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Chief: Attack resembles ambushes in Dallas, Baton Rouge McManus likened the shooting to the fatal ambushes of police officers in Dallas, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, earlier this year.
It protected Union transports and supply boats from Confederate ambushes.
She ambushes her and they actually have a meaningful convo!
He goes straight for his house, where Negan ambushes him.
Yet some union members themselves are complicit in those ambushes.
They have mostly targeted security forces in remote areas with ambushes.
In the segment, the reporter ambushes Shockey outside of his apartment.
He helped clear roads, often walking into ambushes in the process.
It was the end of ambushes and patrols beyond the wire.
There were ambushes at the gate and explosives on the roads.
The most common circumstances involved ambushes, followed by responses to disturbance calls.
Euron Greyjoy ambushes the rebel Greyjoy fleet sailing from Dragonstone to Sunspear.
At the same time, particularly in Iraq, insurgents began recording their ambushes.
It often ambushes its victims, like the sudden appearance of plainclothes detectives.
Caution: When standing out in fields of tall grass, beware of potential ambushes.
Things are even more complicated in the city itself, where ambushes are common.
In five of those years, 15 or more officers were killed in ambushes.
The convoy targeted was mine-resistant and can withstand ambushes, coalition officials tweeted.
He was raised by her brother away from military bombing raids and ambushes.
It's grander in circumference than a doughnut but skinnier, and ambushes you with sugar.
Training had taught the team to accelerate through ambushes to escape the kill zone.
Each day, Afghans are killed by suicide blasts, roadside bombs, checkpoint ambushes and airstrikes.
The Minimalist Dan Flavin used his primary medium, fluorescent light, to create visual ambushes.
After serious military setbacks, Islamic State slipped into the shadows, staging suicide bombings and ambushes.
The SEAL team members had to watch for rocket attacks, improvised explosive devices and ambushes.
I&aposm devastated for my men who are actively baited into ambushes, searching for Bergdahl.
ISIS has deployed its full repertoire: snipers, booby traps, a web of tunnels for ambushes.
Warfare and ambushes, as well as degradation of the road, have more than reversed that.
The country is, frankly speaking, sick of waking up to news of bombings and ambushes.
Shepard's are your standard cannon fodder, capable of hiding behind cover and coordinating basic ambushes.
But Vietnam's jungles and small-unit ambushes made that cross a bull's-eye for snipers.
Previous attacks against security forces have mainly been ambushes on Kenyan army or police patrols.
Earlier this month, 22 were killed in ambushes on two villages in the same region.
Afghanistan's highways are prime killing fields, with travelers dying in roadside bombings, ambushes and airstrikes.
To avoid ambushes, he crept out of the neighborhood each morning, then back in at night.
He said security forces there reopened the road and were patrolling it to prevent Taliban ambushes.
They have continued to assault civilians in bomb attacks, roadside ambushes, drive-by shootings and assassinations.
They died in elaborate ambushes, car bomb attacks and, in one case, a booby-trapped elevator.
They have killed soldiers in ambushes — and kept others alive as hostages of their guerrilla movement.
The new feature does come at a time when police ambushes are happening at an alarming rate.
He would be spending weeks practicing patrol tactics, assassination missions, attack strategies, and ambushes staged in swamps.
Black Hornets could also identify ambushes lying in wait ahead and identify safer routes for the squad.
Since October, Palestinian stabbings, car-rammings and gun ambushes have killed 28 Israelis and two U.S. citizens.
For more than a year, Zubair conducted ambushes, engaged in firefights, and hid from jets and drones.
Initially, such ambushes were attributed to Taliban forces known as "Red Units" located in Afghanistan's southern provinces.
He said such ambushes are possible because Taliban fighters are often better equipped than border security forces.
In attack scenarios, she's always at the front of the pack and able to position herself for ambushes.
The IIT's role-players, however, will be capable of conducting small ambushes and suicide-bomber attacks, he said.
The group continues to carry out bombings, ambushes and assassinations in both countries, as well as in Libya.
Here's a brief, hilarious and cringe-inducing roundup of some of his best and most controversial political ambushes.
Corleone ambushes Fanucci outside his apartment, shooting him through a towel as fireworks mask the sound of gunshots.
"Night-vision equipment is used in ambushes by the insurgents and it is very effective," said Maj. Gen.
Every one of those levels, with their treacherous falls and cleverly hidden ambushes, demanded a careful, methodical approach.
This season of Real Housewives Of New York has been filled with a lot of Ramona Singer-led ambushes.
Ares, who had been watching the whole time, ambushes and kills his former servant, taking the Box for himself.
We will hear news of suicide bombings, shootings and ambushes against civilians, Kurdish forces and Syrian soldiers for years.
"The ambushes and attacks on our police must end, and they must end right now," Trump said to applause.
Some were wanted for throwing rocks at passing cars, and some had killed factory or farm workers in ambushes.
No one claimed responsibility for those ambushes, but provincial government officials blamed the Taliban in three of the cases.
