That'd be quite a development for the secretive military leader who now has to come out of the shadows to take over for Soleimani, a high-profile military leader for two decades.
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After the secessionists' surrender in 1970, the military leader, Gen.
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But in killing Iran's most important military leader, Maj. Gen.
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Jackson was a military leader by training, used to giving commanders.
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Qassim Suleimani, a top military leader in Iran, in early January.
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American forces killed Iran's most-revered military leader at the Baghdad airport.
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But they remained in place, waiting for the order from their military leader.
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It also killed Iraqi-Iranian politician and military leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
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Equities slipped following the U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian military leader.
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Krulak then asked the seasoned military leader why he chose to be on duty.
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No single agency or military leader is accountable for overseeing military mental health care.
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Each military leader also detailed numerous problems that will arise should a CR happen.
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James Mattis, a proven Marine veteran and respected military leader, to head the Pentagon.
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Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan's interim military leader, was once a commander in Darfur.
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In the months afterward, the U.S. imposed economic sanctions on one Myanmar military leader.
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Iran is widely expected to retaliate for the death of its iconic military leader.
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Let's move on to Iran and the killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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Mr. Trump has also undermined the authority of his most senior military leader, Gen.
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Qassem Soleimani, the highest-profile Iranian military leader, near the Baghdad Airport in Iraq.
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Guo was the second former military leader to be caught in the anti-corruption campaign.
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" That is the kind of rhetoric befitting a military leader with the nickname, "Mad Dog.
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Opinion: The danger of Trump's NATO comments And NATO's former military leader, retired U.S. Adm.
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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard honors the military leader who died in New Orleans in 1893.
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Dunford's remarks came as another top U.S. military leader weighed in on ISIS in Libya.
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Like any military leader, he is taking a strategic, evaluated approach to implement Trump's directive.
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To put it in the terms of a military leader: Diversity is a force multiplier.
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Trump on Thursday approved an operation that killed the prominent Iranian military leader in Baghdad.
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President Donald Trump&aposs order to kill Iran&aposs most important military leader, Maj. Gen.
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Soleimani was a top military leader and one of the most powerful people in Iran.
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The barrage was retaliation for the killing on Thursday of Iran's top military leader, Gen.
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Military leader General Constantine Chiwenga threatened Monday to intervene and calm political tensions following Mnangagwa's ouster.
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He wasn't the only military leader to oppose the Obama administration's move allowing women in combat.
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But he avoided engaging Sisi, wary of giving the military leader any show of public partnership.
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Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, the military leader and president, respectively, of the Confederate states.
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His memorable reply had the frankness of a military leader and the empathy of a therapist.
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The article also referred incorrectly to a military leader whose post on social media condemned racism.
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Qassem Soleimani, Iran&aposs top military leader, in a drone strike in Baghdad on January 3.
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Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad late last week.
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Less than a day after the U.S. announced that it killed Iran's top military leader Gen.
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In the wake of the US assassination of Iran&aposs most important military leader, Maj. Gen.
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The famous painting shows the notorious military leader standing in his study wearing full military regalia.
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The parallels are not exact, since Crassus was a military leader as well as a wealthy man.
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Tillerson met with both Myanmar's military leader Min Aung Hlaing, and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The admiral has added another facet to his job: communicator, an unusual objective for a military leader.
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Joseph L. Votel, the most senior American military leader at the ceremony in Kabul, described General Nicholson.
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The decision comes days after the U.S. air strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military leader.
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Qassem Soleimani, a top military leader who commanded Tehran's Quds Force, which is a designated terrorist organization.
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The benefit is removing a military leader engaged in plots to harm Americans across the Middle East.
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Then, the Iraqi government announced in late September that it was demoting a popular Iraqi military leader.
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A Hamas military leader is mocked as his car is seen exploding in an assassination by airstrike.
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On January 3, Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Iran&aposs most important military leader, Maj. Gen.
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As the Trump administration faces questions about the rationale behind its killing of Iranian military leader Maj. Gen.
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Qassim Suleimani, the top military leader of Iran, who was killed by an American drone overnight in Baghdad.
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In the hours after an American drone strike in Iraq killed Iran's most important military leader, Maj. Gen.
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Charles Q. SullivanMilwaukee To the Editor: The Trump administration's targeted assassination of Iran's top military leader, Maj. Gen.
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The U.S. assassinated Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani late last week with an airstrike on Iraq's Baghdad Airport.
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Hugo Parra Martinez became the fifth military leader to abandon Maduro and throw their support behind the opposition.
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Those looking for a traditional all-out military leader, Tomyris, of Scythia, is one of the two best choices.
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But Week 19973 would feature a missile strike on Syria, and the first images of Trump as military leader.
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The Fath (Victory) medal is among the highest honors that Iran's supreme leader can bestow on a military leader.
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Under U.S. law a military leader must be retired for seven years before becoming eligible to become defense secretary.
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In the late eighteenth century, such a power grab by a conquering military leader was the most expected outcome.
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He met with the top military leader, who has gained domestic popularity from his forces' assaults on Rohingya Muslims.
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He met with the top military leader, who has only gained popularity from his forces' assaults on Rohingya Muslims.
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Stocks took a hit after jump in oil prices sparked by the assassination of a top Iranian military leader.
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On January 3, the US killed revered Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike ordered by Trump.
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Qassim Suleimani, Iran's top military leader, this has yet to demonstrably change Iranian behavior or the regional power balance.
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The October Revolution Station, for example, was recast to honor Amir Timur, the 14th-century Central Asian military leader.
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The military leader, Qassem Soleimani, played a major role in the fight against Islamic State militants in the region.
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This announcement comes after President Donald Trump ordered a strike that killed Iran&aposs top military leader, Maj. Gen.
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After the US killed the Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike early Friday, Iranian officials swore vengeance.
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RATKO MLADIC, the military leader of Bosnian Serb forces during the war of 1992-95, shouted "lies" at the court.
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No U.S. military leader would trade our nuclear weapons for the Russian stockpile, let alone any other nuclear power's arsenal.
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Their reflexive and aggressive criticism of the strike against Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani is a perfect case in point.
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Sullivan was appalled by Flynn's actions, especially while the military leader sat in the West Wing speaking with the FBI.
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He appears to be lying again — about why he ordered the assassination of Qassim Suleimani, Iran's most significant military leader.
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Pompeo was instrumental in Trump's decision to launch an air strike last week that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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Qassem Soleimani, suggesting that Trump did not fully consider the consequences of taking out Iran&aposs most important military leader.
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Argentina's first military leader Jorge Rafael Videla, who took over after a 1976 coup and ruled until 1981, died in 2013.
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For over 130 years, researchers assumed a Viking warrior and military leader whose remains were found in Sweden was a man.
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Abu Khattab al-Rawi, an Islamic State military leader, was killed in al Qaim, Iraq, on May 18, the statement said.
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Mr Modi has always presented himself as a bold and resolute military leader, who does not shrink from confronting Pakistan's provocations.
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Facebook Is Challenged To Ban Military Leader Accused Of Killings Aarti Shahani looks at the Facebook presence of warlord Lt. Gen.
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He was commander of the Joint Special Operations Command and the military leader of the attack that killed Osama Bin Laden.
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In the fall, the allies hold an exercise called Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG), named after a 7th century Korean military leader.
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Sudan's military leader, who previously vowed never to use violence against protesters, struck an uncompromising tone in a televised address Tuesday.
