Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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It is the Syrian Democratic Forces, not Syrian Defense Forces.
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Then, on Monday, the nation's commander of defense forces, Gen.
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The Israel Defense Forces went on to a war footing.
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Local media reported Kurihara was a retired Self Defense Forces officer.
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The Israel Defense Forces have claimed Hamas is behind the attack.
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Militia and self-defense forces were set up to provide security.
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Palestinian kids have been throwing stones; the Israel Defense Forces respond.
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One diplomat said the defense forces had "reverted to war mode".
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Police officers, soldiers, and the Israel Defense Forces are on TikTok.
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When former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen.
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Japan's Self-Defense Forces have also been a culprit of the prank.
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He must rely on irregular militia known as the National Defense Forces.
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Teams from SWAT and the defense forces are searching for the inmates.
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The IDF's (Israel Defense Forces) Iron Dome aerial defense system was activated.
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The former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Gen.
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Many settlements actually increase the security burden on the Israeli Defense Forces.
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The Israel Defense Forces' rules of engagement are secret, but Lt. Col.
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Philadelphia's defense forces turnovers, which is another key to defeating New England.
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Saudi state media said defense forces intercepted a missile over the capital.
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From 1960 to 1963, Mr. Neidich served in the Israeli Defense Forces.
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S Africa Command and Kenya Defense Forces repelled the al-Shabaab attack.
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Four thousand men and women will be drafted into the defense forces.
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Israel is not "the main story," said Israel Defense Forces Maj. Gen.
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Hyperallergic has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces spokesperson for comment.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said about 15,000 Palestinians gathered along fence.
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Israel's defense forces responded with dozens of airstrikes on targets in Gaza.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declined to comment on the Syrian reports.
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"The Israel Defense Forces is determined to defend Israel's citizens and sovereignty against Hamas's attempts at terrorism under cover of violent riots," the leaflets read, a position reiterated by Ronen Manelis, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces.
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Japan has deployed 2262,230 self-defense forces to the rescue effort, Suga said.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) targeted the structure as an alleged Hamas headquarters.
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Security and defense forces intervened immediately and were able to neutralize six terrorists.
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However, Filip was a former Israeli Defense Forces officer working for Black Cube.
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Today, it provides support for US and allied air and missile defense forces.
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Saudi air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards Riyadh on Sunday.
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The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
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It may also use a ferry under contract to Japan's self-defense forces.
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The Israel Defense Forces said Israel launched at least 1,500 airstrikes on Gaza.
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Japan's Self-Defense Forces deployed teams in boats to save those in danger.
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The Israel Defense Forces did not respond to VICE News' request for comment.
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After many decades, Israel Defense Forces reopened direct combat positions to women in 2000.
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In response, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) began shutting down the street — to Palestinians.
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They are now "partners" of Iraq's defense forces but not truly controlled by Baghdad.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed Monday that the rocket was launched by Hamas.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) identified the dead Israeli soldier only as Lt. Col.
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The Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on Sergeant Azaria's accusation against Major Naaman.
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Toka's CEO is Yaron Rosen, the former cyber chief for the Israel Defense Forces.
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Combined with this is the notorious dysfunction within various defense forces within Saudi Arabia.
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The Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on the strike, per its normal policy.
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Trying to allay the anger, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen.
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Hokkaido's governor, Harumi Takahashi, asked for assistance from the military, Japan's Self-Defense Forces.
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"Our defense forces have so far killed 60 members of the attackers," he said.
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From 2004 to 2006, he served as a sergeant in the Israeli Defense Forces.
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She converted to Islam in 2011 while still serving in the Irish Defense Forces.
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Israel Defense Forces said three of the slain were cadets and one was an officer.
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Suga said 211,22011 self-defense forces are being deployed to the region for rescue efforts.
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Civil defense forces were cleaning up the area and police were investigating, the resident said.
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State news agency SANA said al-Foua and Kefraya's defense forces repelled the dawn attack.
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The woman was a former officer in the Israeli Defense Forces, The New Yorker claims.
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He loafs on defense, forces erratic and inefficient shots, and ignores the three-point line.
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Subsequent Japanese laws created "self-defense forces" to allow Japan to defend itself against attack.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) denied targeting reporters and said it would investigate Murtaja's death.
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"Will they develop more effective territorial defense forces and capabilities of their own?" he asked.
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More than 190 rockets rained down on Israeli cities, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
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Below, the Self-Defense Forces evacuated residents from a flooded area in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture.
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The US military and Japanese Self-Defense Forces moved as quickly as possible to respond.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted about their new Tik Tok with a bomb joke.
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An early step was to unite the various guard units under the Panama Defense Forces.
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Army Commander Phillip Sibanda will succeed Chiwenga as defense forces chief, a government statement said.
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Japan's growing military spending is one of many changes that is transforming its defense forces.
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Defense forces have surrounded the areas of Jior and Kok, reported the Fana Broadcasting Corporation (FBC).
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Around 2500,000 Self-Defense Forces personnel are taking on rescue operations, the Prime Minister's office said.
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Autodefensas, or self-defense forces, are legal in Guerrero state and recognized by the federal government.
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It turned out that he was part of a helicopter squadron with the Israel Defense Forces.
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The Israel Defense Forces has been using Trophy to protect its Namer heavy infantry fighting vehicle.
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Khateeb is a volunteer for the Syrian Civil Defense forces, also known as the White Helmets.
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"In response, an IDF (Israel Defense Forces) tank targeted an adjacent military observation post," it said.
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The founding team are graduates of the famous Unit 8200, the Israel Defense Forces' elite cyberteam.
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In June 2016, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched what they called the "Good Neighbor" policy.
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As is customary for Israeli citizens, Neumann served in the Israel Defense Forces after grade school.
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Rafael Eitan, chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, for the operation to move forward.
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Several months ago, separatists in the Ambazonia Defense Forces took up arms to fight for sovereignty.
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Benny Gantz, the former Israeli Defense Forces general, has until midnight tonight to form a government.
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The Israel Defense Forces said that about 20,000 Palestinians gathered along the fence in different locations.
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However, Filip was a former Israeli Defense Forces officer working for the intelligence firm Black Cube.
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A second rocket landed off the coast of central Israel, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Lt. Col.
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In 2018, he gave a well-compensated speech to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
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IMI Systems is the main supplier of small caliber ammunition to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
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It is rare for the defense forces to publicly take sides in the affairs of ZANU-PF.
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"I disagree with the Self-Defense Forces because it's already a kind of army," she told me.
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Under Zimbabwe&aposs constitution only the president has the power to authorize the deployment of defense forces.
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Bridges collapsed, homes flooded and authorities moved to deploy defense forces in flood-hit areas from Friday.
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On Saturday, Cameroon's defense forces killed 10 attackers in the town of Kerawa, on the Nigerian border.
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Its constitution does not allow Japan's military -- called the Self-Defense Forces -- to develop significant offensive capabilities.
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He added that the idea was to train these defense forces in areas close to their homes.
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At an army ceremony on Wednesday, the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. Gen.
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The rockets came from Gaza, part of the ongoing clash between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces.
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The Israel Defense Forces said more than 30 rockets had been fired into Israel since late Friday.
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Prior to that, he was commander of Coast Guard Pacific Area and Coast Guard Defense Forces West.
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The latest: An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman confirmed the ceasefire in Gaza had come into effect.
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Another point of contention was the deployment of defense forces to maintain "law and order" during the speech.
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In response, the Israel Defense Forces launched strikes on Syrian aerial defense systems and Iranian targets in Syria.
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Eyal Rosen, a reserve commander in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said Hamas was weaponizing civilians against Israel.
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Japan Self-Defense Forces soldiers rescue people from a flooded area in Mabi town in Kurashiki, Okayama prefecture.
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Niinisto said he would ask the defense forces to produce a report explaining how the decision was made.
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The Israel Defense Forces monitors Palestinians' social media as a way to detect radicalization or potential terror attacks.
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Indian defense forces band marches during rehearsals for the beating retreat ceremony at Raisina Hill in New Delhi.
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He based his opinion on the measures taken by the Israel Defense Forces to minimize wartime civilian casualties.
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The SDF grew from the YPG, the Kurdish defense forces in Syria that Turkey considers a terrorist group.
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The idea has been endorsed by a slew of former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers, notably Brig. Gen.
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The Air Defense Forces officer in charge of the short-range air defenses at the Abqaiq oil facility.
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For example, the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) is very public about how their women are out there everywhere.
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Three missiles were intercepted by Saudi defense forces Wednesday, before they could hit targets in Najran or Riyadh.
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Saudi air defense forces destroyed the missile without it causing any damage, the coalition said, according to SPA.
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NATO began to bolster its defense forces in eastern Europe after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
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"You have to accept it," said Haberfeld, who served in a counterterrorist unit in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe subsequently deployed 14,000 staff from the Japanese Defense Forces to assist emergency responders.
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But we determined that the Israel Defense Forces' account of the second shot — fired at 6:31 p.m.
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Netanyahu said he will ensure the defense treaty will not limit the Israel Defense Forces' freedom of operation.
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The civil defense forces said that seven had been severely wounded and were transferred to Turkey for treatment.
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Dubowitz also speculated that the President may have been influenced by the example set by Israel's defense forces.
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Career soldier Gantz is a career soldier, having served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for 38 years.
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The defense forces combed the area and have already detained some elements of the group, foreigners and nationals.
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They told Reuters that civil defense forces had failed to contain the fire sparked by an explosion on Friday.
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CUFI on Campus students listen to Israel Defense Forces soldiers speak during the 13th CUFI Summit in Washington, D.C.
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A spokesperson for the Japan Self Defense Forces said 170 troops are at its 30-acre facility in Djibouti.
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The Israeli prime minister's office declined to comment, as did the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
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Japan does maintain self-defense forces, and analysts have said any revision to the constitution would be largely cosmetic.
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According to the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces, two versions of the planes existed — one served as a spare.
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The founding trio are alumni of Unit 8200, the Israel Defense Forces' elite signal intelligence and code decryption unit.
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From there, he flew to China, where he met General Constantino Chiwenga, the commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces.
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The Israel Defense Forces, the country's most popular and respected institution, has historically been an apolitical unifier and equalizer.
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Eitan Dangot, a retired major general with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), is an expert with The MirYam Institute.
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An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) official said the IDF responded to "violent terror demonstrations" in six separate Gaza locations.
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The Palestinian driver was evacuated to an Israeli hospital for treatment, said Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Lt. Col.