As with all ambushes, the proper response is to get as far away as fast you can — figuratively, not literally.
The Jewish Partisan Army that resulted, split up into scattered roving units, could now carry out proper ambushes and sabotage.
And the Islamic State has had more than two years to plan and prepare ambushes, tunnels and improvised explosive traps.
That is a change of tactics from ambushes and lightning attacks after the loss of significant territory, defence experts say.
On the battlefield, the Islamic State has redoubled its use of suicide bombers and ambushes to attack Iraqi security forces.
"We have a legislative process that exists mainly as a series of ambushes," Democratic State Senator Jeff Jackson told me.
In Vietnam, American forces used dogs for everything from base security to detecting ambushes to hunting down fleeing enemy units.
"When you lose territory, smart groups shift to guerrilla strategy and tactics, including targeted assassinations, ambushes, raids, bombings," he added.
The Vietnam War story is a tale of combat: walking point, ambushes, booby traps, seeing friends die, narrowly escaping death.
They include traffic-free driving circles, twisties, and long highway sections where agents learn to evade ambushes and intercept suspects.
The attack on the small base was the latest in a series of deadly Taliban ambushes of Afghan security outposts.
" InterMotive said that the demand for this equipment rose in response to "tragic ambushes of police officers over the last year.
The attacks were both ambushes on officers located in the Bronx, though police could reportedly not confirm if they were connected.
The election also made her more vulnerable to internal ambushes, notably by hardline Tory Brexiteers in the European Research Group (ERG).
The group continues to carry out bombings, assassinations and ambushes in different areas of Iraq, and remains active in neighboring Syria.
They were hit by repeated Taliban ambushes and called in airstrikes from a circling AC-130 gunship, killing dozens of insurgents.
As Mr. Muhammad was making his way back to Faryab, Mr. Basir learned of his son's plans and set up ambushes.
More police were killed accidentally, 2100 in total, than by criminals during ambushes, traffic pursuits, tactical situations, and domestic disturbance calls.
More police were killed accidentally, 45 in total, than by criminals during ambushes, traffic pursuits, tactical situations, and domestic disturbance calls.
American soldiers used the new roads to mount missions and transport supplies—becoming targets for insurgents' ambushes and improvised explosive devices.
It had mostly targeted security forces with ambushes and suicide attacks, but has spread to other areas of Egypt outside the peninsula.
He says reinforcement were sent but were unable to reach the site because of land mines and Taliban ambushes along the way.
XCOM 2 also introduces "Concealment" as a combat tool, allowing players to set up ambushes and kick off encounters on their terms.
Recently, even the main highway from Kabul to the Torkhum border crossing with Pakistan has been occasionally shut down by Taliban ambushes.
But killings of officers from firearms (32) and in ambushes (14) have risen much more quickly so far this year, it said.
They would band together in guerrilla units and lure other units of rebel farmers into ambushes using cowbells to coax them in.
The Marines had become embroiled in a grinding insurgency, with the enemy hiding among civilians and striking with ambushes and hidden bombs.
Islamic State, however, continues to carry out bombings, assassinations and ambushes in different areas of Iraq, and remains active in neighboring Syria.
Look instead for car bombs, ground ambushes and small-scale, regular attacks against our forces and those we back in eastern Syria.
The gunner fired into random buildings, and something exploded behind us, but the snipers and ambushes that we braced for never came.
The mountains with its caves and valleys were ideal hiding ground for fighters to store arms and prepare ambushes on the army.
The Shark Shield, for example, may deter some "investigative" attacks, but has no effect on the ambushes to which surfers may fall victim.
Al-Shabab more recently has been targeting Kenyan security forces, with nearly 100 police officers killed since May 2017 in bombings and ambushes.
In 2013, the majority of aid worker victims in attacks and ambushes were staffers of national nongovernmental organizations and Red Cross/Crescent societies.
With the rainy season ending and roads becoming passable again, officials are bracing for more ambushes like the one at the river crossing.
More than half of those were killed by ambushes, roadside bombs and gunfire along the garbage-strewn highways and desert roads through villages.
The shootings were not fatal, and occurred during traffic stops, tense standoffs and in some cases ambushes while officers served warrants at homes.
Those tunnels included nearly a dozen that ran beneath its border, some of which were used to carry out ambushes against Israeli forces.
Taliban fighters can create roadblocks and ambushes in almost any part of the country, disrupting commerce and exacting an ever-growing human toll.
ISIS militants are known to have carried out many attacks and ambushes on Iraqi security forces and civilians while posing as Iraqi troops.
But the militants still pose a threat along the border with Syria and have continued to carry out ambushes, killings and bombings across Iraq.
"Barely a day passed without gunfire, ambushes, roadside bombs," said Farooq, a police officer from Helmand province, who quit his job three months ago.
But a faction that refused to put down its weapons occasionally ambushes state security forces in the region, where rebels work with drug traffickers.
The attacks usually come in the form of ambushes on checkpoints or bombs targeting military outposts or crowded locations, like shopping malls or hotels.
