A military operation there forced him to postpone his plans.
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Turkey launched a military operation in Syria's northeast last week.
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Jeffrey Buchanan to lead the military operation in Puerto Rico.
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The subsequent military operation has drawn almost universal condemnation internationally.
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Assad told local reporters Sunday the military operation would continue.
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The military operation comes after Trump's controversial decision to withdraw troops from Syria, clearing the way for a Turkish military operation against the Kurds, who fought alongside the U.S. to defeat the Islamic State.
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Hapilon's death in a military operation elsewhere in Marawi on Oct.
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Live-streaming a military operation has obvious disadvantages, not least militarily.
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Turkey immediately launched a military operation against the rebels in response.
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Keeping your home secure doesn't need to be a military operation.
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But even such "limited" strikes would be a massive military operation.
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The military operation was a response to attacks on its forces.
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On Monday, Trump authorized sanctions punishing Turkey for its military operation.
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" Trump defended the deportations last week, describing them as "a military operation.
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It was established after a similar, smaller military operation late last year.
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Turkey launched a military operation targeting the Kurds shortly after Trump's announcement.
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Joseph Dunford named three targets that were struck in the military operation.
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Mattis said Afrin had been stabilizing, prior to the Turkish military operation.
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Herrera said the attack had the hallmarks of a professional military operation.
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Saudi Arabia defended the incident as a "legitimate military operation," CNN reported.
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Iran's hand in this military operation is less obvious, but certainly present.
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If we could get to a military operation, we could cover it.
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A key feature of most any large-scale military operation is roadbuilding.
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Can you imagine Roosevelt or Churchill calling a major military operation Project Werewolf?
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Support for the insurgents grew after the military operation last year, he said.
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"Our border defense is primarily a civilian, not a military, operation," he says.
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The rebel commander was subsequently killed in a military operation 13 days ago.
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The source said the attack appeared to be a well-planned military operation.
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Steve Warren, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. military operation against ISIS.
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Niger's army launched a military operation to reestablish security in Tillabery in June.
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Erdogan later said Ankara and Moscow had an agreement on the military operation.
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The talks eventually collapsed, and a military operation was undertaken against the militants.
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The commando's death came during a Somali military operation, not an American one.
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"I am convinced that there will not be any military operation," she says.
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Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) would prohibit funds for any military operation in Yemen.
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Myles B. Caggins III, a spokesman for the U.S. military operation in Iraq.
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The military operation to dislodge the Islamic State came at a heavy price.
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In April 2011, the army carried out the first military operation there, it said.
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France&aposs Barkhane in West and Central Africa is its largest overseas military operation.
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Russia is experienced at ethnic cleansing under the cover of a legitimate military operation.
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If we do not address those problems, this military operation will be a waste.
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A military operation to combat terrorism has been underway in the city since 2013.
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By contrast, Trump divulged a significant level of detail about the military operation itself.
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The Joint Military Operation Command said there were many ISIS casualties during the attacks.
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He also announced that the Russian-backed military operation in southwestern Syria is over.
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"(Storm) has become a textbook successful military operation," said Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic.
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Russia launched a military operation to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last year.
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"It was so broad, it covered almost every military operation in perpetuity," she said.
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Kenneth McKenzie, Director of the Joint Staff, provided details of the overnight military operation.
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Instead of apologizing, the Saudis defended the airstrike, calling it a legitimate military operation.
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The colonial administration in Nairobi subsequently launched a military operation to stamp it out.
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Here's why: A cyber military operation lets the adversary know you're in the network.
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And there was no military operation more important to national security at the time.
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Turkey's defense ministry that 415 "terrorists" have been killed since launching its military operation.
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But in the aftermath of the military operation last week that killed Maj. Gen.
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Mr. Obama had begun attacks on Libya and was conferring about the military operation.
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"It was no mere prank, it was a classic small-unit military operation" Gen.
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If there is no planned military operation, then, could Trump have had other aims?
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Badege declined to comment on whether a military operation was under way around Nyungwe Forest.
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There's a real risk that any initially limited military operation could escalate out of control.
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Cameroon's army said on Friday it killed 92 Boko Haram members during a military operation.
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The breaches also could trigger a U.S. or Israeli military operation against Iranian nuclear facilities.
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A Turkish army reconnaissance team scouted the region on Sunday before an expected military operation.
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"There's always going to be discussions, but it's not like a military operation," White said.
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Addressing that challenge will take more than a military operation thousands of miles from home.
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In a series of tweets, he denounced what he called a "military operation" in Bolivia.
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Trouble could spill over into Colombia, especially if that country participated in a military operation.
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An Egyptian military operation confronted, with mixed effect, Islamic State movements within the Sinai Peninsula.
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It's a tale of a military operation, prosecuted by an empire grown old and fearful.
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The deployment of bees resembles a military operation, with Mr. Adee serving as its commander.
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Turkey said on Tuesday it had completed preparations for a military operation in the northeast.
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On this basis Iran "is against any type of possible military operation" of that kind.
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Noble Eagle's military operation has accounted for $27.7 billion, and Inherent Resolve has cost $23.5 billion.
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The Kremlin said on Friday there was no time frame for its military operation in Syria.
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He said he was preparing for a military operation to take back more cities from ISIS.
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The landing by U-537 was the only known Nazi military operation on North American soil.
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In 2010, the Brazilian government launched a military operation to clear the favela of drug traffickers.
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"The Chancellor advocated an immediate end to the military operation," the spokeswoman said in a statement.
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More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh since the military operation began.
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Sentinelle is the biggest military operation on home soil since the Algerian war in the 1960s.
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With the US decision to pull roughly 1,000 troops from Syria, Turkey launched a military operation.
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Fifty-seven percent of respondents in a CBS News survey out Monday supports the military operation.
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"It was like a military operation," described Marc Fallon, a Catholic social worker in New Bedford.
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Turkey's debacle underscored that a coup is less a military operation than a collective action problem.
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They're in the midst of a US-backed military operation in Yemen against the Houthi rebels.
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The shopkeepers hoped the military operation would allow many of the Syrian refugees to return home.
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Operation Barkhane is a French anti-Islamist military operation spanning five countries in Africa's Sahel region.
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Roads connecting Kirkuk to Baghdad and to Erbil, closed during the military operation, were reopened Tuesday.
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Just days after Trump's announcement, Turkey launched a military operation against the U.S.-allied Kurdish forces.
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A Turkish security source told Reuters the military operation into Syria had begun with air strikes.
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Saturday marked Turkey's deadliest day in its military operation dubbed "Operation Olive Branch" in northern Syria.
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The consensus among historians, including Hochschild, is that as a military operation the attack achieved nothing.
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Al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, Abdiasis Abu Musab, said it killed five people in the attack.
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The drawdown order was the second since Russia's military operation began in Syria in September 2015.
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But sending any number of troops for a military operation against a country would make it bristle.
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The people we spoke with offered divergent views on what the military operation might mean for them.
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This will be the most complex military operation in the country since the American invasion in 2003.
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The last time a member of the EU conducted a military operation alone was the Falklands war.
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A senior UN official this week described the military operation as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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Erdogan last week hinted that Turkey could take part in a U.S.-led military operation in Syria.
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"After the failure of political conferences and solutions, the military operation is an urgent necessity," he said.
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Joseph Dunford named three targets that were struck in the military operation which began at 9 p.m.
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After a four-year military operation, the last ISIS stronghold in Baghuz, Syria, was defeated in March.
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The Iraqis declared Sunday that Fallujah was fully liberated from ISIS after a five-week military operation.
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Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, said the militant group had been behind the attack.
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They're padding, while Sniper Elite 4 works best as a streamlined, focused-of-task military operation simulator.
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"It seems very organized, almost like a military operation," Lofven said in an interview on Swedish radio.
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American troops were in the province but had no role in the Iraqi military operation, said Col.
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By Wednesday morning, Turkey had begun carrying out a military operation against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.
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U.S. officials reportedly tried to talk Turkey out of launching the military operation but to no avail.
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Editorial The first military operation President Trump authorized, a rare and risky raid in Yemen on Jan.
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Saturday's strikes on Syria were the first major military operation since Macron's election in May last year.
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The new force joins multiple counterterror efforts in the region including France&aposs largest overseas military operation, Barkhane.
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But there was a recognition in Moscow that pressing ahead with the military operation would produce diminishing returns.
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Heads of state and government representatives from the countries involved in the historic military operation will also attend.
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The Turkish public has shown strong support for the military operation, encouraged by an overwhelmingly pro-government media.
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He said after the military operation, Egyptian authorities would push ahead with a comprehensive development plan for Sinai.
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"Euphrates Shield", named after the river running nearby, is Turkey's first major military operation since the abortive coup.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday a military operation in Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin region had begun.
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The government says five soldiers and at least 33 alleged attackers have been killed in the military operation.
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A military operation against North Korea would saddle the US with expanded costs and responsibility on the peninsula.
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Security forces launched a large-scale military operation late last month to reclaim the remaining ISIS-held neighborhoods.
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Flashback: In 2014, the U.S. indicted five Chinese hackers accused of a military operation to steal intellectual property.
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A military operation would be carried out if those plans failed, broadcaster A Haber quoted him as saying.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military operation was drawing to a conclusion with its goals met.