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The US and the Kenya Defense Forces jointly use the base for local training and to combat extremist groups.
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Oil climbed further as broadcaster Al Arabiya said Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a missile over the capital Riyadh.
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It was then that members of the Israel Defense Forces opened fire, first with tear gas, then using live ammunition.
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While a vast majority of those missions involve training the defense forces of partner countries, a few involve direct combat.
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Perhaps more than anything, they recall some of the most controversial actions of the Israeli Defense Forces under his government.
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Although they are significantly smaller in size, ISIS' defense forces still pose a serious threat to the Iraqi-led offensive.
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The Jerusalem Post , citing the Israel Defense Forces, reported that more than 70 rockets were launched from Gaza Wednesday evening.
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Turnbull said he had visited the Australian troops working with the Afghan defense forces as part of his April visit.
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"Whether errant fire or not, any future occurrences will force the Israel Defense Forces to intensify its response," it said.
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Israel Defense Forces officers with semiautomatic weapons guarded the checkpoint we passed on the way to Masada earlier that morning.
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For the first time since 85033, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confronts the very real prospect of a sizable incursion.
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Two hundred projectiles, including rockets and mortars, were fired toward Israel in the previous 24 hours, Israel Defense Forces said.
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The company is led by veterans of the Israel Defense Forces' Intelligence Corps and top executives from the railway industry.
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Missile strikes against Riyadh were reportedly intercepted by the Saudi Defense Forces, and the latest strike injured an expatriate worker.
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Ambazonia Defense Forces spokesman Tapang Ivo Tanku, in a statement posted on Facebook, alleged that government forces took the students.
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Constantine Chiwenga, who leads the Zimbabwe Defense Forces, said in what amounts to an extraordinary intervention in the country's politics.
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Exact figures for those fighting with the Y.P.G., as well as with the broader Syrian Defense Forces coalition, are unclear.
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He survived by jumping out a window and went on to become the Israeli Defense Forces' second chief of staff.
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The United Nations' World Health Organization recently ranked the Israel Defense Forces' field hospital as the best in the world.
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The CH-47F Chinook is a dual rotor multimission helicopter used by the Army as well as international defense forces.
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The checkpoint can be closed by Israel Defense Forces soldiers at any given time of any day with little explanation.
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A similar thing happened when the Israeli Defense Forces stopped letting troops bring their guns home over the weekend in 2006.
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The Israeli Defense Forces posted footage taken from a ski-field on Mount Hermon that captured the incoming rocket being intercepted.
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His co-founder and chief technology officer, Dan Amiga, is a military intelligence veteran who worked at the Israel Defense Forces.
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Defense companies in Alabama and Mississippi are working hand-in-hand with the Israeli Defense Forces on new life-saving technologies.
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Israel Defense Forces are leading the rescue effort and teams worked around the clock to locate and extract the construction workers.
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President Maithripala Sirisena said he would change the heads of the defense forces following their failure to act on the intelligence.
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Chiwenga is the retired defense forces chief who led the coup against Mugabe and is seen as the power behind Mnangagwa.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said at least 25 of the projectiles were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system.
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In May, the Israel Defense Forces tweeted that it used its F-35 Adir fighters for airstrikes in the Middle East.
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On Monday, Mapangou told French news outlet RFI that defense forces have now taken back control of state TV and radio.
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Israel Defense Forces say they also recently thwarted a multi-drone attack coordinated by Iranian forces and Hezbollah militants from Syria.
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But it is when that interview is with the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. General Gadi Eisenkot.
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In 113, Aviran hired an Israel Defense Forces intelligence officer named Royi Burstien to be the vice-president of business development.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck Iranian targets in and around Damascus, including the city's international airport, IDF Spokesman Lt. Col.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that 10,000 Palestinians had gathered in five locations along the border fence.
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Saudi Arabia said its air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired from warring Yemen over the capital Riyadh on Saturday.
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"Throughout yesterday extremely violent riots erupted along the border of the Gaza strip," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
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"The Israel Defense Forces is responding with fire towards the sources of fire and targets in southern Lebanon," the military said.
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Sirisena, announcing plans on Tuesday to change the heads of the defense forces, said his office never received the Indian report.
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In October, dissident Panamanian defense forces had been crushed in an attempted coup that received some, but not enough, American support.
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The Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement that "at least 24 terrorists with documented terrorism backgrounds were killed" on Monday.
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The PIJ has conducted attacks such as suicide bombings and roadside bombings, targeting the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli civilians.
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But the barrage of agitprop by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) represented a dramatic shift towards a warning of outright war.
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It is rather the fact that Europe's defense forces are riddled with inefficiencies and duplication, which have undermined the union's capabilities.
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The nation's police and defense forces are working together to ensure a safe and secure environment for the Carnival, he said.
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The base will be located within the Israel Defense Forces Air Defense School in southern Israel, near Beersheba, Defense News reported.
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As many as 40,000 people, including 22,000 troops from the country's Self Defense Forces, have been involved in the rescue efforts.
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So, if this deal moves forward, Russia's armed forces will have direct access to the first time to Saudi defense forces.
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And that's actually a scale-back, and it doesn't really make sense, I mean from my perspective, the self-defense forces have existed since 1954, and if you said, "Oh, look, these self defense forces that have existed since 1954 are constitutional," it sort of suggests that they haven't been constitutional for all of those years.
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The practice gained traction and was eventually incorporated into the training program for the Israel Defense Forces a decade or so later.
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Abe has proposed amending the constitution's war-renouncing Article 9 by 2020 to officially recognize Japan's Self-Defense Forces as its military.
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Washington is denying that, arguing that the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act authorizes unofficial relationship with Taiwan and assistance to its defense forces.
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Prior to co-founding GuardiCore, both Gurvich and Zeitlin spent more than a decade at the Israel Defense Forces as cybersecurity experts.
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Early this month, Saudi air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen over the capital Riyadh, state news agencies reported.
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"If they shoot a missile, self defense forces will try to shoot them down," he adds, referring to the Japanese armed forces.
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Roughly 2,000 are in Syria, working with the Syrian Defense Forces or providing support to local militias battling ISIS, per USA Today.
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"Terrorists attack public places & martyr our innocent citizens b/c they fear facing our Security & Defense Forces on the battlefield," he said.
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The Syrian military's claims they shot down Israeli aircraft are "total lies," according to a spokesperson from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
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Meantime, a rocket fired from northern Gaza exploded midair Sunday morning local time, with no injuries reported, the Israeli Defense Forces tweeted.
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Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen over the capital, Riyadh, on Saturday, state news agencies reported.
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Last week, Saudi air defense forces intercepted a flurry of missiles, and falling debris caused the first death in the capital Riyadh.
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A military commander of the defense forces said the President had until Friday to change his stance before taking more drastic measures.
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And the government has actually been very slow in implementing rules of engagement, saying exactly how the self-defense forces would [work].
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So what Abe wants to do now is just clarify that the self-defense forces are a legitimate organ of the state.
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The Israel Defense Forces took down a Syrian Sukhoi-model fighter jet that reportedly entered its airspace, the IDF said on Twitter.
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This means business as usual for the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces and the NATO allies: fighting insurgents across the country.
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" The following month, however, Mr. Putin made a sharp U-turn, declaring, "Of course our troops stood behind Crimea's self-defense forces.
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Similarly, overall security responsibility in the West Bank will remain in the hands of the Israel Defense Forces as long as necessary.
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Spotting strangers in the camp, Lisa Smith, a former member of the Irish Defense Forces, said hello but declined to be interviewed.
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Thousands had gathered at several locations along the Gaza fence, the Israel Defense Forces said, when incendiary balloons were launched toward Israel.
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By Thursday, the major fires were under control and the Civil Defense forces were working on putting out a few remaining blazes.
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On Monday, the tension escalated when Maldives National Defense Forces reportedly broke into the Supreme Court in the capital city of Male.
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Moved by how Japan's Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) helped her family and friends during the relief operations, Hirayama decided to join up.
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Samet, a Holocaust survivor, served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces before moving to the United States in the 1960s.
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The Israeli Defense Forces said it had followed well-established protocols in communicating with Moscow, which are intended to prevent such incidents.
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"The I.D.F. is the organized military of a country that operates according to law," he added, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.
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Saudi air defense forces intercepted two rockets over Riyadh late on Sunday, sending debris measuring up to several meters hurtling toward residential areas.
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Border closed On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces announced that crossings from Gaza and the West Bank into Israel are closed through Sunday.
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Shqaire would say decades later that his confessions were the result of coercive interrogations and threats by members of the Israel Defense Forces.
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Israeli officials say the Israel Defense Forces and Shin-Bet see riots and escalating violence as a likely scenario and are getting prepared.
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The crew from a U.S. coast guard ship which had been docked in the nearby port of Lyttleton were helping local defense forces.
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Even as Dunford's staff announced the chairman had already met in Helsinki with his Finnish counterpart, commander of the Finnish Defense Forces Gen.
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Trump shocked observers on Sunday by announcing a plan to remove US troops working with the Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) from northern Syria.
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One study found that after the Israel Defense Forces stopped letting soldiers bring weapons home on the weekends, suicide rates dropped by 40%.
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Already last year, Mr. Abe pushed through a series of security laws that permit Japan's self-defense forces to participate in overseas combat.
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A Japan Self-Defense Forces spokesman said he had no information about the movement of the Chinese carrier or any Japanese ships nearby.
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In the 2016 defense authorization bill, Congress provided about $120 million for a joint Defense Department and Israel Defense Forces tunnel-detection project.
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Abe is highlighting his call to revise the post-war constitution to further legitimize Japan's Self-Defense Forces, as its military is known.
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"Iran is taking a significant step toward producing nuclear weapons," he said at a ceremony honoring reserve units of the Israel Defense Forces.
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"Any attempt to violate this ban will result in military enforcement," meaning action from the Ambazonian Defense Forces faction of separatists he leads.
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We also have reporting that fighting forces in and around the two towns — that the [Syrian Defense Forces] are actually beginning their departure.
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The Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry have not commented on Russian claims, nor on the strikes attributed to Israel.
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Gantz, a former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, strikes me as a kind of Israeli Clint Eastwood -- the strong and silent type.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said one of its aircraft opened fire on three people who appeared to be trying to plant explosives.
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The flag was used by the Imperial Japanese Army, and the country's navy and defense forces still use the flag to this day.
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However, Inada said, the affair had hurt the credibility of the defence ministry and Self-Defense Forces (SDF), as Japan's military is known.