At the same time, from privileging matter and form alone, his sculptures are prickly with ideas, some in the form of perturbing conceptual ambushes.
It listed sniper killings of Saudi soldiers, mortar and anti-tank rocket attacks on Saudi border posts and military vehicles, ambushes, infiltrations and guerrilla raids.
"Gau rakshaks", or cow vigilantes, run a loosely organized movement that they say is meant to prevent cattle smuggling, with tactics that include highway ambushes.
In both countries, ISIS fighters carried out targeted assassinations, ambushes, suicide bombings in public places, and set fire to fields of crops, the report said.
Abadi declared victory over Islamic State within Iraq in December, although the militants have continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across the country.
"He wanted to know as much as he could as fast as he could about the terrain, what we did, the ambushes, everything," Maranto says.
The vast remote stretches in which American Special Forces operate are inherently dangerous because of their inaccessibility and are conducive to ambushes, said Brig. Gen.
The episode took place in Achin, near the Pakistan border, in an area where a number of ambushes and strikes have occurred in recent months.
Now it tends to carry out smaller suicide attacks, hit-and-runs, ambushes and targeted executions, especially of village chiefs, who are known as moktars.
Unrest over the ambushes has mounted, particularly in Mali, where soldiers' widows have held a number of demonstrations calling on the government to do more.
Rebels, who accuse the government of "scorched earth" tactics, said they were deploying more guerrilla-style ambushes in lost territory, trying to stop further advances.
Others ask why people are protesting or why police now face ambushes as in Baton Rouge and Dallas, where five officers were killed earlier this month.
Dobbs said some farmers have even begun to work the fields, according to U.N. staff, despite the dangers of Boko Haram ambushes and uncleared explosive devices.
On Sunday, Libyan forces recaptured the city's Cambo area, and swept out tunnels used by militants to hide and prepare ambushes, and seized a field hospital.
But Castro, who survived his share of ambushes in the Sierra Maestra, won the encounter by literally twisting Obama's arm and holding it up in victory.
It has focused on attacking Sunni "collaborators" for over a decade and is now staging ambushes and "flying checkpoints" in Iraq to make its presence felt.
The missing students had last been seen packed in patrol cars after a series of ambushes in which police killed six civilians and wounded dozens more.
Ambushes were laid by fighters who typically kept a canal between themselves and their targets, preventing the Marines from employing their preferred tactic of rushing attackers.
Laying IEDs, attacking civilian targets, doing hit-and-run ambushes—that's much easier than clearing areas of Taliban, holding on to those areas, building up government infrastructure.
In fact his war had been in the Auvergne, running guns and laying ambushes with the Resistance, while his family moved carefully in and out of hiding.
At the end of the episode, the covert military operation known as Division 3 ambushes everyone, just as Shadow King threatens to break back into David's psyche.
It has continued to carry out ambushes, killings, and bombings across Iraq since it abandoned its goal of creating a self-sufficient caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria.
Elsewhere, it has assassinated security officials in Diyala province, Sunni tribal leaders in Nineveh province and carried out ambushes on the main highway linking Baghdad and Mosul.
He added that militants in Niger are varying their assaults with improvised explosive devices in addition to their often-used tactic of staging ambushes primarily from motorcycles.
With temperatures nearing 100 degrees under a blazing sun, the African troops also rehearsed how to thwart militant ambushes and roadside bombs, and clear militant-infested buildings.
Afghan reinforcements traveling to Ghazni from Gardez, to the east, and from Kabul, to the north, encountered repeated ambushes, destroyed bridges and delays, according to Afghan officials.
A military official, who also declined to be named, said the militants' deaths on Monday came after the military set up checkpoints and laid ambushes in orchards.
But parents like Ms. Bebe and Shen Gul, 219, who lost two policemen sons to Taliban ambushes in northern Afghanistan, are uneasy about what peace might bring.
While I clumsily moved my dragon around the screen — I am very far from a pro Dota player — my teammates swooped around coming to my rescue in ambushes.
"The Americans were instructing us on the routes we should take to retreat and avoid Daesh ambushes," he said by phone, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
Those figures, however, also show a jump in premeditated officer ambushes in 2016, when there were 17 such deaths, compared with between one and nine the previous decade.
Mimi Walters of California -- whose Orange County district is similar to many Democrats hope will become hyper-competitive in 2018 -- said she sees town halls as political ambushes.
Palantir said it could supply a system (at around $100 million/yr) that would give soldiers information about weather, terrain, and likely locations for ambushes and roadside bombs.
Supply-truck convoys driven by military personnel can be attractive targets for bad guys, for example, so making those deliveries by air can avoid both IEDs and ambushes.
Nearly a dozen of those tunnels ran beneath the border into Israeli territory, according to Israeli officials, and Hamas used some to carry out ambushes against Israeli forces.
The Pentagon report estimates that between 14,000 and 18,000 ISIS combatants remain, and they are carrying out suicide attacks, assassinations, crop burnings, and ambushes in Syria and Iraq.