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Experts say these are some of the ways Tehran might further retaliate for the US killing of military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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Mr. Mattis, while given high marks as a military leader, was close-mouthed on the transgender issue during his confirmation hearing.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called Yazov "an outstanding military leader," after the Defence Ministry announced his death after a long illness.
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Soleimani, Iran&aposs most important military leader, was killed by a drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump on January 3.
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Hard-liner and reformer, General Suleimani, Iran's most powerful military leader, was almost universally admired and had near cult figure status.
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The final straw appears to have been the American drone strike last week that killed the Iranian military leader Maj. Gen.
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When Pervez Musharraf was army chief and then Pakistan's military leader, few initially pegged him as someone with dovish views on India.
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Buhari first came to power in December of 1983 when, as a military leader, he overthrew the democratically elected president Shehu Shagari.
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Libya's most powerful military leader reportedly suffered a stroke this week — and no one can confirm whether he is dead or alive.
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At the same time, no senior military leader in 1965 offered the White House even a chance of rapid victory in Vietnam.
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United States and Iranian leaders continued their aggressive posturing on Monday after the killing of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani last week.
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But two months later, the feared backlash of the US killing of top Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani has largely not materialized.
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If assassinating the second most powerful military leader of a foreign country isn't an act of war, I don't know what is.
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Thousands of mourners flooded the streets of Baghdad Saturday and called for revenge against the US after Iranian military leader Maj. Gen.
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But Wilder, hardly alone in an unconvincing cast, registers less as a traumatized military leader than an actor uninspired by his dialogue.
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Some applauded Donald Trump's "success" in carrying out the targeted killing of a key Iranian military leader without experiencing immediate deadly retaliation.
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What happened: The United States killed a top Iranian military leader in an airstrike at Baghdad's airport on Friday morning local time.
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Soleimani was among the worst, but he was not from some stateless terrorist organization -- he was a sovereign nation's senior military leader.
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In reality, Tacky's actions probably reflected the plotting of a military leader looking to rule a slave society, not to end slavery.
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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for both the Berlin assault and one in Jordan that killed a military leader and nine others.
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Tensions in the Gulf took an anxious turn last month when the U.S. conducted a deadly strike on Iran's top military leader.
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Buhari, a 76-year-old former military leader, faces a long list of challenges including tepid economic growth, high unemployment and widespread insecurity.
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Greste said the next step is for the team to appeal to Egypt's military leader, Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, to pardon the reporters.
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Indeed, they might even fill it with a fake account in your name, as has happened to pretty much every senior military leader.
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Koroma's party has chosen current Foreign Minister Dr. Samura Camara as its candidate, who will run against former military leader Julius Maada Bio.
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His late father, Xi Zhongxun, was a revolutionary military leader who became a top government official in the early years of Communist rule.
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Fifty-six people were killed Tuesday in stampede in a narrow side street during a funeral procession for the military leader, Maj. Gen.
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Soleimani was a prominent military leader in that war, setting secret centers for Hezbollah among the homes of the region's Shiite Muslim civilians.
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Pompeo, who graduated first in the class of 1986 at West Point, sounded more like a swaggering military leader than America's top diplomat.
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MASERU (Reuters) - Lesotho's top military leader, Khoantle Mots'omots'o, and two senior officers were shot dead on Tuesday at an army barracks, the government said.
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What they are doing to a decorated, smart military leader is completely reprehensible especially at a time our country needs McMaster more than ever.
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So what do Mattis' views and history as a military leader suggest about how he might help to shape policy in the Trump administration?
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But unrest continued in the weeks following independence, and he was soon faced with a coup d'état by the military leader Mobutu Sese Seko.
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The Trump administration's argument that it killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani to stop an "imminent" attack on Americans was just dealt another blow.
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Buhari first came to power as a military leader in a coup in 1983 before being ousted himself 20 months later in another coup.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that the Trump administration was not "straight with Congress" about its killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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Read more:Trump: Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani was &aposhated and feared within the country&apos and &aposshould have been taken out many years ago!
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And would a prosecutor recommend little or no prison time for a former general if that former military leader truly had compromised national security?
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In early January, Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Iran's top military leader, Qassem Soleimani, pushing Washington and Tehran to the brink of war.
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Similarly, after taking the kingdom to war in neighbouring Yemen in 2015, he was happy for a while to pose as a dashing military leader.
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In the 1970s Bolivia enjoyed a commodity-driven boom under the rule of a military leader, Hugo Banzer, during which it borrowed heavily from abroad.
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The Egyptian, who came to power as a military leader, instead insisted that security in the Middle East had improved under the stewardship of Trump.
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Statues and paintings also depict Simon Bolivar, the military leader who liberated Latin America from Spain, holding his sword or documents in his left hand.
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Just before the slaughter, Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader, was seen laughing with his soldiers, handing out candy, telling civilians not to worry.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - International Criminal Court judges on Monday convicted former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers.
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Mullah Baradar, who seemed interested in exploring peace negotiations before his capture in January 2010, was the Taliban's most senior military leader at the time.
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Mr. Xi frequently refers to Wang, who regained favor in 1509, and then loyally served the emperor as a military leader who quashed a rebellion.
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Sharim: [Kurdish] Falah: Even they thought that if they told to the military leader that they are Yazidi, they may put them in the jail.
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Oil and safe haven assets climbed on Friday while stocks fell following an airstrike by the United States that took out Iran's top military leader.
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At various moments, he might have become President or a truly successful military leader or even the actual, and not just fictive, father of California.
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It looks like President Donald Trump may have considered his impeachment prospects when making the decision to kill Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani last week.
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The defense lobbyist said Dunford's response is "what a senior military leader is supposed to do" — acknowledge the president's directives and maintain the current policy.
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By killing a generally popular Iranian military leader, Trump has unleashed forces in Iran and in the region that will prove very difficult to manage.
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Rockets were reportedly fired near two US bases in Iraq, days after a US airstrike in the country killed top Iranian military leader, Qassem Soleimani.
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Oil prices rose more than 3% and stock markets around the world fell after a U.S. air strike killed Iran's top military leader, Qassem Soleimani.
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A U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's top military leader drove up oil prices more than 3% on Friday and sent shares in airline stocks tumbling.
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The film takes its cues from the activist and historian Dora María Téllez, a former Sandinista military leader who later served as minister of health.
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The authority will be led by a military leader for the first 21 months, and then a civilian leader would take over for 18 months.
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The 76-year-old former military leader faces a long list of challenges, including combating a sluggish economy, high unemployment and a decade-old Islamic insurgency.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Six weeks after a coup d'etat in Sudan, high-profile military leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is evolving into an increasingly influential political force.
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It is also suspicious of the intentions of the Misuratans, and angry about United Nations backing of the G.N.A. The country's most powerful military leader, Gen.
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A Turkish military leader told NATO leaders in Brussels this week that Turkey would not allow coalition forces to continue arming the YPG, according to Reuters.
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In 2015, China's leader, Xi Jinping, pledged to make the country a soccer power, one befitting its global ambitions as an economic, political and military leader.
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A military leader who has vowed for years that he would seize control of Libya ordered his troops on Thursday to march on the capital, Tripoli.
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General Fang, the chief of the army's Joint Staff Department, was not the only military leader to fall ahead of next week's Communist Party congress. Gen.
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Jason Clarke is Grigory Potemkin, a military leader as well as Catherine's lover, and Gina McKee is Countess Praskovya Bruce, one of the empress's closest confidantes.
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" — TREVOR NOAH "Iran's foreign minister today criticized President Trump's strike on a military leader and said Trump is showing he is 'prepared to commit war crimes.