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The rocket had a range of 75 miles and was manufactured inside Gaza by Hamas, said Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokeswoman Mika Lipshitz.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said about 48,000 police, firefighters and members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces were responding to appeals for help.
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Minister of Education Naftali Bennett of the Jewish Home party defended his ministry's decision by claiming that the book smears the Israel Defense Forces.
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The hackers got their hands on some internal data about the clients Mandiant and its parent company FireEye protect, including the Israeli Defense Forces.
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"Those are in the pipeline, and we hope they will be delivered to Afghanistan, to our national security and defense forces, soon," Mosazai said.
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One year ago the U.S.-backed Syrian Defense Forces (SDF), finished a four month campaign to push ISIS out of its Syrian capital, Raqqa.
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With no legal consequences, Americans have served in the Israel Defense Forces, the French Foreign Legion, and even a militia fighting ISIS in Syria.
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A spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces told BuzzFeed News that they were investigating Murtaja's death, but said that journalists were not intentionally targeted.
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The missile was shot down by Saudi air defense forces, with fragments of the missile landing in an uninhabited area north of the capital.
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LAGOS, Nigeria – A new Amnesty International report accuses Nigerian soldiers and self-defense forces of raping women rescued from the Boko Haram extremist group.
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Self-Defense Forces spokesman Manabu Takehara told AFP that the boy "looked in good health" when he was found on Friday morning local time.
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A handful of male Israeli politicians and high-ranking members of the Israel Defense Forces have been accused of sexual misconduct in recent years.
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There were no casualties and no damage at the military base, and air defense forces repelled the attack, the ministry said on its website.
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An LA hotel that kicked out Friends of the Israel Defense Forces a decade ago had to pay a $1.2 million penalty for it.
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Defence Minister Jussi Niinisto said the defense forces were developing the so-called bounding mine to replace landmines banned by a 1999 international treaty.
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The Houthis have stepped up missile launches at Saudi cities in recent months, most of which have been intercepted by Saudi air defense forces.
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And then what's quickly become his signature play, Wallace has enough confidence to attack in transition until the defense forces him to back down.
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That's the toll exacted over the past seven weeks by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) against protesters along the security fence separating Gaza from Israel.
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A spokesman for the Syrian Defense Forces, Sherfan Darwish, told The Associated Press that the abductions were in retaliation for the offensive on Manbij.
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" When asked about the contrast between rock-wielding Palestinians and armed Israel Defense Forces firing on them, Shah said, "This is a propaganda attempt.
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The "peace Constitution" has not stopped the country from rebuilding its military, though its postwar version, the Self-Defense Forces, has never fought abroad.
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Yakobovich said his own journey to becoming a human rights activist started after he joined the Israeli Defense Forces at the age of 18.
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Mitsubishi and Kawasaki have built eight of the submarines for the Japanese Navy, the Maritime Self-Defense Forces, and have orders for 12 more.
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However, government spokesman Guy-Bertrand Mapangou told French news outlet RFI that defense forces have now taken back control of state TV and radio.
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Airstrikes Israeli Defense Forces said air force aircraft struck a Hamas training compound and ammunition warehouse in Gaza in response to projectiles fired earlier.
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Yemen's Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for firing the projectile on Saturday, which was intercepted by Saudi defense forces before it hit the ground.
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And according to the Afghan government, between January and the start of May 2017, Afghan security and defense forces saw 2,20173 service members killed.
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Militants have fired about 600 rockets toward Israel as of Sunday, with Israel launching 260 airstrikes in response, according to the Israeli Defense Forces.
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More than 242,400 people were reported injured as Israeli Defense Forces fired live bullets into crowds of protesters, the majority of whom were unarmed.
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The unmanned aerial vehicle was "armed with explosives and was tasked to attack Israeli territory," the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a report.
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While chaos ensued around the country, President Uhuru Kenyatta wrote on Twitter that he was attending a parade of new Kenya Defense Forces recruits.
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"The Zimbabwe Defense Forces and security services remain committed to the provision of safety and security to all members of the public," Mugwisi added.
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Abe has long sought to revise the U.S.-drafted, war-renouncing constitution to further legitimize Japan's military, known as the Self-Defense Forces (SDF).
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General Moyo — who was not widely known to the public but who was considered close to the commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces, Gen.
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The election also is the first time that three former heads of the army, the Israel Defense Forces, have united to run for office.
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US Africa Command -- which is responsible for military relations with nations on the continent -- said Africa Command and Kenya Defense forces repelled the attack.
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Israeli military warplanes hit surface-to-air missiles, weapons houses and military bases in Syria, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.
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The mission took place during a graduation ceremony for insurgent fighters on February 8, the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) said in a statement on Thursday.
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A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces explained that the time Azaria has spent in open detention will not count towards his 18-month sentence.
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The Israeli Defense Forces declined to provide an exact figure of incitement charges, but acknowledged that there have been "a few hundred" since October 2015.
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As a result, it started to build up its military capacities in 1954, calling the new branch "Self-Defense Forces" (SDF) to avoid constitutional problems.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is known for its operational creativity, so Iran must expect an unpredictable response to every one of its defensive redundancies.
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"The units of the Syrian army and local defense forces are still getting embroiled in violent clashes" around Handarat but have made advances, it said.
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Abe is also highlighting his call to revise the post-war constitution to further legitimize Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF), as its military is known.
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On the warehouse lease they found the name of an Israeli-Australian citizen, a former member of an elite division of the Israeli Defense Forces.
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The jet flew about 1.2 miles into Israeli airspace before it was hit by a pair of Patriot missiles, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
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More than 7,800 rescuers from the Fukuoka police force and Japan self defense forces have been working around the clock to search for missing people.
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And can you imagine the bragging rights of having Wonder Woman (not to mention Miss Israel and an Israeli Defense Forces trainer) as your Mommy?
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While Israel's Defense Forces are still vastly superior to Hezbollah in terms of both numbers and training, Hezbollah's rise certainly won't be welcomed in Jerusalem.
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But it turns out "Diana Filip" was really a former officer in the Israeli Defense Forces working for a private investigative agency called Black Cube.
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The Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday on Twitter that its version of the aircraft -- dubbed the F-35 "Adir" -- is already flying in operational missions.
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This has long frustrated Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials who complain UNIFIL's self-imposed restrictions enable Hezbollah to deepen its military presence in the country.
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That can take multiple forms — lynch mobs in Mexico, for instance, or paramilitary "self-defense" forces in Colombia — but the core impulse is the same.
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Israel returned fire at what the Israel Defense Forces describe as Hamas targets; two people were killed by the airstrikes, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
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In the latest incident, on Wednesday evening, the Israel Defense Forces said it had intercepted two rockets, and that a third landed in open territory.
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My eldest son is an American serving in Israel's Defense Forces, in a combat unit on the Golan Heights across the Lebanese and Syrian border.
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In addition to stretched-thin fire soldiers, will we see defense forces for other natural phenomena, like floodfighters and hurricane hunters defending our coastal cities?
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In the latest incident, on Wednesday evening, the Israel Defense Forces said Israel's aerial defenses had intercepted two rockets; a third landed in open territory.
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Dozens of fires also broke out in the neighboring occupied West Bank, Nael al-Azzeh of the Palestinian Civil Defense forces told local news outlets.
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"We're acquiring equipment for the Self-Defense Forces, as planned in the National Defense Program Guidelines and the Medium-Term Defense Program," Mr. Suga said.
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The British embassy in Afghanistan said Monday's casualties were "a stark reminder of the sacrifice the Afghan security and defense forces make for their country".
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He positioned the Israel Defense Forces soldiers, their jeeps, a sniper's bunker and sand berms used by soldiers on the Israeli side of the fence.
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Former snipers in the United States Army and the Israel Defense Forces told us that, without a backstop, it was a reckless shot to take.
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The report also accused the office of the Israel Defense Forces' spokesman of "manipulating the truth" in choosing the images it publicized of the attack.
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The United States provides material support and training to the Syrian Defense Forces — dominated by the Kurdish fighters — in their campaign against the Islamic State.
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The Israel Defense Forces refer to "tzir sterili," or sterile roads, because no Palestinian is allowed on them, whether in a car or on foot.
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The woman was a former officer in the Israeli Defense Forces who was recruited by Black Cube, the special ops agency Farrow claims Weinstein employed.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired from warring Yemen over the capital Riyadh on Saturday, state news agencies reported.
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Early Thursday morning, a Palestinian assailant carried out a ramming attack against Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
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This won&apost be the first time the missile is based on land, as Poland&aposs coastal defense forces already have several batteries in service.
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In 1952, while serving in the Israel Defense Forces, Mr. Tor was sent to the United States to work at the National Bureau of Standards.
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Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system was activated and launched an interceptor missile, but no interception took place, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), one rocket was fired from Gaza toward Israel and was intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system.
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Netanyahu said he and Putin "meet periodically in order to ensure the military coordination between the Israel Defense Forces and the Russian forces in Syria".
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One of the limits is that Self-Defense Forces personnel are supposed to be sent only to areas where there is no continuing armed conflict.
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Kuehn said Japan's Self-Defense Forces need to be careful not to "overreach" and move away from the strength they have developed protecting the home islands.
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Trade between the countries mushroomed in the wake of Crimea-related Western sanctions against Russia, and the defense forces of the two nations are growing closer.
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"He was identified by the Defense Forces and prosecuted by the Tehran military prosecutor," IRNA said, attributing the statement to the Iranian armed forces' judiciary department.
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Indian military officials have said the plan is for the joint venture to build at least 200 Kamov 226t helicopters required by the country's defense forces.
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Despite a search by a now 200-strong rescue team, including members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF), there has been no sign of the boy.
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The Japanese military is known as the Self-Defense Forces, but Abe said there is a contradiction between the constitution and the existence of the SDF.
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Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted two ballistic missiles over Riyadh, state media reported, in at least the sixth attack targeting the Saudi capital since December.
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The Israel Defense Forces, who will have had ample time to study him, describe him as outside the old Hamas leadership mold of careful, considered action.
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At Erez, I saw members of the Israeli defense forces, but not the same ones who fought in wars that left people dead and homes destroyed.
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The Israeli Defense Forces will continue bombing occasional weapon transfers, while hoping those raids do not lead Iran to ship weapons directly to Lebanon by air.
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Shots were fired from a passing car toward people standing at a bus stop at the entrance to the settlement, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
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A medic and an armed escort who has served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accompany each tour group as they sightsee, party, and so on.
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"The Zimbabwean Defense Forces has not deployed soldiers in any residential area to beat up people at night or any time of the day," said Col.