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The festive period can be frenetic, and feeding the whole family can sometimes seem like a military operation.
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Reuters has previously interviewed dozens of refugees, residents and Myanmar security officials about the military operation in Rakhine.
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Turkey launched a military operation — with the blessing of Russia — in Afrin, a Kurdish area of northwestern Syria.
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Ankara launched a military operation inside Syria six weeks ago to sweep YPG fighters from its southern border.
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Emmanuel Macron has been criticized at home over his response to a Turkish military operation against YPG militants.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - There is no time frame for Russia's military operation in Syria, the Kremlin said on Friday.
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They came up with a plan that more resembled a one way suicide mission than a military operation.
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"I believe the militants who escaped from here after the military operation are behind these attacks," Zeb said.
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The Night Stalkers have been active in every military operation since Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada in 1983.
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It called the attack "a legitimate military operation" and accused the Houthis of using children as human shields.
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The Associated Press reported on Friday that Bolsonaro had ordered a military operation to help fight the fires.
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Zeid said he had phoned Suu Kyi in January, asking her in vain to stop the military operation.
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This is as close to a military operation as you can get in the civilian world, he said.
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"This is as close to a military operation as you can get in the civilian world," he said.
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As the blasts occurred, President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey had launched its planned military operation in northeast Syria.
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Among those respondents, 28503 percent said that America is "much less safe" because of the U.S. military operation.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said a military operation targeting Kurdish fighters in northeast Syrian had begun.
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In response, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has since lashed out against those critical of his military operation.
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More than any other American military operation since the invasion of Iraq, the assassination yesterday of Maj. Gen.
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Until then, the filmmakers mostly manage to turn a daring military operation into a studiously risk-free movie.
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Najib has called Myanmar's military operation "genocide" and saw off the shipment when it left Malaysia last Friday.
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In Return of the Jedi they waged a military operation against the Empire's technologically superior force and won.
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He also visited Putin in Moscow in October 2015, soon after Russia launched its military operation in Syria.
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However, some recruiters were unsettled by applicants' paranoia surrounding the military operation, and their eagerness to be armed.
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There was no military operation in the area and no clash with the Taliban, according to local officials.
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Somali officials have said civilians have been killed in more than one joint U.S. military operation with Somali forces.
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Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, told Russian news agencies that no new military operation against Idlib had been agreed on.
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So far the Trump administration's response to Turkey's military operation in Afrin, 60 miles from Manbij, has been muted.
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Turkey did not close the border, but we suspended for security reasons our movements because of the military operation.
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Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab's military operation spokesman Abdiasis Abu Musab said the group was responsible for the attack.
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The militants released a statement Friday alleging that the soldiers died during a French military operation in Tin-bidene.
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ON January 20th Turkey launched a military operation (optimistically dubbed "Olive Branch") in Syria's north-western enclave of Afrin.
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The head of the army said on Sunday that a military operation had been launched to "re-establish order".
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However, it is inappropriate for the ministry to go into details about the (strength of the) US military operation.
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We got Cardi Thursday evening outside the London Hotel in NYC, and it was almost like a military operation.
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Since it entered the war, the strategic center of Russia's military operation has been Hmeymim airbase near Latakia. 2.
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THE apparent end of Russia's military operation in Syria was as dramatic as its beginning nearly six months ago.
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It has become the biggest military operation in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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This past weekend, the Iraqis declared that Fallujah was fully liberated from ISIS after a five-week military operation.
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To thwart any hint of Ukrainian success, Russia continues to direct a scaled-back military operation in East Ukraine.
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The Saudi-led coalition announced Wednesday the launching of the military operation to capture the last Houthi-controlled port.
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Last week, a joint police and military operation in one such neighborhood, Complexo do Alemão, left two people dead.
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Trump's repeated criticisms of the ongoing military operation in Mosul come despite forces on the ground making key gains.
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A successful military operation alone "does nothing to prevent extremists from resurfacing again," a former State Department official warns.
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Turkey's military operation in northern Syria has thrown the future of anti-ISIS operations in the area in question.
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But some former administration officials said the prospect of an Israeli military operation gave energy to the diplomatic push.
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The Obama administration expanded the legal scope of the military operation Congress authorized against Al Qaeda after the Sept.
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The leaflets, written in Arabic and Kurdish, urge the residents of Afrin to cooperate with the Turkish military operation.
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"This is not a good ratio or percentage of success to base a significant military operation upon," he said.
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"The military operation is over," said Talal Salo, a commander reached by phone at the group's headquarters in Hasaka.
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"You do things for people in order to get a permissive environment to help your military operation," he said.
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Finally, during the presidential transition, McClatchy reported that Flynn had put a halt to a military operation Turkey opposed.
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U.S. President Donald Trump urged Erdogan on Wednesday to curtail the military operation in Syria, the White House said.
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Erdogan announced last week Turkey is postponing its planned military operation against the YPG in light of Trump's decision.
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The government says five soldiers and at least 33 alleged insurgents have been killed in the military operation since then.
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In the early hours of October 17th a long-planned military operation was launched to retake Mosul, Iraq's second city.
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The government says five soldiers and at least 33 suspected insurgents have been killed in the military operation since then.
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Turkey launched a military operation on Saturday with rebel allies against a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in Syria's Afrin region.
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Their efforts were set back when Trump described deportations as "a military operation," forcing Kelly to make a public clarification.
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MOSCOW, Sept 30 (Reuters) - There is no time frame for Russia's military operation in Syria, the Kremlin said on Friday.
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The second incident took place in the country's southwestern province of Balochistan, where a military operation left four soldiers dead.
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The latest deployment signals an emboldened U.S. military operation that has its sights set on a speedy offensive in Raqqa.
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President Trump wasn't speaking literally when he described his deportation push as a "military operation," according to his top spokesman.
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Three US soldiers were killed and another wounded in June during a joint US-Afghan military operation in Nangarhar Province.
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In conjunction with France and the United Kingdom, Trump declared that the military operation was vital to U.S. national security.
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"The Turkish military operation in northern Syria is a blatant aggression," said a foreign ministry statement circulated on state media.
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The withdraw sparked bipartisan outrage in Washington, as it effectively abandoned US-allied Kurdish forces to a Turkish military operation.
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Saudi Arabia and its allies joined the war, leading a military operation to support the government, now based in Aden.
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By the way, the launch of any NATO military operation would require a consensus that would include Latvia and Lithuania.
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The Kurdish-Arab town is under threat of a Turkish military operation that has already complicated the war in Syria.
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He added that Russian command "notified in advance the US counterparts about borders of the military operation" in Deir Ezzor.
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Aid groups and humanitarian organisations have been saying that a military operation there would put millions of civilians at risk.
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Although the planning is continuing apace, a military operation against North Korea has yet to be given a formal name.
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Donald Trump called his administration's recent efforts to deport undocumented immigrants from the United States a "military operation" on Thursday.
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It was basically a full military operation to grab Barsukov, then they airlifted him straight back out back to Moscow.
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A rectal thermometer, for example, gives an accurate core temperature but isn't welcome during a military operation or a marathon.
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The Turkish foreign minister says the military operation is necessary for national security and to help displaced Syrians return home.
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In turn, Kim may feel emboldened to initiate a limited military operation to assert his dominance on the Korean peninsula.
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On Monday, the president outlined his plan for resolving the 16-year conflict, the longest military operation in U.S. history.
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O'Neill was part of the military operation ordered by President Barack Obama that killed the al Qaeda leader in 2011.
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Most importantly, the kind of military operation the United States is currently pursuing in the region is much more sustainable.
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French President Emmanuel Macron announced over the weekend that his government killed 33 people in a military operation in Mali.
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Officials did not release details of their rescue, but local news media reports said it came during a military operation.
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Lauer ended the evening by asking Trump about the weightiness of the decision to launch a military operation as president.
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The source said the attack appeared to be a well-planned military operation in which several suicide bombers were involved.
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While there, Trump launched the first major military operation of his presidency shortly after dining with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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It says its military operation has been a legitimate response to target Rohingya militants who fatally attacked police posts in August.
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Demonstrators in Diyarbakir, Turkey, shout slogans during a protest against a Syrian military operation in the rebel-held Idlib in Syria.
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Trump talked to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to express his displeasure at the military operation, Vice President Mike Pence said.
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It needs hackers to infiltrate secure networks, to spy, or disrupt critical infrastructure of an enemy during any given military operation.
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After all, this was a highly sensitive military operation that could've gone horribly wrong if any word of it got out.
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As of Saturday evening, a military operation against the gunmen remaining in the base was still underway, the Defense Ministry said.
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"We don't talk about it, but a military operation, a military option is certainly something that we could pursue," Trump replied.
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The death toll since the start of the military operation on Monday reached 47 - 30 civilians and 17 militants, he said.
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"France doesn't foresee any new military operation on the ground in northern Syria outside of the international coalition," the source said.
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The tweet, which telegraphed a military operation, broke with what U.S. national security policy refers to as Operations Security or OPSEC.
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In Iraq's biggest military operation since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, government forces have seized most of east Mosul.
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NCIS is also still investigating the alleged killing of civilians in August during a joint US-Somali military operation in Somalia.
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Some even accuse them of masterminding Turkey's resistance to a joint American-Turkey military operation against the Islamic State in Syria.