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Kaine's move comes after President Donald Trump authorized the killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani Thursday in Iraq, and amid expectations of retaliation by Iran.
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London (CNN Business)Oil workers from the United States are leaving Iraq after Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad.
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The killing of the top military leader marks a major escalation in tensions pitting Tehran against the US and Washington's Gulf Arab allies in the region.
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According to Catherine's memoirs, she thought of Peter as an idiot and a drunk who was only interested in playing the part of a military leader.
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This elaborate, choreographed showcasing of the newest and most powerful missiles has provided a backdrop for Xi as he burnishes his credentials as China's supreme military leader.
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In the same statement, the attorney general's office said negotiations with Switzerland on the repatriation of $321 million stolen by former military leader Sani Abacha had concluded.
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Vang Pao, a Hmong military leader and major American ally during the Vietnam War, was arrested in 2007 for plotting to overthrow the Communist government in Laos.
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Flanked on each side, however, are two sexualized men, shirtless and muscular, with portraits of a military leader and Jesus Christ hanging on the wall behind them.
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Contrary to popular belief, General Tso's chicken was not invented by 19th-century Qing dynasty military leader Zuo Zongtang, who is commonly referred to as General Tso.
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Oil workers have been resigning in droves since a military leader took control of the nation's state oil giant, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, Reuters reported.
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Khalifa Hifter, a prominent military leader who controls most of the eastern city of Benghazi, has thus far been ambiguous about the United Nations-led political process.
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Mnangagwa gave his clearest signal yet on Tuesday that he would appoint as vice president Constantino Chiwenga, the military leader who led the coup that ousted Mugabe.
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The board criticized her as too quick to propose using military force abroad, but said she still would be a better military leader than her Republican rivals.
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This almost seemed like a safe assumption in a news cycle where nothing, not even the president assassinating an Iranian military leader, could stop stocks from rallying.
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Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka's top military leader, who nursed a personal vendetta against the president for, as he saw it, hogging all the credit for the victory.
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While explaining his reasoning for striking Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, Trump invoked former president Barack Obama, his favorite punching bag until Hillary Clinton entered the picture.
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But none of the most senior generals of the Turkish armed forces could be persuaded to join, which may have left the plotters without a military leader.
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He'll tout what he describes as his accomplishments — the economy, a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada and the killing of Iran's military leader, Qassem Soleimani.
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De Blasio and senior police officials called the news conference as Iran promised vengeance in response to the U.S. attack that killed senior military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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On Wednesday, Trump publicly addressed the situation with Iran, which has escalated in recent weeks, coming to a head when US forces killed Iranian military leader Gen.
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Soleimani, 62, was Iran's pre-eminent military leader -- head of the Revolutionary Guards' overseas Quds Force and the architect of Iran's spreading influence in the Middle East.
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Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian military leader, as worries that an escalation between the two countries could batter the Middle East region and the global oil supply.
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Coulter tweeted a video of Trump's remarks at the Trump Tower press conference held on Tuesday, comparing Trump to the biblical military leader, judge and prophet Gideon.
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MUNICH — Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called the deadly U.S. strike on Iran's top military leader an "act of terror" and blamed President Donald Trump's advisors.
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The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany on Sunday called for "restraint and responsibility" following the US assassination of the Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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In 2005, he built the Jardin d'Orient at Château Royal d'Amboise in the Loire Valley in France in homage to Emir Abdelkader, Algeria's former spiritual and military leader.
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Mattis, a veteran military leader confirmed in a bipartisan 99-1 Senate vote, appears set on reassuring Iraq — and U.S. allies around the world — about the administration's motives.
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Haftar commands the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) and casts himself as a military leader capable of defeating Islamist extremism and bringing Libya's numerous militias to heel.
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Although the septuagenarian commander has styled himself as a great military leader, with a fondness for pomp and titles, experts say his true skill is in forging alliances.
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The current round of conflict began last April when forces based in eastern Libya and backing the military leader Khalifa Hifter began an assault on the capital, Tripoli.
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Though the US and Iran have been adversaries for roughly four decades, neither side has assassinated a senior military leader in such a brazen and public way before.
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Instead of trying to justify a full-scale invasion in Iraq, they were championing a targeted strike near Baghdad that took out top Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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U.S. officials are preparing for a potential onslaught of attacks from Iranian hackers after last week's U.S. airstrike killed Iran's top military leader, Qasem Soleimani, at Baghdad's airport.
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The United States killed a top-level Iranian military leader in Iraq early Friday local time, and the questions on everyone's mind are: Are we now at war?
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Trump originally mentioned Iran's cultural sites as part of a threat toward Tehran, which had vowed "harsh revenge" against the U.S. for killing its top military leader, Gen.
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The U.S. killing of Iran's most revered military leader could be more impactful for the oil market than other recent incidents that have just temporarily spiked crude prices.
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It's been a hard lesson for the first non-politician or military leader to figure out how to exercise the levers of presidential power in a constructive manner.
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Brenda Cartier, is the first female senior military leader in Air Force Special Operations and one of the first women to fly and command Special Operations combat missions.
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He's a decorated military leader lauded by Democrats and Republicans alike for revolutionizing the military's approach to fighting terrorism and insurgencies, and credited with turning the tide in Iraq.
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Apparently, the dish was created to ensure his guests wouldn't tire of his repertoire, and Peng named the dish on the fly, honoring famous Hunan military leader, General Tso.
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Libya is on the cusp of full-scale civil war after an eastern military leader ordered his forces into Tripoli, the seat of a rival, United Nations-recognized government.
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But the elevation in February to Hamas's number-two slot of Yahya Sinwar, a former military leader, suggests that the moderate politicians are losing ground to the military wing.
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Second, they are interesting for the way the movement was countermanded and then snuffed out by the military leader Oliver Cromwell and the Grandees (the elites of their day).
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Turkey and Qatar both provided support for the elected Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt that was toppled in 2013 by military leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, now Egypt's president.
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On April 22014th the latest military leader, Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, announced his intention to "uproot" the military government, prosecute those guilty of killing protesters and reform the NISS.
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Nasrallah spoke in a televised address at a rally commemorating senior commanders, including former military leader Imad Moughniyah who was killed in a bomb blast in Damascus in 2008.
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A rule put in place nine months ago stipulates that only one senior military leader and one civilian leader are allowed to appear per day at each nongovernment event.
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In 2016, Buhari urged the World Bank to assist in the repatriation of $320 million stolen by the former military leader, which is being held by authorities in Switzerland.
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A fierce military leader who fought alongside Toussaint L'Ouverture, the leader of the Haitian revolt against France, Dessalines declared the nation's independence in 1804 and named himself as emperor.
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He had received 21990 life sentences — the most of any military leader from that era — for crimes that included homicide, torture, forced disappearances and the kidnapping of a newborn.
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Those efforts will commence on Monday when Moulton hosts a town hall for veterans in Fairfax, Virginia, alongside General Stanley McChrystal, a military leader who endorsed Moulton's 2020 bid.
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Trump's decision on January 3 to order a drone strike that killed Iran's top military leader, Qassem Soleimani, has raised fears of a broader conflict between Washington and Tehran.
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He has been a significant military leader in Iran since the revolution, but it's also important not to overstate his centrality in terms of the institutional setting within Iran.
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Iran's Tuesday night missile attacks on multiple US military targets in Iraq are the country's first tangible retaliation for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, a key Iranian military leader.