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Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthi militia over Riyadh on Sunday, state-run al-Ikhbariya television said on Sunday.
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My grandfather was one of the early establishers of the [Israel Defense Forces] so I thought I was going to be a soldier all my life.
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News of the tests had angered the Kremlin, prompting it to put its air defense forces on high alert and maneuver warships in the Black Sea.
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According to Burkina Faso's government information service, 6 assailants were killed, 7 members of defense forces were killed, and 6 people were wounded, including 2 civilians.
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Although Israeli Defense forces regularly enter these areas to conduct raids and arrests of suspected militants, it is illegal for non-serving Israeli citizens to enter.
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But he also failed to see how steadfastly President Richard Nixon and the U.S. would stand by Israel and resupply its defense forces during that conflict.
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The groups ready to pounce include the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), a moniker apparently calculated to add gravitas to an ostensibly criminal organization.
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Brusk Hasaka, a spokesman for the Syrian Defense Forces in Afrin, said that there were currently 150 foreign fighters in their ranks, which include Y.P.G. fighters.
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For example, a political body that decides on conversions could rule that serving in the Israel Defense Forces counts when a person wishes to become Jewish.
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The incident came after an Israeli combat helicopter successfully intercepted an Iranian unmanned aerial drone that had been launched from Syria, the Israel Defense Forces said.
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Hamas hopes to force the Israel Defense Forces to respond with lethal force so the Hamas strategy of delegitimizing Israel through international vilification will be advanced.
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Asked why Iranian airspace was not shut to commercial air traffic while Iran's defense forces were on alert for attacks, Mr. Hajizadeh had no clear answer.
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So, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is forced to fire upon offending Syrian military positions, this needed retaliatory action is both lawful and law-enforcing.
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However, with previously restricted positions in Japan's Marine, Air, and Ground Self Defense Forces now open to women, new female leaders have started taking the reins.
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A commander in Iran's air defense forces, Alireza Elhami, told Tasnim news that the drone was a quadcopter that left the area after the warning shots.
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The strikes hit 18 Hamas targets, including what the Israeli military called an "offensive terror tunnel" in Zaytun in southern Gaza, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
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Mr. Abe's government, under pressure from the news media and the opposition parties, contended that the area where the Self-Defense Forces were stationed was peaceful.
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Palestinian militant groups — specifically Hamas and Islamic Jihad — launched nearly 700 rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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Played by Gal Gadot, who possesses an origin story that involves a two-year stint as a solider of the Israel Defense Forces, Wonder Woman, a.k.a.
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The fighting came after Kurdish security forces stopped a car containing an officer of the Syrian national defense forces at some point in the past 24 hours.
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On the other are several hundred men from the recently named Benghazi Defense Forces (BDF), which says it wants to take back control of Libya's second city.
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Now in the private sector, Rogers will join Israeli cybersecurity think tank Team8, which is led by his former counterpart in the Israeli Defense Forces, Nadav Zafrir.
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Israeli authorities have long claimed that Barghouti is responsible for several acts of terrorism, and he was finally arrested in Ramallah by Israeli Defense Forces in 2002.
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" The Israel Defense Forces said on Twitter that some 35,000 Palestinians were taking part in protests and that it was "responding with riot dispersal means and fire.
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Protection and comfort The D3O team has also worked extensively with the US and UK defense forces, police and emergency services to provide protective and comfortable clothes.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Twitter that 15,000 Palestinians took part in what it described as riots along the fence that separates Israel from Gaza.
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However, the head of air defense forces in Iran, which along with Russia is the main supporter of Assad, said any interference without Syrian consent would fail.
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Tondop said the country's defense forces have sent 100 troops to the region and another 100 are on the way, though it's unclear when they will arrive.
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Although Robert Mugabe is yet to resign, Zimbabwean Defense Forces (ZDF) are effectively in charge of the country right now, making any political future difficult to decipher.
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The Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, Ronen Manelis, says Hamas is paying families to protest, and that they have intelligence that Hamas seeks to kidnap an Israeli soldier.
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A member of the Syrian Defense Forces told a journalist for France 24 in Raqqa that his supply lines were being attacked 15 to 16 times daily.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a missile fired at its southwestern region of Jizan by Yemen's Houthi movement, Saudi state media said on Tuesday.
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Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday reported that missiles from Hezbollah, which is funded by Iran, hit an IDF military outpost and an ambulance in northern Israel.
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It "creates a credibility to the threat," argued Giora Eiland, retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces and a former head of Israel's National Security Council.
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Jonathan Conricus, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said the army's general staff had been preparing the operation for more than a year and a half.
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After joining the Air Defense Forces, he rose quickly through the ranks; he was assigned to the early-warning system at its inception in the early 20133s.
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Toru Hashimoto, former governor and mayor of Osaka, told the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest daily, that it was time to clearly make the self-defense forces legal.
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Israeli naval forces shot at a Palestinian fishing boat to force it into the "designated (6 mile) fishing zone," according to an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) statement.
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And, as a great military strategist, he has insisted, like Israel, on the strength of Rwanda's defense forces so that no one can slaughter his people again.
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Iran's aerial defense forces, worried about possible American reprisals for the missile attack, were on alert — even though commercial aviation in Iran was allowed to proceed normally.
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He has a crackpot dream of starting a vigilante militia that will do things the Israel Defense Forces will not, and using religious retreats to lure recruits.
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Founded only in 2013, of course by former members of the Israel Defense Forces cybersecurity elite unit 603, it has so far raised $30 million in investments.
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The Israel Defense Forces recently released information about a facility belonging to Hezbollah, located in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, that manufactures and converts precision-guided missiles.
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A CNN team in Syria witnessed airstrikes, explosions and mortar fire in Baghouz after the operation by the Syrian Defense Forces began about 6 pm local time.
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In May, Israel Defense Forces said they were using their version of the F-35 in operational missions, striking at least two unspecified targets in the region.
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Japan's Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said in September the Self-Defense forces would increase activities there through joint patrols and exercises with the US and other regional navies.
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According to the Israel Defense Forces, Azaria arrived at the scene about 11 minutes after the attack, cocked his rifle and shot Sharif in the head, killing him.
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While the Afghan national defense forces were under heavy attack by the Taliban late Thursday, they requested precision air support and airstrikes were called in, according to Col.
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The video the Israel Defense Forces tweeted shows 21-year-old Razan al-Najjar claiming to be a "human shield" for an extreme Palestinian opposition movement against Israel.
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The firm's three managing partners are: Benny Gantz, former chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces Moshe Mor, formerly with Greylock Partners Moti Shniberg, founder of Face.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer Joseph Dunford Jr. will meet his Russian counterpart Valery Gerasimov in Helsinki on Friday, Finnish defense forces said in a statement.
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The Israel Defense Forces said it intercepted four of the rockets and that "no hits were located in Israel" because the rest of the projectiles landed in Syria.
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Canadian coastal defense forces will investigate water around Prince Rupert, in British Columbia, after diver Sean Smyrichinsky found a mysterious object on a recent trip, officials told CNN.
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Saudi state media said separately that air defense forces had intercepted a missile launched at the southern city of Jizan, in an attack also claimed by the Houthis.
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"I salute the bravery of our security and defense forces whose engagement allowed us to neutralize the terrorists," the President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said in a statement.
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Pence watched the battery raised to a firing position and got a briefing before shaking hands with members of the Self-Defense Forces, as Japan's military is known.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, however, is asserting its claim to areas captured by the Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) from the Islamic State in more forceful terms.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi-led coalition accused Yemen's Houthi militia of a "dangerous escalation" on Sunday after Saudi air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards Riyadh.
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A PAC-3 Patriot battery drove on to the Asaka Self Defense Forces base near Tokyo, deployed its radar antenna and raised its missile launcher to firing position.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed Hamas fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel Saturday in the first attack on Tel Aviv since 2014.
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Constitutional crises One of Abe's long-term goals has been to change the Japanese constitution to remove restrictions on the country's military, known as the Self Defense Forces.
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"This support is a clear demonstration of Australia's close and longstanding defense relationship with PNG and the interoperability our defense forces have developed over a number of decades."
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In Somalia, U.S. forces working alongside Somali National Security Forces and Kenyan Defense Forces came under attack from mortar and small arms fire at about 2:45 p.m.
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In response, Israeli aircraft carried out airstrikes on four Hamas sites in the northern and central Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement early Saturday.
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Other ASEAN military representatives will attend a separate three-day event from Tuesday in Japan, to observe Self Defense Forces (SDF) military disaster relief drills, the ministry said.
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Members of the fire department, police and self-defense forces demonstrated how to carry out emergency first-aid rescue operations while organizing people into groups for effective escape.
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The country has delivered four shipments of aid to displaced people living in tent camps near the Golan Heights border, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said last week.
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Emboldened by his faith, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago served as a civilian volunteer in 20143 not in the United States Army, but in the Israel Defense Forces.
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They correctly point out that all Israeli women are required to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for two years while their male counterparts serve three years.
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Israel Defense Forces, meanwhile, said an aerial defense system intercepted an anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria, according to a statement posted on the IDF official Twitter account.
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In the statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said protesters had burned tires and flown kites -- with what the statement described as burning items attached -- over the border.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) began a series of strikes on the Gaza Strip Thursday after saying that two rockets were fired at Tel Aviv from the area.
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IG: There was one time in Michoacán, when cartel members dressed as autodefensas [self-defense forces] thought I was a DEA agent and threatened me with a grenade.
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It's reached the point that the Israeli Defense Forces' chief of staff has even been quoted in Saudi newspapers as saying the two countries are now sharing intelligence.
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"The security and defense forces of Afghanistan, in accordance with the law, should act professionally and legally," said Shahussain Murtazawi, a spokesman for the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani.
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It earned him the sobriquet "Rafi the Smelly," to distinguish him from another Rafael Eitan, who went on to become chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
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Ms. Patel also asked officials from her department to examine whether public money could support humanitarian operations by the Israeli Defense Forces in parts of the Golan Heights.
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Bergman, a 41-year-old former paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, is the vice president of the Richardson Center, an NGO created by former New Mexico Gov.
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"Our brave security and defense forces will only act in defense of themselves and the honorable people of Afghanistan," he said in a televised address late on Friday.
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As its former principal told me, "100 percent" of the graduating students who were awarded permanent residency in the country have since conscripted to the Israel Defense Forces.
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"Witness statements suggest that the perpetrators travel from Kenya into Somalia; using vehicles, equipment and clothing that could be attributed to the Kenya Defense Forces," the document said.