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If the purpose is to bolster national security, then the cost of this military operation could be better spent at home.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last week called the military operation "ethnic cleansing" and threatened targeted sanctions for "horrendous atrocities".
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The first, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, led the military operation that led to creation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, in 1971.
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As the death toll from the military operation worsens, rebuilding the economy has emerged as a priority to prevent widespread famine.
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In May, United States Africa Command finished an initial investigation into the ambush and found widespread problems across the military operation.
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Callimachi: To cover both the military operation, and to look for the files — the internal records that ISIS had left behind.
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Just witnessed a full on military operation by Mexico's National Guard against caravan migrants who walked across the river into Mexico.
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Iran launched its first direct military operation against Israel, dispatching a drone from the Tiyas Airbase in Syria's central Homs region.
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The Turkish Defense Ministry said late on Monday that it had completed preparations for a possible military operation in northeastern Syria.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey may launch a military operation in Idlib unless the fighting there is halted.
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Investors hope Genish, who once described running GVT like "a military operation", will set in motion a similar overhaul at TIM.
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Or, it could be the result of a nefarious military operation conducted by an unknown state actor, but that's pure speculation.
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Turkey sees the YPG as a terrorist organization and launched a military operation in Syria in response to Kurdish territorial gains.
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Agnieszka Brugger, a Greens lawmaker, said the Turkish military operation demonstrated the devastating impact that German weapons sales could have overseas.
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Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, told Reuters on Saturday their fighters had killed 12 soldiers in the Afmadow attack.
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Suu Kyi also faces mounting international condemnation for a military operation that has sent nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh.
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Turkey's next military move will depend on whether Russia and the US will close their eyes against the continuation of military operation.
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They are also asking that their homes, mosques and schools that were burned down or damaged in the military operation be rebuilt.
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Russia launched a military operation in Syria in September 2015 which has turned the tide of the conflict in favor of Assad.
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The military operation in Rocinha on Friday disrupted transportation and businesses in the area, with some schools closing or paring back operations.
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So when the ISIS fighter she now belonged to left to go on a military operation, she spotted a chance to escape.
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That joint military operation has a goal no different than any tank platoon, carrier group, or fighter wing: to keep us safe.
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"The Ankara bomb indicates that Turkey's (military) operation yields serious results in face of recent terror," he said, according to the agency.
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Last Saturday, three US soldiers were killed and another was wounded during a joint US-Afghan military operation in Afghanistan's Achin district.
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Russia's military operation in Syria, which began in September 2015, turned the tide of the conflict in favor of Moscow's ally, Assad.
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Earlier in June, three US soldiers were killed, and another wounded during a joint US-Afghan military operation in Afghanistan's Achin district.
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But he said those refusals had not affected the naval mission, or interfered with supplies reaching the Russian military operation in Syria.
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ABC also reported a Nigerien military operation is being planned against those that initiated the attack and other attacks in the area.
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Turkey began an expected military operation against US-backed Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced.
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The tweets come after a late Sunday statement from the White House effectively green-lighting a Turkish military operation in northern Syria.
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Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator ousted by a U.S. military operation in 1989, died in Panama City early Tuesday at 83.
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With long land borders with Syria and Iraq, Turkey is a central part of the U.S.-led military operation against Islamic State.
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The latest military operation, like an earlier campaign last year, began after Rohingya insurgents attacked security outposts in Rakhine, killing Myanmar forces.
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"Street and after street, it was like some sort of military operation," said Paul Arnott, who took part in the laundry revolt.
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Two US defense officials told CNN Friday that the two US service members were killed during a partnered US-Afghan military operation.
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Wednesday's strike stands in stark contrast to the Abqaiq attack, a military operation exhibiting Iran's abilities to strike with precision and intent.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran opposes any Turkish military operation in Syria, Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement on its website on Tuesday.
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Also on the radar were other geopolitical developments, with Turkey launching a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday.
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"We have used that island for every significant military operation in Southwest Asia," said Titley, who now teaches at Pennsylvania State University.
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Turkish military vehicles carrying tanks seen near the border on the way to northern Syria for the military operation against Kurdish fighters.
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Myanmar authorities have strongly disputed that conclusion, categorizing the military operation as a legitimate counter terrorism response to attacks by Rohingya militants.
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"President Trump did not share any 'concerns about escalating violence' with regard to the ongoing military operation in Afrin," read the message.
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After initially claiming that the attack was "a legitimate military operation," the Saudi government has now pledged to conduct an internal investigation.
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"The Turkish military operation in northern and eastern Syria will have a huge negative effect on our war against" IS, it added.
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The exodus was spurred by a military operation that started last month to take back the western part of the city from ISIS.
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"We attacked the Banadir beach restaurant and now our fighters are fighting inside it," Abdiasis Abu Musab, its military operation spokesman, told Reuters.
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The fighters also took 11 pickup trucks mounted with machine guns, known as "technicals", said Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operation spokesman.
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President Donald Trump says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead after a U.S. military operation in Syria targeted the Islamic State group leader.
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October 24, 2019 Turkey has agreed to stop its military operation in northern Syria, and the U.S. has lifted its sanctions on Turkey.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ISTANBUL — The email was ominous, warning against spreading "black propaganda" about Turkey's military operation in northeast Syria.
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The NATO mission in the country issued a statement saying the soldier died during the military operation on Saturday, without providing further details.
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Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, denied al Shabaab took any casualties from what he described as a U.S. drone strike.
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Thursday's strikes mark a rare public announcement by India that it had launched a military operation across its de factor border with Pakistan.
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Ankara is concerned about potential refugee flows from Idlib in the event of a military operation, and wants to retain its influence there.
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Turkish forces and their Syrian allies seized control of Afrin from Kurdish fighters on Sunday, the culmination of an eight-week military operation.
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A joint civilian-military operation in Plateau has been praised for recovering stolen cattle, mediating between sparring communities and preaching peace in schools.
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It comes almost two weeks after the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed during an American military operation in northwestern Syria.
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The commander was responsible for killing a number of Afghan commandos during a military operation in the area a couple months ago. Nov.
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Al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, told Reuters the blast was aimed at police officers stationed close to the port.
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Additionally, the Pentagon said Russian forces in Syria were formally notified before the strike, but Moscow was not involved in the military operation.
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Turkey views the Kurdish forces there as a threat and has been warning of launching a military operation in the region for days.
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A large-scale military operation is ongoing in Mosul, where Iraqi government forces are attempting to wrest control of the city from ISIS.
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Since the start of the military operation in August last year, more than 650,000 Rohingya had fled across the border to neighboring Bangladesh.
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Mr. Zambada also confessed that he once paid $250,000 to a Mexican army officer to abort a military operation to capture Mr. Guzmán.
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Given the strife, there is widespread support across the country for the military operation against Kurdish militants in the Syrian enclave of Afrin.
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Michael Flynn might've scuttled a military operation to help Turkey (which used to pay him), and that's just the start of things today.
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Mr. Fazlullah escaped to Afghanistan after the 2009 military operation, and Pakistani military officials say he is hiding in Kunar Province of Afghanistan.
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The Iraqi military operation to retake the disputed areas was aided by an agreement with a Kurdish faction to withdraw from them peacefully.
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The Myanmar government has strongly disputed that conclusion, categorizing the military operation as a legitimate counter-terrorism response to attacks by Rohingya militants.
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Once this became clear, Turkey, together with its Syrian proxies, launched a military operation to push back the Kurds and the Islamic State.
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Also on the radar were other major geopolitical developments, with Turkey launching a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday.
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"Allies sent Awacs surveillance planes to help patrol American skies and we launched NATO's biggest military operation ever in Afghanistan," Mr. Stoltenberg said.
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The Turkish Defence Ministry said on Twitter late on Monday that preparations for a possible military operation into northeastern Syria had been completed.
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Ankara said on Tuesday it had completed preparations for a military operation in northeast Syria after the United States began pulling back troops.
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"Even if Trump's instincts are to say, 'This isn't the kind of military operation I'd like do,' he's caught with the strategic reality."
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday called Turkey to show restraint and stop its military operation in northeast Syria.
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Tens of thousands of civilians have also been displaced by the Turkish military operation, with aid agencies warning of a growing humanitarian crisis.
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In an email, Bensahel added: On the battlefield, the rule of law is what separates a legitimate military operation from wanton criminal violence.
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Trevor Noah's team concluded that the way to save the meal-delivery program was to make Mr. Trump think it's a military operation.
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Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state in August sparked a military operation that Myanmar described as a legitimate response.
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The military operation to take Baghuz has stalled as commanders negotiate an end to the siege with the Islamic State, according to officials.
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Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab's military operation spokesman, denied al-Shabaab took any casualties from what he described as a US drone strike.
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In three months of Iraq's biggest military operation since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, government forces have seized most of east Mosul.
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The coalition-backed fighters are attempting to close in on the city as part of third stage of "Wrath of the Euphrates" military operation.
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" A White House spokesperson said Trump did not misspeak by calling deportations a 'military operation,' but clarified the President meant "military" as an "adjective.
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Norbert Roettgen, who heads the German parliament's foreign affairs committee, also said the military operation would complicate fledgling efforts to rebuild German-Turkish ties.