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Yet he has expected the American public to trust intelligence when it suits his own pursuits, including, most recently, information pertaining to the strike against Iranian military leader Gen.
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Fela was jailed on dozens of occasions by military rulers in the 1970s and 1980s, including by Buhari during his time as a military leader in the early 80s.
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After President Donald Trump ordered a deadly strike on Iran&aposs most important military leader, most Americans (247%) feel less safe, according to a new USA Today/Ipsos poll.
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LONDON — The retaliation that Iran promised in the aftermath of a US airstrike that killed the country's most powerful military leader could take the form of massive cyberattacks. Gen.
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President Donald Trump's killing of an Iranian military leader will haunt him and drag the U.S. into an "endless war," according to one analyst at a Libertarian think tank.
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The U.S. strike that killed Iran's top military leader could put America's fight against the Islamic State in jeopardy, opening the door to the reemergence of the terrorist group.
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Iran on Sunday announced it&aposs withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, just days after President Donald Trump ordered a strike that killed its top military leader, Maj. Gen.
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Investors should exercise patience when evaluating stocks shortly after a geopolitical incident, like the U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian military leader, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday morning.
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Concho Resources, Apache, Devon Energy — Shares of Concho, Apache and Devon all traded higher, following crude prices, after the U.S. killed a top Iranian military leader in an airstrike.
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It can feel awkward and even disrespectful to disagree with a military leader over matters of their dangerous profession, especially to politicians who themselves have not served in uniform.
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But after the US assassinated Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike, experts warned that the likely retaliation could include disruptive cyberattacks, along with more traditional strikes.
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Iran&aposs leadership has vowed to exact revenge on the US after President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike that killed its most powerful and beloved military leader, Qassem Soleimani.
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Who's Alex Kingston), was in cahoots with Congolese general Azikiwe (Babs Olusanmokun), a crooked military leader who has been using soldiers and kidnapped children to man his own cobalt mine.
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It was sent into fresh conflict in recent weeks after its eastern military leader ordered his forces to move in on the capital where the United Nations-recognized government sits.
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SENDING A MESSAGE This elaborate, choreographed showcasing of the newest and most powerful missiles has provided a backdrop for Xi as he burnishes his credentials as China's supreme military leader.
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Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, a former military leader, foreign minister and diplomat who was Pakistan's public face in international affairs for three decades, died late Monday or early Tuesday in Islamabad.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has named a distinguished military leader as its next governor general, who represents Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the country's head of state, ahead of an election in May.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda on Thursday to 30 years in prison for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers.
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You see, despite very clearly being a senior military leader of the IRA, Adams has always denied involvement, and instead served as leader of the IRA's political wing, Sinn Fein.
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Washington is in the pantheon because he was the military leader of the successful war of independence and because he established the peaceful transfer of power from president to president.
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On the day that Donald Trump was inaugurated president almost a year ago, a Chinese military leader named Jin Yinan gave a speech to top Communist Party officials in China.
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While Iran's attack was meant as a retaliation for the US killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, there are signs Tehran designed the strikes as a face-saving measure.
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Killing military leader Qassem Soleimani not only avenged the murder of an American contractor by an Iranian-backed militia but also deterred Tehran from further escalating the months-long standoff.
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Analysts say they worry that the country is edging toward a model of autocracy similar to Egypt's after a 2013 coup by the former military leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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Iran swiftly vowed a harsh response for the killing of the top military leader, though it remains unclear what shape such an action will take or when it will occur.
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Rockets were fired near two US bases in Iraq, days after a US airstrike in the country killed top Iranian military leader, Qassem Soleimani, according to Reuters and other outlets.
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Severus, a military leader who took control in the bloody Year of the Five Emperors, oversaw the Roman Empire when it controlled approximately half the coastline of the Black Sea.
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Three weeks ago, Iran's top military leader ordered the leaders of Tehran-backed militias in Iraq to "prepare for proxy war," during a meeting in Baghdad according to the Guardian.
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" He said the Kurds' military leader was "extremely thankful for what the United States has done" and has assured the US "that ISIS is under very, very strict lock and key.
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It wasn't; any foreign policy expert or military leader could have predicted that mayhem would result, for this thin US presence had been carefully crafted to balance local and regional competitors.
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It doesn't in any fashion involve Brendan Fraser, but instead stars Tom Cruise as a military leader trying to stop the titular Mummy (Star Trek Beyond's Sofia Boutella) from destroying London.
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"She doesn't particularly look like your typical military leader, and so I think there's a bit of distrust for Poe," Isaac told EW. Judge Holdo by her purple hair, do you?
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The possibility that a faked video of a military leader giving contradictory information to troops in the field might give an adversary the slight edge they need to win an engagement.
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" The retired military leader acknowledged the inadequacy of this answer: "But that means you're gonna lose some people, and then it's fair for Americans to ask, 'why am I doing this?
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His attendants, especially Turbo (the bass David Leigh), an old friend and military leader, harangue Hadrian to order action against enemies of the state, particularly those leading an uprising in Judea.
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But the key element in all of them is that a great military leader is brought so low that he's willing to consider sacrificing his own child to ensure his success.
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The successor to top Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani on Monday vowed to take revenge on the U.S. for the airstrike last week ordered by President Trump that killed the general.
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The penalties came days after Iran fired missiles at U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation for an American airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iran's top military leader, Qasem Soleimani, last week.
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President Donald Trump's decision to order a fatal strike against Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani immediately sparked worries that the move could plunge the country into a new, ugly military entanglement.
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President Donald Trump on Friday morning put out his first substantive statement on his decision to order an airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, Iran&aposs most powerful military leader, late Thursday.
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President Donald Trump on Friday morning put out his first substantive statement on his decision to order an airstrike that killed Iran&aposs most powerful military leader, Qassem Soleimani, late Thursday.
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This year begins with the air-strike killing of Iran's military leader, devastating bushfires, and impeachment, and one of the most contentious elections of our times looms in the near future.
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps reportedly described the attacks as the beginning of their "fierce revenge" against the U.S. Days earlier, a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad killed Iranian military leader Gen.
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Inaugurated on May 29, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's 76-year-old former military leader, faces a long list of challenges including tepid economic growth, high unemployment and a decade-old Islamist insurgency.
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But he does so in the manner of a military leader like Patton or an athlete like Muhammad Ali, as a way of rallying his supporters and his own psyche for combat.
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The official said the consequences for the country, also known as Burma, if it failed to respond to the crisis with accountability could be part of the conversation with the military leader.
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" On Wednesday, the military's top officials echoed that sentiment at a hearing on senior military leader misconduct, calling the removal of commanders from the military justice system on certain cases "absolutely devastating.
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When Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari came to power a year ago, the former military leader vowed to rid the West African country of corruption that costs the economy billions of dollars annually.
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Libya's eastern military leader has ordered his forces to march on Tripoli, sparking concerns that open war could soon break out between the main political factions in a key oil-producing nation.
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Setting aside his well-documented exploits as a Confederate military leader and Klan leader, Forrest spent a great deal of his early career buying and selling black people at a considerable profit.
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She said senior Iranian leaders are traveling to Syria and Iraq in violation of international travel bans, claiming 'you can find photos on social media' of an Iranian military leader visiting Russia.
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And to coordinate the various public and private sector pieces to the puzzle she will need a seasoned manager, perhaps a former governor or military leader to be in charge of implementation.
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But in times of breakage or impending crisis, America has traditionally defaulted to a distinguished military leader to regain stability and focus and to turn the corner to a new rising era.