Laforge and his team will complete a half-dozen of these ambushes tonight, performed in rapid succession at fast food joints and coffee shops around the Lower Mainland.
Rotations of soldiers and Marines became bogged down in changing missions and faced the familiar threats of guerrilla warfare reborn — roadside bombs, ambushes and (in Iraq, particularly) snipers.
In addition to using high-tech gear, the Taliban have also shifted to a tactic in which they mass large numbers of forces in ambushes, Mr. Danish said.
In Iraq, Islamic State sleeper cells in recent months have carried out raids and ambushes against Iraqi security forces and civilians, particularly in Anbar, Kirkuk and Salahuddin provinces.
Once upon a time, the quaint bend in this serpentine alley (previously known, unsubtly, as the Blood Angle) abetted all manner of ambushes and skullduggery during gang warfare.
IS clings on in the oldest parts of the city, where streets are narrow, making it hard to manoeuvre vehicles and increasing the risk of ambushes and civilian casualties.
Republican and Democrat sponsors of The Protect and Serve Act say its goal is to protect law enforcement officers from ambushes and violence for simply being a police officer.
An expected intensification of fighting around Hawija, 130 km southeast of Mosul, could displace another 114,000, adding to the 82,000 who have fled since August, risking ambushes and death.
Army commanders however say militants in Hweija Sakr, southeast of the river are slowing their advance, hiding amid thick vegetation and waging hit and run ambushes and suicide bombings.
The army says it is facing the toughest urban warfare imaginable - hundreds of suicide car bomb attacks, mortar barrages, sniper fire and ambushes launched from a network of tunnels.
It's an easygoing system, one that mostly exists to let you set up neat little ambushes of isolated enemies, taking them down with a volley of silenced weapon shots.
In the meantime, Islamic State group sleeper cells intensified ambushes in Iraq and Syria in the past few weeks, killing and wounding dozens of their opponents in both countries.
Hamas understood early that the civilian death toll was driving international outrage at Israel, and that this, not I.E.D.s or ambushes, was the most important weapon in its arsenal.
Some analysts have suggested that the deadly ambushes on army outposts are aimed not only at stealing weapons, but also at expanding the area of land under jihadists' control.
They have been regrouping underground in provinces north of Baghdad and have carried out a stream of ambushes, bomb attacks and assassinations in the latter half of this year.
The robots were expensive luxuries when what the troops really needed was better rifles, more-comfortable body armor, and better-protected vehicles that could protect them from ambushes and bombs.
In the big public demo, available on YouTube, the burly protagonist hops on his motorcycle and ambushes a collective of shabbily dressed people we are to assume play the villains.
ISIS, judging from past examples, could wage a campaign of attacks — assassinations, raids, ambushes, suicide bombings — partly meant to mobilize the organization and keep it together under a new leader.
While they may be driven from territory they hold, they are unlikely to be driven from Syria and could revert to insurgency tactics such as ambushes, assassinations and suicide bombings.
When the Federation ambushes Rick at a wedding and forces his family into hiding, he realizes that a return to normal life for his loved ones will require his surrender.
What officers say concerns them most: 14 of the deaths this year have come in ambushes, six more than in all of 2015 and only one fewer than in 2014.
He is a rebel fighter in the mountains of Nicaragua, setting ambushes against President Daniel Ortega's government and longing for the days when covert American funding paid for overt warfare.
On the long road through SDF territory to Baghouz, there are numerous checkpoints run by the Kurdish Asayish security force, and SDF officials warned of ambushes and bomb-rigged motorcycles.
Chief Keenan assembled a 19783-member homicide task force when it first became evident that several murders had followed a similar pattern: nighttime ambushes with the same kind of gun.
Mali, a neighboring West African country, has seen such an increase in ambushes on its army that it has closed some of its most remote and vulnerable army outposts. Col.
Anyone could see there was much more fighting ahead, and against foes whose harassing and often dark tactics, emphasizing ambushes, improvised bombs and suicide attacks, were exacting a bloody toll.
We are already seeing the adaptation of ISIS in Iraq into a low-level insurgency, with ambushes and assassinations against government forces and Shia militia in several Sunni areas this year.
Other footage showed helicopters firing what appeared to be live missiles at a mountaintop target, jeeps mounted with machineguns subjected to simulated ambushes, and officers practicing riot control with police dogs.
While much of the video shows how the Taliban conducts ambushes and assaults, the first 10 minutes of it shows militants replete with tactical garb and weapons, and employing their tactics.
After surprising Super Bowl 2018 viewers with an ad announcing that sci-fi movie The Cloverfield Paradox would be arriving imminently, Netflix chose not to make a habit of similar ambushes.
Maddy Thimont Jack of the Institute for Government, a think-tank, says ministers have chosen not to press ahead with the agriculture and fisheries bills for fear of ambushes by MPs.
"If we wanted an MRAP "—a military vehicle, designed to protect soldiers from ambushes and mines—"we would just have to submit an application to the federal government," Skinner told me.
Salameh said at least 117 of his fighters had been killed in ferocious fighting over the last few months in what he said were relentless assaults and ambushes by the militants.