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Countries in the region launched a military operation on Thursday to install new President Adama Barrow in office and oust longtime leader Yahya Jammeh.
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White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien said the US military operation that resulted in the death of Baghdadi was named after Kayla Mueller.
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Trump tweeted a photo of the "wonderful" dog that he said had been declassified, praising the animal for its performance during the military operation.
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The sight of the flying aircraft above the city frightened many New Yorkers last week who were not notified about the military operation beforehand.
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But for now, Russia can cut the $3m a day cost of its military operation, while preserving much of the leverage it has bought.
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THE release of Beyoncé's newest album (a genre-jumping tour de force entitled "Lemonade") was carried out with the precision of a military operation.
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In the message, Mr. Trump warned the Turkish leader, "Don't be a fool," by launching a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria.
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The Turkish military operation, dubbed 'Euphrates Shield', was launched more than four months ago to drive Islamic State militants away from the border region.
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Iraqi authorities said in April 2015 that Douri had been killed in a military operation and showed pictures of a body that resembled his.
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The military operation has thrown the region into chaos, with 100,000 civilians fleeing and hundreds of prisoners loyal to the Islamic State escaping captivity.
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The Trump administration said Sunday that US troops would pull out of northeastern Syria ahead of a possible Turkish military operation in the area.
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"Regarding our joint operation to fight terrorists in Syria, this military operation is indeed coming to an end," he told Assad in televised remarks.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group, died during a US military operation in northwestern Syria over the weekend.
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Turkey, which sharply criticised the Ghouta offensive, waged its own military operation to drive Kurdish YPG fighters from the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin.
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It's a serious military operation with of the most important jobs on the planet and foreign governments, many of them unfriendly, are always watching.
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Pentagon officials on Monday said they were considering releasing videos and photos from the military operation that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Turkey has long regarded the Syrian Kurds as a terrorist group and earlier this month launched a military operation in Kurdish-controlled Syrian territory.
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After Trump's announcement, Turkey quickly launched a military operation in the area targeting Syrian Kurds, who aided the U.S. in the fight against ISIS.
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"We targeted government officials and forces," al Shabaab's military operation spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told Reuters, adding there was a police station nearby.
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The Taliban are battling to topple the Western-backed government of Afghanistan 15 years after they lost power in a U.S.-led military operation.
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Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday, with air strikes hitting the border town of Ras al Ain.
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YPG claimed four of its own militia members were killed over the weekend in the Turkish military operation along with 10 fighters from FSA.
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While it could prove effective and harmful to Tehran's economy, that move would most likely be seen as less escalatory than a military operation.
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During the rally, Trump also touted the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, who was killed by a U.S. military operation Saturday.
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Two pro-government forces were also killed a military operation against the Taliban in Herat Province, where officials claimed that 12 insurgents were killed.
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Separately, two American soldiers were killed during a military operation, bringing to nine the number of U.S. military fatalities in the country this year.
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From now on, our security interests will dictate the length and scope of military operation, not arbitrary benchmarks and timetables set up by politicians.
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Second, Trump — despite his harsh rhetoric about how Assad's "heinous" chemical attack was an "affront to humanity" — ultimately ordered an extremely limited military operation.
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On Sunday, a Turkish army reconnaissance team scouted the Idlib province before an expected military operation to impose peace in the bitterly contested Syrian northwest.
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The battle for Mosul, the largest military operation in the country since the U.S. invasion of 2003, got off to a fast start on Oct.
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Stephen Townsend, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force, said the next phase of the Iraqi military operation to take Mosul will get underway imminently.
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The Afghan forces under scrutiny are those backed by the CIA, which has run a parallel counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan alongside the U.S. military operation.
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In one case, Flynn halted a military operation against ISIS that would have partnered the US with Kurdish forces that Turkey considers a terrorist faction.
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UN refugee agency prepares, too The UN refugee agency said more than one million people could be fleeing Mosul once the military operation gets underway.
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It eventually resulted in Tubman leading the Combahee River Raid, a full-on military operation that freed at least 700 slaves in one fell swoop.
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The prospect of a major military operation comes less than three months after Turkish forces drove Kurdish fighters from the Syrian border region of Afrin.
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"We targeted government officials and forces," al Shabaab's military operation spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told Reuters, adding that there was a police station nearby.
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Their joint military operation in Syria has attacked hospitals and schools, used internationally banned cluster munitions and incendiary weapons, and otherwise carried out indiscriminate attacks.
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After significant gains at the airport on Thursday, a spokesman for Joint Military Operation Command said on Friday that the airfield had been fully recaptured.
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A five-day U.S.-brokered pause in Turkey's military operation against the YPG in northeast Syria is due to expire at 1900 GMT on Tuesday.
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It denied any role in the bombing, and said the government was blaming it as a convenient excuse for launching a military operation in Syria.
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Three U.S. soldiers were killed in another "green-on-blue" attack a week ago during a U.S.-Afghan military operation in the country's Achin district.
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A U.S. military operation to defeat ISIS propaganda last year hit an odd hiccup, reports the Washington Post: What do we do about our allies?
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"We killed 26 people including the owner of the center, his followers, his bodyguards and soldiers," Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, said.
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Al Shabaab's spokesman for military operation, Abdiasis Abu Musab, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the gunmen had targeted non-Muslims and killed 15 people.
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" Panetta, who was CIA director when the raid was carried out, called it "one of the proudest moments in recent history regarding a military operation.
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The first phases of the military operation to push Islamic State militants out of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, could last weeks or even months.
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"The police force is more like a military operation now, while the gangs and Latino cartels use virtually terrorist tactics in their neighborhoods," Hillcoat said.
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"We are deeply concerned by the Turkish military operation," the UNSC's five European members — Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, and Poland said in the joint statement.
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At least 16 Kurdish fighters have died, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, within the first day of Turkey's military operation in Syria.
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Pentagon officials on Monday said they were considering releasing informational videos and photos from the military operation that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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This came amid a question over President Donald Trump's recent decision to abandon US-allied Kurdish forces in Syria ahead of a Turkish military operation.
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What makes a military operation so perfectly complete that you can almost hear Shang Tsung himself say "Flawless Victory" in the back of your mind?
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Since then, European countries have joined forces in a military operation led by Italy to prevent similar tragedies while patrolling in search of human traffickers.
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A Syrian military source said the Nusra Front and its allies are the target of the military operation in northeast Hama and southeast Idlib provinces.
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But when Syrian troops ignored these demands, Ankara approved a military operation that immediately began the systematic destruction of Syrian regime units in the area.
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The White House said late Sunday that U.S. troops would be pulled from the region ahead of a military operation Turkey would soon be launching.
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"Any security and military operation on Iraqi territory must have the approval of the government," Iraq Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi said in a statement.
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People hide and watch near the border as Turkish tanks shell targets in Tel Abyad in northern Syrian, during the military operation against Kurdish fighters.
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Additionally, Turkey has threatened to launch a military operation against Manbij, Syria, a place where US troops do work with local Kurdish and Arab fighters.
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To illustrate, consider that three U.S. soldiers were killed, and one wounded, in June 2017 during a joint military operation in Nangarhar, Afghanistan's eastern province.
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Taking and holding terrain in any military operation can be a difficult task, especially against extremists who are willing to face death instead of surrender.
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"One day when the diplomatic history is written, people will wonder what happened here and why officials didn't do more to stop it or at least speak out more forcefully to blame Turkey for its behavior: an unprovoked military operation that has killed some 200 civilians, left well over 100,000 people (and counting) newly displaced and homeless because of its military operation," Roebuck wrote.
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Iraqis have been leaving in large numbers since last month's start of the military operation to take back the western part of the city from ISIS.
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" Senator Ben Cardin: "Any longer-term or larger military operation in Syria by the Trump Administration will need to be done in consultation with the Congress.
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"We must try to do everything to stop the military operation so there is no civil war in Libya," Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn told reporters.
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The multi-staged military operation in Deh Bala, located on the border with Pakistan, began in April but wrapped up in June, military officials told Reuters .
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Operation Sophia, an EU military operation, is in Italy&aposs crosshairs after one of its vessels docked in Sicily with 106 migrants aboard over the weekend.
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The government ordered residents of 16 villages in the region to leave their homes early last month as it launched a military operation against the separatists.
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October 10, 2019 Turkey has begun a military operation in northern Syria, and today's show explains why and what some other countries are saying about it.
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France has been one of the most vocal critics of Turkey's military operation in northern Syria against the Kurdish YPG, which Turkey considers a terrorist organization.
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The withdrawal cleared the way for a Turkish military operation against the Kurds, U.S. allies in the fight against the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS.
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I really hope it is a quick and decisive military operation with a disciplined command structure, which will be generous and magnanimous to the terrified population.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday a military operation in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region had begun after cross-border shelling by the Turkish army.
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He was working on a story about the murder of 10 members of the country's Rohingya Muslim minority during a military operation in western Rakhine State.
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Hanham said it's possible Pyongyang released images of Kim visiting a secretive military operation for political reasons, or to send a message to the United States.
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Lavrentiev, Putin's Syria envoy, earlier on Tuesday told Russian news agencies that Moscow had always considered any kind of Turkish military operation on Syrian territory unacceptable.
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The five-day, U.S.-brokered pause in Turkey's military operation against the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria is due to expire at 1900 GMT on Tuesday.