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"Witness statements suggest that the perpetrators travel from Kenya into Somalia; using vehicles, equipment and clothing that could be attributed to the Kenya Defense Forces," the document said.
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As recently as last week, Mr. Abe stood by Ms. Inada after she suggested that the Self-Defense Forces, Japan's military, backed a candidate in the Tokyo elections.
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More than a dozen rockets were fired from Gaza, many of which were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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Liberman has continued to demand that Netanyhau enact a military draft bill that will end the exemption ultra-orthodox Jews have from service in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Israel Defense Forces have predicted that 1,000 rockets could hit Israeli cities every day -- enough to knock out Israel's airports and other vital facilities, and overwhelm defense systems.
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Evacuation orders or advisories were sent for 4.72 million people, and 48,000 members of the Self-Defense Forces, police and firefighters were mobilized for search missions, according to Kyodo.
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After a ministerial meeting Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tweeted that an additional 14,000 staff from the Japanese Defense Forces (SDF) have been deployed to assist emergency responders.
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"Over the last seven days, flights of Russian Aerospace Defense Forces and Syrian Air Force over Aleppo were completely ceased," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
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The Palestinian, Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, 21, was one of two suspects accused of stabbing an Israeli soldier at the scene moments earlier, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
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Iraqi forces, in conjunction with local defense forces and American troops, are liberating villages along the Mosul corridor and will escalate their efforts as they move towards the city.
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Oil prices began to climb on Trump's warning over Syria, then rallied further on a report that Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a missile over Riyadh, the capital.
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A fourth Palestinian also attempted to enter with the group, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement, though it wouldn't comment on the person's condition or location.
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Currently, the Japanese military is known as the Self-Defense Forces, but previously, Abe has said there is a contradiction between the constitution and the existence of the SDF.
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Historically, politically, the differences between the obligations of the Israel Defense Forces and those of an American moving company (however unpleasant the contract) seem more acute than the similarities.
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According to the Israel Defense Forces, more than 180 rockets and mortars were launched from Gaza toward Israel, with rocket alarms ringing into the early hours of the morning.
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The bill, which enjoys cross-partisan support, aims to regulate federal defense forces' involvement in the drug war, which has claimed well over 100,000 lives in the last decade.
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But Monday morning brought a measure of relief: Palestinian officials said a ceasefire had been reached, and the Israeli Defense Forces signaled the same by lifting restrictions on civilians.
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In 2012, Turkish photojournalist Monique Jaques traveled to the Gaza Strip to document Operation Pillar of Defense—one of the countless battles between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas.
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A spokesman for the Zimbabwe Defense Forces, Overson Mugwisi, said the military had "no direct role" in the elections and denied that the military was helping the governing party.
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His background as the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff certainly helps, but he seems to grasp the more diplomatic aspects of being a head of state as well.
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At least a dozen acquaintances from my Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Atlanta went off to fight in Middle Eastern wars in the mid-2000s—with the Israel Defense Forces.
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Until 10 days ago, Black Cube, a private investigation firm established in 2010 by former intelligence analysts from the Israeli Defense Forces, was largely unknown in the United States.
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Split into two amphibious deployment regiments, the unit is equipped with amphibious vehicles and will continue training with US military forces, a Japan Self Defense Forces press release said.
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The attack happened in a factory at the Barkan Industrial Park, in the north of the West Bank, early Sunday, according to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Lt. Col.
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Israel has been fiercely condemned by United Nations officials, European leaders and human rights organizations, who insist that the Israel Defense Forces is, once again, resorting to disproportionate force.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is trying to do something unique in history by preparing the army for a potential future war that does not look like any before.
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They said forces from Kenya Defense forces as well as those from US Africa Command fought back the attack after an initial penetration of the perimeter of the facility.
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The high-profile cruise was part of a hitherto unseen coordinated push by Japan's Self Defense Forces and defense bureaucrats to bolster ties with countries ringing the contested waters.
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Oil prices began to climb on Trump's warning over Syria, then rallied further on a report that Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a missile over the capital Riyadh.
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Every institution -- local councils, schools, hospitals -- is run on a co-presidency rule with a man and a woman sharing all posts, including the command of their defense forces.
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A soldier in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, Petrov was on duty in September 1983 when alarms sounded that five intercontinental ballistic missiles were launched from a U.S. base.
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He could afford to defend a veterans' group's right to criticize the Israel Defense Forces, he said, but he would not side with the U.S. on the Iran deal.
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But Benny Gantz, a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces who is offering himself up as a savior to the opposition, is finally making some noise.
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Now we also know that China's nuclear-armed submarines — Beijing's additional and updated second-strike capability — are being hunted by American defense forces in close proximity to U.S. maritime borders.
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The initial report came from the Houthi-controlled news outlet SABA, which stated that Houthi air defense forces destroyed the $16 million reconnaissance drone near Yemen's capital city of Sanaa.
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Beijing has confirmed its backing for the Afghan defense forces struggling against a Taliban insurgency that has taken swathes of territory in recent years, but it has offered few details.
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"America will always be grateful for our Kurdish allies and the Syria defense forces who fought shoulder to shoulder and bravely with us in this fight," Pence told the crowd.
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I read that you turned down modeling offers as a teenager, then started law school after winning Miss Israel and completing your required military service with the Israel Defense Forces.
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John Hyten, the commander of US Strategic Command, which oversees US nuclear weapons and missile defense forces, said Tuesday that China was critical to solving the North Korea nuclear challenge.
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John Hyten, the commander of US Strategic Command, which oversees US nuclear weapons and missile defense forces, contradicted Trump, saying China was critical to solving the North Korea nuclear challenge.
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The Israeli company Rafael's Trophy system used by the Israel Defense Forces is being adapted for the Abrams and the Iron Fist from the Israeli IMI Systems for the Bradley.
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In November, Israeli Defense Forces said they killed four militants linked to IS after they attacked Israeli soldiers with a machine gun mounted atop a vehicle in the Golan Heights.
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Abe, in a video message to a gathering celebrating the anniversary of the enactment of the charter, proposed making explicit reference to the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the constitution.
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Although operating under a pacifist constitution, Japan provided $2628 billion in assistance during the Gulf war and their self defense forces provided considerable support to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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The scene Around 35,000 people -- who the Israel Defense Forces describes as "violent rioters" -- assembled in 12 locations along the border fence separating Gaza and Israel, according to the IDF.
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The government said it was sending units from the army, known in Japan as the Self-Defense Forces, and from police departments around the country to help with rescue efforts.
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At least two separatist groups, the Ambazonia Defense Forces and the Ambazonia Governing Council, have denied involvement in the kidnapping and suggested that the government had a hand in it.
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Widodo was scheduled to participate in a parade marking the 72nd anniversary of the country's defense forces in Banten province -- about a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Jakarta.
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She is a political hawk, supporting the revision of the country's pacifist Constitution as well as a stronger role for the country's self-defense forces, as Japan's military is known.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi air defense forces intercepted a missile fired by Houthi fighters in neighboring Yemen at the southern Saudi city of Najran on Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition said.
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While many Israelis, including the commanders of the Israel Defense Forces, have responded in outrage, others have said that Sergeant Azaria's actions were justified and have called him a hero.
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Israel's military strength, especially during the Six-Day War in 1967, when the Israeli Defense Forces conquered Jerusalem, gave American Jews something they hadn't had for two millennia: national pride.
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She had recommended that the Israeli Defense Forces, along with the militant group Hamas, be included on the list for their conduct in the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Israel struck nine targets in northern Gaza overnight Monday in response to the launching of explosive and incendiary kites by Palestinians, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday.
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One example illustrates that scenario: The Israel Defense Forces currently monitor the accounts of suspects and their networks to identify any signs of a possible attack, the RUSI report said.
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Today, as the Defense Forces hand over all normal day-to-day policing duties to the Zimbabwe Republic Police, we urge all our citizens to allow for a smooth transition.
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Iranian forces stationed in Syria reportedly fired 20 rockets at Israeli military positions in the Golan Heights early Thursday, Israel's defense forces told the AP. No Israeli casualties were reported.
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On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces used two surface-to-air missiles to shoot down a Syrian fighter jet that strayed two kilometers into Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights.
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Some leaders within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are skeptical of such an agreement, Haaretz reported, with some expressing concerns it would "tie the hands" of the IDF later on.
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Stanislav Petrov, a 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, was the duty officer at a secret command center outside Moscow when the alarms went off.
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To prevent terrorists, primarily Hamas, from turning the ensuing security vacuum into a terrorist safe haven, Israel would have to deploy the Israel Defense Forces into the entire West Bank.
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In photos released by state-run news outlets in Zimbabwe, Mr. Mugabe can be seen meeting with South African envoys and Constantine Chiwenga, general commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces.
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When the Israeli Defense Forces stopped letting soldiers bring their guns home over the weekend, suicides fell 40 percent, primarily due to a drop in firearm suicides committed on weekends.
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The Israel Defense Forces claimed responsibility for the airstrikes near Damascus on Saturday evening, saying it was necessary to thwart multiple attacks by what it called killer, or kamikaze, drones.
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Konashenkov said the Syrian air defense forces were responding to Israeli fighter jets that had struck the outskirts of Damascus with missiles around the same time, just after 2 a.m.
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" The Syrian Defense Forces commander has also accused Turkish-backed militias of continuing their attacks, saying they had targeted an area populated by Christians "on the International Day for Tolerance.
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Just as in April, this election pits the longtime leader of Israel against the one-time leader of the military, former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Benny Gantz.
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Gaza militants fired more than 60 rockets into Israel, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out dozens of airstrikes on targets in Gaza, IDF Spokeswoman Mika Lipshitz told CNN.
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Since March 30, 134 Palestinians have been killed by members of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and 15,200 injured, Ashraf al-Qidra, the Palestinian ministry of health spokesperson, told Al Jazeera.
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Both Israeli Defense Forces and Shin Bet sources say they are concerned that new terror cells along these lines may be forming in the West Bank to carry out similar attacks.
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Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces have joined the rescue team searching for Yamato Tanooka, the 7-year-old boy who was abandoned in a forest by his parents as punishment.
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The proposal is more troubling in light of a recent report revealing Russian war games last September "simulated a large-scale military attack against Nato," according to the Estonian Defense Forces.
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While the vast majority of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are Jews - and nearly all their conflicts have been against Arab nations - a trickle of Israeli Arabs volunteer for the army.
