
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The Russian jet was shot down, with the loss of the pilot, in November while it took part in the Kremlin's military campaign in Syria.
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Exhibit A: Saudi Arabia's ruinous military campaign in Yemen has inflicted untold misery as a result of its ongoing conflict with the Iranian-backed Houthis.
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Since the American-led military campaign began in Afghanistan in 2001, foreign militaries have used hundreds of unmanned aircraft to conduct surveillance and air strikes.
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He dismissed the U.S.-backed military campaign against Islamic State in Syria as "only a few raids", and said a more comprehensive approach was needed.
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And violence by Iran's proxies may be just the sort of provocation that hawks like Mr Bolton are looking for to justify a military campaign.
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Obama administration officials say they have been working to help stabilize Iraq politically and economically since the military campaign against Islamic State began in 2014.
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Kushner was visiting Iraq at Dunford's invitation to receive briefings on the military campaign against ISIS, and planned to meet with US and Iraqi officials.
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The Syrian president looked more secure than ever at the start of the latest round of talks, riding high after a Russian-backed military campaign.
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The ill-fated military campaign against the Turks has become an important anniversary to remember troops from both countries who served and died in war.
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The letters referred to the use of Tornado reconnaissance planes in Syria, which Germany has deployed as part of the military campaign against Islamic State.
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Two top Cabinet officials privately urged senators on Wednesday to quash a resolution that would end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen.
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However, a brutal military campaign waged against an uprising in the western Matabeleland province that ended in 403 augured a bitter turn in Zimbabwe's fortunes.
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However, a brutal military campaign waged against an uprising in the western Matabeleland province that ended in 1987 augured a bitter turn in Zimbabwe's fortunes.
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Islamic State-linked groups have called for attacks on Russia in retaliation for Moscow's involvement in the military campaign against the militant group in Syria.
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Hundreds of Turks who spoke out against the military campaign on social media or held rallies to protest it had been detained on terrorism charges.
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On Monday, he is to meet with Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, to gauge the progress in the military campaign against the Islamic State.
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The overhaul, analysts said, was not directly linked to Saudi Arabia's three-year-old military campaign in Yemen against the Iran-aligned armed Houthi movement.
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And the prince has directed the Saudi military campaign in Yemen that has contributed to a humanitarian crisis and drawn growing opposition in the West.
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Above all, they blamed General Suleimani, criticizing him for posting photos on social media publicizing his role in the military campaign against the Islamic State.
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Qatar hosts the largest U.S. air base in the region which has been crucial to its anti-Islamic State military campaign in Syria and Iraq.
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The Saudi-led coalition, which has conducted a three-year military campaign against the Houthis, has not commented on the strike on the gas station.
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We are losing credibility each day by providing arms support to the Saudi coalition, whose military campaign has included war crimes and disregard for civilians.
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For the past two years Benghazi has been the site of a military campaign led by eastern commander Khalifa Haftar against Islamists and other opponents.
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Sanders, in particular, has hammered Biden over the 2002 vote, accusing him of helping lead the U.S. into a protracted, aimless and expensive military campaign.
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The delays are particularly acute in the national security field, where the White House is confronting crises like the military campaign against the Islamic State.
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At the same time, it must prevent or mitigate the possible unintended consequences of using force, including complicating the military campaign against the Islamic State.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is deeply concerned that Turkey plans to launch a military campaign in northern Syria, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Top American officials hid pessimistic assessments of how the 18-year military campaign in Afghanistan was going, according to documents published by The Washington Post.
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Malinowski said he has a lot of admiration for Napoleon, and he's always been fascinated by the 1812 military campaign when the French invaded Russia.
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The measures came in response to Russia's "malign" activities abroad, including human rights abuses, its military campaign in Syria, and political interference in other countries.
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Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) force has been trying to take Tripoli, home to the internationally recognised government, in an almost six-month military campaign.
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In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Arab nations began a military campaign aimed at pushing back the Houthis and restoring the government.
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Israel responded with air strikes and warnings from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel was prepared to wage a broad military campaign in Gaza if needed.
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Details: The UAE, which has driven a military campaign that encircled the port and city, describes the Stockholm meeting as a "last chance" for the Houthis.
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Details: The U.S. Senate's vote this week to consider cutting support to the Saudi military campaign is the latest sign of momentum toward ending the conflict.
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Progress in the military campaign has been slow because hundreds of civilians are still trapped or being held hostage, some as human shields, the military said.
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Nigeria ramped up its military campaign in the north in 2015, further isolating millions of residents from the rest of the country, food, healthcare, and trade.
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That appeared to contradict Trump's own pledge that the United States, France and Britain would sustain the military campaign until Assad stops using prohibited chemical agents.
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Speaking in Paris, America's defence secretary, Ashton Carter, said America and six other countries were stepping up their military campaign against IS in Iraq and Syria.
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Obama did launch airstrikes in Syria a year later, but against ISIS, as the US began a military campaign against the terror in Iraq and Syria.
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Russia on Tuesday escalated its military campaign in support of Assad, drawing for the first time on an aircraft carrier it has sent to the region.
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A House-passed resolution that would withdraw U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen is running into a procedural roadblock in the Senate.
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There are two flat-screen televisions on the first floor, tuned to news channels reporting on the military campaign to retake Falluja from the Islamic State.
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Relations between Moscow and Ankara have been badly strained since Turkey last year shot down a Russian warplane taking part in Moscow's military campaign in Syria.
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The ruined landscape in the drone video, reminiscent of that earlier Russian military campaign in Grozny, had been a community of shops, noisy streets — and homes.
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Earlier this month, they successfully added an amendment condemning anti-Semitism to a resolution to withdraw U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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Saudi Arabia The Senate is scrambling to an all-out brawl over a resolution that would end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen.
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The UAE and Saudi Arabia are leading a military campaign in support of the internationally recognized government in Yemen and against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
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In the meantime, the only way a military campaign can have a lasting impact is if it is part of a wider diplomatic and political strategy.
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In 1922, Turkish troops routed a Greek military campaign in western Turkey, forcing more than a million Greeks to leave their ancestral homes in Asia Minor.
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He also called for an end to Myanmar's military campaign that has driven some 400,000 Rohingya Muslims from the country, describing their plight as ethnic cleansing.
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While the government and the P.K.K. have different views on why peace talks collapsed, there is no doubt about what motivates Mr. Erdogan's continuing military campaign.
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President Tayyip Erdogan said last week there would be no let-up in a military campaign he said had killed more than 3,000 militants in 2015.
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We have continuously expressed our concerns to American officials about the government-backed Shiite militias and their role in the military campaign against the Islamic State.
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Over 5,500 civilians have died since the start of the coalition's military campaign in March 2015, according to the UN. More than 9,000 have been wounded.
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U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his policy for Afghanistan on Monday, stepping up the military campaign against Taliban insurgents and singling out Pakistan for harboring them.
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The non-binding resolution encourages EU governments to stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, which is accused of targeting civilians in its military campaign in Yemen.
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There is no mention of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, human rights concerns or the crown prince's arrest last fall of many extended royals.
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And the crown prince has directed the Saudi military campaign in Yemen that has contributed to a humanitarian crisis and drawn growing opposition in the West.
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Russian state media suggested that the agreement might help Moscow's military campaign in Syria, another area where Mr. Putin and Mr. Sisi have found common ground.
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The base quickly resumed flights and the strikes did little long-term damage to Syria's broader military campaign, thanks largely to robust Iranian and Russian support.
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The new disclosures make clear that Purdue was not the only manufacturer with a marketing strategy that in some measure seemed to suggest a military campaign.
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Iraqi army commanders say the military campaign will continue until all the frontier with Syria is secured to prevent Islamic State from launching cross border attacks.
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He has highlighted Israel's increasingly overt military campaign against Iranian expansion and even unveiled a new site where he said Iran had once pursued nuclear weapons.
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Iran may mistake a one-off strike by the United States as the beginning of a significant military campaign that requires an immediate and harsh response.
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Even as it has carried out a military campaign against the Islamic State for years, the United States has increasingly targeted Qaeda militants in Idlib Province.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A total of 48,000 of Russian troops have taken part in Moscow's military campaign in Syria, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday.
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Last year, Senegal decided to send troops to participate in the Saudi Arabian-led military campaign in Yemen against Shia Houthis, who are backed by Iran.
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But his administration stands accused of committing war crimes during a brutal final military campaign against the rebels and engaging in corruption to benefit his extended family.
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The Romeo group includes Marines — some active-duty, but most retired — from every major military campaign since World War II and from nearly every rank of service.
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For world powers including France, Italy and Britain, the general's military campaign, the biggest in Libya since the 2500 uprising that deposed Gaddafi, represented a major setback.
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Despite an ongoing military campaign, the Sons of Jacob did not completely destroy the United States Government — after the attack, an exiled government moved to Anchorage, Alaska.
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Since then, the Saudi-led coalition, which includes several Arab countries, has launched a military campaign in Yemen against the Houthis, who have the support of Iran.
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She hailed from outside the camp of Israel and served as a holy turncoat, aiding Israel in its military campaign by bringing down Sisera the enemy commander.
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About 255,000 people have been displaced from Mosul and surrounding areas since October, including more than 100,000 since the military campaign in western Mosul began on Feb.
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A political commentator close to Abadi, Ihsan al-Shammari, told Reuters the protests were ill-timed but would not affect the U.S.-backed military campaign on Mosul.
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A military campaign recently ended a five-month siege of the city by Islamic State group-aligned militants that left more than 1,100 combatants and civilians dead.
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Last week, they captured the northern entrance to the Tabqa Dam, a major target in their military campaign to isolate and capture Islamic State's biggest urban stronghold.
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But that project is collapsing in the face of a military campaign in Iraq to crush the militants, with unexpected consequences for ordinary people escaping their grip.
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Their push began when the Obama administration began its military campaign against ISIS, and Trump's Syria strike has injected a renewed sense of urgency into the effort.
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The Tabqa Dam is a key strategic target in the military campaign to isolate and capture the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa, Islamic State's biggest urban stronghold.
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The Islamic State's biggest claim to fame — its territorial empire in Iraq and Syria, or "caliphate" — has all but collapsed thanks to a US-led military campaign.
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Osinbajo has proposed legalizing illegal oil refineries to ensure employment for angry youths who often join militants, although a military campaign to hunt them down has continued.
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Osinbajo has proposed legalising illegal oil refineries to ensure employment for angry youths who often join militants, although a military campaign to hunt them down has continued.
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In this way, Congress's hasty approval, nearly two decades earlier, to combat Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was stretched to justify the military campaign against ISIS in Syria.
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Even as the U.S. administration lauded "de-escalation" in its rhetoric, Syria and its Russian and Iranian patrons simply consolidated their position and continued their military campaign.
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But Haspel didn't sway lawmakers in the briefing from wanting to take action targeting the crown prince, as well as the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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Libya's U.N.-backed government anticipates Sirte will be recaptured within weeks following a military campaign which began in May and has been supported by U.S. air strikes.
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Details of the phone call are not public; however, the White House claimed Trump did not approve of Erdogan's military campaign to confront Kurdish forces in Syria.
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Russia has waged a military campaign in Syria since September 2015, allowing Assad's government to reclaim control over most of the country following a devastating civil war.
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Dunbar, who was from Austin, Texas, was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that began in 2014.
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After condemning the airstrikes, Syria's foreign ministry issued a statement promising Damascus would continue its military campaign against the opposition, which it classifies as Takfiri, or extremist.
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The French official said the Turkish offensive in northern Syria "must stop," saying it is threatening the broader U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State group.
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President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday there would be no let-up in a military campaign that he said had killed more than 3,000 militants this year.
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Foreign governments, including the United States, provide some aid to the local administration, but it is a pittance compared with what they spent on the military campaign.
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The sanctions mark a rare public break between Mr. Trump and Mr. Erdogan, two combative leaders and allies in the ongoing military campaign against the Islamic State.