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Jackson Lee has also pushed for the U.S. to create a $458 million fund for victims of Boko Haram's violence, which would use money forfeited by former Nigerian military leader Sani Abacha.
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The meeting on Thursday is intended to make sure the military leader does not feel forgotten, but it also presents the pope's greatest opportunity to have an impact on the humanitarian situation.
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But when military leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi deposed that government in a coup, the US objected and punished Sisi at first, but eventually resigned itself to partnering with the military dictator.
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But Mr. Mattis appears to be safe, even when he ignores the president, in part because he is a general who in Mr. Trump's mind "looks the part" of a military leader.
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Buhari, a former military leader, was elected president in 2015 on the promise that he would end the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria's northeast, a pledge his critics say he has not fulfilled.
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Many conservative candidates adopted the slogan "I am Qassim Suleimani," a reference to the Iranian military leader who oversaw Iran's regional proxies and who was killed by an American airstrike last month.
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The killing of senior Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani and its ramifications aren&apost just a matter for Washington and Tehran — they affect some of the globe&aposs biggest actors as well.
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A top Iranian military leader said Thursday that although Tehran is not taking steps toward war, it is not afraid of any conflict, Reuters reported, citing the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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In a world where jobs and economic strength go to the best-educated people and countries, slashing public education to build the arsenal of the world's already undisputed military leader is beyond misguided.
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He was selected as secretary general in 1976, at the height of Morocco's military offensive to annex Western Sahara, after the death in combat of the front's military leader, Al Ouali Mustapha Erraqibi.
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Sani Abacha, who succeeded Mr. Babangida as Nigeria's military leader, brought thousands of youths to Abuja for a "2 million man march" to support his effort to succeed himself as a civilian president.
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A military leader during this country's war of liberation, he served as an intelligence officer in several embassies after Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, and eventually became ambassador to Botswana, Russia and South Africa.
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They helped crush Bahrain's uprising, bankrolled a return to military dictatorship in Egypt, armed a rogue military leader in Libya and mismanaged a democratic transition in Yemen before launching a destructive war there.
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One banking analyst said the new lending rule risked taking Nigeria back to the days when the central bank determined credit allocation, such as in 1984 when President Muhammadu Buhari was military leader.
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For instance, while the funeral was a stark show of support for the deceased military leader and his country, Iraq's recent national protest movement has brought considerable anti-Iranian sentiment into the open.
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The Trump administration's stated rationale for killing Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani — that he posed an "imminent threat" to Americans requiring the US to take him out — is looking more and more bogus.
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The downing took place amid heightened military tension in Iran, hours after it fired missiles at bases housing US troops in retaliation against the US assassination of the country&aposs top military leader.
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Tension grew and came to a head when Trump chose the most extreme action against Iran, despite skepticism from some in his administration: the targeted killing of General Qasem Soleimani, Iran's military leader.
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Mr. Sadjadpour called the speech "initially triumphant" as Mr. Trump celebrated his order to kill the most famous military leader in Iran, a man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American troops.
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Libya's eastern military leader, General Khalifa Haftar, ordered an offensive two weeks ago on Tripoli, which is held by the internationally recognized government, increasing the chaos that has plagued the OPEC nation since 2011.
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Jennifer Kent's first film since The Babadook is a very different take on horror, focusing on a woman in 1920s Australia who tries to track down an abusive military leader who held her captive.
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But Abubakar is seen as a substantial challenger to Buhari, a former military leader who has suffered a run of defections, overseen a stumbling economy and struggled to contain militant violence in the northeast.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)A senior North Korean military leader has been executed for "factionalism, misuse of authority and corruption," a South Korean government official with knowledge of North Korean affairs told CNN Thursday.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's prime minister on Saturday picked Lieutenant General Qamar Javed Bajwa to replace outgoing army chief Raheel Sharif, the popular military leader credited with improving security and driving back Islamist militant groups.
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The Rothschilds, whose five arrows motif stems from the family's roots in Austrian nobility, have worked on some of the biggest deals in history, including helping finance Britain's war against French military leader Napoleon.
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BEIJING, Nov 12 (Reuters) - China's internet regulator ordered ByteDance news app Jinri Toutiao to clean up its search engine, saying the search function threw up "slanderous" information on a late Communist Party military leader.
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She argues with Potemkin, who is also her military leader, about tactics and foreign policy, while her succession plans, one means by which she hopes to assure her political legacy, cut through her family.
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On July 227, 2000, the General Atomics SkyGuardian, a variant of the U.S. Reaper drone that killed Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani in January, flew from Grand Forks, N.D., to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
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Iran also publicly claimed responsibility for the attacks, the Associated Press reported, citing Iranian state TV. Tehran said the strikes are revenge for the attack which killed its most important military leader, Maj. Gen.
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The administration recently announced that, on orders of the president, the United States had "taken out" (which really means "murdered") an important military leader of a country with which we were not at war.
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The former military leader took office May 2015 after a democratic election on a mantra of "change" in addition to the promise of tackling corruption and insecurity in the northeast region of the country.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Iran that the U.S. has identified dozens of sites to be hit "very fast and very hard" if it retaliates for the killing of military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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The real prospect of rapidly intensifying conflict with Iran complicates the Democrats' plan to repudiate President Donald Trump for a deadly drone attack on Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani last week without notifying Congress.
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The last time the United States killed a major military leader in a foreign country was during World War II, when the American military shot down the plane carrying the Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
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Originally marking the death of King Shaka, the military leader who united the Zulu kingdom in the early 258s, the date has been saddled with a trickier mandate: getting South Africans to embrace their roots.
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In modern times, a military leader is seen more as an "alpha male" who can get things done; remarkably 12 out of the 44 Presidents to date have been former generals, from Washington to Eisenhower.
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The Obama administration banned meetings between the top military leader in NATO and his Russian counterpart after Moscow's annexation of Crimea, and no such meeting occurred during the three-year tenure of Air Force Gen.
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Photos of Ahmed Ali, a military leader admired by thousands of soldiers in Houthi-run lands, appeared on the front page of UAE newspapers on Wednesday meeting the UAE's de-facto leader Mohammed bin Zayed.
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Above the couch, in a collage of inspirational quotations from Maya Angelou, Albert Camus, Malcolm X and others, Kapler made sure to include Simón Bolívar, the Venezuelan military leader who died nearly 200 years ago.
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Statues of Marx were replaced by statues of Timur, the 14th-century Central Asian military leader, and a new slogan, "Uzbekistan: a future great state," was plastered everywhere, along with pictures of Mr. Karimov's face.
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They raised a statue of Liu Shaoqi, a former state president persecuted by Mao who died in prison in 463, and of Marshal Ye Jianying, a military leader from Guangdong Province, where Shantou is situated.
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However, killing the military leader could make the regime think twice about taking larger-scale actions, such as closing the vital Strait of Hormuz or launching a rocket attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad.
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"The trouble is that my heart is loath to remain even one hour without love," she wrote to military leader Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke in the show), her lover, intellectual equal, and second-in-command.
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"As a military leader, I have to make sure that the president does have viable military options in the event that the diplomatic and economic pressurization campaign fails," General Dunford told reporters on his plane.
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The U.S. stock market closed with a 3 percent spike in oil prices even as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell the most in a month following the American attack on an Iranian military leader.
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In January alone, three main events have fueled the demand for gear: the outbreak of the coronavirus, a rash of devastating bushfires in Australia, and the US government's assassination of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani.