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Benny Gantz, a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces who is making a strong centrist challenge in the April 9 elections, criticized Netanyahu for the deteriorating security situation.
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Narang noted that the Indian leader could use the present opportunity to "improve the defense forces and acquisition process" for his country — or he could aim to settle scores with Pakistan.
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After arranging to place Martin-Cramp at a former US naval base that now serves as living quarters for the island's defense forces, Armstrong says a second extradition request was made.
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While there are few details currently known about the suspect, the Jerusalem Post reports that the he is not ultra-Orthodox and is not a member of the Israel Defense Forces.
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Conrad, and the U.S. special operations forces were fighting alongside about 800 troops from the Somali National Security Forces and Kenyan Defense Forces when they were attacked about 2:45 p.m.
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It will take all the restraint of the highly professional Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to avert the bloodbath that Hamas desperately seeks; whether the IDF will succeed is an open question.
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The Israel Defense Forces launched a military strike on Hamas Monday after an early morning rocket launched from the Gaza Strip destroyed a house and injured seven people near Tel Aviv.
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Furthermore, its self-defense forces are part of the Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the United States that have advanced toward Raqqa, the center of the Islamic State's power in Syria.
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Government forces took the students as a "mass distraction tactic" to divert attention from President Paul Biya's inauguration Tuesday, Ambazonia Defense Forces spokesman Tapang Ivo Tanku said in a Facebook post.
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Jerusalem (CNN)An Israeli tank targeted a Hamas military post in Gaza Saturday morning in retaliation for a breach of the border fence, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
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The Syrians were transferred to Jordan via Israel, at the request of the United States and some European countries, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement after the operation.
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Ginosar—a serene, hyper-organized woman who, before training neural networks, trained fighter pilots in simulators in the Israel Defense Forces—created an itinerary to keep me occupied while I waited.
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Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)Zimbabwe's embattled President Robert Mugabe has been shown in talks with the commander of the country's defense forces, a day after the military seized control of the capital.
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But in the past year, calls for the use of capital punishment have started to rise again, heightened by the trial of Elor Azaria, a sergeant in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Neither Netanyahu nor his political rival, former Israel Defense Forces Chief Benny Gantz, succeeded in forming a government, leaving the country in political limbo with an embattled Netanyahu at the helm.
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Israeli Defense Forces said four Israeli citizens were killed in rocket attacks, while Palestinian health officials said 23 Palestinians — including two pregnant women and two babies — died in the weekend's violence.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Syria air defense forces thwarted missile attacks targeting the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus and the city of Homs, Syrian state news agency SANA said late on Sunday.
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Similarly, Black recounts an astonishing 1956 eulogy by Moshe Dayan, then the chief of staff for the Israel Defense Forces, for a young kibbutz member murdered by Palestinian fighters near Gaza.
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Our reporters traveled to the border with Gaza, where Palestinians continue to protest against an Israeli blockade that has suffocated them, putting the Israel Defense Forces on high alert for violence.
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Afghan defense forces continued to fight gunmen throughout the day, finally securing the area by killing about three gunmen in the late afternoon, according to ministry of interior spokesman Nasrat Rahimi.
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The commander of the Israeli Defense Forces, Gadi Eizenkot, has repeatedly said that the agreement "is working" and delaying Iran's efforts to obtain a weapon by a decade to 15 years.
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Japan has faced escalating security threats from North Korea, and Mr. Abe said he wants to make "explicit the status" of Japan's self-defense forces and amend the Constitution by 2020.
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The Houthis fired a salvo of missiles at Riyadh last week, with one falling short of the capital and another intercepted by Saudi air defense forces, Malki said at the time.
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Kiev began two days of missile tests on Thursday, angering Russia, which has put its air defense forces on high alert saying it hopes the war games won't disrupt international flights.
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"The security situation has been challenging despite the deployment of the Ethiopian Defense Forces in the area, with reports of continued destruction of houses, other assets and service infrastructure," it read.
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Rouhani plans to tell Abe that the Iranian government would not oppose a deployment of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces to the Middle East, Kyodo news agency reported, citing a source.
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His government passed a law in 2015 allowing the Self-Defense Forces to engage in combat outside Japan in limited situations, and has proposed amending the Constitution to loosen constraints further.
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Smaller guerrilla group the national liberation army (ELN), the paramilitary mafia the gaitanist self-defense forces (AGC) and rogue FARC units are already moving on these territories – and on each other.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager early Tuesday in the West Bank, mistakenly believing he was involved in an earlier stone-throwing incident, the Israel Defense Forces said.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a missile above the capital Riyadh, Saudi-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya said on Wednesday after several loud booms were heard in the city center.
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On Sunday, amidst Israel's deadly bombing campaign in Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces announced it had taken out a building housing "Hamas cyber operatives" after thwarting a "cyber offensive" from the group.
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Allied to the increasing propensity to religiosity among Israeli Jews are trends in the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), a change that raises questions about the reliability of the army.
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"I fought with all my might against manifestations of extremism, violence, and racism in Israeli society, which are threatening its sturdiness and also trickling into the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]," he continued.
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"(Golan) clarified today that he had no intention whatsoever of comparing the Israel Defense Forces and the State of Israel to the horrors that occurred in Germany 70 years ago," it said.
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Article 9 technically bans the maintenance of armed forces but has been interpreted by successive Japanese governments to allow the Self-Defense Forces, as the military is known, for exclusively defensive purposes.
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Israeli Arabs, Israeli armyWhile most of the Israel Defense Forces personnel are Jews, and nearly all their conflicts have been against Arab nations, a trickle of Israeli Arabs volunteer for the army.
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Japan's Self-Defense Forces personnel found Yamato Tanooka in a building on the premises of the military's Kamagatame exercise field Friday morning, said Satoshi Saito, a spokesperson for the local fire department.
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Yamato's father Takayuki expressed remorse after his son was found on Friday, following a six-day search that involved more than 200 rescue workers and members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
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She started her bachelor's degree at Talpiot, the elite Israeli Defense Forces program, and completed it while serving full-time as a technology analyst and researcher at the Israeli intelligence unit 8200.
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Enconsed in a web of official protection, the Castaños' United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) would absorb much of the country's narco-infrastructure and penetrate the highest echelons of formal power.
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Saudi air defense forces on Wednesday intercepted three missiles fired at Riyadh and other cities by the Houthis — the fourth time in five months that missiles have flown over the Saudi capital.
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In 2005 she and the two other surviving members of Operation Susannah, Robert Dassa and Meir Zafran, were given military ranks in the Israel Defense Forces for their service to the country.
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JERUSALEM — In response to mortar rounds fired by Hamas toward Israeli defense forces operating outside the Gaza Strip, Israel hit five targets in Gaza with airstrikes on Wednesday, a military spokesman said.
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"According to the information available to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] at the time of the strike, no civilians were expected to be harmed as a result of the strike," she said.
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The killing and the manslaughter trial have prompted a nationwide debate in Israel over the conduct of Sergeant Azaria, a member of perhaps the most respected institution in Israel, the defense forces.
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Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis in the southern city of Najran, wounding 26 people with shrapnel, Saudi civil defense said on Wednesday.
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NHK said that Mr. Kurihara was a former officer in Japan's military, the Self Defense Forces, and that the police had found what appeared to be a suicide note on his clothes.
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Israel Defense Forces, meanwhile, said in a statement that an aerial defense system intercepted an anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria, according to a statement posted on the IDF official Twitter account.
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Overson Mugwisi, a spokesman for the Zimbabwean Defense Forces, said an agreement had been reached with Mugabe that included immunity and a guarantee of safety for him and his wife, Grace Mugabe.
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" The Israel Defense Forces told NBC: "The IDF will not allow any harm to security infrastructure that protects Israeli civilians, and will act against the violent rioters and terrorists who threaten either.
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" In Shaffa, Syria, on the frontlines of the fight against ISIS, a Syrian Defense Forces commander told CNN that "we were all surprised by it," adding that the announcement "impacted us all.
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The Maritime Self Defense Forces (MSDF) needs a tanker able to carry 300,000 barrels of fuel to White Beach port on Okinawa where it stores fuel for warships that patrol the region.
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Israelis are expected to undertake two years in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) at aged 18 and this experience is cited as a game changer in terms of mentality for its citizens.
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Of the two missiles the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) fired at Syria, one was self-detonated by the Israeli Air Force when it became clear the Syrian weapons wouldn't breach Israel's border.
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"The government of Israel, the IDF and the Mossad prevented Syria from developing a nuclear capability," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, referring to the Israel Defense Forces and the country's spy agency.
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Washington's close ties to Tokyo have also benefited U.S. military contractors such as Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co, which have sold billions of dollars of equipment to Japan's Self Defense Forces.
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Moreover, said Mr. Yamaguchi, who is a retired lieutenant general in Japan's military, known as the Self-Defense Forces, the prime minister would need approval from Japan's Parliament for any such action.
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One of our congregants that day, Almog Peretz, a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces, ran after me to help get the children to safety and took a bullet in the leg.
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It was then adopted as the ensign of the Maritime Self-Defence Force, as Japan's navy is known, when the MSDF was established as part of Japan's Self-Defense Forces in 1954.
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For now at least, the Syrian Defense Forces leadership has told American officials that it will continue to detain the Islamic State fighters and their families in makeshift camps in northern Syria.
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"It kind of feels like you're living in Harry Potter's cupboard," said Mr. Meyer, who is in his freshman year at Columbia after serving for three years in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Manga comics and anime television shows like "Gate," which feature the Self-Defense Forces fighting against supernatural creatures, have grown popular, while online matchmaking sites offering dates with soldiers have become trendy.
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TOKYO — Japan will send defense forces early next year to patrol regional shipping lanes in the Middle East, from which it sources much of its crude oil, the government announced on Friday.
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AZAZ (Reuters) - A truck packed with explosives blew up in the city of Azaz in northern Syria on Sunday, killing one person and wounding a number of others, civil defense forces said.
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Opposition politicians had criticized the trip's reported cancellation given there was no change in plans to send Japanese Self Defense Forces there, a move they oppose due to the increasingly fraught situation.
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In recent years such groups have flourished, along with other armed self-defense forces as rural communities seek alternatives to often corrupt state security forces, or to stand up to drug cartels.
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Coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said Saudi air defense forces had tracked the rocket but that it landed in an uninhabited area, according to a report from the official Saudi Press Agency.
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The Syrian American Medical Society told CNN that 100 of the rockets had rained down in recent days, and that civil defense forces were struggling to put out the fires they caused.