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The United States got involved in Yemen four years ago when Saudi Arabia and its allies began a military campaign in Yemen against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
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Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, is now aligned with Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, to wind down the 17-year military campaign in Afghanistan.
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He tweeted that his "proactive and nasty" military campaign against the jihadists had made more progress in eight months than the Obama administration had in eight years.
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Putin, in his annual televised phone-in, also said that interest in Russian arms on the global market had increased sharply following Russia's military campaign in Syria.
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And he specifically criticized the British prime minister, David Cameron, as being "distracted" during the 2011 military campaign that led to the ouster and killing of Col.
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If the most effective weapon in a military campaign is pictures of civilian casualties, Hamas seems to have concluded, there's no need for a campaign at all.
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Jordan, which hosts about 650,000 registered Syrian refugees, according to the United Nations, is increasingly worried about a prolonged military campaign that could trigger a humanitarian catastrophe.
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LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Britain is deeply concerned that Turkey plans to launch a military campaign in northern Syria, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on Tuesday.
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He also assumed the title of defense minister and almost immediately became the public face of the kingdom's hastily launched military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen.
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In 2015, a coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched a military campaign to forcibly remove Houthi rebels from power and re-instate the country's internationally recognized government.
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And when President Erdogan launched a controversial military campaign in Northern Syria, he threatened to arrest those who opposed him and promptly followed through on the threat.
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The coalition wants something more like a military campaign, with stores of ammunition and different weapons systems ready to be deployed as soon as a threat emerges.
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Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe spent his eight years in office, between 2002 and 2010, waging a bruising military campaign against the country's largest rebel group, FARC.
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A military campaign by Nigeria and its neighbors has pushed the group out most of its territory since the beginning of 2015, but fighting has rumbled on.
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The refugees drowned in heavy seas off Bangladesh late on Thursday, part of a new surge of people fleeing a Myanmar military campaign that began on Aug.
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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that over 1,000 civilians have been killed by Russian warplanes since Moscow launched its military campaign last September.
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But when it comes to the most significant ongoing front in the war on terrorism, the military campaign against ISIS, it's unclear what he'll have to add.
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On Monday, the mayor of Ankara, the Turkish capital, approved renaming a street outside the United States Embassy "Olive Branch," after Turkey's continuing military campaign in Syria.
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It has to be an "all of the above" campaign, with all the elements of the comprehensive civil-military campaign that we pursued in Iraq during the surge.
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SUGEDIGI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish artillery fired into Syria's Afrin region on Friday in what Ankara said was the start of a military campaign against the Kurdish-controlled area.
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What's next: The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign, though the prospects of that resolution in the House are unclear.
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The UAE has been leasing the port of Assab since 2015 and built a base nearby to assist in its military campaign across the Red Sea in Yemen.
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Earlier this week, Iraq said it wanted to be exempt from production cuts because it needs oil revenue to carry out a military campaign against Islamic State militants.
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President Obama is being pressed by many of his top national security aides to approve a Special Operations military campaign in Libya against the Islamic State extremist group.
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Reconstruction of Mosul, much of which was destroyed in a military campaign to recapture the city from Islamic State militants in 2017, has barely begun and is haphazard.
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In November, Hadi named Rouzek head of the Taiz Operations Rooms, coordinating the military campaign, and top commander of a new fighting force, the 5th Presidential Protection Battalion.
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And an amnesty program coupled with a sustained military campaign have reduced the LRA from its height of 3,000 fighters in 1999 to an estimated 150 fighters today.
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Improving the lives and rights of women remains a major challenge in Afghanistan nearly 15 years after a U.S.-backed military campaign ousted the Taliban's hardline Islamist regime.
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Myanmar denies widespread wrongdoing and says the military campaign across hundreds of villages in the north of Rakhine State was in response to the attacks by Rohingya insurgents.
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Iran denies accusations by Gulf states that it is smuggling weapons to Yemen, where GCC countries are involved in a military campaign against the Tehran-allied Houthi movement.
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Around 255,000 people have been displaced from Mosul and surrounding areas since October, including more than 100,000 since the latest military campaign in western Mosul began on Feb.
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Thousands of Islamic State fighters and their relatives have fled from U.S.-led military campaign in eastern Syria, The New York Times reports, citing new classified intelligence assessments.
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In the United States, lawmakers have called for harsh punishments against the Saudis, including sanctions, ending arms sales and cutting off support for its military campaign in Yemen.
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The Senate is expected to take up a resolution aimed at forcing Trump to end support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen as soon as Wednesday.
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Federal police advanced in the Wahda district, the military said on Wednesday, in the 11th week of Iraq's largest military campaign since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
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Few analysts expect Mr. Obama to shift his policy, which makes the military campaign against the Islamic State a priority, rather than any efforts to oust Mr. Assad.
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In 2010, WikiLeaks released more than 90,000 secret documents on the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, followed by almost 400,000 U.S. military reports detailing operations in Iraq.
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In 2010, Wikileaks released more than 90,000 secret documents on the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, followed by almost 400,000 U.S. military reports detailing operations in Iraq.
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The military campaign dealt a major blow to Barzani's independence gambit, loosening the KRG's grip over much of the territory it had controlled until the standoff this month.
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But as Dauba-Pantanacce explained, its military campaign in Yemen has actually prompted greater Iranian involvement there, and its actions concerning Lebanon have brought the fractured country together.
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Any concerted military campaign could further entrench the U.S. in a heated foreign conflict with bleak prospects for stability, but refusing to act could allow ISIS to metastasize.
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Tillerson's talks in Ankara come as the U.S.-led coalition escalates its military campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces in Raqqa, Syria, Reuters said.
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It marks the most ambitious advance by a group allied to Washington in Syria since the United States launched its military campaign against Islamic State two years ago.
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The missile launch coincides with 1,000 days since the Saudi-led coalition started its military campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels, which the kingdom says is backed by Iran.
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But as the caliphate collapsed under a military campaign by Kurdish militias backed by a United States-led military coalition, many of the men were killed or captured.
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The top United Nations human rights official, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, said in September that Myanmar's military campaign was "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims.
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The militants and their leader, Mullah Fazlullah, were driven out after a fierce military campaign in 2009, and the valley has since returned to a more normal life.
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Saudi Arabia, which sees Houthis as proxies of Iran, its biggest regional rival, responded with a military campaign aimed at ejecting the Houthis and returning Hadi to power.
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Regional experts say the Trump administration's most decisive action against Saudi Arabia so far has been to cut off aerial refueling flights for Riyadh's military campaign in Yemen.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Turkey's ability to sustain its military campaign in Syria may depend in part on what happens far away from the battlefield: in the foreign exchange market.
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It was easier for the leaders to sign on to this missile attack, as there was no discussion about a far-reaching military campaign or about regime change.
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Transferring Islamic State suspects there would defy warnings by national security and legal officials about creating legal risks for the broader military campaign underway in Iraq and Syria.
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The Democratic-led House is also expected to vote this week on legislation to keep Trump from starting a military campaign against Iran without first obtaining Congress' approval.
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The walls are crowded with portraits of pompous-looking men in uniforms, the forebears of the princess's husband, the field marshal, who is away for a military campaign.
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Saudi Arabia has waged a years-long military campaign in Yemen in support of the internationally recognized government that the Houthi rebels drove out of the capital, Sanaa.
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None of President Obama's rationales for his war against the Islamic State have the slightest applicability to a military campaign against Syria, should President Trump pursue that course.
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" He acknowledged a major catch: "My principal concern at this stage of the campaign is that the stability, reconstruction, and political rehabilitation will lag behind the military campaign.
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Although the success of the broader military campaign would not have been possible without U.S. leadership, the ground fighting in Syria — as in Iraq — relied on local forces.
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Mouhardeh, Syria (CNN)As a large-scale military campaign in Syria's last rebel stronghold looms, Syrians on both sides of the divide are bracing for a bloody battle.
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Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack, saying they conducted the strikes -- using 10 drones -- in retaliation for Saudi Arabia's military campaign against the group in Yemen.
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Mr. Rasmussen explained that while the military campaign had put pressure on the Qaeda network in Yemen, the lack of a government to work with had hampered efforts.
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Bouts of violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have continued for many years, culminating in a sweeping military campaign unleashed in August 22014 in response to militant attacks.
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Western nations are calling for an end to the Saudi-led military campaign in neighboring Yemen, which was launched by Prince Mohammed, as a humanitarian crisis there worsens.
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Russia has escalated its strikes in Idlib in recent months, throwing its military weight behind a Syrian military campaign to push deeper into the mainly rebel-held northwestern province.
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In recent months, the Houthi armed movement in neighboring Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is participating in a three-year-old military campaign, have targeted Riyadh several times with missiles.
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Democratic President Barack Obama's administration suspended the planned sale of precision-guided munitions in December because of concerns over the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen and civilian casualties.
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Earlier this year, the State Department approved military arm sales to country worth slightly over $1 billion, and has promised continued support of Saudi Arabia military campaign in Yemen.
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Trump has said repeatedly he'll look for cooperation with Russia, including on a joint military campaign against ISIS, and not pursue avenues to remove Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
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In the past month, 85,000 people fled Falluja, an Islamic State stronghold an hour's drive from Baghdad, amid a military campaign that has recaptured large parts of the city.
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The Admiral Kuznetsov has seen action in Russia's military campaign in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad with its planes carrying out air strikes against rebel forces.
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Another is the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Myanmar, where that country's military campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority has led to an exodus of 242,210 Rohingya since August 25.
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Progress in the military campaign has been slow because hundreds of civilians are still trapped or being held hostage in the urban heart of the town, officials have said.
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The US faces a slew of complex problems in Afghanistan that go beyond the United States' military campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, which dates back to 2001.
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The NSA documents say there was "presidential level interest in further video samples," indicating that the White House wanted to closely watch Assad's military campaign against his own citizens.
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A worsening humanitarian crisis in the nearly 4-year-old conflict in Yemen has prompted Western nations to call for an end to the Saudi-led military campaign there.
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Both sides agreed at the meeting to close ranks and to "unify efforts to confront the aggression", the statement said, referring to the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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Swing still planned the operation, however, much like a military campaign with mobile task force teams of Border Patrol agents who would lead targeted raids in certain geographic areas.
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The split comes as U.S.-backed fighters in Syria have started a military campaign to recapture the city of Raqqa from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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"Everything indicates the regime is preparing for a large-scale military campaign in Deraa in which they plan to encircle the city and reach the Jordanian border," Rayes said.
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Whether the PKK's action was a rush of emotion or premeditated, Mr Erdogan exploited it to end peace talks with the Kurds and launch a full-scale military campaign.
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Western nations are also calling for an end to the Saudi-led military campaign in neighboring Yemen, which was launched by Prince Mohammed, as a humanitarian crisis there worsens.
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President Donald Trump hailed the U.S.-led intervention in Syria as "perfectly executed," adding that the military campaign to degrade Bashar Assad's chemical weapons capability had accomplished its goals.
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Dominant eastern factions support forces led by General Khalifa Haftar, who has been waging a military campaign against Islamists and other opponents in Benghazi and parts of the east.
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The Trump administration on Friday doubled down on its threat to impose crippling economic sanctions on Turkey in response to its military campaign against the Kurds in northern Syria.
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The Trump administration doubled down on its threat to impose crippling economic sanctions on Turkey in response to its military campaign against the Kurds in northern Syria on Friday.
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In sum, a new AUMF would be good for the military campaign against ISIS, good for troop morale, good for the president, and most importantly, good for the country.
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The Obama administration is standing by its opposition to a dedicated military campaign in Syria despite a call from dozens of State Department officials to take more direct action.
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Mr. Obama, administration officials said, is mulling how large a military campaign to order for Libya, and whether to approve sending additional Special Operations advisers and trainers to Nigeria.
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He is a former ally of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi and has expanded his power over the past two years, waging a military campaign against Islamists and other opponents.
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The move was perceived as an attempt to rally European support for Turkey's military campaign in northern Syria, and more European aid for the four million refugees inside Turkey.