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"We are behind the killing of the national security general called Mohamud Haji Ali," Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, told Reuters on Thursday.
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But Monday's attack comes just days after three US soldiers were killed and another wounded during a joint US-Afghan military operation in the same region.
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His popularity came on the back of the military operation Zarb-i-Azb, which drove back Pakistani Taliban militants from their tribal strongholds and improved security.
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Security forces launched a large-scale military operation Saturday to take the remaining neighborhoods under ISIS control in western Mosul, the country's Joint Operation Command said.
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Under the laws of war, a Taliban combatant was engaging in a military operation near the US soldiers and it would be legal to shoot her.
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The shooting followed similar bursts of gunfire in the commercial capital Abidjan amid a military operation aimed at ending a mutiny by soldiers demanding bonus payments.
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Turkey has waged a military operation for nearly two months inside Syria along its frontier against the U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara considers terrorists.
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The beginning of a brand-new military operation that is expected to continue into the immediate future, however, is far different from those two previous cases.
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Since then, the results of the military operation and diplomatic maneuvering have not only confounded early critics but also outdone even President Vladimir Putin's own expectations.
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After Erdogan told the US president that a planned Turkish military operation would go ahead, Trump abruptly ordered the withdrawal of US forces from the region.
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Separately, the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement that Turkey's military operation in Syria would continue until all militant threats to Turkish security were removed.
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Indonesian security forces are carrying out a major military operation in Poso and surrounding areas to hunt Santoso, Indonesia's most high-profile backer of Islamic State.
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Charles H. Cleveland, a spokesman for the United States military in Afghanistan, said American soldiers were in Kunduz District as advisers to an Afghan military operation.
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The coalition has pledged a swift military operation to take the airport and seaport without entering the city, to minimize civilian casualties and keep aid flowing.
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"We killed Saeed Ali, the treasurer of Galkayo, and several police officers that were guarding him," said Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab's military operation spokesman.
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In addition to legality, Smith in his letter raised concerns about the White House's lack of communication with Congress on the military operation on the border.
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During that period, the Carter administration tried to secure their release through a military operation, which failed catastrophically, and then through a series of secret negotiations.
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For more than two weeks, an Israeli military operation has exposed and blocked tunnels dug by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia that is backed by Iran.
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The first military operation approved under Donald Trump's leadership — a botched raid in Yemen in January — left one U.S. soldier and multiple civilians, including children, dead.
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The attack happened hours after Somali state-run media reported that Al-Shabaab's spokesman, Sheikh Ali Dheere, was wounded Sunday during a military operation in Awdheegle.
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"This is about as close to a military operation you can get in the civilian world," Neal Kelley, Orange County's registrar of voters, told reporters recently.
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Last Monday, Baghdad launched a military operation in areas that had been seized by Kurdish forces in 2014 after Iraqi troops fled an Islamic State assault.
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President Trump has endorsed a Turkish military operation that would target American-backed Kurdish forces near the border in Syria, the White House announced on Sunday.
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Dozens of Westerners were abducted by desert militants in West and North Africa in the five years before the French military operation in Mali in 2013.
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Even the head of Turkey's largest art fair emailed its international mailing list to condemn the "black propaganda" of international media coverage of the military operation.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday it was concerned by the humanitarian situation in northern Syria following Turkey's decision to launch a military operation there.
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"This operation wasn&apost a strategic or even a tactical maneuver; it was in large part a political act disguised as a military operation," Price said.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced over Twitter on Wednesday that the Turkish military and a Syrian militia had started its military operation in northern Syria.
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Attacks on polio workers or police escorts tasked with protecting them were frequent for several years but had recently slowed due to an ongoing military operation.
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Here are some reactions to the operation: U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said any military operation must fully respect the U.N. Charter and international humanitarian law.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced earlier Wednesday the Turkish military and a Syrian militia have begun a military operation against Kurdish forces in northern Syria.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the Turkish military operation in Syria's northeast with Iraq's president by phone on Thursday, Russia's Foreign Ministry said.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - All preparations for a possible military operation into northeastern Syria are completed, the Turkish Defense Ministry said in a Twitter post late on Monday.
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The Turkish defence ministry said in a Twitter post late on Monday that all preparations for a possible military operation into northeastern Syria had been completed.
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It will be "a very significant military operation because we have a very significant number of ISIS forces holed up" in their remaining redoubts, he said.
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But Israeli leaders, still shocked that an Israeli soldier was convicted in January in a killing in a military operation, again called for Sergeant Azaria's pardon.
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The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said 40,000 civilians had been displaced since Thursday, the start of the latest military operation.
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I am hopeful that the hard work that American military advisers have done will pay off, and that we will see a really successful military operation.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said earlier on Saturday that a military operation in the Afrin region had begun after cross-border shelling by the Turkish army.
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Counterterror forces this week reached the east bank of the Tigris for the first time since the large-scale military operation to reclaim Mosul began in October.
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Now neighboring Turkey has launched a military operation to move the Kurds away from its border and the frequently targeted ethnic group is once again under attack.
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Now, neighboring Turkey has launched a military operation to move the Kurds away from its border and the frequently targeted ethnic group is once again under attack.
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The key objectives for Thursday's meeting remains unclear, but earlier Wednesday, Pompeo voiced optimism about the prospects of a deal to halt the ongoing Turkish military operation.
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But Shettima cautioned that a military operation to recover the girls would be highly risky, and carried the threat the girls would be killed in the effort.
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The closest analog we have comes from May 23 when then President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a US military operation.
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"We killed Saeed Ali, the treasurer of Galkayo, and several police officers that were guarding him," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, told Reuters.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday honored a Russian soldier killed in Russia's military operation in Syria, breaking four months of official silence about his death.
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At the end of the episode, the covert military operation known as Division 3 ambushes everyone, just as Shadow King threatens to break back into David's psyche.
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"I think, particularly a peremptory military operation against North Korea would be disastrous," former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on CNN's "New Day" on Monday.
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Among Turkey's Western allies, France has been one of the biggest critics of the two-month-old Turkish military operation against the Kurdish YPG militia in Afrin.
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Would South Korea and others in the region actually green light a military operation, which could cause immediate casualties and destruction the world hasn't seen since WWII?
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The swift military operation came just weeks after Iraqi Kurds voted overwhelmingly for independence in a controversial referendum that was condemned by the United States and Baghdad.
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Russia backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's civil war, and its military operation in Syria, now in its second year, has shored up Assad's position.
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Each sequel is a tiny variation on the original recipe: a human military operation battles giant bugs, UFOS, and robots in cities, on beaches, and across countrysides.
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It was December 1981, during a military operation in Morazan, at the dawn of the long and bloody civil war that claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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An early report delivered by the commanding officer on the scene at My Lai stated only that 21991 civilians had been killed accidentally during a military operation.
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Days later, Israeli tanks invaded the Palestinian cities of the West Bank in the fiercest military operation there since Israel occupied the territory in the 1967 war.
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Prior to this, it had urged Kurdish forces to dismantle defensive positions along the Syria-Turkey border with assurances it would not allow a Turkish military operation.
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U.N. soldiers face frequent attacks from desert fighters who have regrouped since a French-led military operation in 2013 to drive them out of Mali's northern towns.
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ISIS inflicted terrible abuses on any who opposed their rule and the military operation to retake territory from the group devastated civilian lives and infrastructure without discrimination.
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News of the deal comes as an intensified military operation is underway in the Sambisa Forest, where many of the girls are believed to have been taken.
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Reuters could not immediately independently verify the freeing of the hostages, in part due to the remoteness of the area in which the military operation took place.
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A Catholic priest held captive by the militants with a dozen other civilians appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to consider their plight and stop the military operation.
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Finally, a quick and successful military operation may have served to distract domestic audiences from the significant economic and political problems that Russia faces right now domestically.
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The attack prompted a joint military operation by the United States, Britain and France that targeted several facilities near Damascus and the city of Homs on Saturday.
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Baghdad's military operation has redrawn the map of northern Iraq, rolling back gains by the Kurds who infuriated Baghdad last month by holding a referendum on independence.
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Saying that "the military operation is really coming to an end," Mr. Putin told Mr. Assad that it was time to work toward a lasting political settlement.
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The census is at once prosaic and giant, requiring a level of meticulous planning and execution comparable to a major military operation or a space-probe launch.
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The Saturday Profile Qatar's central prison is just down the road from the Al Udeid Air Base, the biggest United States military operation in the Middle East.
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How has Mr. Trump's decision to clear the way for a Turkish military operation against America's Kurdish allies in northern Syria "thrown Middle East policy into turmoil"?
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Trump has faced a torrent of criticism, including from Republicans, over his decision to pull U.S. forces from northern Syria amid an impending Turkish military operation there.
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C.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) plan to introduce a bill as early as Thursday that would introduce crippling sanctions against Turkey for its military operation.
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The company has postponed its final decision to build a car plant in Turkey amid international criticism of the country's military operation in northern Syria, Handelsblatt reported.
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Thursday's action came a day after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened a military operation against the Syrian government forces unless they pulled back from rebel-held areas.
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ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday, with air strikes hitting the border town of Ras al Ain.