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Dozens of mourners were killed in a stampede at the burial of Iran's powerful General Qassem Soleimani on Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of people once again turned out to mourn the assassinated military leader.
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Just five days after killing Iran's top military leader, Qasem Soleimani, in a drone strike in Baghdad, this was the moment that the Trump administration had been preparing for -- a direct retaliatory attack from Iran.
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Future Forward is part of an opposition alliance that had disputed the vote count and accused the army of writing the electoral rules to ensure that Prayuth, the former military leader, would remain prime minister.
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Among his supporters is a new far-right party, Cabildo Abierto, led by a former military leader, a jarring development for Uruguayans who have bleak memories of despotic military rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
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So here's the rundown: Destiny 2 is superficially a video game about the capture of humanity's last great city following an attack by the burly alien force the Red Legion and its military leader, Ghaul.
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Security issues Media reports indicate the officer may have been in charge of espionage operations in South Korea, and he is believed to be the highest-ranking military leader to have ever defected to the South.
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Chris Murphy, another Senate Democrat, said on Friday he was "deeply fearful" that the precedent of civilian control of the military could wither, although he would talk to Mattis and spoke highly of the military leader.
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Somebody listed Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's president and military leader who rose to power in a 2014 coup, on the online auction site eBay in a failed bid to bail out the country's sputtering economy.
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After independence Ghana went through a cycle of military and civilian leaders, that wreaked havoc on its economy, and only finally transitioned away from military rule in 1992 by electing Jerry Rawlings, the former military leader.
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He saved his best material for Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the military leader who took office in 2014 as the counter-revolution swept away Morsi and all the gains that Egypt's people power movement had made.
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Ginastera's cantata delves into the fractured psyche of Pier Francesco Orsini, a 16th-century military leader and art patron who commissioned a garden filled with grotesque sculptures that in their hedonistic absurdity seem to prefigure Surrealism.
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A senior U.S. military leader said in 2012 the Guards have the ability to block the strait "for a period of time" but the United States would take action to reopen it in such an event.
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The takeaway from "Dereliction of Duty," and McMaster's decades of strategic and operational experience, is the fundamental value of sound civil-military relations and the importance of keeping military leader(s) at the Security Council table.
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Mr. Ameri, as a political and military leader with credibility in the pro-American and pro-Iranian camps, may be best positioned to bring the militias into the fold of the American-trained domestic security forces.
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The discussions shed light on how Iran and its allied groups are trying to cement control in the unstable Middle East, especially in the wake of the devastating U.S. attack on a revered Iranian military leader.
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More than one senior military leader has said the services are facing a "war for talent," as a stronger economy and two decades of war, among other factors, make military service less appealing to young Americans.
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The misfire added yet another layer of confusion to an already murky situation days after the region erupted in response to the U.S. drone attack that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad airport.
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It's a hell of a story: DNA analysis of a 10th century skeleton found at a burial in the Swedish town of Birka — a huge trade hub — revealed that a Viking military leader was actually a woman.
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"There have been attempts from pollsters and surveys that we know of, cooperating with one side, to steer public opinion as if we have lost," the former military leader said outside his home in Jakarta on Wednesday.
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The life-sized bronze, the idea for which has been floating around for two decades, will depict the artist sitting heroically atop a rearing horse like a military leader, nude but for a loincloth around his groin.
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During the meeting, Buhari urged the World Bank to assist in the repatriation of $320 million stolen by former military leader Sani Abacha, which is being held by authorities in Switzerland, his office said in a statement.
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Mattis was superbly qualified to serve as Defense secretary and why Congress, for only the second time in the country's history, waived the required seven-year waiting period for a former military leader to head the department.
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Famed military leader George S. Patton, then a lieutenant colonel, oversaw a US Army operation in which military planes dropped bombs near the vent that was the source of the lava, according to the US Geological Survey.
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The former military leader also conferred the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic, the highest national honor given to Nigeria's past presidents on the late politician, who never had the chance to take office.
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The piece dates back to 1908; engraved with "Napoleon enveloppé dans ses réves" ("Napoleon wrapped in his dreams"), it features the military leader cloaked in swaths of billowy fabric and is worth between $4 and $12 million.
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It goes like this: Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was a Roman consul and military leader until 29 B.C., at which point he retired to a modest farm and planned to work happily for the rest of his days.
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The wishy-washy response has raised many questions about the overall rationale behind pulling the trigger on a senior foreign military leader, particularly given it prompted a retaliatory missile attack from Iran at US and coalition forces.
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The U.S. did not know exactly when slain Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani had planned to attack Americans, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said while maintaining the Trump administration's line that such strikes were about to happen.
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That strategy appears to have paid off after Trump gave the go ahead to target Qasem Soleimani, the top military leader in Iran, who was killed last week in a US drone strike near the Baghdad airport.
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Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump and his allies speak to the country and the world amid the fallout from the fatal strike on Iranian military leader Qasam Soleimani, one name continues to pop up: Barack Obama.
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"The principal interest of this administration is to consolidate on the achievements of the last four years," the 76-year-old former military leader said in his first major public speech since his re-inauguration last month.
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" The military leader said the council would remain in place for a maximum of two years with the primary goal of maintaining public order: "We will have zero tolerance for any misdeed in any corner of the country.
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Stanley McChrystal was forced to resign after an earthshaking article from Michael Hastings, a now-deceased freelance journalist who was published in Rolling Stone, Obama tapped Petraeus to take over from McChrystal as the military leader in Afghanistan.
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Monday's appointment of Shavendra Silva, 55, a key military leader during the final phase of the island nation's 26-year-long war with dissident Tamil Tigers, drew flak from the United States, United Nations and civil society groups.
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Mr. Abdo Benítez's presidential bid evoked memories of Paraguay's dictatorship from 1954 to 1989 because his father was the personal secretary of Alfredo Stroessner, the despotic military leader who ruled the small South American nation during those years.
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Thailand's current prime minister, pro-military leader Prayut Chan-o-cha, is expected to retain his post after the coming election on March 24 — which some analysts said would be positive for long-term continuity in economic policies.
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Earlier this year, Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced new sanctions days after Iran fired missiles at U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation for an American airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iran's top military leader, Qasem Soleimani.
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And while neither the White House nor the Department of Defense has made an official statement about what the policy would look like, the nation's top military leader has since clarified that no official changes have been made.
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Earlier this year, Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced new sanctions days after Iran fired missiles at U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation for an American airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iran's top military leader, Qasem Soleimani.
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The measure, which says that Trump should wind down any military engagement with Iran unless Congress votes to approve it, directly pushes back on his decision to kill Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani without consulting lawmakers last week.
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The Iraq war vote has come to the forefront of the 2020 election as relations with Iraq have deteriorated in recent weeks following the U.S. killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike near Baghdad.
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Washington, DC (CNN Business)Hackers looking to breach US computer networks sharply intensified their efforts following the death of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, but have had limited success, according to internet security researchers and state government officials.
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HBO's new miniseries, starring Helen Mirren as Catherine, focuses on the empress's long-running relationship with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke) and her triumphs and shortcomings as a leader, particularly towards the end of her reign.
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But they clearly would not mind seeing their campaign of "maximum pressure" against Iran, now reinforced by the killing of its most valued military leader, result in a drastic upheaval — and possibly even fall — of Iran's theocratic government.
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Almost a year later, the United States has imposed economic sanctions on just one Myanmar military leader; Congress has failed to pass legislation penalizing the country; and efforts to further restrict minimal U.S.-Myanmar military ties have stalled.