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KILIS, Turkey — After two months of uncertain fighting, Turkey appears suddenly to be riding high in its military campaign to take control of a larger piece of northern Syria.
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On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Myanmar to stop the military campaign, which he said could destabilize the region, and had created a risk of ethnic cleansing.
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Though President Trump has stood by the crown prince, the Senate voted in November to advance a bill that would end American support for his military campaign in Yemen.
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Now, the leaders in Tehran may well expect that a weakened Saudi Arabia could be compelled to end both its military campaign in Yemen and its blockade of Qatar.
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The anticipated military campaign in the northwestern Syrian province, which experts think will include airstrikes and possibly chemical weapons, has the potential to turn into a huge humanitarian catastrophe.
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After decades of civil war and narco-terrorism, Colombians were enjoying the fruits of an aggressive United States-backed military campaign that had largely decimated the country's drug cartels.
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It may add to pressure on President Trump — who is ending air refueling flights for the Saudi military campaign in Yemen — to take stronger punitive measures against the kingdom.
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Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, called the military campaign "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and a clear violation of international law.
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The latter figure is just slightly lower than the $195 million allocated for operations in Turkey, one of the primary hubs for the military campaign against the Islamic State.
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A Syrian army general speaking on a media tour of Maarat al-Numan on Thursday said the latest military campaign was focused on securing all of the M5 highway.
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The Turkish military has since begun carrying out attacks against Kurdish forces, with dozens of casualties reported this week and thousands in Syria fleeing after the military campaign began.
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Russia's role the military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria also makes it risky for the U.S. to shake the already fragile relationship between the countries.
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Last month, the House overwhelmingly condemned the U.S. pullout from northern Syria and subsequent Turkish military campaign against Kurdish forces the U.S. partnered with in the fight against ISIS.
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Russia defends what it describes as Mr. al-Assad's military campaign against terrorists and claims that the Syrian president cannot be persuaded to protect civilians caught in the crossfire.
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WASHINGTON — Prominent American officials concealed pessimistic assessments about the long-running military campaign in Afghanistan, according to thousands of pages of documents published by The Washington Post on Monday.
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The city has remained largely under the control of the militants for nearly two months despite a government military campaign to retake it with ground forces and aerial bombardments.
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The latest offensive has brought the military campaign closer to heavily populated northern Idlib along the border, where nearly 3 million people are trapped, according to the United Nations.
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Ties between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia grew strained under Mr. Sharif after Pakistan's Parliament voted down a resolution to send troops to help Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen.
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Demonstrators also called for an end to the Saudi-led military campaign in neighboring Yemen, which was launched by Prince Mohammed in his role as defense minister in 2015.
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President Donald Trump tweeted out false information about the military campaign against ISIS on Wednesday — and he failed to acknowledge the error when he corrected the mistake hours later.
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Russia's withdrawal, if it actually happens in part or in whole, would be more evidence that Russia is turning away from its military campaign and toward a political endgame.
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The Russians realized this and decided to launch a military campaign in a sphere where it has become taboo for our government to even monitor in a serious manner.
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France and Britain were urging the United States to join them in a military campaign to halt Colonel Qaddafi's troops, and now the Arab League, too, was calling for action.
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Iraq's ongoing military campaign to liberate the ISIS stronghold of Falluja is being sensationally framed in too much of the media coverage and commentary as a Shia versus Sunni war.
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" He added: "The coalition will have wasted an excellent chance to leave a counterterrorism operation in place to make sure that the gains of the military campaign are not wasted.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The United States has no plans to reduce its support for the French-led military campaign against Islamist militants in Mali, U.S. Defense Secretary Mattis said on Tuesday.
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For the past two years Haftar has been waging a military campaign in Benghazi against a coalition of Islamists and other opponents, including Islamic State and al Qaeda-linked militants.
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In a visit to the border of Gaza Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel is prepared for an extensive military campaign, but said it was a last resort.
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Last year, widespread enmity for the country's best-known ethnic minority, the Rohingya Muslims, fed a savage military campaign that forced some 700,103 people to flee their homes for Bangladesh.
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That protest concerned a local issue unrelated to the crisis in Rakhine state, where a military campaign has forced more than 600,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh since late August.
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"Security forces have been carrying out mine sweeping around Idil," a second industry source said, referring to a district in Sirnak, which has become a focus of Ankara's military campaign.
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Johnson met Haftar during a visit to the eastern city of Benghazi, where Haftar declared victory in early July after a three-year military campaign against Islamists and other rivals.
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A Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign in Yemen in March last year with the aim of preventing Houthi rebels and Saleh supporters from taking control of the country.
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The strike against al-Shayrat airfield was tied specifically to Damascus' decision to use chemical weapons and did not indicate a wider military campaign aimed at ousting Assad, he said.
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The Manbij operation marks the most ambitious advance by a group allied to Washington in Syria since the United States launched its military campaign against Islamic State two years ago.
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Later that year, the group released over 90,000 secret documents detailing the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, followed by almost 400,000 internal U.S. military reports detailing operations in Iraq.
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The military campaign, the anonymous sources say, was designed to quash plans by Gaddafi to use $2000 billion in secret gold and silver to prop up a new African currency.
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There's the ongoing Saudi-led, U.S.-backed military campaign in Yemen, which has produced one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and actively undermined U.S. counterterrorism goals in that country.
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Trump said last month he was eyeing a conclusion of the US military campaign in Syria, where about 2,000 troops are working to finish off the remaining elements of ISIS.
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Putin on Monday ordered Russian forces in Syria to start withdrawing, saying that after a two year military campaign, Moscow and Damascus had achieved their mission of destroying Islamic State.
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Galvin, part of Operation Inherent Resolve -- the military campaign against ISIS -- was an MH-60M pilot assigned to the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based 1st Battalion, 85033th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
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The group has been on the backfoot as an Iraqi military campaign with U.S. coalition air support has succeeded in wresting back significant territory, including a series of oil fields.
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Galvin, part of Operation Inherent Resolve — the military campaign against ISIS — was an MH-60M pilot assigned to the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based 85033st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
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Nor did Aramco direct airstrikes against Houthi rebels, even though Ibrahim Al-Assaf, who was foreign minister for part of the time that military campaign unfolded, sits on Aramco's board.
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Such a designation would have the potential to increase pressure on the Obama administration and international allies to enhance the military campaign against the Islamic State and prioritize refugee resettlement.
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The Senate has passed resolutions this year to block Trump's arms sales to Saudi Arabia and force Trump to yank U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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In just the past week, the Syrian Army has announced cease-fires, only to conduct a military campaign around the rebel-held section of Aleppo, leaving about 300,000 people besieged.
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The Senate has already bucked Trump on ending U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen and tried to block the president from selling arms to Saudi Arabia.
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The Pentagon on Tuesday said "hundreds" of U.S. troops were involved in the military campaign to recapture the city of Raqqa from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Britain rejected Mr. Trump's call for Mr. Farage to become British ambassador to the U.S. _____ • The military campaign to oust the Islamic State from Mosul is in its sixth week.
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Simon Round, a communications officer for the Board of Deputies of British Jews, tells Broadly that anti-Semitism in the UK peaked in 2014, during Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
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"MEND reiterates its full support for the ongoing military presence in the Niger Delta," it said in a statement, referring to a recent military campaign to hunt down the Avengers.
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Since August, Turkey has also been waging a cross-border military campaign in northern Syria, dubbed Operation Euphrates Shield, targeting both Syrian Kurdish forces and IS militants in the region.
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Whether we made the right decision is debatable, as we can all point to books published quickly after a military campaign or event that have enduring moral or literary power.
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Assad has won back control of nearly all of eastern Ghouta from rebel groups in a Russian-backed military campaign that began in February, leaving just Douma in rebel hands.
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Mr. Chávez was one of the few leaders to recognize the Russian-backed separatist republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, while Mr. Maduro supported the Russian military campaign in Syria.
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"If evidence is there, then it cannot be forgiven," he said, even as ample testimony has led the United Nations and Western governments to call the military campaign ethnic cleansing.
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The end date of the prophecy wasn't a coincidence, either — on March 18, Caesar was going to embark on a multiyear military campaign that would take him away from Rome.
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D-Day is a general term used for the start of any military campaign, and is used when the exact date of an operation is secret or not yet known.
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For nearly three years, the United States has been participating alongside a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in a brutal military campaign in Yemen.
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The latest offensive has brought the Russian-steered military campaign closer to heavily populated parts of Idlib province, where nearly 3 million people are trapped, according to the United Nations.
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Senate Democrats and Republicans also combined forces to pass a resolution to curtail U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, though Trump eventually vetoed the measure. Sen.
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Amid this new wave of violence in Syria, the US maintains its military presence in Syria and is even considering supplying Turkey with Patriot missiles to bolster Turkey's military campaign.
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The forces of allies such as Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, among others, play a crucial role in the military campaign against Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen.
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Mr. Najib called the military campaign "genocide" and called out Myanmar's de facto leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, for not doing enough to prevent the bloodshed.
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He voted against the June amendment to block funding for military action against Iran, but has also supported previous war powers resolutions targeting the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - More than 800,000 Syrians, mostly women and children, have fled their homes during a Russian-backed Syrian military campaign to clear the opposition in northwest Syria since Dec.
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His strategy was rooted in a mix of civil disobedience and international pressure, urging Mr. Maduro's military to abandon him, rather than seeking an outside military campaign to topple him.
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President Bashar al-Assad has won back control of nearly all of eastern Ghouta in a Russian-backed military campaign that began in February, leaving just Douma in rebel hands.
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With the help of its allies, the U.S. launched a military campaign in Afghanistan 17 years ago to topple the Taliban government following the September 2001 strikes on American cities.
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The homes of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state were still smoldering when a Burmese Facebook group posted a message celebrating the country's brutal military campaign to its 400,2000 followers.
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The homes of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state were still smoldering when a Burmese Facebook group posted a message celebrating the country's brutal military campaign to its 22018,000 followers.
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Bugaighis was also a supporter of the Libyan National Army (LNA) commanded by Khalifa Haftar, which has been waging a two-year military campaign against Islamists and other opponents in Benghazi.
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Turkey stationed troops in Bashiqa near Mosul, ignoring protests from Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, ahead of the military campaign to drive Islamic State out of the northern Iraqi city.
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Rebels and residents said Russians intensified their bombing later this evening of a string of villages leading to the Nasib border crossing with Jordan, a major goal of the military campaign.
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Since the negotiations started, tensions between the two governments have escalated as eastern Libyan forces led by Khalifa Haftar allied to the parallel government started a military campaign to seize Tripoli.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The military campaign against Islamic State in Syria should be completed in February following the end of fighting against the militant group in Iraq, French President Emmanuel Macron said.
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The most damaging period of violence was between 1983 and 2009, when armed separatist Tamil militants launched deadly attacks throughout the country as part of a sustained guerilla-style military campaign.
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The fate of Aleppo will decide the fate of Syria to a large degree, the fate of the Geneva talks, and the time frame of the Russian military campaign in Syria.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan forces advanced into several neighborhoods in Derna on Monday after stepping up a military campaign to oust rivals from the eastern city, a spokesman and residents said.
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As celebrations erupted among the Libyan forces, which are dominated by brigades from the city of Misrata, a spokesman said the military campaign would continue until the wider area was secured.
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The House overwhelmingly approved a motion on Wednesday that adds language condemning anti-Semitism to a bill that would cut off U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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Carter said the U.S. may change the nature of its military campaign against the terror group, saying there could be more rapid targeting of ISIS as intelligence on the ground improves.
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While the military campaign focuses on Iraq and Syria, the United States will also work with regional partners to target ISIS in Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sinai and Nigeria, the report says.
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ERBIL, Iraq — A dispute between Iraq and Turkey has emerged as a dramatic geopolitical sideshow to the complicated military campaign to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, from the Islamic State.
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At the time, Mnuchin said the sanctions were intended to punish Russia for aggressive behavior around the world, which also included Russia's annexation of Crimea and its military campaign in Syria.
