Airstrikes and offensives by the American and Afghan government forces on one hand, and Taliban offensives and attacks on the other, have increased at the same rate as progress in the negotiations.
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Both offensives have advanced toward the border from opposite sides.
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Also in May, two other judicial offensives reached turning points.
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Farah Province continued to be another focus of Taliban offensives.
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Rebel offensives erupted in several other parts of the country.
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IS is also losing ground to U.S.-backed offensives in Iraq.
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It has carried out two offensives against Kurdish militias since 2016.
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The armed forces have responded with ground offensives and even warplanes.
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Brutal security offensives drove waves of Rohingya to flee the country.
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"In Syria, what we are hearing and seeing is only fighting, offensives, counter-offensives, rockets, barrel bombs, mortars, hellfire cannons, napalm, chlorine, snipers, airstrikes, suicide bombers," said UN envoy Staffan de Mistura told reporters in Geneva.
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These charm offensives keep bad laws from becoming worse ones, insiders say.
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The U.S. military launched two major offensives on the city in 2004.
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His words were offensives and do not represent our Mercy core values.
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Conway herself has also invoked family members in her arguments and offensives.
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The offensives have also put large numbers of civilians in fresh peril.
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The now-demobilized Marxist FARC rebels regularly stopped armed offensives during Christmas.
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In 2009, Dwyer grew, and the Marines started a spat of offensives.
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By 1918, big offensives on the Western Front had turned the tide.
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In 2014, the Assad regime started aggressive military offensives on multiple cities.
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Months of air and ground offensives in Mindanao have not dented their resolve.
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Syrian army offensives have continued unabated across the country, backed by Russian airstrikes.
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In recent weeks, ISIS has stepped up offensives against several of these areas.
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The convergence of the rival offensives has increased tensions in Deir al-Zor.
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In fact, new offensives were launched long after the sanctions were in place.
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Offensives are being prepared in the areas of Kirkuk and Mosul, it said.
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It also suffered damage in U.S. offensives against al-Qaeda insurgents in 2004.
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Related: Banned Cluster Bombs Were Used in Assad's Latest Russian-Backed Offensives in Syria
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According to the Pentagon, the group is still able to coordinate offensives and counteroffensives.
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The convergence of the two rival offensives has increased tensions in Deir al-Zor.
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Yet each time talks collapse because Assad's forces ratchet up their offensives and sieges.
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But the years of barrel bombs, offensives, and counteroffensives, have taken a serious toll.
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During US-led offensives against ISIS, people could flee or risk becoming collateral damage.
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The regime has used past ceasefires to resupply troops and prepare for subsequent offensives.
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The air support has blunted rebel offensives and allowed the government to retake some areas.
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U.S. air strikes have also played an important role in trying to blunt Taliban offensives.
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The governments of Syria and Iraq have launched offensives on other fronts against the group.
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The government has to convince Thais that its new offensives will be enforced without favour.
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Britain launched no military offensives against Germany, nor did it show much interest in mobilization.
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Despite its small size, it has rebuffed countless military offensives and remains a serious threat.
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In the past, Iran has largely kept its cyberspace offensives limited to the Middle East.
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Turkey has already launched previous offensives against the Kurds, taking territory from them in Syria's northwest.
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Offensives aimed at rolling back Islamic State insurgents around Tabqa could also trigger displacement, OCHA said.
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Government offensives around Aleppo have sent tens of thousands of people fleeing towards the Turkish border.
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Past military offensives waged by the 33rd and 99th have gone largely unnoticed by the world.
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The military took five months of ground offensives and devastating air strikes to defeat the militants.
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Despite many offensives, peace conferences and foreign interventions, Syria's civil war shows no sign of ending.
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The golf resort was the chief staging ground for Trump's charm offensives against the conservative media.
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So both players continue with a futile two-step, alternating between unsuccessful offensives and hasty retreats.
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Tokyo and Seoul have both launched charm offensives with Beijing to hedge against an unpredictable Washington.
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Since 2008, Israel has carried out three offensives against Gaza, all after rocket attacks by militants.
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At the time, in 2016, the Taliban were gearing up for offensives across eight Afghan provinces.
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The offensives amount to the most sustained pressure on IS since it proclaimed a caliphate in 2014.
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They deny that and say their offensives, including the one against eastern Ghouta which started on Feb.
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The Turkish military pushed into Syria northwest in two offensives, carving out a de facto buffer zone.
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They departed for insurgent territory in Syria after Hezbollah routed them in offensives with the Syrian army.
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On Monday, Duterte said U.S. military presence could complicate offensives against Islamist militants notorious for beheading Westerners.
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The United States should counter Kim's cycle of "charm offensives" not through appeasement but through verifiable changes.
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The separate offensives have both advanced as they race to capture swathes of Deir al-Zor province.
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Ryan Dillon told reporters last week, referring to the regime and SDF offensives in Deir Ezzor province.
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This weakened ISIS considerably, limiting its ability to launch the large-scale offensives it had waged previously.
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Of course, the United States and its allies also participate in cyber offensives aimed the other way.
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The Taliban's offensives come in waves that can last up to three weeks, Afghan security officials say.
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The militants seized two settlements in one of the offensives, Russia's defence ministry was quoted as saying.
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Offensives against the Islamic State's Afghan branch have brought it down to several hundred fighters, officials say.
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The attack surprised the enemy but then crumbled, like many earlier Republican offensives, for lack of equipment.
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He doesn't want Americans to respond to Trump's racist, authoritarian offensives by moving their moral goal posts.
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Congolese and U.N. troops have conducted repeated offensives against it, but the group always managed to bounce back.
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Residents, mainly from the Pushtun ethnic minority, found themselves caught between the militants and the army's repeated offensives.
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The two offensives have mostly avoided conflict with each other through communication between the United States and Russia.
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Syria's recent offensives on rebel-held suburbs and cities provide some idea of the horror that awaits Idlib.
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Troops splintered Ghouta into three besieged zones in one of the bloodiest offensives of the seven-year war.
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Through a series of offensives and surrender deals, Damascus has clawed back control of much of the country.
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Thousands of Syrians have rushed toward the Turkish border, fleeing fierce Syrian government offensives and intense Russian airstrikes.
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Rebels warn of the ethnic dimension to the struggle, fueled by the displacement of Arabs in YPG offensives.
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Moscow and Washington are backing separate offensives in the oil-rich province of Deir al-Zor bordering Iraq.
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The Houthis are effective fighters from northern Yemen who survived multiple offensives by Saleh when he was President.
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Offensives are being prepared south and west of Kirkuk and north of Mosul, said the KRG's security council.
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Certainly, the Syrian government and Russia have manipulated the cease-fires, using them as cover for continuing offensives.
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He escalated offensives against both former Vice President Joe Biden and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.
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Rebels had come to the meeting hoping Moscow would put pressure on the Iranians to curb military offensives.
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Both Facebook and Twitter have launched large counter-offensives to show that they're taking action on the matter.
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As events last week showed, Vladimir Putin continues to open new offensives in his war against the West.
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Offensives against Mosul in Iraq and eventually Raqqa in Syria will shrink the "Caliphate" and likely eliminate its leaders.
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Trump's loosening of the rules of engagement on US strikes quickened the offensives but also increased the collateral damage.
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It took several failed offensives to crush ISIS in the neighboring Ramadi, and much of that city remains uninhabitable.
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Government forces are pursuing offensives against two remaining rebel pockets, Idlib in the northwest and eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
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The House Science Committee, contrary to its name, has been launching offensives against scientific integrity for several years now.
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But past offensives have stopped at the banks of the river, partly to avoid direct confrontation with U.S. troops.
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Over a 40-year military career the former lieutenant-general led some of Israel's most daring, and bloodiest, offensives.
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You target the insurgents, and the terrorists get the breathing space they need to regroup and launch deadly offensives.
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Pentagon officials believe the Khorasan group has dwindled to 1,000 to 3,000 fighters after American airstrikes and ground offensives.
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It has been one of the deadliest offensives in the country's seven-year war, killing more than 1,600 civilians.
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But that didn't stop the English high command from planning deadly offensives — deadly, that is, for its own men.
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Previous offensives halted at the banks of the river, partly to avoid confrontation with U.S. troops stationed further east.
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They contend that Myanmar's military faults ethnic insurgents for instigating violence to justify their brutal offensives against ethnic populations.
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This hodgepodge of fighting units have been in action before -- during the offensives to retake Tikrit and Baiji last year.
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The fortunes of its "caliphate" have since turned with massive offensives launched by US-backed forces in Iraq and Syria.
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Previous congresses, to decide battle strategy, were sometimes held via internet due to military offensives that prevented leaders from meeting.
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Afghan forces are struggling to build up an independent air force as Taliban insurgents step up offensives across the country.
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I can vouch for the fact that there have been no new offensives or aerial bombardments in Nuba since January.
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Targets could include combatants, companies that materially support operations, and members of the Erdogan regime who plan or approve offensives.
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At the end of the second round, you had to call the fight for Griff, despite Big Chet's admirable offensives.
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In the midst of these many offensives, it is difficult to ascertain pattern or strategy in North Korea's cyber attacks.
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They also agree that Russia has always been a threat in this matter, though cyber offensives have made things worse.
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She even went beyond following up to argue with him, when he called American leaders "stupid" for announcing military offensives.
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Turkey has already mounted two cross-border offensives in northern Syria as part of its efforts to counter the YPG.
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Although they increasingly use pickup trucks and Humvees taken from Afghan forces, the motorcycle remains a staple of their offensives.
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Of course, Trump is not the only who can be blamed for legitimizing and emboldening Moscow's diplomatic and disinformation offensives.
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Syrian government forces are pursuing offensives against two remaining rebel pockets, Idlib in the northwest and eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
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European officials fear that Russia will use the time before Trump's inauguration to launch new offensives in Syria and Ukraine.
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So ISIS is lashing out with a classic terror/insurgent campaign aimed largely at civilians, as well as limited counterpunch offensives.
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This might accelerate the timetables for major anti-ISIS offensives, but it's unlikely to lead to the eradication of the jihadis.