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For weeks Trump has conducted a high-profile canvassing of Republican political stalwarts as part of his running mate search, but he has also made clear he is looking at what a military leader would bring to the ticket.
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U.S. sanctions have wreacked economic havoc on Iran for years, and President Donald Trump intensified them after Iran attacked an Iraqi base housing American soldiers in retaliation for Washington's killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani in early January.
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Cyberattacks from nation-states are common, and there is reason to believe that Iran will target the U.S. cyber world in response to the killing of its top military leader, according to George Kurtz, CEO of cybersecurity company Crowdstrike.
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Soleimani does not have a direct equivalent in the US political system, but he was Iran&aposs most important military leader and widely considered the second most powerful figure in the country after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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In early January, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a wing of Iran's military, fired more than 20 missiles at two Iraqi military bases housing US troops in retaliation for a US drone strike that killed Iranian military leader Gen.
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And he did so by doing something truly unexpected and risky — ordering the assassination of an extremely powerful Iranian military leader (a step rejected by the two previous administrations, though reportedly proposed earlier this year by Trump administration officials).
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President Donald Trump told associates that he assassinated Iran&aposs top military leader last week in part to appease Republican senators who will play a crucial role in his Senate impeachment trial, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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President Donald Trump told associates that he assassinated Iran&aposs top military leader last week in part to appease Republican senators who&aposll play a crucial role in his Senate impeachment trial, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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One aspect is that Iran and those who want to work in common cause with it — in this case, Sadr — are taking advantage of the fallout from President Trump's early January decision to kill Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani.
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In 2009, for example, a private Chinese bank with government ties signed a $7 billion deal with Guinea about one month after military leader Moussa Dadis Camara seized power and backed the mass slaughter and rapes of unarmed protesters.
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The UAE and Saudi have worked to counter the rise of political Islamist movements across the region and supported Egypt's military leader President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after the overthrow of its first democratically elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
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Petraeus, you'll recall, emerged from the Iraq War with a sky-high reputation as a military leader, got tapped to lead the CIA by Barack Obama, and had a stunning fall from grace related to mishandling of classified information.
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During the civil war and Taliban reign in the 1990s, a Panjshiri military leader — now celebrated by many as a national hero, albeit a complicated one — Ahmad Shah Massoud, led an army of fighters who held off the Taliban for years.
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"The words that you heard from Donald Trump are what you'd expect from a third world dictator, what you'd expect from a military leader about to attempt a coup in a foreign country, not from an American presidential candidate," he said.
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The top military leader of the Army on Wednesday stood by the service of transgender soldiers after one received a waiver for gender reassignment surgery, amid the Trump administration's ongoing debate over whether such troops should be allowed to serve.
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Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the exiled vice president and a powerful military leader, said after a meeting with the U.N. special envoy to Yemen in Riyadh late on Friday that his government sought peace but would respond to Houthi attacks.
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Friday's action in Syria also forced Trump to confront two conflicting sides of his nature -- the desire to look tough as a military leader and his instinct, distilled from endless 2016 campaign rallies in the heartland to avoid Middle Eastern entanglements.
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Philippe Pétain received the award for his service as France's military leader in World War I, but he was stripped of it — and imprisoned — after World War II for working with the country's Nazi conquerors as leader of the Vichy government.
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Critics of the move argued that appointing Mattis would weaken the tradition of civilian control over the military, and that his record as a military leader and warfighter might not translate into being an effective leader of a huge bureaucracy.
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A furor erupted in Sudan last week after the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, disclosed that he had met in secret in Uganda with Sudan's military leader, General al-Burhan, with a view to normalizing relations between Israel and Sudan.
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"By the Time It Gets Dark," the second feature from the Thai director Anocha Suwichakornpong, tiptoes around an event in October 1976, when students at Thammasat University in Bangkok were violently suppressed while protesting the return of a military leader.
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Julius Maada Bio, the candidate of the Sierra Leone People's Party and former military leader of the West African nation in 1996, will face off against Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress, the National Electoral Commission said Tuesday.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has suggested that President Donald Trump bears some responsibility for Iran&aposs downing of a commercial plane last week — an accident that happened hours after Iran retaliated against the US for assassinating its top military leader.
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But many have also said that Trump did not think through the consequences of taking out a senior military leader of another country, and that he could&aposve established deterrence or a red line without taking such an extreme action.
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But the last time the US took out a military leader of Soleimani&aposs magnitude in a foreign country was during World War II, by targeting the Imperial Japanese admiral who planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday U.S. lawmakers should wait for the facts before criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to kill top Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad last week.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended on Sunday the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, saying intelligence made clear taking no action against the military leader would have posed a greater risk.
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The Trump administration's top envoy for Iran just put assassination back on the table when he said the US will take out the successor to slain Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani — if the successor continues along the path of killing Americans.
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As global affairs analyst Max Boot pointed out Friday on CNN, the US has not killed a senior military leader of another country since 1943, when it shot down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of Pearl Harbor.
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Last May, department officials protested when Egypt's military leader, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, blocked pool reporters traveling with Secretary John Kerry from entering the presidential palace, and China frequently imposes similar restrictions to avoid unwanted questions to the Chinese leadership.
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Mr. Trump praised the dog during the event even as he faced criticism over his extraordinary interference in the military justice system and overruling of a civilian military leader in the case against Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL.
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House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel slammed the Trump administration Friday over last month's killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, arguing a new report justifying the attack undermines the argument that the operation was in response to an imminent threat.
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Iran's announcement was widely seen as a reaction to the recent US assassination of Qassim Suleimani, a top-ranking Iranian military leader, but experts say it is part of a longer trend spawning from Trump's withdrawal from the treaty in 2235.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to eastern Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar will start heavy air strikes on targets in the capital Tripoli, one of his commanders said on Monday, urging residents to stay away from militia and military camps.
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Where he was a brilliant military leader in Heir to the Empire, Thrawn here feels a bit more like an alien Sherlock Holmes, using logic and reasoning to plan out his next steps, even when they feel improbable to those surrounding him.
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An influential former prime minister, Mahdi called on high-profile military leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti, to fully integrate the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which he commands with the regular army to promote unity within the armed forces.
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Johnson pushes back against many Star Wars conventions: he downplays the importance of Rey's heritage, ignores Snoke's backstory, reintroduces a broken Luke Skywalker, and pits Poe Dameron against a military leader who doesn't reward the usual rash tactics of the Rebellion's pilots.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A former Congo military leader on trial for charges ranging from murder and rape to conscripting child soldiers and sexual slavery told judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday that he was "a revolutionary, but not a criminal".
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Occasionally, public concern over attacks has had a significant political effect – the abduction of more than 200 girls by Boko Haram was seen as a factor in the defeat of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan by former military leader Muhammadu Buhari the following year.
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Petraeus, once a widely celebrated military leader who oversaw operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, was sentenced on April 23, 2015, to serve two years of probation and pay a $100,000 fine for sharing classified information with his biographer and lover, Paula Broadwell.
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But while Iran breached the deal's atomic restrictions in the second half of last year, it has refrained from making any large, sudden moves this year, even after the U.S. assassination of its powerful military leader Qassem Soleimani in January, diplomats say.
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The Trump administration has given ever-changing answers about its reasons for deciding to kill Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, first claiming that the leader posed an "imminent threat" to the US, before suggesting that maybe the threat wasn't so imminent after all.