Outnumbered and outgunned, local rebels fortified in elaborate tunnels and deploying ambushes have repelled repeated attempts to storm their stronghold, inflicting dozens of losses on the army since the campaign began.
It should overcome both votes without drama, but could face tense battles in the Senate further ahead because it only has a single-digit majority there, leaving it exposed to ambushes.
On Sunday, the SDF faced landmines, car bombs, tunnel ambushes and suicide attacks as they attempted to overrun the enclave - tactics the jihadist group has honed through its hard-fought retreat.
In July alone, two black men were killed by police in Louisiana and Minnesota, and there were two ambushes on police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana that left eight officers dead.
The Vigilantes on Facebook Who Stream To Catch a Predator-Style Ambushes of Alleged PedophilesIllustration: Jim Cooke (Gizmodo)The texts would come at all hours of the night, numbering in the thousands.
"Fourteen officers were shot and killed in ambushes, seven officers were killed stopping a suspicious person and five officers were killed while executing a tactical arrest or high-risk warrants" it added.
Drivers and police told Reuters the cash policy has provided easy targets for criminals, allowing them to open accounts under fake names, without credit cards to verify, and lure drivers into ambushes.
The protests also come in the wake of other shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota that have stoked racial tensions in the United States, and ambushes of police officers in Louisiana and Texas.
A few months before the ambushes in Dallas and Baton Rouge, a man with a semi-automatic handgun opened fire outside the police station in Landover as officers were leaving roll call.
But with the revelation that both gunmen implicated in fatal ambushes of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La., were young military veterans, they say they fear a big step backward.
Over the past 23 months, Islamic State fighters have abducted at least 540 refugees in six separate ambushes, according to 14 migrants who witnessed the abductions and have since escaped to Europe.
Last week up to 100 soldiers and police were killed in a series of ambushes as they tried to escape to the provincial capital from positions encircled by the Taliban for days.
And that, really, is all I can say about what happens in "Fairview," at least without spoiling one of the most exquisitely and systematically arranged ambushes of an unsuspecting audience in years.
She ambushes him one dark night on the banks of the Seine and sinks a barb into his neck, having taken the backup measure, earlier, of soaking the blade in prussic acid.
Munir Ahmad Farhad, the spokesman for the governor of Balkh Province, confirmed that the two ambushes had taken place, but said that only one bodyguard had been killed and two others wounded.
In the Sepik region of New Guinea, up until as recently as the 1970s, men would arm themselves with bone daggers in large raids or small-scale ambushes of neighboring groups, he explained.
They ignore the increase in black-on-black murders to focus on racist police who hunt unarmed young black men; while denying any involvement in the ambushes against the police – men and women.
He noted Wednesday that the number of officers killed in ambushes hit a nearly 30-year high during his first year in office, but has gone down sharply in the two years since.
Since 2016 the group has staged a number of attacks across the broader Sahel, a stretch of territory that runs from Senegal to Sudan, and routinely ambushes United Nations peacekeepers in the region.
We weren't attacked during the time I spent with them, but each time we moved, the community sent out scouts to secure the way and try to spot potential ambushes from cattle raiders.
In some cases, violence dropped off sharply once the militants were routed, with the Islamic State either unwilling or uninterested in carrying out harassing attacks ranging from small-arms ambushes to suicide attacks.
Wagner Ribeiro, a 57-year-old Uber driver, was the target of one of these ambushes in November 2016, the month that saw the highest number of incidents last year (more than 200).
But on the frontlines, army and police deserters complain of commanders having no answer for deadly ambushes, no broader strategy for prevailing in the war, corruption among their leaders and poor food and equipment.
My character tends to be ruthless and secretive, but if I lean too hard on ambushes and treachery, the bluff, courageous members of my party will become restive while the merciless killers are pleased.
"I call on everyone ... to work to uproot this apostate, criminal and corrupt regime, and to jihad with weapons, money, word and actions, raids and ambushes, strikes and protests," Zawahiri said in the recording.
Now, the group has all but given up on Maoist revolution and instead charges protection to local drug traffickers, while launching ambushes on army foot patrols, and even shooting down the occasional military helicopter.
Powerful and poignant, this book tells the story of two events – ambushes if you will – that happened during the same two days in October 1967: one in Vietnam, one at the University of Wisconsin.
By 2013, insurgents were embedded in the mountains on the western border with Algeria, and groups in the cities began a campaign of political assassinations, ambushes on the police and army, and suicide attacks.
These days, the US Army wants something a bit smaller: Pocket-sized drones that soldiers can use in battle zones to see around corners, over hills, or behind trees to aoid ambushes and other surprises.
It had reached a point where I had to remind myself that I needed to feel grief—not just anger—when police officers were gunned down during horrific ambushes in Dallas and Louisiana last year.
Abadi declared final victory over the hardline Sunni militants in December but the group still operates from pockets along the border with Syria and has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across Iraq.