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Syrian government forces have mounted several offensives aimed at encircling rebel-held eastern Aleppo but these have all failed to date.
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Such hybrid offensives took place during Russia's war with Georgia in 2008 and its annexation of Crimea in 2014, he said.
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While Taliban offensives typically slow during the winter, militants have continued carrying out deadly attacks around the country in recent months.
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But the jihadists steadily lost to various offensives and their main prizes - Syria's Raqqa city and Iraq's Mosul - fell in 2017.
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The group has been weakened by more than a decade of Philippine offensives, yet remains a key security threat, officials said.
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Beyond the battle Military offensives led by African Union troops and U.S. forces have taken a toll on the terror group.
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" The main political opposition, the conservative Liberty Korea Party, warned that Mr. Moon was duped by the North's "false peace offensives.
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According to our data, the Taliban were able to launch offensives with 100 or more men in 0003 districts in 2014.
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Intelligence reports suggest the attacks could be both military offensives against entire districts, and suicide bombings that could target the cities.
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In each of these offensives, Assad followed a "siege, starve, and surrender" strategy, as experts put it to Vox's Alex Ward.
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They weren't safe: They were simply stacked into a sequential series of offensives to be carried out whenever convenient for Assad.
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Democrats went full-force in the once-denounced Trump style: ad hominem offensives that often aim at personal weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
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Speaking in Istanbul Sunday, Erdoğan said Russian and Syrian offensives in the region had driven more than 85033,000 people toward Turkey.
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A series of offensives and local deals - accept state rule or leave - has helped Damascus suppress insurgent bastions across western Syria.
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During offensives elsewhere, Damascus has taken turf after allowing rebel fighters and opposition activists to leave for opposition areas near Turkey.
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They then aided the U.S.-backed offensives that liberated ISIS-held territory and some units are being incorporated into Iraqi security forces.
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The Taliban have claimed three of those, even as they have pressed military offensives on population centers in other parts of Afghanistan.
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Rebels have held Idlib since 2015, and its population has mushroomed with fighters and civilians escaping offensives in other parts of Syria.
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Both offensives have advanced towards the Syria-Lebanon frontier from opposite sides, hemming the militants into a small zone straddling the border.
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Syrian army offensives backed by heavy Russian air strikes to retake territory from rebels in the Hama countryside have had limited success.
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At some point, Kim Jong Un will return to his nation's proven two-act play of provocations and faux peace offensives. Why?
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Mr. Ahmed fought with American forces in 10 offensives in northern and eastern Syria, including retaking of Raqqa from the Islamic State.
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The twin offensives underscore how the 2024 Republican presidential primary is already underway even as Trump is battling for a second term.
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These coordinated ground and air offensives might degrade Taliban capabilities enough that it begins to worry about its power struggle with ISIS.
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In Kurdish areas of Turkey, fear and destruction have returned as facts of life after government offensives leveled parts of rebellious cities.
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The two coalition partners have launched repeated air and ground offensives in their more than three-year campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels.
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But the rebels lack the capacity to repel large government offensives, and as a result the relationship exposes civilians to collective punishment.
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With both the Mosul and Raqqa offensives underway, and as ISIS begins to shrink, all eyes are focused on the post-ISIS era.
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Rebels have failed in repeated offensives to seize the sprawling compound, from where surface-to-surface rockets are launched against the rebel enclave.
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The Pentagon called on all parties, including Russia and Syria, to avoid large-scale military offensives and de-escalate violence in the area.
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In September 2014, Fischer took the train from Vienna to Kiev, where the Ukrainian army was leading major offensives to reclaim the Donbas.
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Facebook stated that the Iranian campaign appears to have no connections to similar Russian misinformation offensives nor was it specifically targeting U.S. elections.
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While Baghdad has long said it would not let Kirkuk fall permanently into Kurdish hands, Kurdish fighters have led key offensives against ISIS.
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Lately, celebrity feuds have taken on the contours of cyberbullying, with famous rivals integrating the tactics of online harassers into their P.R. offensives.
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He said that every day, his battalion had forced back tank offensives, the bombs from the German air raids falling from the sky.
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As early as 22014, militants from the FATA fleeing Pakistan Army offensives started entering one of the valleys in Achin, called the Mamand.
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The offensives also aimed to push back the insurgent group to both lower Afghan casualties and hold what territory remained under government control.
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It was badly damaged in two offensives by U.S. forces against al Qaeda insurgents in 2004 following the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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Turkey threatened to invade the country to launch offensives against the Kurds, who helped the U.S. fight ISIS and monitored the ISIS detainees.
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Multiple offensives Farther north, thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga troops are involved in an offensive to retake formerly Kurdish villages near Mosul, Kurdish officials say.
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Clouding any potential ceasefire is the Syrian government's frequently used tactic of pushing rebels to surrender their strongholds after long sieges and military offensives.
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Government forces have pressed on sporadic offensives to crush the militants, including those in Jolo, a poverty-wracked island of more than 700,000 people.
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Because of government offensives that toppled narco kingpins in recent years, Mexico's drug cartels have splintered and are eager for new sources of revenue.
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Since 2012, he has repeatedly introduced offensives intended to rid officialdom of graft, factionalism and bureaucratic fragmentation, failings that he suggested weakened his predecessors.
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The Orange Bowl featured two teams, Clemson and Oklahoma, that run the kind of fast-paced, explosive offensives increasingly in vogue in college football.
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It took Iraq's army several failed offensives to retake neighboring Ramadi from the terror group -- a victory that left much of the city uninhabitable.
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But their fledgling state always collapsed, thanks to military offensives led by Arabs, Turks or Persians, and the withholding of recognition by global powers.
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The push for new talks has taken on urgency in recent months, as aggressive Taliban offensives have been seizing large sections of Afghan territory.
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The organization has declared it was behind several international offensives, including Monday's suicide bomb attack at a Baghdad mall and November's shootings in Paris.
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Despite years of military offensives, the Philippines has made little concrete progress towards defeating Abu Sayyaf, since the group started operating in the 1990s.
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The colourful backwaters where they waged their counter-offensives, from London's East End, to Baku in the Caspian, to Spindletop, Texas, add historical flavour.
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Mr. Abadi and other Iraqi leaders have frequently made bold statements heralding new military offensives, only for the efforts to stall on the ground.
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Washington and Moscow support separate offensives in the Syrian conflict, with both advancing against Islamic State militants in the eastern region that borders Iraq.
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But forces opposed to Russia's ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, have said Russian forces, in combat roles, have taken part in government offensives.
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In 2015, the Taliban were able to launch and coordinate three major offensives in Kunduz, Faryab, and Helmand, each involving at least 1,000 men.
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The Afghan interior minister, Wais Ahmad Barmak, acknowledged in a recent news conference that Taliban offensives were underway in many parts of the country.
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Through all of the current Rohingya crisis, and a series of military offensives against other ethnic armed groups, she has publicly supported the military.
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AI will allow the automation of tasks involved in digital cyberattacks that will make those offensives easier to carry out, larger and more efficient.
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The problem is that liberal countries with open economies, democratic politics and a legal presumption of innocence are far less able to resist these offensives.
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Saleh initially sided with the Iranian-allied Houthis who swept across most of northern Yemen in a series of military offensives that began in 2014.
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The two offensives - one by the Syrian army with Russia's support, the other led by Turkey with allied Syrian rebels - entered decisive phases this week.
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Despite repeated American-led offensives and the dropping of the United States' largest conventional bomb in 2017, the group has attracted more than 2,000 recruits.
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Ground offensives depicted in the comic take months to organize, mainly because both sides have to spend the time acclimating their soldiers to the altitude.
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Both the government and its armed opponents have carried out new offensives in the past two days, even as diplomats worked on the new truce.
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Russian- and U.S.-backed offensives against Islamic State have mostly stayed out of each other's way, with the Euphrates often acting as the dividing line.
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The United States military has increasingly found itself drawn back to regular combat situations this year as the Afghan forces have struggled against Taliban offensives.
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The army's advance is one of three rival offensives to have captured large areas of ground from Islamic State in northern Syria in recent months.
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Iraqi officials have at times released upbeat statements about military offensives against the Islamic State that are often not matched by successes on the ground.
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But trust in Suu Kyi among minorities evaporates as the military launches offensives that drive thousands of people, most of them Kachin, from their homes.
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Islamic State militants have lost swathes of land to various offensives across Syria and Iraq, forced into a diminishing foothold along the Euphrates river valley.
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Despite the vaunted number of Russian tanks in Ukraine — a figure that is likely exaggerated — this has never been a war of major tank offensives.
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His forces had no tanks and were fighting without the elite counter-terrorism forces that have spearheaded most of Iraq's successful offensives elsewhere, Jabouri said.
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In Farah, despite the two calamitous Taliban offensives on the provincial capital in October and January, the Bakhshabad dam is the first thing everyone mentions.
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Afghanistan: Taliban still playing bloody games Despite ratcheting up aerial and ground offensives against the Taliban, violence in Afghanistan has not decreased in recent weeks.
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The Syrian army and U.S.-backed militias are fighting separate offensives against Islamic State in the province, the jihadist group's last major stronghold in Syria.
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Fierce offensives and evacuation deals have helped President Bashar al-Assad's military wrestle back control of much of Syria, with support from Russia and Iran.
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And if the pattern of previous offensives is repeated, there will be scant concern for the millions of civilians cowering in the ruins of Idlib.
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Imran Khan, the prominent opposition politician, blamed the federal government for what he called its failure to follow through after the military's offensives against militants.
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This reality is replacing the 20th century model of clashes between militaries involving armored and infantry offensives — recent events with Hezbollah are just one example.
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As leader of the Badr Organization, Amiri, a Farsi speaker, was often seen discussing offensives in Iraq with the Guards' commander of foreign operations, Qassem Soleimani.
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The bitcoin heist follows similar suspected Pyongyang-directed offensives against other South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges—and an increasing number of attempts to steal from individual investors.
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Nor has anyone expressed much surprise to learn that Britain and America have recently been using cyber-offensives to cut Islamic State off from the internet.