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In Iraq, Carter said, his main concern that the effort to stabilizes the Mosul region after it was liberated, by rebuilding towns, services and communities, "will lag behind the military campaign".
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He has pursued his own agenda against opponents of the Assad government in Syria's civil war, reviving a military campaign against Kurd militants while facing terrorist bombings in Ankara and Istanbul.
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Editorial With the military campaign against the Islamic State making some progress, American officials have begun to sharpen plans to expel the terrorist organization from two major cities it still controls.
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The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee has joined a growing group of lawmakers concerned about the situation in Yemen and U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's military campaign there.
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For three years, roughly 600,000 civilians who resided in the city were forced to abide by ISIS's crude laws until being liberated by a joint Iraqi, Kurdish, and US military campaign.
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In 2006, then-president Bush used a NATO summit in Latvia to pressure allies to increase their defense spending at the height of the U.S.-led NATO military campaign in Afghanistan.
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The various invasion forces were beaten back rather easily, and Britain was then able to use its dominant sea power to mount a successful military campaign in the Chesapeake Bay area.
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This is part of a broader, more ambitious Middle East strategy that builds on the Kremlin's successful military campaign to prop up President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, at America's expense.
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"Until that is accomplished we will continue to pursue an aggressive military campaign against the Taliban and terrorist groups that continue to conduct violence against the people of Afghanistan," Esper said.
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The plot unrolls like a military campaign seen from above on a strategy map, with the ensemble divided into armies representing the haughty rich, the cutthroat military and the impoverished descamisados.
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Saudi Arabia began its military campaign against the Houthis in 2015, after the rebels drove the US-backed government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi out of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
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Mr. Bannon, a former Navy officer who spent most of his career in banking and media, also immersed himself in how the United States should wage the military campaign in Afghanistan.
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And it underscored how Mr. Trump's volatile language is sowing division with an ally whose help would be vital to the success of any American military campaign on the divided peninsula.
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In the same year, the organization released more than 90,000 secret documents relating to U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, as well as nearly 400,000 reports on America's military campaign in Iraq.
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It has been weighed down by drought, a refugee crisis and a costly military campaign to combat militant group Boko Haram, which took over large swathes of neighbouring Nigeria in 2014.
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In early September, the United States backed away from the prospect of a military campaign, and Hamada was returned to the terrorism court in Damascus, where his case was finally heard.
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Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility on Saturday, saying they had conducted the strikes -- using 10 drones -- in retaliation for Saudi Arabia's military campaign against the group in the country.
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The attack came as Khalifa Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) appears close to forcing Islamist-led opponents from their last holdouts after a military campaign that began in 2014.
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The war is Syria has helped Russia, which launched a military campaign there in September, to show potential arms buyers who would want to see Moscow's weapons used in actual combat.
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Lawmakers could pursue a resolution to stop U.S. support for the Saudi military campaign in Yemen, similar to one that failed in the Senate by a 55-44 vote in March.
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Some of the change in the nature of the Taliban movement can be attributed to the devastating military campaign to take out its leaders, leaving younger, more radical commanders on the battlefield.
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The coalition began a military campaign a year ago with the aim of preventing Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking control of the country.
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But a vote on the war threatens to expose the divisions over the US military campaign between hawks and doves that have lingered since the Obama administration began fighting ISIS in 2014.
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Mosul was once a diverse and tolerant city 'Life can never be the same' On October 17, Iraq launched a major military campaign to defeat ISIS in Mosul and surrounding Nineveh province.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Ankara will strip the word "Turkish" from the name of its main medical association after the organization publicly opposed the military campaign in Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
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No shipments have left there since the coalition of Arab states launched a military campaign in March last year in support of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi against the Iran-allied Houthis.
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The violence nevertheless shows that militants retain the ability to launch attacks, despite a country-wide anti-terrorism crackdown and a military campaign against their strongholds along the lawless border with Afghanistan.
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"The biggest strategic concern of this group of defense ministers was that the stabilization and governance effort will lag behind the military campaign," he said after meeting them at Joint Base Andrews.
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Suu Kyi condemned human rights violations and said anyone responsible would face the law but she did not address U.N. accusations that the military campaign in Rakhine state was "textbook" ethnic cleansing.
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In December the German parliament approved plans to join the military campaign against Islamic State in Syria in a mission that includes sending reconnaissance jets, a frigate, refuelling aircraft and military personnel.
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U.S. officials see that broader civil war as an obstacle to a sustained military campaign against the militants, as well as a threat to the Bab al-Mandab strait, a strategic waterway.
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So far, congressional leaders have shown no indication they intend to take up a new war authorization, short of a larger military campaign against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Moscow, which has supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a military campaign against Islamic State and U.S.-backed opposition groups, has pushed the Astana talks with help from Iran and Turkey.
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Nearly 300,000 of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims have been driven from their homes by an indiscriminate military campaign of mass killings, rapes, and arson that the United Nations has likened to ethnic cleansing.
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He joined the navy at 16, helped lead a military campaign against the FARC as defence minister in the late 2000s and in 2011 ordered a raid that killed their top commander.
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But perversely, Hezbollah will use the resulting images of destruction to Lebanese villages and suffering of Lebanese civilians to stoke political and popular pressure on Israel to terminate its military campaign prematurely.
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The coalition began a military campaign in March to prevent Houthi rebels, whom it sees as a proxy for Iran, from taking complete control of Yemen after seizing much of the north.
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Earlier in the same month, a number of Democrats helped Republicans attach an amendment condemning anti-Semitism to a resolution to withdraw U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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She has called for accelerating the current military campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and in Iraq while working with NATO and putting new pressure on Arab allies to combat terrorists.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Planning is underway for the military campaign to liberate Mosul from Islamic State, Brett McGurk, U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy in the fight against Islamic State said on Tuesday.
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It was a recognition, a long time in coming, that the coalition's military campaign in Yemen had devastated the country, killed thousands of civilians and brought it to the brink of famine.
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"We've always made clear that the military campaign is not enough to defeat Daesh (Islamic State) or to remove the threat that it poses," State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.
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Saudi Arabia, which sees Houthis as proxies of Iran, its biggest regional rival, responded with a military campaign called Decisive Storm that's designed to oust the Houthis and return Hadi to power.
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But a military campaign in Myanmar which drove about 730,000 ethnic Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh in 2017 showed "genocide is still happening," Mukagasana told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London on Thursday.
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Earlier this month it was announced that the government's military campaign in the Delta would be scaled down, after having been built up a few weeks earlier, to pursue talks with militants.
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered Russian forces in Syria to start withdrawing, saying that after a two year military campaign, Moscow and Damascus had achieved their mission of destroying Islamic State.
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Our South Asia bureau chief spoke with dozens of Rohingya refugees who escaped from Myanmar into Bangladesh, and who described a military campaign of unimaginably brutal violence: summary executions, beheadings, gang rape.
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This month, the United States said that it would end air refueling flights for the Saudi military campaign in Yemen and prepare sanctions against Saudis linked to the killing of Mr. Khashoggi.
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In 2015, the Saudi-led coalition, with President Barack Obama's backing, launched a military campaign, including thousands of airstrikes, against the Houthi-Saleh forces in support of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
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Mr. Erdogan recently made an alliance with the right-wing Nationalist Movement Party to bolster his chances for coming elections and has used the military campaign to improve his stance with nationalists.
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Most of the territory held by the United States and its Kurdish allies was once ruled by the Islamic State, and the scars of the military campaign to defeat it run deep.
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As he has done frequently during the three-year military campaign against the Islamic State, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi appeared on state television in the dark hours — close to 3 a.m.
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WASHINGTON — Myanmar's military campaign to kill or drive away its ethnic minorities is worsening despite a growing international outcry, according to a State Department religious freedom report that was released on Tuesday.
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" While tensions along the border are likely to continue, he said of the militant groups, "I hope they won't force us to embark on a full-scale military campaign to conquer Gaza.
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He also didn't see any problem with Trump ordering the Soleimani killing under the 2002 resolution authorizing the U.S. military campaign in Iraq: Trump "has the authority to do what he's done."
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Lawmakers are renewing their criticism of the United States' support for a Saudi Arabia-led military campaign against rebels in Yemen's civil war in the wake of a mounting civilian death toll.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Baghdad on Sunday for talks with Iraqi leaders on the U.S.-backed military campaign against Islamic State militants in Mosul, the Pentagon said.
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The fight against Al Qaeda is a different military campaign in a different part of Yemen than the one helping fuel the humanitarian disaster gripping the country, most visibly in the west.
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The post, touting a military campaign that the U.N. has since described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," shared alarmingly well, piling up 2000,228 shares, 22017,0003 reactions, and over 2000,222 comments.
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The post, touting a military campaign that the U.N. has since described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," shared alarmingly well, piling up 13,500 shares, 22,000 reactions, and over 2,000 comments.
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The coalition began its military campaign in prevent the Houthis, whom it sees as a proxy for Iran, from taking complete control of Yemen after seizing much of the north last year.
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Many cynics viewed the referendum campaign as a political match between Santos and his predecessor, former President Alvaro Uribe, who led a military campaign against FARC that turned the tide of the conflict.
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In recent years, as the result of a successful government military campaign, the rebellion has been reduced to rebel Sudan Liberation Army forces loyal to founder Abdul Wahid Elnur in western Jebel Marra.
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But a Saudi-led coalition including the United Arab Emirates, with support from the United States, UK and France, swiftly moved to depose the Houthis in a military campaign which still rages today.
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The LNA, which is allied to a parallel government in the east, faced strong opposition from ethnic Tebus during a military campaign it ran in the south at the start of the year.
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That military campaign — which is getting significant US funding, logistical support, and arms — has caused enormous suffering in what was the poorest nation in the Arab world even before the conflict broke out.
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Accounts gathered by Reuters from 10 residents and refugees, and confirmed by two Myanmar government officials, show an administrative push to record those who had left began soon after the military campaign started.
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Outside Kabul, the insurgents have stepped up their military campaign, threatening Laskkar Gah, capital of the strategic southern province of Helmand as well as Kunduz, the northern city they briefly took last year.
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Arms sales to Riyadh have become increasingly contentious in the U.S. Congress, where some lawmakers object that American weapons have contributed to widespread civilian casualties in a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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Editorial Iraqi and American officials leading the military campaign against the Islamic State now have to wrestle with a challenge that has the potential to change battlefield fortunes: the slumping price of oil.
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This significant escalation is being planned without a meaningful debate in Congress about the merits and risks of a military campaign that is expected to include airstrikes and raids by elite American troops.
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Every year, Australians and New Zealanders travel to Turkey for memorial services commemorating the failed 1915 military campaign by ANZAC and allied forces to drive Ottoman troops from Gallipoli and the Dardanelles region.
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Russia's military campaign to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — which is at odds with U.S. interests — has also had an economic cost, as well as military casualties on the Russian side.
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The group has threatened to step up attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta if the president pursues a military campaign, its spokesman Mudoch Agbinibo told Reuters in written responses to questions.
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Washington (CNN)The Republican-led House intelligence committee wants the Pentagon to provide what it believes are illegally deleted intelligence files pertaining to the U.S. military campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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But he's also led the country's military campaign in Yemen against Houthi rebels, which the United Nations says has caused the death of thousands of people and left Yemen near total collapse. 5.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission last year said the military campaign was orchestrated with "genocidal intent" and recommended charging Min Aung Hlaing and five other generals with the "gravest crimes under international law".
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Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have both published satellite imagery showing miles of burned Rohingya villages, but the true scale of this month's military campaign won't be known for quite some time.
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Kurdistan has faced severe export disruptions over the past three weeks after Turkey shut a pipeline for security reasons as it carries out a military campaign against Kurdish militants in its southeastern region.
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The dam is a key strategic target in the military campaign to isolate and capture the Syrian city of Raqqa, 40 km (25 miles) to the east and Islamic State's biggest urban stronghold.