Violence has intensified in Afghanistan since U.S. President Donald Trump in August unveiled a more aggressive strategy, with U.S.-led forces carrying out more air strikes, and the Taliban responding with bombs, ambushes and raids.
Until recently, women had been officially excluded from the infantry, even as they unofficially served in combat jobs — going on patrols as military police or medics, or getting caught in ambushes while driving in convoys.
This is the first time since Renamo stepped up hostilities this year that a train has come under attack, the state news agency reported, adding that previous ambushes have been against traffic on the main roads.
Abadi declared final victory over the hard-line Sunni militants in December, but the group still operates from pockets along the border with Syria and has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across Iraq.
For months, the stretch of Ring Road linking Kandahar and Kabul has been subject to regular Taliban ambushes and so-called flying check posts, making travel dangerous except under heavy guard, for most of the distance.
Israel's vulnerability to tunnels was laid bare during its war with Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza in 2014, when Palestinian militants used dozens of secret passages dug from Gaza into Israel to carry out ambushes.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has dismissed as "purely propaganda" Islamic State's claim that its militants killed scores of government troops in ambushes and said there was no evidence directly linking southern Muslim rebels to the group.
Others, like the sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) prefer to chase through dense woodlands using short powerful wings to weave past obstacles, their long tails a counterbalance for short, sharp turns and high-speed, bloody ambushes.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%Synopsis: Veteran rancher Ben Evans (Bale) seeks revenge on the outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) after he ambushes his family on the road out west in the remake of the 1957 film.
Tests on the personal devices, which emit a short-range electromagnetic field into the water, found that they could prevent "investigative" attacks by curious sharks but did not stop ambushes by determined predators in hunting mode.
And as is usually the case with Billy on the Street ambushes, at least one person is not interested in helping Eichner, 38, and his 33-year-old guest star work on the project of the week.
And it transforms the campaign from a series of standup gunfights to a wave of hit-and-run ambushes, or bloody attritional battles in cities defended by friendly militias that you've invested time and money into training.
In recent weeks, in addition to firing on security outposts in most of the province's districts, the Taliban have also carried out heavier assaults and ambushes in at least six districts, often inflicting casualties on Afghan forces.
The move, which was announced by League leader Matteo Salvini, will make it harder for Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to govern an already fractious coalition and leave him vulnerable to opposition ambushes in the 321-seat Senate.
Islamic State, which once occupied a third of Iraq's territory, has been largely defeated in the country but has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings there and still poses a threat along its border with Syria.
Since then security forces have boosted their operations in the state after "another wave of ambushes by extremist terrorists," the government-owned New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported Sunday, citing the Information Committee of the State Counselor's Office.
The highway has also been shut down by insurgent ambushes in northern Jowzjan and Faryab Provinces, in western Farah Province and along stretches in Kunduz and Oruzgan Provinces, according to local officials and the police in those areas.
Clearly, after the Columbus Crew derailed his team in the playoffs last season with ambushes from the rear, Marsch can expect much more of the same this season — a bogging down of the beautiful game from opposing teams.
The militants, who have controlled Mosul since they took it over in mid-2014, have hit the advancing soldiers with suicide car bombs, mortar barrages, sniper attacks and ambushes launched through a network of tunnels under residential areas.
The SDF had said it expected a "decisive battle" on Sunday after advancing gradually for 18 hours to avoid landmines sown by Islamic State (IS), whose fighters are also using underground tunnels to stage ambushes and then disappear.
The prime minister declared final victory over the ultra hardline group in December but it still poses a threat from pockets along the border with Syria and has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across Iraq.
The carmaker just announced its latest Charger Pursuit—one of the most popular vehicles for US law enforcement agencies—will come ready to spot (and foil) ambushes from the back, thanks to a rear-facing camera and radar system.
"These Trump tweets where he ambushes the OPEC folks are not having the same kind of price significance that they did when it was a brand-new phenomenon," said Bob Yawger, director of futures at Mizuho in New York.
Under the headline "The crusade on Nineveh gets a lousy start," the group's weekly online magazine Al-Nabaa said it repelled assaults on all fronts, killing dozens in ambushes and suicide attacks and destroying dozens of vehicles including tanks.
Iraqi officials say the militants have used the city's more than one million remaining residents as human shields, firing from rooftops of inhabited houses and using a network of tunnels to launch ambushes in the midst of residential areas.
The SDF had said it expected a "decisive battle" on Sunday after advancing gradually for 18 hours to avoid land mines sown by Islamic State (IS), whose fighters are also using underground tunnels to stage ambushes and then disappear.
Police commanders who had lost scores of men to Taliban bombs and ambushes over the years were confounded as carloads of armed Taliban fighters arrived at city gates, seeking to celebrate Eid in the open, with their sworn enemies.
The bill's sponsors cite a Department of Justice report on police ambushes, which shows a downward trend through the 1990s and 2000s until the late 2000s and early 2010s, when the numbers trended slightly higher, according to the report.
Islamic State militants continue to carry out bombings, ambushes and assassinations in Syria and Iraq despite the collapse last year of the cross-border "caliphate" declared in 2014 by their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State in December, but the militants still operate from pockets along the border with Syria and have continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across Iraq.