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The frontline has changed little over the past few months despite repeated offensives by Hadi's supporters who operate under air cover from the Saudi-led alliance.
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In Deir al-Zor, Islamic State is battling two separate offensives, one launched by the SDF and the other by the Syrian army and its allies.
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Kobane, or Ain al-Arab, Syria, is situated near Syria's northern border and was the site of one of the Islamic State's major offensives, in 2014.
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Also as they did last year, the insurgents are mounting offensives across several provinces to stretch the resources of an already struggling government and security establishment.
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Russia sent its air force to support the Syrian Army a year ago when Moscow feared Assad was on the point of succumbing to rebel offensives.
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At the time, opposition leaders and their Western backers said that no talks could take place in good faith during stepped-up regime and Russian offensives.
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Russia has in the past fired Kalibr cruise missiles from frigates and submarines stationed in the Mediterranean Sea at militant targets to support Syrian army offensives.
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The existence of a new dissident group gives ammunition to those who would put resources into military offensives instead of rural development and other accord commitments.
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In recent years, the Turkish military has launched two offensives with its Syrian insurgent allies in the northwest of the country and has forces stationed there.
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De-escalation zones Renewed air and ground offensives by Russian-backed Syrian forces against rebel strongholds have also targeted the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta.
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U.S. troop counts sextupled on Trump's watch, largely in support of the U.S. coalition-led offensives against ISIS in areas like Raqqa and Deir-e-Ezzor.
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The Taliban has also pressed offensives in the north, west, and east, and the Afghan military is struggling to contain it, despite limited US military support.
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Despite months of reorganization, a new influx of international advisers, and regular American air strikes, Afghan security forces have slowly lost ground to Taliban offensives in Helmand.
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The group's media wing, al-Furqan, documented every aspect of its offensives, paying special attention to the grisly fates of members of the Syrian and Iraqi regimes.
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"It warns that the impact of the regime and its allies' offensives around Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta are a threat to the cessation of hostilities," he said.
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Those offensives have accelerated since linking up last month, taking swathes of land from Islamic State except for a small zone near the town of al-Salamiya.
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Assad's forces have been focusing offensives in the western provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama and Homs in a campaign to recapture territory and cut rebel supply lines.
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Whereas civilians in most other areas recaptured from Islamic State fled ahead of or during government offensives the majority of Qayyara's roughly 20,000 residents have stayed put.
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Moscow has shifted its attention to a bombing campaign in Syria to prop up the Assad regime; gone are the large-scale offensives from Russian-backed rebels.
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She says that Western condemnation of the government's bloody offensives in Darfur and other provinces have become muted since Sudan agreed to help with the migration plan.
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The Pentagon highlighted that Pakistan could still receive reimbursement funding for operations in 2017, some $400 million, should the Pakistani military launch offensives against the Haqqani Network.
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Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate has crumbled after different offensives in Iraq and Syria, but its fighters still operate in the desert border region and mount attacks.
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"We aim to change battlefronts, as the Burmese military are increasing their offensives in ethnic areas during these days," spokesman Mong Aik Kyaw told Reuters by phone.
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Mr. Santos, who as defense minister ordered offensives against Mr. Londoño's forces, has called for a referendum vote on Sunday to ratify the accord he has signed.
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The rival forces are conducting offensives against Islamic State and have generally stayed out of each other's way, with the river often acting as a dividing line.
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Usually, takeover bids are followed by weeks of secretive negotiations as companies haggle over price and deal structure, and go on charm offensives with investors and regulators.
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If those areas, with their majority Sunni populations, are going to remain impervious to the Islamic State's offensives in the future, they will need to recover economically.
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The two simultaneous offensives in the direction of the city raised the prospect of a clash over who would be able to claim the Deir Ezzor prize.
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So the good news is that despite the alarmist claims of imminent offensives, Moscow seems to have given up on any thought of winning this war militarily.
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Duque, who took office in August, pledged during his election campaign to toughen offensives against the group and drug-trafficking crime gangs that kill and kidnap civilians.
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The U.N. resolution on Saturday followed seven straight days of bombing by pro-government forces on eastern Ghouta, in one of the bloodiest offensives of the war.
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Fragile and temporary cease-fires were used by the Syrians and their allies to prepare fresh offensives, which, despite Russian and Syrian denials, often targeted civilian areas.
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"I don't think you need to change actual criminal offensives," said Eric Carpenter, a former Army lawyer and a professor at Florida International University College of Law.
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Islamic State lost nearly all the territory it once held in Syria last year in separate offensives by the U.S.-backed SD and the Russian-backed Syrian army.
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Oruzgan has faced major Taliban offensives in recent months, with intense battles and a lack of ammunition and support often compelling Afghan security forces to abandon their posts.
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In the end, Mr Erdogan came away with assurances that America would continue to back Turkey's offensives against the same Kurdish insurgents elsewhere, in Turkey and northern Iraq.
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COUP d'ÉTAT Following a series of offensives between 25 and 22006, Castro would seize control from Batista in January that year, and solidify his power grab in July.
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Western and Arab states accuse the Syrian government and Russia of using links between rebels and Nusra as a pretext to launch offensives against other opponents of Assad.
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These provide security guarantees for guerrilla commanders to return to Colombia or Venezuela within 15 days of an end to talks and bar military offensives for 72 hours.
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President Bashar al-Assad's military and its allies have pushed to crush the last insurgent footholds around the capital Damascus through a string of offensives and withdrawal deals.
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Past offensives halted at the banks of the river, in part to avoid direct confrontation with the United States, which has troops alongside the Kurdish fighters further east.
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But it is better known for its lucrative acts of banditry and piracy that have not abated, even as Philippine troops step up offensives to dismantle the network.
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Rescue workers tried to help hundreds of wounded Syrians after a Russian-backed government air offensives, but just 30 doctors were said to be active in east Aleppo.
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The risk of open conflict between the two offensives has mostly been avoided despite their proximity in campaigns further upstream in recent months, thanks to U.S.-Russian dialogue.
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Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies have so far mounted three separate offensives in northern Syria against Islamic State and the YPG militia, seizing areas along its border.
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The Sunni militants have used suicide bombings to hold back offensives by the Syrian army and their allies by deploying small groups of fighters to disrupt supply lines.
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Both offensives have converged on Islamic State from opposite sides of the Euphrates river that bisects oil-rich Deir al-Zor, Islamic State's last major foothold in Syria.
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Experts on America's longest war say militant safe havens in Pakistan have allowed Taliban-linked insurgents a place to plot attacks in Afghanistan and regroup after ground offensives.
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Islamic State's fiefdoms in Syria and Iraq have been largely dismantled in recent years by offensives launched by Damascus and Baghdad with the backing of various foreign coalitions.
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All these unsightly charm offensives might have escaped sustained public notice had Trump not swept into power and lent them the tacit legitimacy of the nation's highest office.
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United Nations-sponsored Syrian peace talks stalled this week after the opposition delegation objected to intensified Syrian government offensives supported by Iranian allies and heavy Russian air strikes.
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The ultra-hardline Sunni group issued its call as military pressure increased against it with offensives targeting its strongholds in Raqqa, Syria, and in Falluja, west of Baghdad.
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They described how the leaders had fled Raqqa as pressure mounted from the U.S.-backed campaign and separate offensives by Turkey-backed rebels and Russian-backed government forces.
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"Our units in the front line are continuing with their offensives to neutralize the remaining terrorists and rescue their hostages to end the crisis in Marawi," said Col.
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STAND also tightens current sanctions, extends the Magnitsky Act to all territories under Russian occupation, and would require the State Department to counter Russian propaganda and cyber-offensives.
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Repeated Nigerien offensives against the militants, often backed by soldiers from France's 4,500-strong Sahel task force, have failed to curb violence near the western border with Mali.
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Relief officials say that the Russian-backed offensives have created at least a hundred thousand new Syrian refugees and an untold number of displaced persons inside the country.
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Y.P.G. leaders say theirs is a homegrown movement that sprang up to defend civilians in the early days of Syria's war and against offensives by the Islamic State.
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His latest offensives have been making some real gains, which he wants to keep up so as to give himself the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.
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Jabouri was responsible for orchestrating offensives in Makhmour, just 30 miles (50 km) from Mosul, where efforts by the Iraqi army to reclaim territory have been repeatedly thwarted.
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Jabouri was responsible for orchestrating offensives in Makhmour, just 30 miles (0873 km) from Mosul, where efforts by the Iraqi army to reclaim territory have been repeatedly thwarted.
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Multiple offensives Farther north, thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga troops are involved in an offensive to retake formerly Kurdish villages near the ISIS-held town of Mosul, Kurdish officials say.
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The clash on Thursday near the IS-held city of al-Bab underlined the risk of the parallel offensives igniting new fighting between the government and its rebel enemies.
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But the fighting sent around a million refugees into Jordan, so priorities shifted from offensives against the regime to defending the border from global jihadists, many of Jordanian origin.
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Some of the groups have warned that the government, severely pressed by Taliban offensives across the country, will lose its legitimacy if it does not hold the elections soon.
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Enemies of Islamic State have uncorked major offensives against the jihadists on other fronts, including a thrust by US-backed forces against the city of Manbij in northern Syria.
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Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies have so far mounted three separate offensives in northern Syria against Islamic State and the YPG Kurdish militia, seizing areas along its border.
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Enemies of Islamic State have launched major offensives against the jihadists on other fronts, including a thrust by U.S.-backed forces against the city of Manbij in northern Syria.
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Shelling with heavy weapons and bombardments in Pool stopped in mid-April, but ground offensives are still taking place in various villages in the region, humanitarian groups have reported.
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The two simultaneous offensives in the direction of the ISIS-held city raised the prospect of a clash over who would be able to claim the Deir Ezzor prize.
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The U.S.-led coalition and the Russian military have been holding deconfliction meetings - to prevent clashes between planes and troops - though the two offensives have sometimes come into conflict.
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Residents in the north and south were particularly hard hit as Afghan security forces struggled to hold off resurgent Taliban offensives in Kunduz and Helmand provinces, among other areas.