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Still, the authorization was passed more than a dozen years ago, and it's a stretch to argue this is the same military campaign President Bush had in mind when he sought the authorization.
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In response, rather than escalate, Iran withdrew some of their IRGC personnel from Iraq, and the number of casualties from Iranian EFPs slowly decreased as the military campaign bore fruit and countermeasures improved.
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Central to these discussions will be Vision 28500, his effort to confront the Saudis' looming economic challenges, and the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, which he leads as the country's defense minister.
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Yemen The House is likely to take up a resolution breaking with the White House over its support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, paving the way for Trump's second veto.
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UN: 'Enough is enough' Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been leading a military campaign in support of the internationally recognized government in Yemen and against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
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"It has not been transparent for the public," Representative Mac Thornberry, the Texas Republican who leads the House Armed Services Committee, said in an interview, referring to the evolution of the military campaign.
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The mass displacement caused by Boko Haram — and by the sometimes indiscriminate military campaign to defeat it — has left 1.4 million people in the region without adequate food supplies, the United Nations says.
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"For the Department of Defense, this plan reflects the evolving nature of our military campaign against ISIL and our efforts in Afghanistan," he said in a statement, using an alternate acronym for ISIS.
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They called themselves the Combahee River Collective, taking their name from the South Carolina site where the abolitionist Harriet Tubman led a military campaign that freed more than 750 enslaved people in 1863.
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Last year a U.N. fact-finding mission said the military campaign was orchestrated with "genocidal intent", and recommended charging Min Aung Hlaing and five other generals with the "gravest crimes under international law".
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Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Ynet TV that Netanyahu and Esper would discuss "everything that happens in the space between Syria, Lebanon, Iraq," an allusion to the often clandestine Israeli military campaign.
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In one, I'm an officer for Enclave, a military cult obsessed with bringing America back to its pre-war glory days, searching for the remnants of a failed military campaign against Vault 18.
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In the last two years, a ramped-up military campaign has succeeded in pushing Boko Haram from its strongholds, but fighters remain active in Borno state, as well as neighboring countries like Cameroon.
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So when Mohammed bin Salman, now Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, launched a military campaign against the Houthi rebels in Yemen four years ago, it was no surprise the UAE joined the offensive.
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"We were hoping for a military campaign to reach us here, but unfortunately nothing happened and we're leaving," Hussein Halaq, a Shiite villager, said via a messaging app as he prepared to leave.
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Mr. Kadyrov's father, Akhmad, started out as a separatist Islamic leader, but at the beginning of Russia's second military campaign against Chechen rebels, which began in 1999, he swapped sides to support Moscow.
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The latest offensive has brought President Bashar al-Assad's military campaign closer to heavily populated central areas of Idlib, where nearly 3 million people are trapped, according to aid charities and U.N. agencies.
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Near the town of Sittwe, south of where the military campaign is being carried out, more than 100,000 Rohingya live in internment camps, after their properties were demolished in communal violence in 2012.
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It places the burden squarely on Trump to gain congressional approval of his decision to bomb Syria within 60 days; if he fails, he must cease his military campaign within the next 30.
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ERBIL, Iraq — Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday in an unusually intense operation that presented a new complication for the United States' military campaign against the Islamic State.
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" Biden said that "from the very moment" President George W. Bush launched his "shock and awe" military campaign, and "right after" that occurred, "I opposed what he was doing, and spoke to him.
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An accelerated United States military campaign also risks undercutting Somalia's newly elected president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who — like his predecessors — has declared war on al-Shabaab but also offered amnesty to Shabaab fighters.
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"We saw the ultimate consequence of a society encouraged to hate, scapegoat and fear minorities laid bare in the horrific military campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people in Myanmar," said Shetty.
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The government is convinced that it is popular in Sanaa, and is wary that an aggressive military campaign, similar to the Iraqi army's fight to oust ISIS in Mosul, would diminish that support.
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Early on, he suggested the U.S. should stay out of the conflict and expressed support for Syrian President al-Assad, who has waged a brutal military campaign against anti-regime rebels and activists.
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The Islamic State, which once controlled territory the size of Britain across Iraq and Syria, lost its last scrap of territory in late March, after a four-year military campaign to defeat it.
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Oesterheld's support of an aggressive left-wing guerrilla group called Montoneros in the 19763s — backed by the writer's four grown daughters — angered members of the violent military campaign that had occupied Argentina's government.
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Haftar declared victory a month ago in a three-year military campaign to take control of Benghazi from Islamists and other opponents, though there are still pockets of resistance in one central Benghazi district.
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The United States has criticized the military campaign as "disproportionate" and called for an end to the violence but a Trump administration official said this month he did not expect a return to sanctions.
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Fresno, California (CNN)Donald Trump on Friday suggested that the United States should bomb ISIS in Libya, a decision that would mark a serious escalation of the U.S. military campaign against the terrorist group.
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A new war between Israel and Hezbollah could distract the Shi'ite movement from its central role in the Syrian conflict, thereby undermining a military campaign in which Russia has staked great resources and prestige.
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But the resulting greater pressure on European jihadist networks, and the participation of some European states in the military campaign in Afghanistan, angered the jihadists and proved, in their eyes, the enmity of Europe.
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It says it is fighting for families trapped or displaced by the LNA's military campaign, and to save Libya from a return to dictatorship and protect the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
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The military campaign has intensified in recent weeks, forcing refiners to work at night so the smoke from the crude oil they process is harder to detect as it rises over the mangrove swamps.
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Dunford's visit came after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces -- which include several Kurdish militant groups that Turkey considers terrorists -- announced the launch of their military campaign, "Euphrates Rage," to seize Raqqa from ISIS.
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U.S. President Donald Trump last week announced a stepped-up military campaign against Taliban insurgents who have gained ground steadily in Afghanistan since a NATO-led coalition ended its main combat mission in 2014.
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The Egyptian army military campaign began after President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ordered the army and security forces to crush militants after gunmen killed hundreds of worshippers at a mosque in Sinai last November.
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The final sequence of the movie finds Congressman Wilson attempting to persuade his colleagues to spend a mere $1 million for schools and roads to secure the peace after a multibillion dollar military campaign.
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Mr. Putin's military campaign in support of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has transformed the dynamics of that conflict and made Russia a leading player in the area's geopolitics, thwarting Washington's diplomatic efforts.
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The Pentagon chief's visit to the country came just days before the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, a massive military campaign launched by the Viet Cong against U.S. allied forces throughout South Vietnam.
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Falluja was seen as a launching pad for recent Islamic State bombings in and around the capital, and the military campaign was aimed in large part at denying the militants a safe haven nearby.
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Brett McGurk, the White House's special envoy for the counter-ISIS coalition, said this week that the terror group has been reduced to 85033,000 to 15,000 fighters as a result of the military campaign.
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Frustrated with the pace and depth of the U.S.-led military campaign against the militants, Iraqi officials have said they would lean heavily on Russia in the struggle to defeat the Sunni Muslim jihadists.
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Despite pressure from the international community, including recent sanctions by the United States against some of Myanmar's top generals, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to criticize the military campaign against the Rohingya.
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Here's the latest: All 18823,000 U.S. ground troops were ordered out of Syria, suddenly ending a military campaign that largely vanquished the Islamic State but ceding a strategically vital country to Russia and Iran.
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The international aid group Doctors Without Borders estimated last month that at least 6,700 Rohingya, including 730 young children, had met with violent deaths in the month after the military campaign began in August.
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HONG KONG — Protests erupted Monday among Muslims in Asia, Australia and Russia over a military campaign in Myanmar that has forced tens of thousands of fellow Muslims to flee across the border to Bangladesh.
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Human rights advocates accuse her of condoning a military campaign designed to drive the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in this majority-Buddhist nation, off their land in Rakhine State and out of the country.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities on Friday ordered the detention of 13 people for supporting the national medical association online, the Hurriyet newspaper reported, after the organization publicly opposed a military campaign in Syria.
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Mr. Iskandarani is a scholar on Sinai, where the Egyptian army is waging a military campaign against the Islamic State without much outside scrutiny because journalists and researchers are forbidden to enter the area.
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The confrontation represents a further escalation between forces supporting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and the United States, which has been directing the military campaign in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State.
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Saddam Hussein's government implemented a genocidal policy against the Kurds during its Anfal military campaign; many Kurdish men, women and children were forced from their homes by the Iraqi military and never seen again.
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And the group's anti-American stance rankles Washington, which used to count on the Yemeni government as an ally against Al Qaeda and has aided Saudi Arabia in its military campaign against the rebels.
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Nearly all experts agree that it is a stretch to base the U.S. military campaign against ISIS on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was enacted by Congress following the Sept.
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There are boys in Pristina called Tonibler in honor of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his role in NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia, a military campaign which paved the way to Kosovan independence.
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That military campaign has been likened by some candidates to a soft coup, and has included sidelining candidates who are out of the military's favor, censoring major news outlets and persecuting peaceful political movements.
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The organization took its name from the only military campaign ever led by a woman on U.S. soil — a Unionist, patriotic act by Harriet Tubman that she considered to be one of her greatest triumphs.
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"I thank my friend @JoeBiden for joining our effort to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi military campaign in Yemen, which, over four years of war, has experienced the world's worst humanitarian crisis," Sanders said.
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In September, leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee called on the Trump administration to declare the military campaign a genocide, days after a State Department report stopped short of that description.
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"As a direct consequence of the Russian military campaign, the murderous Assad regime is gaining ground, the moderate Syrian opposition is loosing ground and thousands more refugees are fleeing toward Turkey and Europe," Tusk said.
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The U.S. message also told the rebels it was left to them alone to decide how to face the Syrian army's military campaign based on what they saw was best for themselves and their people.
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He said Washington did not anticipate Turkey would extend its military campaign beyond 30km of its border and there would be an opportunity to resolve long-standing political differences between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds.
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Obama wants to talk with Erdogan about events in Turkey after July's attempted coup, the military campaign against Islamic State, and how to promote stability in Syria, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes told reporters.
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While U.S. military officials described the retaking of Rutbah as an important win for the Iraqi forces, the military campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria is changing, according to a top U.S. military commander.
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Saudi Arabia and allied Sunni Muslim Gulf states began a military campaign in March last year to prevent the Houthis and forces loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh taking control of the whole country.
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The United States is stepping up its military campaign against Islamic State (IS) by sending hundreds more troops to assist Iraqi forces in an expected push on Mosul, the militants' largest stronghold, later this year.
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Outside Kabul, the insurgents have stepped up their military campaign, threatening towns including Lashkar Gah, capital of the strategic southern province of Helmand, as well as Kunduz, the northern city they briefly took last year.
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The Russian-backed Syrian military and its allies have captured swathes of rebel-held eastern Aleppo in a ferocious military campaign, squeezing rebel fighters and tens of thousands of civilians into an ever shrinking enclave.
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He has been in a standoff with General Khalifa Haftar, who has waged a military campaign against Islamists and other opponents in Benghzai and the east, and blocked a parliamentary vote to endorse the GNA.
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"The port is located in a densely populated urban center where thousands of people live and any military campaign in its vicinity, from the ground or air, would have devastating civilian consequences," the agency warned.
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The Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign in Yemen in March 2015 with the aim of preventing Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking power.
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Haftar, who is aligned with the eastern parliament and government, has been fighting a two-year military campaign with his Libyan National Army against Islamists and other opponents in Benghazi and elsewhere in the east.
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The Saudi-led coalition began its military campaign a year ago with the aim of preventing the Houthi group and forces loyal to Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking control of the country.
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ISTANBUL, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Turkish authorities on Friday ordered the detention of 13 people for supporting the national medical association online, the newspaper Hurriyet reported, after the organisation publicly opposed a military campaign in Syria.
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Amnesty said since the start of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen it documented the use five other types of cluster munitions used by the coalition forces manufactured by the United States and Brazil.
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Despite growing international condemnation of the crisis, the military campaign is popular in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where there is little sympathy for the Rohingya, and for Muslims in general, and where Buddhist nationalism has surged.