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Members of the team are equipped with MP5 submachine guns and AK-47 rifles, and have been trained in Krav Maga, a form of martial arts used by the Israel Defense Forces.
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Under Abe, Japan's Self Defense Forces are pivoting away from guarding the nation's north to reinforce an island chain stretching 1,400 km (870 miles) along the southern edge of the East China Sea.
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Those settlements, and the soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces who were charged with protecting the Jewish settlers who lived in them, caused serious friction with the majority population of Palestinians in Gaza.
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The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday it responded to a cyberattack from a Hamas-controlled compound in Gaza with an airstrike, a rare mix of physical and cyber conflict on the world stage.
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Others investors include Cisco also as a strategic backer, Innovation Endeavors, Bessemer Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, Marker, and Team8 — a security incubator founded by alums of the Israeli Defense Forces that spawned Illusive.
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"The Turkish state has been trying to enter north Syria for days, but it will not be able to," said Siyamand Walat, the general commander of the self-defense forces in the north.
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Coalition net slipping over the city Raqqa is almost entirely encircled by coalition-backed fighters called the Syrian Defense Forces, an alliance of mainly Kurdish fighters with some Arab Syrian rebels in tow.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Four Israelis, including an Israel Defense Forces soldier, have been charged in connection with the lynching of an Eritrean migrant who was mistaken for a terrorist during an attack in October.
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Called ultra-wideband (UWB), it was primarily used by the military in radar systems—which is how Vayyar's founder Raviv Melamed, who served in the Israeli Defense Forces, said he first encountered it.
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Israeli society's avoidance of the complexities and ambivalences of genuine introspection was especially noticeable during the debate after an Israel Defense Forces soldier, Elor Azaria, shot and killed a wounded terrorist in Hebron.
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Since early February, when Israel says it shot down an Iranian drone laden with explosives that was launched from Syria, the Israel Defense Forces have increased retaliatory strikes in Syria at Iranian targets.
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The 1-kilometer tunnel was only meters away from the border fence near the Erez crossing into Israel and a short distance away from a kibbutz, said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman.
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It's a week when the country salutes the Israel Defense Forces, the institution that defends its fragile being, and the I.D.F. salutes the public, which sends its sons and daughters to mandatory service.
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The government dispatched 25,000 personnel from the Self-Defense Forces, as the Japanese military is known, as well as units from police and fire departments around the country, to help with rescue efforts.
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The escalation began in the late afternoon, when an Israeli soldier died after being hit by gunfire during protests along the fence that separates Israel and Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
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Japan's Self-Defense Forces began operating a sophisticated new radar station this year on the tiny island of Yonaguni, part of Okinawa Prefecture, to monitor Chinese naval activity in the East China Sea.
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The guerrillas — members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, or FARC — had been in the region for many years, but then the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a paramilitary group, arrived.
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The Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces rely heavily on US-made Patriot surface-to-air missile systems, which a sustained number of missile and drone attacks over a period of time can overwhelm.
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Military sets deadline: Frustrated with Mugabe's resistance, the commander of the defense forces said the President had until Friday to change his stance, "or we do it the hard way," a source said.
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Netanyahu, of the right-wing Likud party, faced off against Benny Gantz, the Blue and White party leader who was previously the Israel Defense Forces military chief, for the second time this year.
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In Washington last month I interviewed Benny Gantz, the former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces who now leads the Blue and White party, the principal challenger to Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud.
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On Thursday, he released a video message calling for amending it to make explicit the legality of the country's Self-Defense Forces, as Japan's military, which has about 225,000 active members, is known.
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"As a committed member of the American Jewish community, she has supported Jewish schools, Holocaust memorial organizations, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces and Birthright Israel, among other causes," the White House said.
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By the 22012s, the name was used by the Israeli Defense Forces — in which a number of Russian Jewish veterans of the Second World War served — to describe rockets fired by guerrilla fighters.
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TEL AVIV, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems said on Wednesday it won a contract valued at $144 million for the supply of small caliber ammunition to the Israeli Defense Forces.
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The Hebrew University public health researcher is the former chief epidemiologist for the Israel Defense Forces, which means he's acquainted with danger and risk in a way most of his academic counterparts aren't.
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In response, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said fighter jets, attack helicopters and other aircraft struck a range of Hamas targets, including an underground rocket factory, a training facility, and a logistics headquarters.
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For his final interview as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces before he retires next week, the general has decided to claim responsibility and take at least some of the credit.
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The quake prompted Japan's Self-Defense Forces to cancel two joint military exercises in Hokkaido, including the first-ever drill with Australian fighter jets, and a training exercise with the U.S. Marine Corps.
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A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces explained that the time Azaria has spent in open detention will not count towards his 18-month sentence, which he will begin serving in 12 days time.
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Jerusalem (CNN)A 13-year-old Israeli-American girl was stabbed to death in her bedroom Thursday morning in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said.
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"It is therefore necessary that military capabilities are jointly planned, developed, managed, procured and deployed to raise the interoperability of Europe's defense forces and to further improve Europe's capacity to act," the paper states.
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Ukraine began two days of missile tests near Crimea on Thursday - a move that has angered Russia, which has put its air defense forces on high alert and deployed warships in the Black Sea.
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Pakistan used heavy calibre weapons in 12 to 15 places along the de facto border in Kashmir, known as the Line of Control (LoC), a spokesman for the Indian defense forces said on Wednesday.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthis in the southern city of Najran, wounding 26 people with shrapnel, Saudi civil defense said on Wednesday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's armed Houthi movement said it had launched a ballistic missile toward a Saudi Aramco oil refinery on Friday, but Saudi air defense forces said they had intercepted and destroyed the projectile.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Gaza militants fired five projectiles toward Israel on Saturday night, the Israel Defense Forces said, in apparent violation of a ceasefire agreed to by Hamas and Islamic Jihad earlier in the week.
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On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces' Twitter account posted a photo of two young women, dressed in green army jumpsuits and holding the long braids they had just chopped off of their own hair.
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RIYADH, April 11 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a missile over the capital Riyadh on Wednesday, Saudi-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya said, after at least three blasts were heard in the city.
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Here, politicians blatantly trample the state's values and laws and seek belligerent solutions, while the chiefs of the Israel Defense Forces and the heads of the intelligence agencies try to calm and restrain them.
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The Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, said it launched more than 35 airstrikes targeting the militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, after approximately 70 rockets and mortars were fired toward Israeli territory Tuesday morning.
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"The station broadcasts harsh incitement against Israel and its citizens, showing methods on how to carry out attacks against civilians and soldiers," the Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said in a statement, according to Haaretz.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed it struck nearly all of Iran's military infrastructure in Syria, dramatically ramping up hostilities between the two longtime adversaries that until now were largely fought out by proxies.
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Jerusalem (CNN)The Israeli military shot down a Syrian fighter jet after it entered Israeli airspace on Tuesday afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, raising fears of further military escalation in the region.
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Netanyahu faced off against Benny Gantz, a 60-year-old who served as the head of the Israel Defense Forces from 2011 to 2015, navigating the country through two incursions on the Gaza Strip.
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In February, Israeli fighter jets hit the same facility, which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says was the command and control center for an Iranian drone that penetrated Israeli airspace, before being shot down.
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As night fell, CEO Yuli Novak began discussing his organization's latest report detailing settler influence on Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) conduct in the West Bank, as protesters crowded the narrow streets around the gallery.
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Since the law passed there has been widespread protest against it among the Druze minority in Israel, which serves in the Israeli Defense Forces, unlike most other elements of the Arab community in Israel.
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The late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat figured this out after his Yom Kippur War invasion plan failed, thanks in no small part to then-President Richard Nixon's decision to resupply the Israel Defense Forces.
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She befriended Yasir Arafat in exile in Tunisia, joined him on his return from the 1993 Oslo Accords and visited his Ramallah compound when it was besieged by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002.
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It is now very difficult to imagine, for example, that Japan's Self-Defense Forces could ever operate on South Korean soil, even to assist with, say, an evacuation after an attack by North Korea.
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Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda designated the alleged crimes she wants to investigate: Three incidents in which the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) allegedly committed war crimes by intentionally launching disproportionate attacks during the 2014 Gaza war.
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Just last week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported a social media phishing campaign it attributed to Hamas, luring its troops to download malware using fake social media profiles on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.
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Abe wants to remove restrictions on the country's Self Defense Forces, the de facto military, as they engage in more exercises and other activity with US and allies amid growing tensions with North Korea.
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This new "womenomics" policy also reached the military; the Defense Ministry launched a series of initiatives last April aiming to increase the number of women in the Self Defense Forces to 9% by 2030.
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According to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), a "violent riot was instigated" when Israeli forces entered the refugee camp on Wednesday, including the throwing of fire bombs and stones at troops.
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He finished his four-year term as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces in 2015, and then waited for the required "cooling-off period" to elapse before entering politics late last year.
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Kudzai Chipanga, whose powerful ZANU-PF youth wing has been a strong supporter of Mugabe and his wife Grace, said he had voluntarily given his statement apologizing for denigrating defense forces chief General Constantino Chiwenga.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Approximately 250 rockets have been fired by Gaza militants towards Israel, which has responded with airstrikes on more than one hundred targets across the coastal enclave, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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Another of those killed was targeted deliberately -- the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says Hamid Ahmed Abdul Khudri, 34, was responsible for money transfers from Iran to militant groups like Islamic Jihad and Hamas inside Gaza.
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On the military side, the Israeli Defense Forces is building a new base of operations for its cybersecurity division, devoted to information technology and cyber warfare, on a now-empty plot on Beersheba's northern fringe.
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The photo comes a day after McPhee and David celebrated his 69th birthday with lots of PDA both at lunch and at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region Gala on Thursday.
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Co-founder and CEO Eran Barak spent five years in an elite intelligence unit of the Israel Defense Forces before starting Hexadite in 2014 and was also head of Elbit Systems' cybertraining and simulation team.
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Although they are separate companies, they share one characteristic that's at the heart of each start-up's meteoric rise: Both the founding teams of GuardiCore and Fireglass contain former members of the Israel Defense Forces.
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But the former Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff's chances are no more certain, as Israel faces the reality of protracted political deadlock and the growing possibility of a third general election within 12 months.
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Gal Gadot, an Israeli actress who rose to fame for starring in the 2017 movie "Wonder Woman," offered her prayers for the Israeli Defense Forces on social media, as did the Israeli model Bar Refaeli.