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Also reflecting desperation for overseas funding are authorities' ramped-up charm offensives to court global executives, and there are plans for a series of conferences targeting Fortune 500 companies.
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Cue 20 years of bloodshed, lost focus, costly offensives, troop surges and withdrawals, busted new plans and corruption that swallowed efforts to build Afghan democracy over three US presidencies.
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Despite its small size, it has rebuffed countless military offensives and remains a serious threat, often using abductions to raise funds and killing hostages when ransoms are not paid.
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Despite all these important initiatives, the president has issued various statements that bolster Kremlin hopes that its expansionist offensives will be overlooked because Trump seeks a rapprochement with Putin.
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Enemies of Islamic State have launched major offensives against the jihadists on other fronts, including a push by U.S.-backed forces against the city of Manbij in northern Syria.
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FSA rebel groups said in statements they had repelled various offensives by government and allied forces along the frontline separating rebel- from government-held Aleppo city late on Saturday.
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Potential horror show Akhundzada will likely authorize a flurry of urban-based attacks and several new offensives in rural areas where the Taliban has made inroads, such as Helmand province.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and U.S.-backed militias converged on Islamic State in separate offensives against the militants in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor on Sunday.
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Soon, the Kurds will shift combat operations from full-scale military offensives to a counterinsurgency approach that will involve maintaining border security and managing terror threats within their own borders.
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After a Russian-Turkish deal to avert an assault on the last major opposition stronghold, in the northwest, it is unclear if there will be significant new military offensives soon.
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Islamic State is fighting separate offensives by both the Syrian army and its allies in eastern and central Syria, as well as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in Raqqa.
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Turkey has called for Baghdad to take a more active role in helping it eliminate the PKK, and has waged offensives in recent years against PKK allies in northern Syria.
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The PTM is also demanding the removal of checkpoints and land mines from FATA areas and compensation for property destroyed in the course of Pakistan Army offensives in the region.
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In previous years, Shabab fighters staged suicide missions and offensives against government positions during Ramadan, believing that it was especially auspicious to be martyred during the Muslim month of fasting.
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As the top generals were busy in Helmand, the northern city of Kunduz, which was briefly overrun by the Taliban last fall, once again faced strong offensives at its gates.
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The military offensives were focused on areas to the west of the Euphrates and Turkey has not gone east of the river, partly to avoid direct confrontation with U.S. forces.
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While the group has not been forced to leave the de-confliction zone, the coalition has prohibited its fighters from carrying out offensives against the regime from within the zone.
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Gula's arrest comes amid new Pakistani pressure to send 2.5 million Afghan refugees back to their home country, despite offensives by Taliban insurgents that kill and maim thousands each year.
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That's why these recent offensives are so surprising: The Taliban, despite its own internal weaknesses, has still found a way to generate significant pressure on the Afghan government and forces.
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After making notable progress for several years, troops from Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Djibouti and Burundi fighting al-Shabaab under an African Union banner have slowed the pace of their offensives.
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Even as the Taliban have pushed major offensives in Afghanistan in recent years, including in the nearby northern city of Kunduz, attacks have been relatively rare in Mazar-i-Sharif.
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"It warns that the impact of the regime and its allies' offensives around Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta are a threat to the cessation of hostilities," government spokesman Romain Nadal said.
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Lopez Obrador took office late last year pledging to pacify the country with a security policy that deemphasizes armed confrontation, following years of military-led offensives against powerful drug cartels.
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When facing a political crush, like after the GOP failed last summer to repeal Obamacare, he took the former approach -- oxygenating his base with a flurry of culture war offensives.
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Experts on America's longest war argue that militant safe havens in Pakistan have allowed Taliban-linked insurgents a place to plot deadly strikes in Afghanistan and regroup after ground offensives.
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Wali became the commander of the Taliban's "Red Unit" as well as deputy shadow governor of Helmand province three years ago and was directly involved in Taliban offensives, the statement said.
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Islamic State, which until last year controlled large areas in Syria and Iraq, has since been driven into the desert by successive defeats in offensives by international allies in both countries.
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Having slipped completely out of control in the late 2000s, FATA has been pacified in recent years only by a mix of American drone strikes and Pakistani offensives on the ground.
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But Garver acknowledged that the lion's share of military offensives has been spearheaded by the Special Forces, and that two years of battle are taking a toll on Iraq's elite soldiers.
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He said in April he wanted to present a plan for negotiations within two months to end the conflict, but that any new military offensives could "take peace off the table".
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They will go to Idlib province in the northwest - the destination for many such "evacuations" after sieges and ground offensives forced numerous rebel enclaves to surrender in the past two years.
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The U.N. resolution on Saturday followed seven straight days of bombing by pro-government forces of the rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta, in one of the bloodiest offensives of the war.
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Lansdale persuaded the army to stop alienating peasants with bloody, heavy-handed tactics, and paired military offensives with political campaigns to divide the communists and buck up trust in the government.
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Following the annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea, the Russians doubled down on areas like artificial intelligence, robotics, cyber offensives and propaganda efforts to reassert themselves on the global scene.
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Turkey has embarked on major air and land offensives against The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who control a sizeable area of land in Syria's northeast which runs along the Turkish border.
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Security in the region has improved in recent years after the Pakistani military mounted offensives there against the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban, which is considered the country's biggest security threat.
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Sure, the smart speaker has received overwhelmingly positive marks for sound quality, but the product is a bit late to the game, after both Amazon and Google have launched major offensives.
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The most violent clashes happened in the northwestern corner as the Peshmerga fought back offensives toward Fish-Khabur and south of their capital, Erbil, leaving dozens of casualties on both sides.
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Overall, there are just not enough American commandos to go around in a country where major Taliban offensives are typically taking place in more than half of the country's 34 provinces.
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The assault on the province resembles the initial stages of earlier drawn-out offensives to recapture rebel-held territories like Aleppo and Deraa, said Human Rights Watch's Syria researcher Sara Kayyali.
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Leaflets are a standard tool used by the U.S. and coalition forces to disseminate information about looming offensives and to persuade Afghans to turn away from the Taliban and other groups.
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But there has been a definite uptick in the targeted killing of scholars — widely known as ulema — as the Taliban have intensified their offensives in the past two years, officials say.
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With the help of Russian air strikes, the army has waged one of the most ferocious offensives of the war to recapture eastern Ghouta, killing more than 1,600 people since Feb.
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Although the American Expeditionary Force did not engage in combat for long, the looming threat of several million fresh troops led German generals to launch a last, desperate series of offensives.
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In fact, Karim said, in the build-up to the cancelled Camp David summit, the Taliban carried out attacks and offensives including an attempt to capture the northern city of Kunduz.
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As intense Taliban offensives have taken large portions of territory out of the Afghan government's hands, those spaces have become the stage for a resurgence of regional and international militant groups.
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Russia and the United States back separate ground offensives against the Islamic State in eastern Syria, both of which are advancing in the oil-rich Deir al-Zour Province bordering Iraq.
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In all, 238 cities and regions applied to bring the company to town, many using promises of tax breaks and public charm offensives to gain favor with the e-commerce giant.
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Since the 1980s, as he tells it, the United States has repeatedly fallen for the charm offensives of foreign actors — insurgent groups, protest movements, dissidents — who con Washington into reckless action.
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He said the Syrian army was still "in a condition to undertake serious offensives with our support" and said he would not allow fighting in Aleppo to worsen the situation there.
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Many of the displaced people fled earlier offensives to escape the fighting or avoid coming back under Assad's rule - including those bussed to Idlib under "evacuation" deals when rebels surrendered other enclaves.
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The most violent clashes happened in the northwestern corner as the Peshmerga fought back offensives toward Fish-Khabur, and also south of their capital Erbil, leaving dozens of casualties on both sides.
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The September uptick in disappearances could be related to the summer season in Afghanistan which tends to witness an increase in fighting as the Taliban typically launch their offensives during that time.
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In Deir al-Zor province of eastern Syria, Islamic State is battling two separate offensives, launched by the SDF on one side and the Syrian army and its allies on the other.
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However, fighting around Damascus ended last year after a series of massive government offensives, reflecting a wider increase in state control around the country, and Syrian studios are starting to work again.
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Through a series of so-called settlement agreements and army offensives, the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, has been steadily suppressing armed opposition around the capital.
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Islamic State lost most of its territory last year after rival offensives by the army, backed by Russia, and an alliance of U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militias swept through eastern Syria.
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Basilan is a no-go area for most Filipinos and Western countries typically warn citizens to stay away because of the presence of Abu Sayyaf and fierce military offensives against its fighters.
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ISIS lost most of its territory in Syria last year -- including its self-declared capital -- after coming under attack from separate offensives by Russian-backed regime troops and US-backed militia forces.
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It seeks not only to squeeze the group's opium revenues, but also to increase Afghan army offensives backed by American air power and to hold elections to enhance the Afghan government's legitimacy.
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Russia and the United States back separate offensives against the Islamic State, also called ISIS, in eastern Syria, both of which are advancing in oil-rich Deir al-Zour Province bordering Iraq.
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Raids and air strikes killed and wounded a record number of civilians—more than a hundred a month—while the Taliban attacked Afghan Army bases and mounted large offensives on provincial capitals.
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Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russia wanted language to be included in the resolution that would exempt from the truce military offensives against armed groups blacklisted by the Security Council.
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The timing of the Taliban intensifying its offensives against ISIS was particularly interesting, as the insurgents tried to persuade the Americans in peace negotiations that they would act against international terrorist groups.
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Troops have splintered Ghouta into three besieged zones in one of the bloodiest offensives of the seven-year war, with rebels facing their worst defeat since the battle of Aleppo in 2016.
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Through a series of local deals, sieges and army offensives, the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, has been steadily suppressing armed opposition around its heavily-fortified capital.
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The Iraqi army is assaulting Falluja, a bastion of Islamic State militants close to Baghdad, while U.S.- and Russian-backed forces are conducting separate offensives against the Sunni Muslim jihadists in neighboring Syria.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns on Saturday to escape battles in the north and south of Syria, where two different offensives have prompted an exodus in recent days.