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However, Russian authorities have denied using military contractors in any foreign military operation, claiming that any Russian nationals that are fighting abroad are doing so as volunteers.
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Children stand on the roof as smoke rises in Tel Abyad city near the Turkish border on the second day of Turkish military operation against Kurdish fighters.
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"We officially announced that we will start a military operation to the east of the Euphrates," Erdogan said in a speech in the central province of Konya.
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Sukaina Mohammed Ali, an adviser to Nineveh's governor, said hundreds of women were killed by ISIS militants or died during the military operation to free the city.
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Islamic State leader Baghdadi died during a U.S. military raid in Syria and Muhajir in a separate military operation, both over the same weekend in late October.
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Studies by the Congressional Research Service show that 14 percent of accidental deaths unrelated to a Secretary of Defense-designated military operation were related to substance abuse.
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Washington (CNN)Russia's Defense Ministry denied bombing U.S.-backed Syrian opposition forces in a recent military operation near the Jordania border, according to a statement released on Sunday.
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The campaign, nearly four weeks old, is the most complex military operation in Iraq in the 13 years of turmoil since the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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President Obama ordered airstrikes on June 15 against Islamic State, and thus began Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led military operation that targets IS in Syria and Iraq.
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"The heads of Hamas are forcibly leading us to a no choice situation in which we will need to embark on wide and painful military operation," Lieberman said.
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For a month, an Iraqi-led coalition has waged a military operation to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-most populous city and ISIS' last major stronghold in the country.
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In addition, the EU operates a military operation, Operation Sophia, focused on fighting people smuggling and arms trafficking; the Samuel Beckett was participating in Operation Sophia, officials said.
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People have been fleeing Mosul in growing numbers since the start of a military operation in February to take back the western part of the city from ISIS.
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The mission was approved several days ago by President Barack Obama and is expected to be the last short-notice military operation ordered by him, according to sources.
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Tommy Franks brief members of the press about the progress of the US military operation in Afghanistan while on the Bush family ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Dec.
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" Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, told Reuters: "We killed eight Kenyan soldiers after we burnt their car with a roadside bomb near Lamu area.
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The improvised explosive device (IED) killed an unnamed soldier who was taking part in Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. military operation combating IS in Syria and northern Iraq.
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The Pentagon on Wednesday announced it was disinviting China from the Rim of the Pacific Exercises following reports the country was again secretly beefing up its military operation.
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This military operation burned all of the heroin and marijuana fields and arrested all the traffickers, all to remind the now-powerful farmers that the government was boss.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday a military operation in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region had begun after cross-border shelling by the Turkish army.
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In Russia's strongest criticism since Turkey launched its military operation last week, President Vladimir Putin's envoy for Syria indicated Moscow wanted Ankara to wrap up its offensive soon.
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"I think that might be -- that's -- that -- this was a military operation, and I'm responsible for military operations in this region, so I'm taking my responsibility," he said.
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BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Security forces in Congo Republic have killed around 15 rebel fighters during a military operation in the central African oil producer's restive Pool region, authorities said.
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Luaibi, commenting on the Iraqi military operation that captured Kirkuk from Kurdish forces on Monday, said all the fields of the province have been returned to government control.
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His golfing in New Jersey came on the weekend that three United States soldiers were killed and another wounded during a joint US-Afghan military operation in Afghanistan.
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He said Turkey took the utmost care to protect civilians in the military operation, while the YPG was using civilians as "human shields" in areas under its control.
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Violence has surged in the country's predominately Kurdish southeast in recent months, after Turkey undertook a major military operation to eradicate militants from their strongholds in the region.
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"The civil-military operation that has been going on has paid dividends," Chilufya said, referring to the presidential order for the military to join the clean up exercise.
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Turkish officials gave Bolton no such assurances, and President Erdogan made it clear that Turkish forces are ready to launch a military operation against them at any moment.
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It also all but assures that Islamic State prisoners, including foreign fighters from places like Europe, could escape as the Kurds seek to counter a Turkish military operation.
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If Israel responds with a military operation, the proceeding war will only harm Lebanon's civilian population and push Christians to join their almost 85033 million-strong diaspora abroad.
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"I think that might be — that's — that — this was a military operation, and I'm responsible for military operations in this region, so I'm taking my responsibility," he said.
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Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula in March 2014 in a military operation denounced by the West, which imposed retaliatory sanctions to punish Moscow that remain in place.
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I am hopeful that the hard work that American military advisers have done will pay off and that we will see a real — a really successful military operation.
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Despite uneven progress in Iraq and Afghanistan, there's one military operation that Americans across the spectrum herald as an undisputed success: the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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The European Union is planning an extension of its military operation against human traffickers, known as Sophia, which could eventually include sending ground troops to war-torn Libya.
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Myanmar's army released a report on Monday denying all allegations of rapes and killings by security forces, days after replacing the general in charge of the military operation.
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Amruddin Wali, a member of provincial council in Kunduz, said that the Afghan and American forces were conducting a military operation against the Taliban in Gul Tepa District.
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In a statement praising the Justice Department, Equifax's chief executive, Mark Begor, deflected responsibility, highlighting the hack as the work of "a well-funded and sophisticated military" operation.
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The killings prompted an Egyptian military operation in Sinai that has drawn accusations of widespread abuses that Human Rights Watch and other groups say may constitute war crimes.
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"It's like a football team at halftime; it's like a military operation in the middle of — you got to take steps, you have to learn lessons," he said.
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The raid was the first military operation ordered by Mr. Trump, and the press secretary, Sean Spicer, spoke emotionally about the sacrifice made by Chief Petty Officer Owens.
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LONDON (Reuters) - NATO is concerned about the consequences of Turkey's military operation in northeastern Syria on the fight against Islamic State, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a Turkish military operation against Syrian government forces in the Idlib region would be a worst-case scenario.
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Facing a cascade of international pressure and a boycott of some Brazilian exports, Mr. Bolsonaro last month ordered a military operation to put out fires in the Amazon.
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"Any (military) operation that takes place at the moment has to take into account to ensure that we don't see any further displacement," Moumtzis told reporters in Geneva.
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He hates to be boxed in, as he mused in the Rose Garden last week while contemplating the first new military operation of his presidency with geopolitical consequences.
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Turkey launched the military operation on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew some U.S. troops who had been backing Kurdish forces in the fight against Islamic State.
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MOSCOW, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the Turkish military operation in Syria's northeast with Iraq's president by phone on Thursday, Russia's Foreign Ministry said.
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The meeting was also an opportunity to reiterate that France remains "very worried" about the prospect of a Turkish military operation in Syria, added Macron's office on Wednesday.
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It is customary for this small group of lawmakers to be briefed on such actions, but the group does not always get advanced notice of a military operation.
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Myanmar authorities have strongly disputed that conclusion, categorizing the military operation as a legitimate response to attacks by Rohingya militants that killed 13 members of the security forces.
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A successful military operation could bolster Netanyahu as he seeks to stay in power — especially if he is indicted on corruption charges, as expected, in the coming weeks.
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"If they refuse, the army and supporting forces are ready to launch a military operation to end the presence of the organization in the area," al-Watan said.
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The call was arranged by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after Turkey's threat to launch a military operation against U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters in the northeast.
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Authorities were also investigating social media posts about the military operation allegedly made by two HDP lawmakers, including a post from the party's spokesman, Ayhan Bilgen, Anadolu said.
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The country's ongoing military operation in the region, called Operation Chammal, was launched in September 2014 and has been backed by both the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Authorities also seized more than 5,000 cubic feet of illegal timber in a joint police-military operation inside the Isconahua Reserve last weekend, Deputy Culture Minister Patricia Balbuena said.
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About 10 days ago, counterterrorism forces reached the east bank of the Tigris for the first time since the large-scale military operation to reclaim Mosul began in October.
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Erdogan has vowed to extend the military operation along the Syrian border and on Sunday said the Turkish-led forces would take control of the town of Tel Rifaat.
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In a sign of how nervous Mosul residents remain six months into the military operation to flush out Islamic State, just 20 people, mostly young men, attended the concert.
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" Just as things were getting hot and heavy, however, Harris suddenly heard something that made her "panic sweat glands jump into emergency mode busting open like a military operation.
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Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts in Rakhine in August sparked a military operation that has sent nearly 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to refugee camps in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.
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The Baghdadi raid, and the sophisticated intelligence and military operation and cooperation with regional partners that it entailed seems a strong argument for keeping US troops in the region.
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The former chief of the Burmese Army's Western command, Maung Maung Soe oversaw the military operation in Burma's Rakhine State responsible for widespread human rights abuse against Rohingya civilians.
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The president said he was concerned about the loss of life and did not believe a military operation that results in casualties was a proportionate response to Iran's actions.
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A military operation kicked off in 2011 against the militant group led by the Kenyan military and African Union has pushed the insurgents out of several strongholds in Somalia.
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An Al-Shabaab military operation spokesman, Sheikh Abdulaziz Abu Misab, claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted the gate of Somalia's Criminal Investigative Police Division (CID), Somali police said.
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That may not last for long after the Mosul campaign, expected to be the most complex military operation in Iraq since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam in 2003.
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" Asked if it would be a US-led military operation, Trump said he wasn't going to elaborate but that a "military option is certainly something that we could pursue.