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But it was clear to us that most senators, Democrats and Republicans alike, saw little upside in voting on an uncertain military campaign in another Arab state, even one against longtime public villain Muammar Gaddafi.
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"In the last 10 months we have followed through on one promise after another," he said, touting recent stock market gains, regulatory rollbacks and the success of a military campaign against ISIS among his accomplishments.
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Twenty-two countries are involved in the military campaign, while 66 countries participate in the overall anti-Islamic State coalition, which includes such activities as training Iraqi soldiers and officers as well as supplying aid.
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Benina is just east of Benghazi, Libya's second city, where fighting escalated in the summer of 2014 when forces loyal to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar launched a military campaign against Islamists and other opponents.
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In recent weeks, the Kingdom has exercised a more assertive regional foreign policy, ratcheting up its military campaign in Yemen and taking a more aggressive stance against the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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It comes one day after the Senate voted to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, another break between Trump and the Republican-led Senate that has traditionally supported his policies.
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In another sign of tension, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, after his meeting with the crown prince last Thursday, declined to express support for the Saudi-led military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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If President Trump is supervising a military campaign that is not accomplishing its objectives, he needs military commanders who will tell him this, and he needs to listen to them so he can change course.
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But it faced criticism last year by rights groups over a military campaign it leads in Yemen while a U.N. rights watchdog accused it of discriminating against girls and execution and corporal punishment of children.
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Although this explosive combination of vying fiercely for power and money has been the cornerstone of Afghan politics for decades, this time it could threaten the current U.S. military campaign and undermine Afghanistan's fragile security.
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Word of the carrier's visit comes about a week before the 50th anniversary of the Tet offensive, the military campaign by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces that punctured American hopes of winning the war.
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In January 1991 he assembled a global coalition to eject Iraqi invaders from Kuwait, sending hundreds of thousands of troops in a triumphant military campaign that to many Americans helped purge the ghosts of Vietnam.
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A Kurdish vote for independence last month prompted an Iraqi military campaign that has driven Kurdish forces from almost all the contested areas they had held since 2014, including the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
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On Thursday, Mr. Trump stuck to themes he sounded during his State of the Union address last week, including the successful military campaign against the Islamic State and the human-rights abuses of North Korea.
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The United States pressed allies to contribute more to the U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State, which it said must be accelerated regardless of the fate of diplomatic efforts to end Syria's civil war.
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The range of such impeachable actions go back to George Washington, who refused material evidence to Congress on a costly failed military campaign and later refused to show Congress the Jay Treaty with Great Britain.
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After the briefing, Mr. Engel said it was "crystal clear" that the war would end only with a diplomatic settlement, not a military campaign, and said negotiations with the Taliban "seem abhorrent," but are necessary.
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When the Saudis led a military campaign against the Iran-allied Houthi fighters in Yemen in March 503 — with the U.A.E. as their lead partner — many expected it to last a few months at most.
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While the American military made a point to stop publicly publishing body counts in September 22015, the metric — a discredited holdover from the Vietnam War — is still very much a part of the military campaign.
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While the American military made a point to stop publicly publishing body counts in September 22015, the metric — a discredited holdover from the Vietnam War — is still very much a part of the military campaign.
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But citing insurgent violence to justify ending talks overlooks the escalated American military campaign — and is a recipe for either an endless American presence or for a withdrawal without concessions from the Taliban in return.
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Netflix came under fire this year for pulling an episode of Hasan Minhaj's show, "Patriot Act," in Saudi Arabia because of the show's criticism of Prince Mohammed and the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
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The raid took place six months after Buhari said Boko Haram had "technically" been defeated by a military campaign that had pushed many insurgents deep into the remote Sambisa forest, near the border with Cameroon.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday the U.S.-led coalition was now encircling Islamic State fighters in their strongholds in a tactical shift before starting a military campaign to destroy them.
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Already, the Orlando shooting is sparking calls from some Republicans – including the Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump – for the United States to step up its military campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Now, human rights watchdogs warn that much of the evidence of the Rohingya's history in Myanmar is in danger of being eradicated by a military campaign the United States has declared to be ethnic cleansing.
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That applies to Obama too, who, among other actions, sent more US troops to Syria and Afghanistan, helped a military campaign in Libya, authorized bombing raids in Somalia, and sent military advisers to Western Africa.
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UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon told reporters Thursday in London that more than 23,000 ISIS, or Daesh, fighters had been killed in the military campaign, a number that is half that being reported by US officials.
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In March, the Saudi-led alliance began a military campaign in Yemen to prevent Houthi fighters, whom it sees as a proxy for Iran, from taking complete control of Yemen after seizing much of the north.
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Turkey's army and allied Syrian rebels attacked villages held by U.S.-allied militias near the city of Manbij in northern Syria on Wednesday, a spokesman for the militias said, an escalation of Turkey's military campaign there.
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The move is born out of a power struggle between the southerners and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi that has undermined regional power Saudi Arabia's efforts to coordinate a military campaign against the Tehran-supported Houthis.
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Haftar launched his military campaign in Benghazi in May 2014 in response to bombings and assassinations blamed on Islamist militants, part of anarchy that ensued after a NATO-backed uprising ended Muammar Gaddafi's rule in 2011.
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If President Donald Trump is supervising a military campaign that is not accomplishing its objectives, he needs military commanders who will tell him this and he needs to listen to them so he can change course.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Tuesday approved $400 million in additional funding to help rebuild services to Iraqi areas recaptured from Islamic State militants after a three-year military campaign, the global development bank said.
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But Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says that it has no bearing on his country's military campaign to prevent the Kurds from controlling Syria's northern border, which he sees as a threat to Turkey's own security.
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Both sides see Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas as a common foe, and during Israel's 20143 military campaign against Hamas Sisi reportedly took an even harder line on a possible Israeli-Hamas ceasefire than Netanyahu himself.
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The death would bring to seven the number of Russian servicemen known to have been killed in Syria during the Kremlin's five-month military campaign, which it said 10 days ago that it was winding down.
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AMMAN, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The Syrian army intensified shelling and air strikes on the last rebel enclave in the Syrian capital on Monday, its heaviest bombardment in a two-month military campaign, rebels and witnesses said.
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More than 40,000 people are listed as missing in Mexico, many from the years since former President Felipe Calderon launched a military campaign against drug cartels in 2006, according to the country's National Search Commission (CNB).
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is ready to retaliate if it faces a threat from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and will not shirk from launching a military campaign if need be, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Buoyed by the end of a long military campaign in Benghazi and new signs of foreign support, Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar has been signaling his intent to extend his power to the capital, Tripoli.
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However, large sections of his more than hour-long address, marking Shi'ite Islam's annual Ashura commemorations, were spent attacking Sunni power Saudi Arabia, the main regional rival of Iran, mostly over its military campaign in Yemen.
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Since then there has been a second wave of sanctions, in response to allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election, the Russian military campaign in Syria and alleged Russian cyber-attacks on foreign infrastructure.
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The Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign in Yemen in March last year with the aim of preventing Iranian-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking power.
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Delivery of the planes has also been limited by the training of Iraqi pilots, which can take up to two years, said Colonel Steve Warren, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State.
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It really was the case that when the rebels in Benghazi started being successful in the Arab Spring against Qaddafi, they got the money they needed to pursue their military campaign from selling the country's oil.
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If President Donald Trump is supervising a military campaign that is not accomplishing its objectives, he needs military commanders who will tell him this, and he needs to listen to them so he can change course.
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It would be disastrous if Americans, Iraqis and their partners were to succeed in the military campaign against the Islamic State only to have the politicians in Baghdad squander another chance to build a better future.
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David Beasley's call for help is the latest salvo from the United Nations hunger agency, which wants more action from nations that neighbor Yemen such as Saudi Arabia, which has been leading a military campaign there.
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Iraq sent Jaafari to Tehran a year ago with an offer to mediate in the feud between Saudi Arabia and Iran, reflecting Baghdad's fears that new sectarian conflict could affect its military campaign against Islamic State.
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Yemen has been torn by armed conflict since the Houthis captured the capital Sanaa in 2014 before they marched south towards Aden the following year in a military campaign that culminated in Hadi fleeing into exile.
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A whole new generation of young Sanders-loving liberals are likely to find themselves checking out books like Gary Bass's The Blood Telegram to find out about Kissinger's involvement in Pakistan's brutal military campaign against Bangladesh.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is ending air refueling flights for the Saudi military campaign in Yemen and preparing sanctions against Saudis linked to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, current and former American officials said on Friday.
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That military campaign, centered on operations against the Pakistani Taliban and some other militants in the country's northwestern region — where most of the country's Pashtuns live — has been credited with a drastic drop in terrorist attacks.
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The latest offensive has brought the Russian-steered military campaign closer to heavily populated parts of Idlib province, where nearly 3 million people are trapped, the vast majority women and children, according to the United Nations.
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Putin has fueled pan-regional instability through his clandestine dismemberment of Eastern Ukraine and has contributed to an intensifying European refugee crisis, which has ballooned since the start of Russia's pro-Assad military campaign in September.
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According to the United Nations, more than 5,13 civilians have been killed in Yemen since March 2015, when a coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched a military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in the country.
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The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, were escaping a coordinated military campaign of slaughter, rape and the burning of their villages that some United Nations officials have said may amount to genocide.
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The latest offensive had brought the Russian-led military campaign closer to heavily crowded parts of Idlib province, where nearly three million people are trapped, the vast majority women and children, according to the United Nations.
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Yemen has been torn by armed conflict since the Houthis captured the capital Sanaa in 2014 before they marched south towards Aden the following year in a military campaign that culminated with Hadi fleeing into exile.
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Turkey considers Kurdish forces that assisted U.S. forces against ISIS in the region to be terrorists groups and has launched a military campaign against them following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from northern Syria last week.
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Islamist militiamen killed at least 19 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, stepping up attacks on civilians in response to a military campaign against them in border areas with Uganda, local officials said on Wednesday.
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A similar military campaign in May drew sharp criticism from rights groups and residents who said soldiers had laid siege to villages, arrested civilians and raped women in an bid to force them hand over militants.
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The Pentagon has been looking at ways to accelerate the military campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, with Defense Secretary Ash Carter this week saying the president wants the group defeated before he leaves office.
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Islamist militiamen killed at least 19 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, stepping up attacks on civilians in response to a military campaign against them in border areas with Uganda, local officials said on Wednesday.
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The 11 classified documents that were published by the reporter's online news outlet, and later in a book, included PowerPoint presentations on military and counterterrorism operations and a document describing a military campaign targeting al Qaeda overseas.
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For the SDF, it would cap a four-year, U.S.-led military campaign in which its fighters drove Islamic State from swathes of northeastern Syria, taking the city of Raqqa after a months-long battle in 2017.
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Ehsan said "relations with NDS and RAW grew" after Pakistan's military launched a major military campaign against the Taliban in their strongholds in North Waziristan in 2014, forcing the militants to flee across the border to Afghanistan.
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"The armed and political oppositions are working on closing ranks and arranging their priorities in light of the fierce military campaign waged by the regime and its allies and their violations of international resolutions," the statement said.
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General Khalifa Haftar, who has been waging a military campaign against Islamists and other opponents in Benghazi and the east, and his backers in eastern Libya have been in a stand-off with the GNA for months.
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Turkey does not plan a military campaign against the Syrian town of Manbij without coordinating with the United States and Russia, which have a military presence in the area, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Monday.
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What would be needed for strike Even if that's a possibility, analysts say the US is in no position right now to wage the kind of military campaign that could bring battlefield success on the Korean Peninsula.
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Lawmakers in the House are looking to restrain U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in the Yemen civil war in an annual defense policy bill, so far filing at least nine amendments with that aim.
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These bullets were likely used by the Romans during an attack on the Burnswark Hill, probably as part of a military campaign ordered by Hadrian's successor, the emperor Antoninus Pius, to take Scotland north of the wall.