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The Iraqi and Syrian Kurds proved to be among the most effective anti-ISIS fighters, and Washington relied on them to not only conduct ground offensives but even to call in US airstrikes.
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Multi-pronged offensives to capture territory controlled by ISIS — following plans developed in large part by McGurk — were already underway in Iraq as well as Syria by the the time Trump took office.
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While residents of some parts of Syria are describing an unusually calm spell, rebels say government forces backed by Russian air strikes have continued offensives in areas of strategic importance in northwestern Syria.
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Trump hewed closely to his script Monday morning, promising as he read from a Teleprompter that he would order a complete review of the US cybersecurity capabilities and prepare offensives against global opponents.
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Idlib is the last major area of Syria still in rebel hands after a string of government offensives backed by Russian air power since 2015 turned the tables in a protracted civil war.
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These smaller bodies found themselves facing a mix of charm offensives, threats of massive class-action legal cases, and, according to some European counterintelligence officers, attempts to bribe or blackmail some individual officers.
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Recent offensives in Paris and Jakarta indicate ISIS is increasingly relying on local fundamentalists, typically trained in ISIS strongholds within the Middle East, to execute suicide bombings and shootings in busy metropolitan areas.
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Turkey will carry out new military operations along its borders after its two previous offensives into Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, as he announced his manifesto for next month's snap elections.
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But new moments of friction have shown how the danger is rising as the fight against Islamic State nears its climax and both offensives race to secure ground in the oil-rich region.
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This marked a dramatic decrease as ISIS has lost territory and all of its major urban centers amid simultaneous offensives by the Syrian Regime, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, and Iraqi security forces.
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During this first phase, the Syrian regime's political and military strategy consisted in alternating indiscriminate military offensives against local populations, which sometimes included the use of chlorine, and pauses in operations for negotiations.
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As part of its effort to combat the Islamic State (IS), Canada has contributed 69 special forces trainers who are equipping Kurdish fighters to defend their land, and launch offensives against IS territory.
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Mr. Duque's government appointed nine officers linked to killings in the mid-2000s, including some who now hold top positions directing military offensives throughout Colombia, according to documents published by Human Rights Watch.
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Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said on Sunday that government forces had conducted 13 ground offensives and 12 air strikes in nine provinces, adding that 51 "terrorists" had been killed, 13 wounded and six arrested.
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Analysts have said that the Afghan forces' tendency to stay penned up in fortified bases rather than going on offensives has hurt their effectiveness and led to a devastatingly high rate of casualties.
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Since Russia's intervention in the Syria conflict in September with an air campaign to support President Bashar al-Assad, pro-government forces have stepped up offensives in the west and north of the country.
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The Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive on Tuesday, pledging to launch large-scale offensives against government strongholds backed by suicide and guerrilla attacks to drive Afghanistan's Western-backed government from power.
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The offensives both got underway last week and are targeting Islamic State in areas of major strategic importance to its foothold in Syria, where it controls swathes of land up to the Iraqi border.
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Those attacks followed a brazen takeover of Marawi City in 2017 by an alliance of domestic and foreign fighters, who held it through months of ground offensives and air strikes before the military prevailed.
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With Taliban offensives at a fever pitch and U.S. officials redoubling efforts to launch a peace process with the emboldened insurgents, Pompeo's meeting comes at a critical moment for the struggling U.S. war effort.
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With Russian jets and an alliance of Shi'ite militias backed by Iran, including Lebanon's Hezbollah, the army has captured swathes of the central and eastern deserts in parallel offensives from Palmyra and al-Resafa.
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The week's three big offensives are some of the most aggressive campaigns against Islamic State since it declared its aim to rule over all Muslims from parts of Iraq and Syria two years ago.
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In addition to his gains in Aleppo, Assad has "also secured core regime terrain along the Syrian Coast against further opposition attacks through a series of rapid offensives in Latakia Province," ISW's Kozak explains.
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Russian-backed regime offensives in northern Syria continued on Thursday as Moscow and Washington bickered over proposed ceasefires, and reports emerged that aid meant for besieged communities may be being diverted by the government.
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Offensives by the Iraqi government and its allies have focused on reclaiming population centers in the province, including the recent retaking of Ramadi, which is the provincial capital, and of the town of Hit.
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MOSCOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday it was gravely concerned by the situation in Syria where "terrorists" were using a ceasefire to regroup their forces and wage offensives against government troops.
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Al Qaeda in Syria emerged as a leading player in the Syrian opposition because it proved itself one of the strongest military forces in the resistance against the brutal offensives of the Assad government.
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In less than five years, the Houthis transitioned from launching guerrilla raids in their native mountain provinces to mounting 180-mile, long-range offensives and lobbing Iranian-made, medium-range ballistic missiles at Riyadh.
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Ernst's appeal comes as ISIS is being squeezed in its self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria, as the U.S.-backed offensives to take back that territory in both places began earlier this year.
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On the other hand, Taliban offensives to date have been repulsed by Afghan forces, with the Taliban failing to take towns and hold them -- even as they have shown the ability to launch incursions.
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There were angry recriminations on Friday from some rebels against American-backed opposition commanders in southern Syria who, following their backers' instructions, have refrained from major offensives against pro-government forces in recent months.
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Policy staffers would drop into a locality to work with city councils and regulators to pass laws and rules favorable to Uber or to fight back against offensives from established players in the market.
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The Peshmerga will be instrumental in offensives in northern Iraq and Syria, but it will be the Iraqi Security Forces who will be tasked with reclaiming territory in the central part of the country.
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Syrian government forces supported by Russian air strikes and Iran-backed militias, and a U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, are converging on Islamic State in separate offensives around Deir al-Zor.
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Offensives from 2001 by the Philippine military with help of U.S. special forces under "Operation Enduring Freedom" made some progress in killing senior commanders but that led to splintering and increased kidnapping to raise funds.
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The Islamic State has gained control of Surt, a city in central Libya, and has mounted a series of recent offensives and attacks that have killed dozens of people and threatened important Libyan oil facilities.
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At the time of Rawlence's first visit to Dadaab, a combination of repeated droughts and al Shabaab offensives had already driven up to half of Somalia's six to eight million people to leave their homes.
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And it's no coincidence that Israel has embarked on three savage military offensives there over the past decade, killing thousands of people, wounding tens of thousands, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless and sowing unbelievable ruin.
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In Ramadi, he said, the Islamic State fortified the city and fought for it, while in other cities of Anbar, such as Hit and Rutba, the fighters largely fled in the face of government offensives.
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But most described those attempts as preliminary, and there was some worry that the Taliban would continue pressing their military offensives while trying to fool the Afghan government by saying they were amenable to talks.
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Russian air strikes against Islamic State, Al Nusra and other terrorist groups would press on, he said, as would a wide range of measures to aid Syrian government forces including helping them plan their offensives.
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In past offensives, the process proved ripe for abuse: The word of an unnamed informant can be enough to send a man to prison, leaving countless families wondering what happened to their husbands and sons.
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Islamic State lost nearly all the territory it once held in Syria last year in separate offensives by the U.S.-backed SDF on the one hand, and the Russian-backed Syrian army on the other.
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As a reminder, the Russian military forces active in Syria enable the regime to enjoy unquestionable air superiority, giving it the total military freedom of action it needs for its indiscriminate offensives on urban areas.
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He noted that in 2013, then-President Thein Sein, a former general who became the new era's first civilian leader, directed General Min Aung Hlaing to halt military offensives against ethnic groups, to no avail.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will carry out new military operations along its borders after its two previous offensives into Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, as he announced his manifesto for next month's snap elections.
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Mr. Sharifi thinks that the Islamic State in Afghanistan will try to become the group's global hub in the coming years, after losing territory in Iraq and Syria following concerted Western-backed offensives and airstrikes.
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An array of enemies, both local and international, confronted IS after it declared a modern-day "caliphate" in 2014 across large swathes of territory it had seized in lightning offensives in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
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Although violence has ebbed in Pakistan in recent years, following offensives by the army on militant strongholds in the northwest, many militants have escaped to Afghanistan, from where Pakistan says they launch attacks across the border.
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KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive on Tuesday, pledging to launch large-scale offensives against government strongholds backed by suicide and guerrilla attacks to drive Afghanistan's Western-backed government from power.
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The recent insider attacks have added to the woes of an Afghan security force that suffered record casualties in the past year as the Taliban mounted strong offensives across the country, stretching the government's fighters thin.
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The opposition accuses Russia and its allies of attacking hospitals and civil defense centers to force rebels to surrender in a repeat of earlier, large-scale military offensives in areas such as Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Upcoming military offensives in Iraq against Islamic State, including an assault on the northern city of Mosul, could displace at least 2.3 million people, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq said on Thursday.
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Islamic State proclaimed a caliphate over parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014 but has lost a significant amount of territory since then to U.S.-backed offensives, though it still controls oil wells on Syrian land.
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As a member of the militant group's war council, the statement said, he had been responsible for offensives in Makhmour, 80 km (50 miles) from Mosul, where an Iraqi army push launched last month has stalled.
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President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday called for the withdrawal of U.S. special forces troops from a group of islands in the southern Philippines, saying their presence could complicate offensives against Islamist militants notorious for beheading Westerners.
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"The regime is doing its best to disrupt the status quo, using barrel bombs, land offensives and air bombings," Akar said, adding that 300,000 people had been displaced due to the conflict in the past month.
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Additional airstrikes can be a double-edged sword for leaders looking to stem Taliban offensives, said Christopher Kolenda, a former U.S. Army officer who served in Afghanistan and worked on American military strategies for the conflict.
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The Associated Press reported that Moscow will pressure Syrian leader Bashar Assad to halt government offensives against many areas of armed opposition, which have been seeking the end of his rule for more than five years.
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Turkey, which borders Idlib, has also called on Russia and Iran to put pressure on Damascus to halt the offensive in a corner of Syria whose population has been swollen by Syrians fleeing government offensives elsewhere.
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As the immigration crisis has strained relations within the Continent, anxieties have been heightened by Russian military offensives in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, and a bombing campaign in Syria that has demonstrated Moscow's rapidly increasing capabilities.