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His visit also comes after Turkey launched its incursion into Syria last month, a military operation that has seen Turkey-backed rebels sweep Islamic State from the Syrian border.
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They cite, for example, the scores of militants killed in an ongoing military operation in the North Waziristan tribal area, and point to the considerable reductions in terrorist violence.
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The Pentagon warned that unilateral military action into northeast Syria by any party would be "unacceptable," after Turkey said it would launch a new military operation in the region.
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Saudi Arabia, backed by a coalition of Arab states, launched a military operation in March 2015 against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who toppled the internationally recognized leadership in Yemen.
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This de-populating of Kurdish areas benefited from several well-publicized, fear-inducing atrocities the TSO committed in the early days of the military operation that accelerated civilian flight.
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Niger, Russia Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain and others have raised questions about the military operation in Niger that resulted in the deaths of four US soldiers.
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The military operation has been widely supported by Turkey's mainly pro-government media and by most political parties, with the exception of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
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On Saturday, at a demonstration attended by thousands of Kurds in Berlin, Muslim called for an immediate halt to Turkey's military operation in the Afrin region in northern Syria.
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Turkey said it began a military operation against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria on Wednesday, days after the Trump administration announced the US was pulling troops from the region.
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The pro-Damascus newspaper al-Watan said on Thursday the army sent reinforcements to Quneitra to launch a "broad military operation" and bring all the province under state rule.
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The attacks came a day after Iraqi special forces pushed into the city of Falluja, held by the Islamic State, in a large-scale military operation started last month.
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Logar province has been increasingly lawless since the launch two years ago of a military operation in neighboring Pakistani tribal areas pushed many Taliban and allied fighters into Afghanistan.
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The statements coming from Geneva track broadly with what local Iraqi officials and residents told The New York Times in recent days as the military operation around Mosul intensified.
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According to the McClatchy news service, Flynn told Obama's National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, to hold off on the plan – a decision that delayed the military operation for months.
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When they are periodically visited by their commander, he beats them and refers to them as monos (monkeys); he refers only in vague terms to a wider military operation.
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Within a few years, the jihadists the United States had thought were defeated were back and stronger, rebranded as the Islamic State, and prompting a new American military operation.
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The Philippine military operation to extract the extremists decimated much of the city and left more than 1303,200 people dead, including Mr. Hapilon and a legion of foreign fighters.
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Residents of the border area are trying to escape the Turkish military operation, which they say bears resemblance to ISIS's initial takeover of the area, The Associated Press reported.
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Oil exports from the region, transported by pipeline to Turkey, were halted after the Iraqi military operation, which was launched in retaliation against an independence referendum held on Sept.
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A wall constructed over stretches of the border and a military operation against IS strongholds in northern Syria have helped, making it harder for bombers to slip into Turkey.
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It's a NATO ally, but has just launched a military operation against a group the United States has trained and armed to fight ISIS over the past three years.
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The halting of the operation is a major setback for the US and its allies and comes after Turkey threatened a new military operation targeting the Kurdish-led SDF.
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Germany said Turkey's action would lead to further instability and could strengthen Islamic State, while European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called on Ankara to halt the military operation.
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Among the heavyweight emerging markets, Turkey's lira and government bonds saw another day of falls as investors fretted about negative international reaction to Ankara's military operation in northeast Syria.
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The White House said Trump had urged Erdogan to curtail the military operation in Syria, while Turkey said Erdogan had told Trump that U.S. troops should withdraw from Manbij.
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She also repeated Myanmar's official line that the crackdown on the Rohingya was a legitimate military operation, not aimed at civilians but at armed Muslim militants in Rakhine state.
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"The biggest issue is that the Turkish military operation [led to] calls for volunteers to return to Syria in that area, but the safe zone isn't safe," he said.
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The senators also discussed Syria, Iran and the recent raid against ISIS commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as well as the canine Conan who assisted in the military operation.
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The coalition has pledged a swift military operation to take over the airport and seaport without entering the city center, to minimize civilian casualties and maintain the flow of goods.
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Among Turkey's Western allies, France has been one of the biggest critics of the two-month-old Turkish military operation against the Kurdish YPG militia in Afrin, which borders Turkey.
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A U.S. military operation that ended in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reportedly largely successful because of highly accurate intel provided by an inside informant.
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Myanmar's military and the government have rejected allegations by residents and rights groups that soldiers have raped Rohingya women, burnt houses and killed civilians during the military operation in Rakhine.
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White House National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said Sunday that the US military operation was named after American Kayla Mueller who was held hostage by ISIS and killed in 2015.
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Turkey had agreed to cut back its support for the rebels in return for Russia's assent to a Turkish military operation in 2016 that split the Kurds' territory in two.
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"Today's attack in Saada was a legitimate military operation ... and was carried out in accordance with international humanitarian law," the coalition said in the Arabic-language statement carried by SPA.
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"We had a military operation (on the agenda) before, but we halted it over Trump's request," Cavusoglu said, adding that an agreement on the safe zone needed to be reached.
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Tim Kaine (D-Va.) The 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee is among the most aggressive believers in the need for presidents to seek congressional authorization for virtually any military operation.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have arrested 24 people for spreading "black propaganda" on social media about Ankara's military operation in Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday.
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"In recent days I have strongly urged Turkey ... to end its military operation against the Kurdish military and I'm stressing that again now," Merkel told Germany's lower house of parliament.
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Turkey's military operation, dubbed 'Euphrates Shield', was launched more than four months ago to drive Islamic State from the border and prevent a Kurdish militia taking territory in their wake.
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The North Korean launch was "the first step of the military operation of the (North Korean military) in the Pacific and a meaningful prelude to containing Guam," state media said.
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As a private citizen, however, Trump criticized then-President Obama for considering a military operation in Syria and had urged the U.S. leader to seek congressional approval for the operation.
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That is a process that has already started, in a preliminary, slapdash manner, driven by Turkey's military operation and our inability to find the policy levers to stop Turkey's action.
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Warplanes targeted rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo on Friday in a second day of heavy bombardment, hours after the Syrian army announced the start of a military operation there.
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Turkey's recent military operation along the Syrian border near Jarabulus closed the last major corridor that the Islamic State had been using to funnel fighters into and out of Syria.
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Backed by paramilitary forces and the international coalition led by the United States, the Iraqi government is gearing up for a major military operation to dislodge the militants from Mosul.
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On Tuesday, tanks were seen outside Harare and in the early hours of Wednesday morning, an army spokesman appeared on state TV to declare that a military operation was underway.
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"I think they deserted the city after hearing about an imminent military operation, so they decided to leave to save their lives, as they did in Hadramout," Colonel Dahbool said.
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" Two months earlier, just a few weeks after the violence erupted, UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Myanmar's military operation was a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
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Another step could include the United States locking in its enduring military presence and associated activities with the government of Iraq before the end of the military operation in Mosul.
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Pakistani Taliban insurgents took partial control of the valley in 2007, before being ousted two years later in a major military operation hailed as a telling blow against Islamist violence.
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The soldier came under rocket fire on Friday in the district of Cizre, where 12 PKK militants also died in an ongoing military operation, the army said on its website.
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Earlier today, we heard President Donald Trump claim that the removal of undocumented immigrants is a necessary military operation aimed to deport "bad dudes" like gang members and drug lords. .
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For example, one of the things that he needed to do was build trust in the army because trust is probably the most important cultural element in a military operation.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Two United States soldiers were killed during a military operation in Afghanistan on Wednesday, bringing to nine the number of American military fatalities in the country this year.
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Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, and other European leaders were also in attendance, as were more than 300 veterans of the military operation and their families.
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On Sunday President Trump endorsed a Turkish military operation to carve out the "safe zone" in northeastern Syria, currently controlled by the United States-supported, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump made clear on Wednesday that missiles "will be coming" at Syria at any moment, telegraphing a military operation as he has previously said he would never do.
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Featured Article: "Trump Throws Middle East Policy Into Turmoil Over Syria" This week President Trump cleared the way for a Turkish military operation against America's Kurdish allies in northern Syria.
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Turkish ground forces and a Syrian militia group have crossed over into northern Syria, as part of a military operation against Kurdish forces, Turkey's Ministry of National Defense announced Wednesday.
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"With the Shape program, she organized that like she was having a military operation," said Dr. Johnson, a past president of the Georgia chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said earlier on Wednesday that a military operation there was a "matter of time" after talks with Russia on Idlib had failed to meet Turkey's demands.
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More outrageously, he tried to garner votes by ordering a major military operation in Gaza on the eve of the election — an operation his military chiefs and attorney general scotched.
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Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said last week that Turkey and Iraq's central government could start a joint military operation against Kurdish militants after Iraqi parliamentary elections scheduled for May 2018.
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He said that Mr. Trump had not meant to characterize the deportation efforts as a military operation, arguing that the president had been using the word "military" as an adjective.
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Later, after his move to Hapoel Beer Sheva, Israel launched a military operation in nearby Gaza, forcing a match to be moved to Cyprus, since Beersheba was then under fire.
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"The military will be the first to tell you that a military operation is only as good as the diplomatic and political plan that comes with it," Mr. Malley said.
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Here's what you need to know: • President Trump told U.S. manufacturing executives that "a military operation" at the Mexican border was ending the status quo on trade, immigration and crime.