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In just the past week, the Syrian Army has repeatedly announced cease-fires only to conduct an extensive military campaign around the rebel-held section of the stricken city of Aleppo, leaving about 300,000 people there besieged.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Turkish Kurds turned an annual cultural festival into a rare mass political protest on Wednesday against the government's two-month-old military campaign against a Kurdish militia in neighboring Syria.
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Speaking to reporters in Ankara after a cabinet meeting, Canikli also said that a total of 110 Islamic State and Kurdish militia fighters have been killed since Turkey began its military campaign in Syria on Aug.24.
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Sami Askari, a senior Shi'ite politician, said Baghdad would be able to maintain its IMF deal without Zebari, just as it had managed to press on with its military campaign despite the vacancies in the security ministries.
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Hifter launched his military campaign in Benghazi in May 2014 in response to bombings and assassinations blamed on Islamic militants in the chaos that followed the uprising that ended longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi&aposs rule in 2011.
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It has been a political imperative for Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, to rally public support for an Iraqi-led military campaign to reclaim cities such as Tikrit, Ramadi, Falluja and, the major prize now, Mosul.
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Opposition sources say Dumair airport is a major air base used in a large-scale military campaign waged by the Syrian army with Russian firepower that regained eastern Ghouta, a rebel enclave on the outskirts of Damascus.
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The Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces are deployed in the arid region west of Mosul as part of a wider military campaign to retake the largest city under Islamic State control in Iraq or neighboring Syria.
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During Mr. Uribe's tenure in the seat Mr. Londoño hopes to occupy, he oversaw a brutal military campaign against the FARC, and led the campaign to reject the peace deal in an initial referendum in October 2016.
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But as the weeks turned to years, and the prospect of victory receded, the Americans found themselves backing a military campaign that was exacting a steep civilian toll, largely as a result of Saudi and Emirati airstrikes.
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She's one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children who escaped a vicious military campaign by Myanmar's armed forces in late August that saw houses burned to the ground and widespread rape used as a weapon.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump has ordered the withdrawal of 2,000 American troops from Syria, bringing a sudden end to a military campaign that largely vanquished the Islamic State but ceding a strategically vital country to Russia and Iran.
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This White House is viewed as more sympathetic to the military campaign that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are carrying out against the Houthis, Iranian-backed rebels who are waging an insurgency in neighboring Yemen.
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Some of the rebel groups are backed by Saudi Arabia, whose own military campaign in Yemen was fiercely condemned by Nasrallah and his supporters on Wednesday, as he stepped up rhetoric against the leading Sunni Arab power.
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The withdrawal and incursion allowed ISIS to "reconstitute capabilities and resources within Syria and strengthen its ability to plan attacks abroad," the quarterly report from the lead inspector general on the U.S. military campaign against ISIS stated.
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His declaration underscored how Mr. Trump's language, which took White House aides by surprise, is sowing division with an ally whose help would be vital to the success of any American military campaign on the divided peninsula.
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher For nearly two decades, U.S. officials crafted a careful story of progress to justify an ongoing military campaign in Afghanistan.
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has presented the White House with his recommendations on how to step up the military campaign against ISIS, which President Trump vowed to "demolish and destroy" in his address to Congress on Tuesday.
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In a televised speech on Monday offering few specifics, Trump promised a stepped-up military campaign against Taliban insurgents who have gained ground against the U.S.-backed Afghan government and he singled out Pakistan for harboring militants.
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Engel is also drafting a bill to impose targeted sanctions on Turkey for its military campaign, which has killed dozens of Kurdish fighters since it began Wednesday, he said on a call with Democrats on Friday afternoon.
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Obama praised the king's pledge of humanitarian aid to Yemen after a Saudi-led military campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi group - and talked about the need to help parts of Iraq hit hard by Islamic State fighting.
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Having run for the White House last year on a pledge to withdraw swiftly from Afghanistan, Trump reversed course on Monday and promised a stepped-up military campaign against Taliban insurgents, saying: "Our troops will fight to win".
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday touted progress he said the United States and its allies had made in the military campaign against Islamic State, but warned that the militant group still can direct and inspire attacks.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A top United Nations official said Saudi Arabia alone should fund steps to tackle widespread disease and hunger besetting Yemen, where the kingdom has been leading a military campaign for two and a half years.
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During 2016 and 2017, the U.N. monitors said a military campaign by government troops in the northwestern town of Wau and surrounding areas in Western Bahr el-Ghazal targeted civilians on ethnic grounds and displaced more than 100,000.
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The Syrian Democratic Force (SDF) said in a statement they had established a joint operations center Saturday night for the military campaign "Euphrates Rage," an attempt by the US-backed coalition to strike at the heart of ISIS.
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"We saw the ultimate consequence of a society encouraged to hate, scapegoat and fear minorities laid bare in the horrific military campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people in Myanmar," said Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition battling the Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen has been quoted as saying major fighting in the country is drawing towards a close, one year after the military campaign began.
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The military campaign against Boko Haram, which wants to create a state adhering to sharia law in the northeast of the country, has faced an upsurge in attacks since the end of the rainy season in late 2016.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Some 70,000 Syrian refugees could reach the Turkish border if the military campaign there continues at this intensity, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutolgu said on Tuesday, adding Turkey will not shut its gates to the refugees.
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The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia have been an important ally in the U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State in Syria, and this has been a point of friction between the United States and its NATO ally Turkey.
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A Saudi-led coalition, which began a military campaign in March last year against Iranian-allied Houthi rebels that drove the internationally recognized government into exile, said the strike in Saada province had targeted a Houthi training facility.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - The mayor of the Turkish capital of Ankara said on Monday he had approved re-naming a street outside the U.S. Embassy as "Olive Branch", the name Turkey uses for its ongoing military campaign in Syria.
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On Saturday, a bulletin on the Islamic State's Amaq News Agency channel described Mr. Lahouaiej Bouhlel as a "soldier of the Islamic State" who answered a call to attack nations involved in the military campaign against the group.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said on Wednesday its U.S.-backed military campaign against Islamic State had retaken around two-thirds of the territory seized by the militants in their lightning sweep across the country's north and west in 2014.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has detained a total 150 people for "spreading terrorist propaganda" on social media about its military campaign against a Kurdish militia in Syria since the operation began at the weekend, state media said on Wednesday.
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It is now 17 months into a military campaign that began after Shiite rebels, known as the Houthis, overran the Yemeni capital, forced the government into exile and began positioning missile batteries close to Saudi Arabia's southern border.
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A Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign in Yemen a year ago with the aim of preventing Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking control of the country.
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Putin has already established a pattern of trying to restore Russia's clout beyond its borders, notably in Ukraine with his support for pro-Russian separatists and in Syria with a military campaign to help President Bashar al-Assad.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The spokesman for a Saudi-led coalition said on Tuesday that its military campaign in Yemen was not aimed at establishing a permanent presence along the country's West coast but at restoring its internationally recognized government.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates said on Sunday it had halted its military campaign against the Iran-aligned Houthis for control of Yemen's main port city of Hodeidah to support U.N. efforts to reach a political solution.
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At least 22 other civilians were killed in other strikes by Russian and Syrian government warplanes on rural opposition areas that have been hit hard since the Russian-led military campaign, supplemented by Iranian militias, began in December.
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Some analysts warn that the Iraqi government and the Obama administration may be risking even more chaos by pushing an all-out military campaign against the Islamic State before any political arrangement to accommodate aggrieved Sunnis is reached.
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Trump's eagerness to scrap the Iranian nuclear deal also, of course, aligns with Saudi foreign policy, as does the Trump administration's almost complete silence on the Saudis' disastrous military campaign in Yemen against the Iranian-supported Houthi rebels.
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Early enthusiasm for Prince Mohammed and his promised reforms had already been tarnished after the kingdom's disastrous military campaign in Yemen and the killing of a Saudi dissident writer, Jamal Khashoggi, by Saudi agents in Istanbul last year.
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The resumption of talks now to complete the deal was to ward off a possible military campaign by the Syrian army and Iranian backed militias to end the siege of the two Shi'ite towns, another opposition source said.
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Qatar is home to the Al Udeid Air Base, the largest U.S. military base in the region, which serves as the staging area for much of the military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday on a resolution to end Washington's support for the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen, as lawmakers push President Donald Trump to toughen his policy toward the kingdom.
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While the majority of Rohingya residents of northwestern Myanmar were driven out by a military campaign that began in August 613, a scattered community of some 200,000 remained behind in Rakhine state, in villages that were spared the violence.
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French President Emmanuel Macron, whose government has led the military campaign against the jihadis in the region, condemned the attack, and said he would hold talks with Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Kaboré on Monday to evaluate the situation.
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The advancing forces are less than three kilometers (two miles) from the mosque where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate spanning Iraq and Syria in 153, sparking an international military campaign to defeat the group.
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Mobilising Libya's biggest military campaign since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, Haftar has advanced on the U.N.-backed administration in the capital from a bastion in the east, where he has a parallel government and central bank branch.
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Despite growing international condemnation of the refugee crisis, the military campaign is popular in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where there is little sympathy for the Rohingya, and for Muslims in general, and where Buddhist nationalism has surged in recent years.
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But even as the military campaign chipped away at the Islamic State's caliphate, the group was branching out, founding and supporting new franchises and cultivating relationships in Afghanistan, Libya, the Philippines, the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, Nigeria and elsewhere.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States pressed allies on Thursday to contribute more to a U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State that it says must be accelerated, regardless of the fate of diplomatic efforts to end Syria's civil war.
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The Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign in Yemen in March last year with the aim of preventing Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking control of the country.
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Mobilizing Libya's biggest military campaign since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, Haftar has advanced on the U.N.-backed administration in the capital from a bastion in the east, where he has a parallel government and central bank branch.
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Five years after it ended an eight-month military campaign in Libya in November 2011 called Operation Harmattan, France is reportedly back on the ground in the North African country, according to information published by French daily Le Monde.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - The father of a former Nigerian militant leader has died from injuries suffered during a government military campaign in the oil-producing Delta region, a family spokesman said, raising the possibility of an inflaming of hostilities.
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In 2001, Iran worked with the United States to help set up a new Afghan government to replace the Taliban, which had been toppled by a U.S.-led military campaign following al Qaeda's September 11 attacks on U.S. cities.
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In a partisan age, the American media likes to report on any seemingly bipartisan agreement, and has an interest in subtly cheering any US military campaign, despite its size or scope, because it almost always leads to increased ratings.
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KALAK, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish food retailer Nuri Barzan was considering closing his warehouse because of the lack of business when the launch of a military campaign to oust Islamic State from their stronghold of Mosul eased his worries.
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A Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign in Yemen in March last year with the aim of preventing Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking control of the country.
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Since its first foreign combat mission as part of NATO's joint intervention in Kosovo in 1999, the army has been involved in fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan and last November joined the military campaign against Islamic State in Syria.
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While the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump regards Syria and Iraq purely in terms of the military campaign to destroy IS, local jihadi fighters will simply melt back into the population, and could regroup in a new insurgency.
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Not only is General Raheel Sharif untainted by the Musharraf years but he has gradually eclipsed the prime minister in public esteem after launching a major military campaign against domestic militants that led to a slump in terror attacks.
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Therefore, in addition to pursuing a more robust military campaign, the President should seriously consider Secretary Tillerson's recommendation to re-establish the US Information Agency that played an invaluable role in promoting the American message from 85033 to 1999.
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Russia's military campaign in Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad in the past two years has effectively pitted the Kremlin in a direct military confrontation with Saudi Arabia as the Sunni kingdom has long fought for Assad's removal.
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Saudi air defenses shot down seven ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi forces on Sunday, with debris killing a man in Riyadh, the first death in the capital during a Saudi-led coalition's three-year military campaign in Yemen.
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The army announced on Thursday the start of a major new military campaign to regain Aleppo, intensifying strikes and use of powerful weapons that rebels said was an "shock and awe" campaign aimed at creating devastation and demoralizing them.