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Despite many offensives, peace conferences and foreign interventions, including this week's Turkish incursion into a border town, the only needle that ever seems to move is the one measuring the suffering of Syrians — which only worsens.
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"Given the Taliban's recent offensives and the rise of ISIL, conditions on the ground in Afghanistan clearly do not warrant a dangerous, calendar-driven withdrawal of U.S. forces," he said in a statement to The Hill.
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Separate offensives by different forces in both countries steadily drove it back, inflicting major defeats on it in 2017, and eventually forcing it back on Baghouz, a little cluster of hamlets and farmland on the Euphrates.
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Russian-backed offensives by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Aleppo province and elsewhere in the country over the past two weeks were aided by internationally banned cluster munitions, Human Rights Watch reported on Monday.
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Though Mr. Trump has boasted about the Islamic State's defeat, the militant group has for months endured airstrikes and offensives by the American-backed Syrian fighters — and has even conducted deadly counterattacks into Hajin's surrounding districts.
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Just as striking as the offensives by Ms. Klobuchar and Mr. Buttigieg were the more passive showings by Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris — both of whom were counting on a strong outing.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Islamic State's main stronghold in eastern Afghanistan collapsed in recent weeks, according to American and Afghan officials, following years of concerted military offensives from American and Afghan forces and, more recently, the Taliban.
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This year, these moderate rebel groups have fought their biggest offensives in the south against hardline groups such as Liwa Shuhada al Yarmouk, suspected of ties with Islamic State, in ongoing battles that have killed dozens.
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Since he came to power last year, the Taliban has mounted some of its most ambitious offensives into Afghanistan, overrunning the northern town of Kunduz, and pushing to seize control of the opium-rich province of Helmand.
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Through a series of so-called "settlement" agreements and army offensives, the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, has been steadily suppressing armed opposition to its rule in the capital city's suburbs.
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Related: Banned Cluster Bombs Were Used in Assad's Latest Russian-Backed Offensives in Syria "If sieges were lifted tomorrow … I think we will see chronic illnesses among young people because of these compromised immune systems," Brown said.
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The jihadist group remains in control of a pocket north of Baghdad, Hawija, and a stretch of land across the Syrian-Iraqi border, where Iraqi forces launched offensives this month supported by a U.S.-led international coalition.
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"This is all the more alarming as new offensives (against Islamic State militants) get under way in cities like Raqqa in Syria or intensify in Mosul, Iraq," said Robert Mardini, ICRC regional director for the Middle East.
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Washington believes taking Dabiq could strike at Islamic State morale as it prepares to fend off expected offensives against Iraq's Mosul and Syria's Raqqa, the largest cities held by the jihadists, officials from a coalition country said.
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Idlib is home to more than 3 million people, nearly half of them displaced from other parts of Syria, including armed groups who refused to accept the restoration of government authority following military offensives and capitulation deals.
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The Emiratis have been at the forefront of counterterror operations, leading several offensives against AQAP and Yemen's other major terror group, ISIS-Y (Islamic State group in Yemen), active in Shabwa and Abyan provinces since early 2016.
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Estimated to have between 2,500 and 3,000 fighters, many of whom are from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the group has established itself as an enduring threat in Afghanistan despite repeated American-backed military offensives and hundreds of airstrikes.
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It also cataloged atrocities by Islamic State and the group formerly known as the Nusra Front, the two combatants designated as terrorists by the U.N. Other rebel groups were also blamed for displacing communities during their offensives.
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Experts question whether President Bashar al-Assad will be willing to cede much in any negotiations after his Russian- and Iranian-back forces recaptured large areas of the country in offensives against rebels and militants since 2015.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops have rescued three Malaysians held captive by Abu Sayyaf rebels, the military said on Monday, the second such operation in four days as security forces step up offensives against the notorious Islamist group.
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Other enemies of Islamic State, including the governments of Syria and Iraq, also launched major offensives on other fronts, in what amounts to the most sustained pressure on the militants since they proclaimed their caliphate in 2014.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Intensifying military offensives show the Syrian government and its allies are not serious about finding a political solution to the five-year-old conflict, the new leader of a major rebel group said on Friday.
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Exactly how much fighting Cole has done is unclear, but the 23-year-old said that - unlike most regular U.S. soldiers stationed nearby - he has participated in offensives against Islamic State that involved artillery fire and airstrikes.
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The al Qaeda-aligned militants have been driven out of major strongholds in Somalia by AMISOM and Somali army offensives, but the group still controls some rural areas and often launches guerrilla-style assaults and bomb attacks.
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One of the most extensive of those offensives, centered on Waziristan in 2014, was hailed by Pakistanis for nearly completely stamping out a domestic terrorism campaign by the Pakistani Taliban that had scourged the country since 2008.
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Turkish state-run media had suggested that the operation would involve airstrikes from warplanes and drones, and that Turkish-trained militia from the Free Syrian Army alliance would be first on the ground in any land offensives.
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While playing down the importance of government gains, Saleh said military aid from the rebels' foreign backers - including Saudi Arabia and Turkey - was not enough to confront offensives that are also backed on the ground by Iran.
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U.S. airstrikes and operations by Afghan security forces over the past two days killed 35 Taliban fighters in offensives across the country, including an airstrike in Kandahar province that killed 11 Taliban insurgents, the U.S. military said.
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The Afghan conflict became a secondary effort, a hazy spectacle of nation building, with intermittent troop increases to conduct high-intensity counterinsurgency offensives — but, over all, with a small number of troops carrying out an unclear mission.
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Even as negotiations were taking place over the last year, both the Taliban, through bombings and battlefield offensives, and the United States, mainly through airstrikes, were scaling up military operations in attempts to strengthen their bargaining positions.
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The prediction of such a vast humanitarian emergency creates additional complications for the Iraqi government and its U.S. allies, who have announced plans for offensives to drive Islamic State fighters this year from most of their Iraqi territory.
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The Iraqi army, along with Kurdish peshmerga fighters, will take the lead in one of Iraq's most important offensives in years, with the aim of clearing Islamic State from its last major stronghold and promoting long-term stability.
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The city, which came under threat from the insurgents last year, had been relatively quiet in recent months following offensives by security forces and fighting has shifted to other provinces including neighbouring Farah on the border with Iran.
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MANILA (Reuters) - President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday called for the withdrawal of U.S. special forces troops from a group of islands in the southern Philippines, saying their presence could complicate offensives against Islamist militants notorious for beheading Westerners.
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Iraq's elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) said the militants, who seized Mosul in 2014 as they swept across much of northern Iraq, only to since lose much of that terrain to government counter-offensives, were fighting back hard.
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Food, water, and medicine are already in short supply in the largely rural province, which is now home to over 1 million Syrians displaced from their homes by government offensives in other parts of the country, said UNICEF.
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The commander of the army's 215 Corps, General Maiwand Faqir, said counter-offensives against the Taliban have been complicated by hundreds of roadside bombs and the presence of civilians, but he said his troops had everything they needed.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan government troops say they have fought Taliban forces to a standstill outside the capital of southern Helmand province, but the city remains surrounded after the insurgents launched one of their most brazen offensives.
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The momentum turned against ISIS for a number of reasons: US airstrikes disrupted its ability to conduct massed offensives, Iraqi forces adapted to the group's tactics, and stepped-up resistance from Syrian Kurds pressed the group in Syria.
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The sudden withdrawal from villages around the rebel-held town of Marea points to the pressure Islamic State is feeling from offensives being waged by other enemies further east, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
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More recently, hundreds of Hazara families were driven from their homes during Taliban offensives last fall against government forces and Hazara militias in the provinces of Uruzgan and Ghazni, part of a traditional Hazara homeland known as Hazarajat.
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Such skirmishes do not compare to the all-out offensives that reached a peak when the Familia split and the Templarios were formed in 2010, or when the vigilantes initially took on the Templarios in 2013 and 2014.
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Islamic State has lost almost all its territory in Syria after two rival offensives last year by the Syrian army, backed by Russia and Iran, and an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by the United States.
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Turkish state-run media has suggested that the new operation would involve airstrikes from warplanes and drones, and that Turkish-trained militia from the Free Syrian Army alliance would be first on the ground in any land offensives.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Russian and Chinese drafted U.N. Security Council resolution demanding truce in northwest Syria with an exemption for military offensives against U.N. blacklisted militant groups failed to get the minimum nine votes needed on Thursday.
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But experts question whether President Bashar al-Assad will be willing to cede much in any negotiations after his Russian- and Iranian-back forces recaptured large areas of the country in offensives against rebels and militants since 2015.
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Despite media offensives against the strike by Israel and punitive acts of psychological warfare against the strikers themselves, the prisoner's movement appears steadfast in pressing their immediate demands concerning issues like visitation rights, legal services, and administrative detention.
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Al Shabaab has been driven out of its strongholds in Somalia by AMISOM and Somali army offensives, although the group still controls some rural areas and often launches guerrilla-style assaults and frequent bomb attacks in the capital, Mogadishu.
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The group has been driven out of its strongholds in Somalia by AMISOM and Somali army offensives, although it still controls some towns and rural areas and often launches guerrilla-style assaults and bomb attacks in the capital Mogadishu.
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Last summer, as the Taliban intensified its offensives across the country and the security in Oruzgan deteriorated, the noose around Mr. Samad's fighters tightened, the Taliban besieging them for more than two months, Mr. Samad said in an interview.
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Islamic State now holds only a couple of villages in Syria, having lost almost all its territory in 2017 to two rival offensives, one by the SDF, and one by the Syrian army and allied militia backed by Russia.
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The Syrian army and allied fighters failed in three major offensives in the past month to advance toward the highway from the village of Handarat, several kilometers to the northeast, where rebels have been holding their ground, he added.
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Many of the region's Christians have already fled to Canada and Sweden as a result of the Turkish-supported rebel and jihadi offensives of 2013, and the 2014 and 2015 ISIS assaults on the Christian-populated Khabur river valley.
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"As the U.N. attempts to broker a ceasefire, it is imperative that the Saudi-led coalition halt fresh hostilities and planned offensives, particularly in and around the vital port city of Hodeidah," the Democrats said in their statement Thursday.