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The 22001-22002 vote was split along party lines and intended as a rebuke to the US military&aposs deadly strike last week on Iran&aposs top military leader, Qassem Soleimani, which has brought the US to the brink of war with Iran.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize was won by Austrian Peter Handke, one of the greatest novelists of his generation who is now most famous for having eulogized Slobodan Milošević, the Serbian military leader who died while being tried for war crimes at The Hague.
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Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday backed President Donald Trump's strong threats to Iran as the US braces for potential retaliatory actions by the country following an attack last week by US forces that killed Iran's top military leader.
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While General Mattis is revered by Marines and enlisted soldiers, several military officials interviewed on Friday raised questions about whether his proven combat skills as a military leader will be the right tools to overcome the calcified bureaucracy that is the Defense Department.
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We learn early in The Rise of Skywalker that one of his first acts is to push aside general Hux, who had been the military leader of the First Order and was responsible for the movement gaining much of its technological prowess.
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Mr. Baradar is revered among the Taliban as a charismatic military leader and a deeply religious figure who still reflects the origins of the Taliban movement, when it was founded to end the Afghan civil war and warlordism in the mid-1990s.
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"In any future confrontation, Israelis will be surprised by the strength and solidity of these tunnels, which can withstand Israeli shelling and bombs fired by the Israeli aircraft or tanks," Hamas's military leader, known as Abu Hamza, boasted in an interview last year.
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A 2017 UN report accused the UAE of violating an international arms embargo on Libya by sending attack helicopters and other military equipment to the renegade General Khalifa Haftar, a powerful military leader whose forces do not recognize the UN-backed government in Tripoli.
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Related: Nigeria Has Dismantled a Crystal Meth Super Lab Built With Mexican Expertise When Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari came to power a year ago, the former military leader vowed to rid the West African country of corruption that costs the economy billions of dollars annually.
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" Headed by a senior civilian or military leader known as a "Meme Management Officer" or "Meme and Information Integration Advisor," Prosser writes, "the MWC is designed to advise the commander and provide the most relevant meme combat options within the ideological and nonlinear battle space.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Hungarian court on Wednesday began the trial of a Syrian man accused of terrorism and crimes against humanity as a military leader of Islamic State near the city of Homs in 2015, saying he participated in the murders of dozens of people.
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President Donald Trump's decision to kill Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani on January 2 — which some people worried could lead to war with Iran — and his impending phase-one trade deal with China will likely place world affairs at center stage in Iowa tonight.
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The 211-211 vote was largely split along party lines and intended as a rebuke to the US military&aposs deadly strike last week on Iran&aposs top military leader, Qassem Soleimani, which has brought the US to the brink of war with Iran.
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President Trump's decision to authorize the killing of a top Iranian military leader could be the match that sets off a regional conflagration, or it could have only marginal geopolitical impact like so many of the targeted killings ordered by Mr. Trump and his predecessors.
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But despite the lack of common ground between Tehran and Washington, the crisis that followed the death of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani showed that the two sides can stop just short of open military conflict — even when they come perilously close to it.
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Enas Suliman, a 26-year-old teacher who has been marching in the protests since December, told BuzzFeed News via WhatsApp from Khartoum that it was difficult to feel excited about al-Bashir's arrest when it appeared he would simply be replaced by another military leader.
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If the news in the hours after the Trump administration assassinated the Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani felt like the six months leading up to the Iraq War squeezed into one evening, then the weeks after the killing resembled, with uncanny absurdity, those events played backward.
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One redditor proposed a fascinating possibility for Jaime Lannister: (Spoilers Main) The 1,000th Lord Commander from asoiaf There's definitely some merit to the idea, considering that Jaime showed surprising competence as a military leader who faced literally fantastical odds no one else has before this season.
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Peter Bergen: Biden's presidential take on Afghanistan Foreign policy had been, so far, almost absent from the Democratic debates, but the targeted killing of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, ordered by President Donald, put foreign policy firmly in play on the Des Moines debate stage Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Friday defended President Donald Trump's decision to kill top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, saying on Twitter that the military leader had been attempting to take control of Iraq and use it as a platform to attack the United States.
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"You'd have to go back to [Egyptian General Gamal Abdel] Nasser and 1967 to find a period of equivalent instability," Cordesman said, referring to the pan-Arab military leader who overthrew the Egyptian royal family, challenged Western dominance of the Suez Canal and fought a disastrous war with Israel.
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Although not a military leader, as the head of Serbia's ultranationalist Radical Party he was accused of inciting his followers to kill and commit other crimes as they joined the fighting and ethnic cleansing campaigns in Croatia, Bosnia and the Serbian province of Vojvodina between 1991 and 20063.
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Trump, too, will surely boast about his killings of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last October and top Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani in January, but it's unclear if he'll wait for the foreign policy section toward the end of his remarks or highlight them early on.
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Oil prices jumped on Friday, and stocks fell, on news that a powerful Iranian military leader had been killed in a strike authorized by the United States, ratcheting up geopolitical tensions in a region that supplies around 25 percent of the world's oil and threatening to disrupt global supply.
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After two deadlocked elections and three failed attempts at forming a government, Israel's yearlong political paralysis was no closer to a cure on Wednesday, as Benny Gantz, the centrist military leader who had tried to dislodge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power, angrily admitted he had not succeeded.
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In the four days since President Donald Trump ordered a strike that killed Iran&aposs most important military leader, the provocative move has created a huge mess for American interests, with Iran vowing reprisals and leaving the nuclear deal as more US troops head to the tense region.
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Meanwhile, as oil prices edge ever higher this year amid tightening global crude supply, Libya, a major producer in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, teetered on the edge of war after the country's eastern military leader, General Khalifa Haftar, ordered his forces to march on the capital of Tripoli.
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Thomas Jonathan Jackson, better known as Stonewall, was a critical military leader for the Confederacy — so much so that many historians point to his death in 1863, days after he was mistakenly shot by Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Chancellorsville, as the beginning of the end for the South.
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The Brotherhood, which held power for just over a year, has been classified as a terrorist group by the government of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the president and a former military leader, and thousands of the group's leaders and members have been jailed or killed or have gone into exile.
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Only one day after Sudan's longtime autocratic ruler, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, was ousted by his own defense minister — a close ally — the defense minister announced on state television that he was stepping down as head of the transitional government and would be replaced by yet another military leader.
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WASHINGTON — Dozens of Iranians and Iranian-Americans were held for hours at Washington State's border with Canada over the weekend as the Department of Homeland Security ramped up security at border ports after Iran threatened to retaliate against the United States for the strike that killed its top military leader.
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In his book Mr Kurlantzick paints a vivid picture of protagonists like Vang Pao, a military leader who emigrated to America, where he was arrested in 2007 for plotting a coup against the Laotian government, and Tony Poe, a hard-drinking CIA operative who lived in the jungle and collected severed enemy ears.
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Historically, people have even been more concerned with vanity than their do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders — like when Napoleon Bonaparte, prominent military leader during the French Revolution, reportedly requested his head be shaved and hair be made into a bracelet while the rest got divided into pieces and shared between friends and family.
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In light of Donald Trump's administration's efforts to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, actor Bambadjan Bamba, who has a recurring role on The Good Place and will appear in 2018's Black Panther as a military leader, has revealed that he himself is undocumented, and a DACA recipient.
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Buhari, a former military leader, took office May 2015 after a democratic election on a mantra of "change" in addition to the promise of tackling corruption and insecurity in the northeast region of the country, but Nigeria currently ranks 148th out of 180 countries in the 2017 Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International.
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