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Or might President Erdogan, absent concern about potential international blowback, shift from simply trying to secure his southern border to launching a large scale military campaign against the Kurds in Iraq and Syria, potentially causing a rift within NATO?
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In the years since the Mexican government began an intense military campaign against drug gangs, many stories like Mr. Parral's have surfaced — accounts of people caught at the intersection of organized crime, security forces and a failing justice system.
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"Qatar being made an example out of ... means that Haftar, Egypt and the UAE will experience much less diplomatic pushback as they ramp up their military campaign inside Libya itself," said Jalel Harchaoui, a researcher at Paris 8 University.
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Both supporters and opponents of Mr. Assad say he and his allies are seeking to press their military campaign as far as it can go before January, when a new American president might take a tougher line in Syria.
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Part of the problem is optics, officials said: Saudi Arabia looks like a brutal ally, including by leading a deadly military campaign in Yemen, just as President Trump and Mr. Pompeo have been casting Iran as the region's bully.
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In a call with reporters on Friday, Brett McGurk, a special envoy for defeating the Islamic State, said the last part of the military campaign against those fighters would soon start, a promise officials have been making for months.
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At one point, he suggested that he planned to pull American troops out of Syria, where they have aided a military campaign that has recaptured the vast majority of the territory once controlled by the Islamic State, or ISIS.
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"The U.S. and Afghan governments hope a peace process will emerge from the ashes of this intensified military campaign but a peace process has never been more remote in recent years," said the group's senior Afghan analyst, Borhan Osman.
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She covered the brutal Chechen military campaign in 1999 and 203 that helped solidify Putin's political standing as he ascended to the presidency, and the 2004 Beslan school siege, which earned her the government's "Strengthening the Military Commonwealth" medal.
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Gambia has accused Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention in a military campaign that expelled more than 730,000 Rohingya from Myanmar and it has asked the International Court of Justice to order "provisional measures" to prevent more harm.
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The bomb could have been used by the Truman administration to end the Korean War, or by the Eisenhower administration either in Korea or in Indochina (to bail out France from its losing military campaign there), but it wasn't.
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How war broke out The Saudi-led coalition, involving several Arab countries, began a military campaign in Yemen in March 2015 after Houthis drove out the US-backed government, led by President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and took over Sanaa.
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In the lead up to the Iraq War, the effort to pass an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Congress became a point of contention, and once again became an issue during the US military campaign against ISIS.
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Putin has estimated that about 9,50 citizens of Russia and other ex-Soviet nations have joined militants in Syria, pointing at the need to contain the threat they pose as a key reason behind the Russian military campaign in the country.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission last year said the military campaign, which refugees say included mass killings and rape, was orchestrated with "genocidal intent" and recommended charging Min Aung Hlaing and five other generals with the "gravest crimes under international law".
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told French President Emmanuel Macron in a phone call that he was disturbed by claims about Turkey's military campaign in Syria's Afrin region that he said were baseless, a Turkish presidential source said on Friday.
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Syrian state-run al-Ikhbariya TV meanwhile broadcast what it said was its crew driving for the first time into Aleppo via the M5 international highway that has been a focal point of President Bashar al-Assad's latest military campaign.
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After the Mormons settled in Utah and established a kind of theocracy, they were sharply at odds with the federal authorities, and the army fought a low-key military campaign in the 1850s to assert their authority over the state.
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He also said the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, regarded in Riyadh as an important stand against perceived creeping Iranian influence in the wake of Washington's reduced engagement in the Middle East, had distracted from the fight against militancy.
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The Saudi-led coalition -- made up of several Arab countries -- began a military campaign in Yemen in March 2015 aimed at preventing Houthi rebels allied to Iran and forces loyal to Yemen's deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking power.
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MOSCOW, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry on Wednesday denied a Reuters report about a rise in the losses suffered by Russia in its military campaign in Syria, calling it "a lie from beginning to end", Russian news agencies reported.
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The operation, in which U.S. special forces played a significant role on the ground, marks the most ambitious advance by a group allied to Washington in Syria since the United States launched its military campaign against Islamic State two years ago.
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Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies began their military campaign in Yemen in March last year with the aim of preventing the Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, taking control of the country.
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The Saudi-led coalition of several predominately Sunni Muslim Arab nations began a military campaign in Yemen in March 2015 aimed at preventing Houthi rebels allied to Iran and forces loyal to Yemen's deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking power.
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Over the following year, the group joined a military campaign in Benghazi, took full control of Sirte and carried out attacks in Tripoli, partly by merging with or recruiting local militants from the al Qaeda-linked group Ansar al Sharia.
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A Saudi-led coalition, which is made up of several Arab countries including the UAE, began a military campaign aimed at restoring the Yemeni government and preventing the Houthis and forces loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking power.
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If confirmed, the capture of Ganfouda district would mark a major gain for the Libyan National Army (LNA) as it seeks to finish a military campaign against Islamist-led opponents that it has been waging for more than two years.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) asked Argentina on Monday to use a war crimes clause in its constitution to investigate any involvement by the crown prince in possible crimes against humanity in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia has launched a military campaign.
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The military campaign has curbed an insurgency that has killed at least 15,000 people since 2009 but in a new phase of the conflict, the army now finds itself facing small groups of guerrillas operating in the sparsely populated, wooded terrain.
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In a report, a U.N. panel of experts accused Malong last year of bearing "ultimate command responsibility" for a devastating military campaign in Unity state, where it said widespread destruction, targeting of civilians and violations of international law had taken place.
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" Jolie, 42, and McCain, 81, cite a lack of diplomacy in Myanmar, formerly Burma, that has led to 680,000 Rohingya Muslims being forced to flee "a systematic military campaign of killings, arson, rape and other mass atrocities amounting to ethnic cleansing.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A top Myanmar official appealed on Monday for democracy in the country to be given "a chance to survive" amid international anger over a military campaign against Rohingya Muslims that the United Nations has described as ethnic cleansing.
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ISTANBUL, March 23 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told French President Emmanuel Macron in a phone call that he was disturbed about baseless claims about Turkey's military campaign in Syria's Afrin region, a Turkish presidential administration source said on Friday.
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At the same time, Turkey is carrying out a massive military campaign with the aim of creating a "safe zone" in the Afrin region of Syria, where a bunch of people associated with the US anti-ISIS campaign currently live.
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The Syrian army with the help of allied forces has been mobilizing troops and sending reinforcements in a widening military campaign to regain rebel held territory near the area where the drone was targeted and along the border with Jordan.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria will scale down a military campaign in the oil-producing Niger Delta and talk to the Niger Delta Avengers militant group which has claimed a string of attacks there that sharply cut crude output, officials said.
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Although the Kremlin denies it, Russia was the first country in history to coordinate a cyberattack with a military campaign when its hackers reportedly worked alongside Russian military forces during their invasion of Georgia in 2008 targeting Georgian internet infrastructure.
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The Senate is prepared to defy Trump this week with a vote on a resolution aimed at ending U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, with both supporters and opponents predicting it has enough backing to pass.
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BAGHDAD — President Obama will send American military advisers closer to the front lines of the conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq, part of a series of measures that will escalate the United States military campaign to defeat the extremist group.
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"We're in a terrible equilibrium where Congress doesn't want to step up and play its part in this military campaign and so the president has basically gone forward and done what he thinks he needs to do," Mr. Goldsmith said.
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The situation there is emblematic of the wider military campaign -- the Taliban is unable to take major cities or towns but the Afghan security forces, despite receiving some additional US support, are unable to put an end to the insurgency.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The Saudi cabinet announced a pay increase of up to 60 percent for air force pilots on Monday, state news agency SPA reported, as a military campaign led by the kingdom in neighboring Yemen entered its third year.
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These are the rebel-held northwest, where the presence of Turkish forces will complicate any military campaign, and large areas of the northeast and east that are held by Kurdish-led militias, supported by 2,000 U.S. troops on the ground.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government hit back on Thursday against French criticism of its military campaign in rebel-held Idlib, saying it was targeting terrorist groups that were not party to an agreement to reduce fighting in the rebel-held region.
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Several rebel sources had said some preparations were underway for such a military campaign as popular pressure in rebel-held areas mounts on the factions to attack the Syrian army, which has been sending reinforcements from the south to eastern Ghouta.
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WASHINGTON — The United States escalated its war against the Islamic State in Libya on Monday, conducting airstrikes in the coastal city of Surt as part of a new military campaign against the extremist Sunni terrorist group's stronghold in North Africa.
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His commanders have been wary of a no-fly zone, saying it would necessitate a huge commitment of troops and aircraft at a time when the United States is deploying planes and soldiers in the military campaign against the Islamic State.
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Since Mr. Obama authorized the first airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in 2014 to curb the rise of the Islamic State, administration officials have been vague and at times disingenuous about the evolution of a military campaign that has escalated sharply.
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"The enemies of Islam are waging a media war on the Islamic State that is no less dangerous than the military campaign," the group said in a video on its official Telegram account, filmed in Raqqa and monitored in Egypt.
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LONDON, April 7 (Reuters) - Britain's defence minister said a U.S. military strike against a Syrian airfield was designed to deter Bashar al-Assad from carrying out any further chemical weapons attacks but was not the start of a new military campaign.
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The Syrian army with the help of allied forces has been mobilising troops and sending reinforcements in a widening military campaign to regain rebel held territory near the area where the drone was targeted and along the border with Jordan.
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For months, Mr. Trump has demanded credit for a stepped-up military campaign that has weakened the Islamic State, claiming repeatedly that he has done "far more against ISIS in nine months" than President Barack Obama did during his entire administration.
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The world expected a global figure who has championed the downtrodden to speak out for the more than 600,000 Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh from Rakhine State in Myanmar to escape a military campaign of murder, rape and arson.
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It makes no mention of anything troubling, like the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, human rights concerns or the crown prince's arrest last fall of many extended royals, including Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an influential client of Mr. Grine's.
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Saudi Arabia led a military campaign it called Operation Decisive Storm that intervened in Yemen around March 26, 2015, with a bombing campaign to oust the Houthis, who had evicted the Saudi-backed government and occupied much of the country.
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Mr. Sanders dismissed questions Thursday in the Capitol about the meeting, asking why a reporter was not asking about his successful push to have the Senate pass a symbolic resolution withdrawing United States support for Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen.
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During the Iraq War, it became common to blame Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith — Bush administration figures who happened to be Jewish — for a military campaign that had been ordered by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
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Interviews with journalists and political analysts in recent days have been dominated by concerns that a military campaign of intimidation and crackdown on dissent is intensifying ahead of the vote — and nearly unanimously, none dared discuss it on the record.
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While an American-led military campaign largely vanquished the Islamic State, Mr. Obama's 2009 nonproliferation resolution did nothing to prevent North Korea from making new nuclear bombs, although he did negotiate the deal that blocked Iran's ability to do so.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Despite attacks that have killed dozens of civilians at a time, the Trump administration on Wednesday certified that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are doing enough to minimize the deadly impact of their military campaign in Yemen.
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Bosom buddies not long ago, when the U.S. president shielded Ankara from being sanctioned over its purchase of Russian missile defence systems, the two are locking horns over Turkey's launch of a military campaign in northeastern Syria against Kurdish forces.
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The military remains in full control of security policy and there is little sympathy for the Rohingya in a country where the end of army rule has unleashed old animosities, and the military campaign in Rakhine State is widely supported.
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While there is no evidence that radical groups on the right or left are organizing a military campaign to plunge the country into civil war, a number of attacks in recent years have raised concerns about a surge in political violence.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian government troops are pushing into a strategic town in the country's last rebel-held region, local witnesses and monitors said Tuesday, another milestone in a military campaign that has trapped about three million civilians in the area.
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Bosom buddies not long ago, when the U.S. president shielded Ankara from being sanctioned over its purchase of Russian missile defense systems, the two are locking horns over Turkey's launch of a military campaign in northeastern Syria against Kurdish forces.
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