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President Rodrigo Duterte has warned of the threat of a proliferation of festering Islamist militancy in the Philippines and an infiltration by the Islamic State militant group if offensives to drive its fighters out of Iraq and Syria succeed.
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In its proscribed role as an advisory force — limits that have been increasingly stretched as Afghan forces have struggled to hold off Taliban offensives — the American-led international force in Afghanistan has sustained 10 deaths so far this year.
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Disclose said its study of satellite images, video and photographs taken by civilians revealed some Leclerc tanks bought by the UAE had taken part in coalition offensives, including the campaign for control of the rebel-held port of Hodeidah.
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Analysts worry his tax cuts could create a revenue gap and some believe he will be heavily influenced by Uribe, known for his harsh offensives against the FARC and presiding over a buoyant economy during his 2002-2010 administration.
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BEIRUT/BAGHDAD - (Reuters) - U.S.-backed militia drew within firing distance of the last road into an Islamic State stronghold in northern Syria on Thursday, part of a wave of new offensives putting unprecedented pressure on the self-declared caliphate.
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The United Nations estimates Idlib's population at 2.5 million, including more than a million who fled or were evacuated to the province to escape offensives elsewhere in the country, and who are packed into camps scattered across the province.
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Hamas's online offensives have been vexing enough to Israel that last May, the military said it traced one such digital attack back to its source, and fighter jets destroyed the headquarters of what Israel said was the Hamas cyberunit.
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Helmand has been the scene of major offensives over the past year by Taliban insurgents seeking to overthrow the government, forcing the NATO-led military coalition to deploy hundreds of additional troops to shore up crumbling Afghan security forces.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russian hackers of targeting its power grid, financial system and other infrastructure with a new type of virus that attacks industrial processes, the latest in a series of cyber offensives against the country.
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However, while rebel hopes of ousting Assad by force appear thwarted, and while major offensives last year took back most ground held by Islamic State, the multi-sided war still has the potential to spiral out into new conflicts.
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The armed forces have launched several major offensives against groups including al Qaeda and the Taliban in recent years, but they have also been accused of using militants as proxy fighters in Kashmir and Baluchistan - a charge they deny.
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BEIRUT/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Syrian government troops backed by Russia and fighters backed by the United States made separate advances against Islamic State on Friday, gaining ground in new offensives that have put unprecedented pressure on the self-declared caliphate.
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In June Islamic State carried out its first attack in Iran, killing 18 people in Tehran, testing the government's belief that by backing offensives against the group elsewhere in the region it could keep the militant group away from Iran.
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In online statements, Islamic State said it launched a series of counter-attacks and four suicide bombings to take back villages that fell on Thursday to the army and the Kurds and that it had blocked all their fresh offensives.
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Consider that former president and general U Thein Sein, whose term saw the beginning of renewed Myanmar Army offensives on Kuchin Independence Army outposts, once summoned Aung La to visit him in the nation's capital and pose for a photo.
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It was part of a ceasefire agreed after offensives last week by the Lebanese army on one front, and the Syrian army and Hezbollah on another, that pushed Islamic State back into a small part of its enclave straddling the frontier.
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U.S.-backed militias and the Syrian army have been advancing in separate offensives against Islamic State in eastern Syria, piling pressure on a small stretch of remaining territory the group still holds in oil-rich areas near the Iraqi border.
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The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and Russia-backed government troops have been the most effective in the fight against IS, but are now waging parallel offensives in Deir el-Zour that could bring them into conflict with one another. Gen.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S.-led offensives drive back Islamic State in Iraq, concern is growing among U.S. and U.N. officials that efforts to stabilize liberated areas are lagging, creating conditions that could help the militants endure as an underground network.
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"Taliban offensives in these remote areas represent a significant lowering of ambition after their failure to take any provincial capitals in 2017," U.S. Navy Captain Tom Gresback, spokesman for the NATO-led Resolute Support coalition, said in an emailed statement.
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The statement said AMM received funding by Middle Eastern individuals for the assaults, adding that AMM was also affiliated with the Rohingya Solidarity Organization—an armed organisation that was suspected of deadly offensives on state forces during the 1980s and 1990s.
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MOSCOW, July 28 (Reuters) - The United States has still not differentiated between terrorists and the co-called moderate opposition in Syria, which allows militants to prepare new offensives, RIA news agency cited a Russian deputy foreign minister as saying on Thursday.
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Many leaders are believed to have fled to Deir al-Zor where the SDF and Syrian government forces are pressing competing offensives against IS. Other tactics the jihadists were using to slow SDF advances include laying booby traps, Tarhams said.
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Separately on Thursday, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called on the Juba government to halt offensives towards Aburoc in the northern Upper Nile region, which borders Sudan, where between 35,000 and 50,000 people have sought refuge.
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QUITO (Reuters) - A group of dissidents from the Colombia's former FARC guerrilla group were likely behind an attack on a police station in Ecuador, in retaliation for offensives against drug trafficking in the Andean nation, Ecuador's defense minister said on Monday.
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United States military officials have attributed much of the Afghan forces' struggle to leadership woes in the face of Taliban offensives that they say normally amount to no more than 20 to 30 insurgents trying to overrun a vulnerable checkpoint.
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A study released Friday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization that tracks anti-Jewish sentiment, reported the existence of "online propaganda offensives" containing anti-Semitic content designed to intimidate Jewish people and Jewish journalists ahead of the 2018 midterms.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Filipino troops have killed about 40 Abu Sayyaf rebels in offensives on southern islands over the past week, the military said on Monday, as a new government intensifies operations to wipe out one of Asia's most formidable kidnap gangs.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — In northern Afghanistan, a dispute over billboard portraits of the country's vice president has inflamed tensions between two of the most powerful regional strongmen, exposing internal political strains even as the government faces a dire challenge from Taliban offensives.
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Pictures posted online of Monday's march in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina showed demonstrators in traditional dress holding signs reading, "support food immediately to the refugees trapped by fighting," and calling the military to end its offensives in the area.
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Defense analysts say a major goal of the campaign was to complete a security belt around the capital, where for years rebels dug into an elaborate network of tunnels and well- fortified positions had resisted countless offensives to seize the enclave.
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The US Treasury statement also said he had led Hezbollah ground offensives in the Syrian town of al-Qusayr in 2013, a critical battle in the war when Hezbollah fighters defeated Syrian rebels in an area near the Syrian-Lebanese border.
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Defense analysts say a major goal of the government's campaign was to complete a security belt around the capital, where for years rebels dug into a network of tunnels and well-fortified positions resisted countless offensives to seize the enclave.
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In the days leading up to the attack, and on opposite sides of the Euphrates River, Russia and the United States were backing separate offensives against the Islamic State in Syria's oil-rich Deir al-Zour Province, which borders Iraq.
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Despite the Taliban offensives in Uruzgan, the NATO-led coalition, which declared its combat mission over at the end of 2014, said it had no advisers in the province, nor had U.S. warplanes conducted any air strikes in recent days.
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An intensification in American bombing raids — the United States flew more raids in 2018 than during any previous years of the war and is on track to do the same in 2019 — and offensives by Afghan forces have occurred in parallel.
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The tensions raised by the Salahuddin officials' actions cut to the heart of sectarian grievances across the whole country, where tens of thousands of Sunni families have been displaced either by the Islamic State or by government offensives against the group.
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"There are three major offensives going on right now, at the same time," he said, citing the battle for West Mosul; the encirclement of Raqqa, Syria, the Islamic State's de facto capital; and the fight for the Tabqa Dam in Syria.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, the morning after a resurgence in fighting ended a Russian ceasefire, a monitor and rebel groups said.
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In fact, this peacekeeping mission, known as AMISOM, is an excellent example of an African solution, and for at least a year, Kenyan offensives turned the tide against al Shabaab and gave the government in Mogadishu the space to establish itself.
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It seeks not only to squeeze the group's revenue from opium — estimated at $200 million a year — but also to increase Afghan army offensives backed by American air power and to hold elections to enhance the legitimacy of the Afghan government.
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Defence analysts say a major goal of the campaign was to complete a security belt around the capital, where for years rebels dug into an elaborate network of tunnels and well- fortified position had resisted countless offensives to seize the enclave.
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The two offensives, one backed by Russia and the other led by Turkey, have shown how Syrian factions and their foreign allies are aggressively reshaping the map of control after the defeat of Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate last year.
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The first peace talks in two years between belligerents in Syria collapsed last week before they began in the face of the offensive by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's forces, one of the largest and most consequential offensives of the five-year war.
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In December, two men in Ireland perhaps identified in the same attack were jailed for drug offensives, and last month Gabriel Peterson-Siler, a pedophile whose IP address was obtained by SEI, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography.
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In one of the deadliest offensives of the war, government air strikes and bombardment have killed hundreds of people over 12 days in eastern Ghouta, an area of besieged towns and farms that is the last major rebel-controlled area near the capital.
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Iran reported one of its generals had been killed on the front line, giving direct confirmation of the role Tehran is playing along with Moscow in what appears to be one of the most determined offensives in five years of civil war.
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The war's myriad combatants met the diplomatic developments with skepticism, as government warplanes pounded multiple areas, killing at least 85 people, insurgents declared new offensives and Turkish tanks — which plunged for the first time into Syria just weeks ago — rolled along the border.
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In one of the deadliest offensives of Syria's war, government air strikes and bombardment have killed hundreds of people over 12 days in eastern Ghouta, an area of besieged towns and farms in the last major rebel-held region near the capital.
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Islamic State has made enemies of all sides in the more than six-year Syrian conflict, with separate offensives now trying to clear it from its last foothold in the towns along the Euphrates river in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.
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But the risk that offensives against ISIL involving Shi'ite forces could foment sectarian tensions and help the group have been underscored by allegations that 49 Sunni men were executed after surrendering to a Shi'ite militia supporting the army offensive to retake Falluja.
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"There is a pretty high level of tension there and there is still a threat of offensives by radical groups deployed there," the agency cited Alexander Lavrentyev, the head of the Russian delegation at the Astana talks on the Syria crisis, as saying.