Specifically, the Defense secretary said the Taliban militants continue to try to seize provincial or district centers but he insisted they have been generally forced into decentralized, small-scale ambushes and the use of IEDs, or improvised explosive devices.
The groups wanted training in "mission analysis and the military decision making process, intelligence preparation of the battlefield, direct action, raids and ambushes, special reconnaissance, close quarters combat and battle, sniper and observe operations, military operations in urban terrain."
Her argument against this statute, delivered on the recording like a vacuous Helen Lovejoy, was to use the old bathroom hypothetical in which a formerly male sex predator now dressed in a skirt ambushes little girls behind closed doors.
Special forces and a tank division fighting to expand their foothold in the east of the city for nearly two weeks have faced determined opposition from the militants who have launched waves of suicide bombers, sniper attacks and ambushes against them.
Given America's focus on police ambushes following the large, high-profile attacks on officers in Dallas, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this July, one might have expected this point-blank assault and rampage to serve as a national lightning rod.
Islamic State has used a network of tunnels around the city and merged into the civilian population of 1.5 million people still living there, helping it launch surprise raids and ambushes on the troops in areas they believed had been cleared.
Under the headline "The crusade on Nineveh gets a lousy start," the group's weekly online magazine Al-Nabaa said it repelled all assaults on all fronts, killing dozens in ambushes and suicide attacks and destroying dozens of vehicles including tanks.
I understand there's a lot of political pressure but the use of force that was established back then was done as a result of collaboration from the past and response to incidences, ambushes, assaults on officers and all that which is up now.
Faced with the increased airstrikes, militants last year launched more ambushes, insider attacks and assassinations instead of trying to hold territory, according to the third military official, who described parts of a National Ground Intelligence Center report that has not been publicly released.
VICE News embedded with Iraq's Golden Division Special Forces unit as they fought their way into the villages surrounding the city of Hit, where they encountered ambushes, sniper fire, and tried to sort suspected Islamic State operatives and sympathizers from innocent Iraqi civilians.
Google's gumdrop-shaped autonomous car looks like something you'd see in a Pixar movie, a cute and cuddly machine that makes the future look fun—until it ambushes you in a crosswalk, traps you like a fly in a web, and whisks you away.
On this week's episode of Mama June: From Hot to Not, the family heads to Las Vegas to witness Lauryn "Pumpkin" Shannon marry Joshua Efird — but Mama June decides she wants to tie the knot herself and ambushes boyfriend Geno Doak with a surprise wedding.
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One blip in the trend came in 2016, when a handful of violent and deadly ambushes on law enforcement led to an increase in fatalities from the previous year, up to 9953 from 137 in 2015 (and a significant increase in firearm-related deaths).
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Getting spotted or staging any kind of attack or hack ends concealment for the rest of the mission (barring specific soldier abilities), so your early freedom of movement is best for setting up ambushes or sneaking around threats (usually to better set up an ambush).
Leon winds his way through the treacherous village, a sinister castle, and beyond to get to the bottom of this threat, encountering traps, ambushes, and hordes of enemies that want to remove the life from his eyes (and sometimes the head from his body).
"Confessions," a slender book with a high body count, is set in the middle of the civil war, in the thick of kidnappings and ambushes on refugee camps, when a child's bag of marbles turns out to be, horrifyingly, a cache of human eyes.
And after the fatal ambushes of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La. — as well as years of intensifying protests about the deaths of black men, women and children at the hands of the police — officers everywhere are under pressure to change still more.
Where were the gimmicky one-liners, the cringeworthy pandering, the well-rehearsed ambushes, the whiny interruptions, the confusing excursions into obscure votes or ancient controversies of little relevance to the choice Democrats face in coming months and all voters will face a year from now?
"I understand there's a lot of political pressure but the use of force that was established back then was done as a result of collaboration from the past and response to incidences, ambushes, assaults on officers, and all that which is up now," Will Biascoechea said.
But on the other side of all this hard fighting, you'll likely be leading an elite army of heavily-armed guerillas deep into enemy territory as you lure enemy troops into ambushes, strike at weakly defended rear areas, and then evacuate before the counterattacks can arrive.
But the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, appeared to have anticipated that reinforcements would come from Sulaimaniya and had ambushes planned, firing rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons at the relief force and prompting it to take a more circuitous route, officials said.
Until recently, the threat of ambushes by Boko Haram, the vicious Islamic fundamentalist militia that has massacred and kidnapped hundreds, made about 80 percent of Borno's roads too dangerous for vaccination teams, except for sporadic "hit and run" efforts targeting individual villages during periods of relative calm.
AMBUSHES AHEAD Without Paragone, 5-Star and the PD will fall four seats short of an absolute majority in the upper house Senate, meaning they will need the backing of the far-left LEU party as well as possibly from some unaffiliated senators to stay afloat.