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Hungry but uninjured Three soldiers from Japan's Self-Defense Forces found Yamato Tanooka on the premises of the military's Komagatake exercise field Friday morning, said Hiroki Komori, a spokesman for the Northern Army 11th Brigade.
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Japan's defense forces, however, want the F-3 to counter growing Chinese air power in the skies over the western Pacific and East China Sea where Tokyo and Beijing are locked in a territorial dispute.
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His height and his ability to shoot over the top of the defense forces low-post defenders to crowd his space on the catch; from there, Porzingis has the length and quickness to draw contact.
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Kurdish police, known as Asayish began clashing with forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday morning, reportedly after a dispute at a checkpoint manned by the Assadist National Defense Forces (NDF) militia.
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Electricity has been an issue in Gaza since the Israel Defense Forces destroyed Gaza City's only power plant in 2006 in retaliation for the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Hamas – a savagely disproportionate response.
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Over the last five weeks, the Israel Defense Forces have killed 46 unarmed Palestinian civilians and wounded hundreds more as the residents of the Gaza Strip protest Israel's crushing, eleven-year blockade of their territory.
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The victim, 85033-year-old Tuvya Weisman, was reportedly an off-duty soldier in the Israel Defense Forces who was shopping with his wife and young daughter in a supermarket when two Palestinian teenagers attacked.
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Israel Defense Forces spokesman Jonathan Conricus said the tunnel, which originated in the city of Khan Younis, had penetrated several hundred meters inside Israeli territory, finishing a kilometer away from the nearest village in Israel.
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Frustrated with the lack of progress, the commander of the defense forces, Chiwenga set a deadline of Friday for Mugabe to agree to a deal, "or we do it the hard way," the source said.
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They failed to report that prior to the riots, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dropped leaflets over Gaza warning the citizens not to approach the fence, which represents an international border with a sovereign country.
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"The Zimbabwe Defense Forces and security services are encouraged by new developments, which include contact between the president and former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is expected in the country shortly," the army commander, Gen.
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With more than three decades of security service each, we know that the Israel Defense Forces can handle any challenge, providing our leaders with the space needed for a bold initiative on the Palestinian front.
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At 22, after a stint as a technician in the Israel Defense Forces, Mr. Harari left his home country for the United States, inspired in large part by one of his brothers, a professional dancer.
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The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the branch of the Israeli Defense Forces responsible for civilian operations in the Palestinian territories, said in a statement that the delivery was a good-will measure.
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Freelance photographer and journalist Ahmad Tal'at was covering a protest in the West Bank in 2015 when he was shot in the leg — by, he claimed, an unknown member of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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The United States Senate in 1986 overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Panama to remove Mr. Noriega from the Panamanian Defense Forces pending an investigation of charges of corruption, election fraud, murder and drug trafficking.
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Mr. Abe expanded Japan's support of United States military bases despite fierce opposition in Okinawa, and pushed through controversial security legislation that allows Japan's military, the Self Defense Forces, to participate in combat missions abroad.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said it monitored the advance of the Syrian Sukhoi fighter jet and shot it down with a pair of Patriot missiles after it penetrated Israeli airspace by about 1.2 miles.
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Conricus said the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) knew from the drone's flightpath that it had a particular mission, but he wouldn't give any details, nor would he tell CNN if the drone had been armed.
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A "twisted ideology" drove an Israeli soldier to fatally shoot a Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay subdued in the road, states a classified Israel Defense Forces (IDF) document leaked to VICE News.
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O'Neill last week hit out at critics of the aid effort for playing "political games," while thanking Australia and New Zealand for military aircraft that provided assistance beyond the capacity of PNG's own defense forces.
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The country's defense forces began recruiting women to non-medical positions in 1992, yet only 2.5 percent of its more than 1 million personnel are women - most of them administrators, intelligence officers, doctors, nurses or dentists.
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"Here's where I got shot fighting the SDF," said the boy, not named to protect him from retribution, referring to the U.S.-backed rebel Syrian Defense Forces and pointing out a bullet wound on his shin.
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Gadot stopped by The Hollywood Reporter's "Awards Chatter" podcast to talk about her path to Wonder Woman — which includes being crowned Miss Israel and enlisting in the Israeli Defense Forces before moving into modeling and acting.
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Looking to ensure they and any other non-combatants were clear of the building, the military turned to a tactic used by the Israeli Defense Forces in some of its operations against Hamas militants, Gersten said.
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In New Delhi, a senior government official told reporters that at least 300 militants had been killed, although India's defense forces have since said they are unable to provide any detail on the number of casualties.
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President Tsai in turn replied Taiwan would develop a comprehensive plan in accordance with strategic needs, short-term needs, and long-term plans, to create defense forces on the island that would have "reliable combat effectiveness".
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Self-Defense Forces can do much more with new aircraft, like take off vertically, than they can with the older model, and gain superiority over Chinese planes — even if they may still have some major problems.
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As tension mounted that day, Mnangagwa, Chiwenga, and defense forces chief Philip Sibanda held crisis talks in the presidency offices in Harare, according to the two sources, one from the military and another from ZANU-PF.
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The nation's Self Defense Forces are pivoting away from guarding the north against a diminished Russian threat to reinforce an island chain stretching 70123,400 km (870 miles) along the southern edge of the East China Sea.
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"The enemies of Afghanistan have lost their ability to fight the security and defense forces of the country and thus attack highways, cities, mosques, schools and common people," Ghani said in a statement, according to CNN.
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The Israel Defense Forces said aircraft had targeted what it identified as four facilities belonging to Hamas -- the Palestinian Islamist group that controls Gaza -- early Saturday in response to rockets fired into southern Israel from Gaza.
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"As South Sudan's country-building is entering a new phase, we can draw a line under the activities of the self-defense forces," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters at his residence in Tokyo on Friday.
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Better known as the maker of the World War Two-era Zero fighter, Japan's leading defense contractor has hitherto developed kit exclusively for the nation's Self Defense Forces (SDF), which controls the rights to that technology.
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Changing the constitution to enshrine the role of Japan's military, known as the Self-Defense Forces, has been a long-held goal for Abe, who has been prime minister and leader of the LDP since 2012.
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After Tehran initially hinted, without providing any evidence, that the pilots had flown erratically and therefore contributed to the crash by alarming air defense forces, Ukraine's government pressed Iran to admit that the claim was false.
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A NATO spokesman announced over the weekend that the alliance had "temporarily suspended" its training of defense forces and military institutions in Iraq, meant to block the resurgence of the Islamic State, amid the regional turmoil.
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Barrera bought raw cocaine paste from the leftist rebel group FARC and processed it in laboratories in areas controlled by a now-demobilized paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, authorities said.
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Griffin Phiri, the commander of the Malawi Defense Forces, said in an interview during the African Land Forces Summit, a conference of 1.23 American Army officers and service members and their counterparts from 40 African nations.
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" "Disruptions occurred on campuses across the country and targeted events featuring Israeli speakers such as the Consul General of Israel in New York Dani Dayan and LGBTQ activist and former Israel Defense Forces commander Hen Mazzig.
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Our administration has already been in contact with Syrian defense forces and we've already begun to facilitate their safe withdrawal from the nearly 20-mile-wide safe zone area south of the Turkish border in Syria.
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Prosecutors said Barrera bought raw cocaine paste from the leftist rebel group FARC and processed it in laboratories in areas controlled by a now-demobilized paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted two drones launched by Yemen's Houthis and targeting the city of Khamis Mushait, a Saudi led coalition spokesman said in statement released by Saudi Press Agency early on Tuesday.
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Streit, who served in an intelligence unit the Israel Defense Forces, helped build the structure the site still uses today, even as the organization, based in the San Fernando Valley, has grown to more than 20 employees.
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"The enemies of Afghanistan have lost their ability to fight the security and defense forces of the country and thus attack highways, cities, mosques, schools and common people," Ghani said in a statement issued by his office.
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Between the regular comings and goings of commercial airliners, first one, then two, then two more F-63 fighter jets streak down the runway that Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) share with Naha's regular airline traffic.
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In photographs, the pair look like brothers, with matching shaved heads, stubble, and stocky builds that betray their computer-science careers, with both now removed from their time spent in mandatory service for the Israeli Defense Forces.
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Total spending over the first five years is pegged at $282.4 billion and will include creating cyber defense and naval transportation units that operate across Japan's three military branches, the Ground, Air and Maritime Self-Defense Forces.
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The Chinese military said two warships from its Eastern Theater Command spearheaded the exercises -- with added units from air and coastal defense forces -- in the Taitung Strait, the Bashi Strait and the Taiwan Strait, according to Xinhua.
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North Korea's defense forces may hope that the test will provoke a more measured approach from the U.S., which until now has been largely invested in the region under as a guardian of Japan and South Korea.
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Kudzanai Chipanga, the former head of the youth wing of the governing ZANU-PF party, is accused of communicating falsehoods and undermining public confidence in the Zimbabwe Defense Forces, after he insulted the military's top commander, Gen.
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The comment by the Israel Defense Forces, posted on its English-language Twitter account, provided the first substantive detail of the Israeli version of the killing, which has been widely condemned by international humanitarian and rights groups.
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Rami Abdurrahman who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that since Friday, Islamic State militants have killed more than 60 fighters from the Syrian Defense Forces, wounded others and captured at least 20.
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But military officials around the world say that even if South Korea's defense forces get the money, it won't be enough to deal with the massive destructive force awaiting them just across the border in North Korea.
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Moreover, important differences exist between the needs of South Korea and Israel, said Uzi Eilam, a retired general with the Israel Defense Forces who is widely considered one of the founding fathers of Israel's missile defense program.
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But there are signs that the public's devotion to pacifism and its attitude toward the Japanese military, known as the Self-Defense Forces, have begun to change, in part at the urging of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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On Sunday, Japanese defense forces began a joint drill with a visiting United States Navy strike group featuring an aircraft carrier, the Carl Vinson, which had finally arrived in northeast Asia in a display of American resolve.
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"No one could believe that an aircraft has taken off from an international airport in the capital, begun flying on its route, and is then targeted," said Mr. Rouhani, a former commander of Iran's air defense forces.
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Israeli troops are responding with "riot dispersal means" and live fire "in accordance with the rules of engagement" at Palestinians who "have been rioting in five locations" since Friday morning, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statement said.
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It comes in the shape of Benny Gantz, a former Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who has gathered together a "blue and white" alliance, named after the colors of the Israeli flag.
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Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a missile over the capital city of Riyadh on Wednesday and shot down another rocket near the border city of Jazan, according to the Saudi state-run Al-Arabiya news agency.
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