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Two members of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the news media, insisted that it was a case of voluntary surrender after the group had suffered huge losses to Pakistani military offensives.
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"The ability of ISIL to not just mass inside of Syria, but then to initiate major land offensives that took Mosul, for example, that was not on my intelligence radar screen," Obama told Zakaria, using the administration's term for the Islamic State terror group.
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Islamic State lost most of its territory in Syria last year in the face of two rapid offensives, one by the Syrian army backed by Russia and Iran, and the other by an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by the United States.
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Donnelly, a defense and security policy analyst, added that locally publicizing military offensives to clear civilians and demoralize the enemy was "pretty typical" when going into a heavily populated areas, noting that the US military did something similar when clearing Fallujah back in 2004.
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The suddenly vacated cabinet positions, adding to two ministries already vacant because of resignations, will further bog down the work of a government that has struggled to get its house in order while also facing emboldened Taliban offensives and decreasing support across the country.
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The post was part of a belt of strongholds built around Ghazni, which is on the main road between the capital, Kabul, and the Afghan south, after the city was briefly overrun by Taliban in August in one of their biggest offensives in years.
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The offensives have displaced almost two million people, according to figures from the United Nations refugee agency and the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, as homes, schools and hospitals have been turned into hide-outs by militants and meager civic amenities have been destroyed.
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David Swanson, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the situation was increasingly dire near the border with Turkey where over 400,000 people had already taken shelter from earlier anti-rebel offensives last year before the latest campaign.
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After years of military offensives from both American and Afghan forces, plus, more recently, assistance from the Taliban, local officials revealed that the ISIS stronghold in eastern Afghanistan had recently collapsed, with inroads having been made primarily in Nangarhar Province, once considered an ISIS haven.
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Macron and Trudeau have managed to do it so well and so quickly by striking the right balance between these opposing forces, backing up their rhetoric with results, and by mounting what some might call charm offensives to promote their country's new images abroad.
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Outgoing French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has lashed out at his American allies over what he considers insufficient action on Syria — the latest fallout after peace talks in Geneva halted in the face of a government offensives in Aleppo and elsewhere in the country.
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The FARC grew into one of the biggest, with as many as 20,000 fighters and the capacity to control large swathes of Colombian territory, though this influence would diminish in the face of US-backed military offensives and proliferation of ruthless state-backed paramilitaries.
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The fighting in eastern Ghouta follows a pattern used in other areas recaptured by the government since Russia entered the war on Assad's side in 2015, with sieges, bombardment and ground offensives combined with an offer to let civilians and fighters who surrender escape through "humanitarian corridors".
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Insurgents have put up fierce resistance, with scores of fighters still holed up in central Marawi after 57 days of government ground offensives, air strikes and artillery bombardments, in a battle authorities say has killed 413 militants, 98 members of the security forces and 45 civilians.
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To that end, this year the Taliban launched multiple offensives against provincial capitals across the country: In the west against Farah; in the north against Kunduz; in the south against Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, and also against Tarin Kot in Uruzgan province in central Afghanistan.
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Rather than first organizing workers into a traditional union and then bargaining for wages and benefits, the campaign has effectively bargained for wages first — through protests and public relations offensives aimed at voters, politicians, and corporations — and hopes to build new worker organizations in after these successes.
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Since 2012, the Syrian forces have repeatedly used the same pattern of military tactics: toxic chemicals are mainly used during wider urban offensives, as was the case in late 2016 during the recapture of Aleppo, where chlorine weapons were regularly used in conjunction with traditional weapons.
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"These sustained attacks demonstrate that Shabab retains the ability to launch conventional offensives, in addition to its terrorist attack capability," said Bill Roggio, editor of FDD's Long War Journal, a website run by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies that tracks military strikes against militant groups.
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Engagement policy on steroids Kim Jong Un is following the playbook of his father Kim Jong Il, by alternating "provocations with charm offensives in order to gain economic benefits and undermine international resolve on enforcing sanctions," said Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
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Mr. Strongin's team mounted a series of coordinated offensives that eventually deflated a large inflatable swan that Mr. Finks' team was using as a shield, leading both teams to come together for a rendition of "Amazing Grace" to pay their respects to the fallen flotation device.
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Related: The Year the Whole World Got Involved in Syria Syria's Idlib province, which includes the city of Maraat al-Numan, was the site of a series of rebel offensives in 2015, culminating in its capture by the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and its allies last March.
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"We must learn from eastern Ghouta, Aleppo, Homs, Raqqa, and elsewhere: It is no way to liberate an area by leveling everything to the ground," Egeland said, citing previous offensives by Assad&aposs forces that crushed rebels and displaced millions of Syrians in major cities in the country.
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Government forces recently escalated offensives against two remaining rebel pockets, Idlib in the northwest and eastern Ghouta near Damascus, while Turkey has poured troops into the north to fight Kurdish militias who have carved out regional autonomy and are seen by Ankara as a menace to its security.
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While this is the first HIMARS deployment to southern Syria, a US official told CNN that this was not the first time HIMARS has been used in the country, with the system being deployed to the north to help the Syrian Democratic Forces in their offensives against ISIS.
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His status as the most powerful man in the Taliban heartland was built on brutal offensives against the insurgents, an effectiveness that kept a lid on ethnic and tribal differences, and his reputation with the American military as an indispensable ally who had kept Kandahar Province secure for years.
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Citing the Colombian's government's "failure" to live up to its promises, Marquez stood alongside three other commanders and rattled off his plans for FARC 2.0: a kinder, gentler rebellion whose 21st century charter does not include kidnapping, extortion and kinetic offensives … unless such tactics are deemed absolutely necessary.
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Sure, hostilities slowed down after the clear height of fighting in 2015, but instead of major offensives with huge troop clashes and shot down helicopters, both sides settled into their trenches (which look like impressions of the Somme), calcified into their positions and every night they hit it: gunfights, heavy weapons.
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People are still freaked out by the idea of getting in a car that doesn't have anyone behind the wheel—and so companies in the autonomous vehicle business are launching their own charm offensives to convince consumers (and members of Congress) that their cars will make the world a safer place.
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Turkey's government has struck deals with the Trump administration as well as Russia, an ally of Syria's government, to cease offensives against Kurdish forces, which it considers to be terrorists, in exchange for those forces abandoning an area in northeastern Syria where Turkey intends to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees.
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Despite the country's ties to terrorism and aggressive military offensives that continue to play a key role in destabilizing the region, Secretary of State John Kerry reassured the U.S. embassy in Riyadh just last weekend that our commitment to working with the Saudis is as strong as it's ever been.
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But it also made a lot uneasy, because they recognize people like them securing banks and defense contractors and the people like Hacking Team providing offensives tools to law enforcement and military are essentially on the same side, and it brings back bad memories for them of ~el8, zf0, phc etc.
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But the United States has leaned hard on rebel groups it supports not to make new advances around Aleppo, and American-backed rebels in southern Syria have been quiescent for months on the orders of American, Jordanian and allied backers because the Americans believe any offensives would upset the talks.
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Washington (CNN)Turkey's military incursion against Kurdish groups in Afrin, Syria, has helped bring US-backed ground offensives targeting ISIS to a near halt, multiple US officials tell CNN, putting the military campaign against the terror group at risk, an effort seen as one of the Trump administration's principle successes.
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The U.N. estimates that under a worst-case scenario, more than 1 million people could be displaced from Mosul and another 830,000 from a populated corridor south of the city, adding to the burden of caring for 3.5 million Iraqis displaced by Islamic State's 2014 onslaught and U.S.-backed Iraqi counter-offensives.
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Since then, opposition representatives and their Western backers have lambasted Moscow for the vital support it has provided government offensives — most critically in Aleppo province, where the capital city is now nearly completely surrounded by regime forces and allied militias, including Hezbollah fighters, and where supply lines to Turkey have been cut off.
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Anxious court officials see the alarm over Mr. Mladic's health as a ploy by the defense to avoid an almost certain guilty verdict, an event that would have dramatic consequences for the court and for the uncounted numbers of people who lost relatives, friends and homes in the military offensives that he led.
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M. Millerand to-morrow will be faced with the following state of affairs: First: That the Moscow Government, with the collapse of the Archange front and the destruction of the Deniken and Kolchak offensives, is in complete control of practically all of the old Russian Empire, with the exception of the new States.
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ET. Washington (CNN)ISIS' march across Iraq and Syria -- a campaign that's forced President Barack Obama to return small numbers of US troops to the region, even after touting an end to the decade-long ground offensives there -- came as a surprise to US intelligence, the President told CNN in a new special report.
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The leaders of America's intelligence community warned Tuesday that the threat of foreign offensives on social media had not abated: Why it matters: "There should be no doubt that Russia perceived that its past efforts [were] successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations," Coats said.
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Read more: Here's what's it's like inside the world's largest arms fair, where uniformed military officials survey the latest weapons and vehicles from the biggest names in the defense industryWith the arrival of multiple offensives, at least half a dozen districts — units of territory often comprising hundreds of square miles — fell to the Taliban.
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The two have been working together for over a decade now as "Paulilu" on sketches and webseries like "The Real Housewives of South Boston" (in which Aniello's Masshole roots get a wicked fun showcase) and "Diary of Zac Efron" (in which Downs practically weaponized his signature sincerity in service of portraying Efron's oblivious charm offensives).
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"The city of Sweida is secure and calm now," he told state-run Ikhbariyah TV. Islamic State has been pushed from nearly all the territory it once held Islamic State lost nearly all the territory it once held in Syria last year in separate offensives by the Russian-backed army and a U.S.-backed militia alliance.
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Then there is the casserole of other damage control elements: firing bad actors; reshuffling management; reorganizing the supply chain, settling some lawsuits while fighting others; offering consumer rebates; executive apologies; mortifying congressional hearings and paying government fines; expensive marketing campaigns; charm offensives with shareholders, employees and vendors; and, of course, blue-ribbon panel investigations where something — and someone — is blamed for the fiasco.
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One is aimed at unifying a fractured party in the wake of a divisive and drawn out Democratic primary, while the other finds her constantly beating back offensives from GOP rival Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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