The Australians, with their experience in Malaya and Borneo, thought that they knew how to conduct counterinsurgency operations in Southeast Asian jungles, deploying small units in silent patrols and ambushes, and using cordon-and-search operations in rural villages to separate the guerrillas from the civilian population.
Agents are trained to speed away from ambushes in reverse, to ram a pair of vehicles out of the way, to push a motorcade through a crowded thoroughfare, and to balance brake and throttle to slowly and steadily take a vehicle up a seemingly impossible rocky incline.
As one might expect, the old man is tough but the little girl is tougher; their road is hard and their enemies bad; they forge a kinship based on mutual respect as they contend with ambushes, shootouts, brawls, perilous river crossings and good-hearted widow ladies.
These deadly ambushes on police officers are amplifying fears that it's becoming increasingly more dangerous to be a cop, and law enforcement advocates, including now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions have also correlated an apparent uptick in police line-of-duty deaths to the Black Lives Matter rhetoric.
This is why conservative political commentator Steven Crowder has a series called "Change My Mind" in which he ambushes random college kids with a big binder full of pre-prepared talking points, and pulls the mic away from them anytime they seem like they might actually change someone's mind.
Here are a few news and feature articles that you might have also found compelling: By THE NEW YORK TIMES Riding along with officers illuminated fears they confront, compassionate gestures from the public after two recent ambushes against the police, and varied responses to the Black Lives Matter movement.
But here in the middle Euphrates River Valley, where much of the population resents the U.S.-backed forces as alien occupiers, YPG fighters are likely to face more sudden ambushes and assaults from within this dense patchwork of orchards and villages, even after the battle for Baghuz is won.
Digvijay Nath Tiwari is commander of a vigilante group that claims 5,000 members in the northern city of Agra, and which cultivates informants, swarms shop owners, ambushes trucks at night and metes out extra-judicial violence, all for one cause: protecting the holy cow, an animal held sacred by Hindu beliefs.
In Homer's Odyssey, composed around 750 B.C., the main villain is Aegisthus, a cad who seduces the weak-willed Clytemnestra and then ambushes the recently returned king and his retainers at a feast, slaughtering them in a grotesque parody of a real battle, the bodies lying among the scattered crockery.
"The Summer of Chaos" term gained traction the month after two officer-involved deaths of black men (Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge) triggered nationwide protests, and culminated in two separate ambushes of police officers: one in Dallas, and the Gavin Long shooting in Baton Rouge.
This is a wink at the shift in many American units from being foot-mobile to vehicular, as grunts buttoned up within armored trucks and needed turret-mounted firepower to defend themselves — a matériel adaptation forced by ambushes and improvised bombs, the cheaply made weapons that wearied the most expensive military in the world.
Capturing the mosque, built by Nur al-Din Mahmoud Zangi, a ruler who in the 12th century unified Arab forces against crusaders from Europe, would have provided an important symbolic moment for the Iraqi security forces, who have taken heavy casualties in day after day of street battles and ambushes by the Islamic State.
" Continues Rycroft: "When it's somebody who is supposed to be the guy you're spending the rest of your life with and he ambushes you on camera, those were the feelings coming back to me — when I was like, 'This could have been done privately, you could have warned me, and now I'm humiliated and I'm heartbroken and I'm embarrassed.
In a new intelligence report viewed by CNN, entitled "PERSISTENT THREAT OF TERRORIST AMBUSH ATTACKS ON FIRST RESPONDERS," analysts from the National Counterterrorism Center warn that police officers and emergency services personnel remain key targets for terrorists, who may either seek to lure public safety officers into ambushes, or stage ambush attacks without significant advanced planning.
" Soldiers eat beef teriyaki and chicken cavatelli M.R.E.s in a war zone where "armored ruins" line the roads, "charred corpses scattered in among the blasted metal"; and sniper fire and I.E.D. ambushes are a constant threat: "the chaos out there, the crazy Arabic writing and abu-jabba jabber, the lawless traffic, the hidden danger and buzz and stray bullets and death looming from every overpass.
An Eric Bailly own goal gave the visitors hope, and three penalty claims of varying legitimacy offered a grievance, but United was largely unfazed by a Liverpool attacking trio that ranks among the Premier League's most fearsome: Mohamed Salah was largely rendered an irrelevance; Roberto Firmino, so key to Liverpool's attacking intentions, was starved of space and time; Sadio Mané was driven into ambushes.
This enables limited resources to be deployed efficiently: Specially trained rangers can pinpoint the poachers' exact locations to set up ambushes and arrest them, while local aid groups focus on training community members in skills like farming, food preparation and weaving to reduce their dependence on forest products, an approach that's proved effective in discouraging wood-gathering, fishing and other illegal activities in the park.
In the song, Pusha-T ambushes Drake with lyrics about his father leaving his mother when he was just five, his go-to producer, Noah Shebib, being "hunched over like he 80" (Shebib was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005), and his plan to publicly announce his alleged child, Adonis, with former adult film star Sophie Brussaux, with an Adidas release (an Adidas representative offered no comment to Refinery29 regarding a potential collaboration).

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