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Turkey last month launched a military operation in northern Syria aimed at ending the US-allied Kurdish militia control of Afrin and the surrounding region along the Syrian-Turkish border.
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As Iraqi and Kurdish forces launch a military operation to retake the city of Mosul from the so-called Islamic State (Isis), broadcasters are streaming the battle live on Facebook.
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When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his country's military operation into Syria against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, people across the world voiced their feelings about the move.
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A group of journalists had been traveling with the regiment commander to cover a military operation to clear Marja, which has been under siege by the Taliban for several years.
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Soldiers there had opened fire on a joint convoy of Afghan and American forces who were heading to a military operation on the outskirts of Tirin Kot, the provincial capital.
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Erdogan on Sunday warned supporters of the HDP, parliament's third-largest party, not to demonstrate against the military operation, saying security forces would be "on their necks" if they did.
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"Halting the military operation is good for us, but we never trust the regime, which might take the chance and might move its troops into another area and escalate," Samer said.
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Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state in August last year sparked a military operation that sent nearly 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to camps in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.
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Turkey also has a significant stake in neighboring Syria, where it mounted a military operation in the north and now controls about 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 square miles) of Syrian territory.
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The Eisenhower administration undermined a joint Franco-British-Israeli military operation during the Suez Crisis, and George H.W. Bush used US loan guarantees as leverage against Israel to check settlement construction.
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According to Turkey's Anadolu news agency, Erdogan told Putin that the military operation would contribute to peace and stability in Syria, and pave the way for political process in the country.
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But those Kurdish fighters' attention was diverted when Turkish forces, apparently with Trump's blessing, launched a massive military operation against them last week — which the ISIS prisoners quickly took advantage of.
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"Like any military operation, it starts with preparatory air strikes and artillery and then the ground forces work according to the results of the strikes and their impact," the source added.
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Speaking with reporters, Trump seemed to subtly distinguish al-Baghdadi's killing from that of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, who died in a U.S. military operation under President Obama in 2011.
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In January, after the paper published a front page headline criticizing the government's military operation against the Kurds in Syria, Erdoğan openly called on his supporters in Northern Cyprus to retaliate.
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On Monday, Cavusoglu said that if the safe zone in northern Syria was not established, and threats against Turkey continued, Ankara would launch its military operation east of the Euphrates river.
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The regiment, known as The Old Guard, is responsible for carrying out the annual military operation of planting flags at every grave in Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery before the holiday weekend.
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For less than a third the price of each $70 million Osprey, the Army will get nearly the same performance, along with a slew of benefits any military operation would savor.
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A Turkish official told reporters in Istanbul on Tuesday that Turkey would not conduct a unilateral military operation in Syria, but would participate in a joint ground operation with coalition partners.
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" Even as Tillerson and Kelly were dispatched to smooth over tensions with Mexico, Trump once again publicly criticized the country over trade and trumpeted his deportation plan as a "military operation.
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NIAMEY (Reuters) - A joint military operation between Chad and Niger has killed 123 Boko Haram militants since July and recovered a significant quantity of weapons, Niger's Defence Ministry said on Friday.
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The United Nations' top human rights official on Monday slammed Myanmar for conducting a "cruel military operation" against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, branding it "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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It would be several decades before US presidents could build the political support needed to launch another major military operation, and even then the suspicion of our political leaders never disappeared.
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But the real concern is that there will not be enough appetite to finance another regional military operation and that it could be hampered because interests and objectives are not aligned.
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It paved the way for a Turkish military operation against the Kurds, a critical ally in the US-led war against the Islamic State — and was widely seen as abandoning them.
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Netanyahu also said he would speak with additional world leaders as part of a diplomatic effort in conjunction with the newly announced military operation to identify and neutralize cross-border tunnels.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Any military operation in Syria's Idlib would bring disaster to the region, Turkey's Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying on Thursday by state-run news agency Anadolu.
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Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts in Rakhine in August last year sparked a military operation that has sent nearly 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to refugee camps in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.
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Sanders defends the fact that it took nearly two weeks for Trump to comment on the attack, saying that is a "protocol" for when the President talks about a military operation.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Several hundred people, including civilians, have been killed during Turkey's military operation in Syria's Afrin, Interfax news agency cited Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying on Wednesday.
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The African Union started a military operation in 2011 working closely with Kenyan troops, with the mission largely succeeding in pushing the fighters from strongholds in Mogadishu and along the coast.
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Myanmar's army released a report on Monday denying all allegations of rapes and killings by security forces, days after replacing the general in charge of the military operation in Rakhine state.
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Israel, too, is at a crossroads and must decide if it wants to continue to extend the periods of quiet or, if that fails, launch a broad military operation in Gaza.
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More than two million people are there, many displaced from elsewhere in Syria, and aid organizations worry that any military operation would be catastrophic because civilians will have nowhere to flee.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior Russian lawmaker said on Friday that any full-scale Turkish military operation in Syria's Idlib region would end badly for Ankara itself, the Interfax news agency reported.
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In 2016 the United States conducted nearly 500 airstrikes on the coastal city of Surt as part of a Libyan-led military operation that ousted the Islamic State from the city.
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Saudi Arabia's foreign policy could be off-putting for some investors given its military operation in Yemen against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, and its bitter relations with its regional rival Iran.
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ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey will mount a military operation in northeast Syria, it said on Saturday, after accusing Washington of not doing enough to expel Syrian Kurdish fighters from its border.
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ROME (Reuters) - Turkey's military operation in northeastern Syria must be restrained, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday, adding that it was important not to destabilize the region any further.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday accused French President Emmanuel Macron of wanting to divide Syria, after France criticized Ankara's military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria.
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Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday, President Tayyip Erdogan said, adding the offensive was aimed to eliminate a "terror corridor" along the Turkish border.
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As Turkish troops finalize plans, the government's scheme to move millions of refugees into conquered territory in northeast Syria is alarming some Western allies as much as the military operation itself.
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The Iraqi advance — the biggest military operation in the years since the United States ended its occupation of the country in 2011 — was aided by American air support and military advisers.
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It was the fourth day of Ankara's military operation to root out the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), a militia whose members helped the U.S. coalition defeat ISIS in Syria.
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That takes us to a broader point: Preparing to launch a massive military operation to retake Iraq's second-largest city is not the kind of thing that can be done stealthily.
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The Taliban, seeking to restore Islamic rule, have been waging an increasingly violent insurgency against the Western-backed Afghan government since losing power in a U.S.-led military operation in 2001.
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The South Korean military still has not determined what exactly has been leaked, Yonhap News reported, but said it was possible the hack could lead the command to rewrite military operation plans.
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Taking western Mosul from ISIS: 5 key questions Al-Jaff added that the total number had reached 3,888 people since the launch of the military operation in western Mosul on February 19.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had said on Sunday that a military operation was imminent in Syria east of the Euphrates river, territory which the SDF control and where U.S. forces are stationed.
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In 2000 he became the newspaper's South Asia correspondent, reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan before and after 9/11, and covering the U.S.-led military operation against al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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Saturday, President Donald Trump and his top national security officials gathered in the White House situation room to watch what would be the most consequential military operation of his presidency so far.
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President Trump said in a press conference Sunday that he did not inform congressional Democrats before launching a military operation that resulted in Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death because of potential leaks.
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Concerned about the dire humanitarian situation, the International Rescue Committee said up to a 100,000 people could be without shelter in the first few weeks of the military operation to retake Mosul.
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Unless you're holiday shopping online — and sometimes even then — it takes the tactical planning of a military operation to avoid multiple stops and then having to double back because you forgot something.
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All of this is in service to increasing the power and capability of Mother Base, the staging platform from which your private military operation can do clandestine military operations around the world.
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If the agreement with the United States, a NATO ally, for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia to withdraw falters, Turkey will continue its military operation from where it left off, Erdogan said.
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President Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed U.S. calls for a ceasefire in northeast Syria despite Russia ratcheting up international pressure on Ankara over its "unacceptable" week-long military operation against Kurdish-led forces.
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ANKARA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have arrested 24 people for spreading "black propaganda" on social media about Ankara's military operation in Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday.
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ABIDJAN, May 15 (Reuters) - Heavy gunfire erupted in Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan early on Monday, witnesses said, amid a military operation aimed at ending a mutiny by soldiers demanding bonus payments.
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U.N. investigators have said the 2017 Myanmar military operation that drove more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh was executed with "genocidal intent" and included mass killings, gang rapes and widespread arson.
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And yet that border stayed quiet on the Syrian side the entire time — over 20 months — I have been in Syria, until Turkey violated it with its October Peace Spring military operation.
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The military operation has sharpened the tension between Suu Kyi's civilian administration and the army, which ruled the country for decades and retains key powers, including control of ministries responsible for security.
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She would impose a no-fly zone over northern Syria — a much more extensive military operation — to protect civilians from Mr. Assad's bombardment and to increase pressure on him to enter negotiations.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - International donors pledged half a billion dollars for a multinational military operation in West Africa's Sahel region on Friday, as Europe seeks to stop migrants and militants reaching its shores.
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"Baghdad needs some oil to supply to Mosul in anticipation that the military operation there leads to a stabilization of the situation and an increase in demand for (oil) products," Hawrami said.
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A U.S. commando dies and three others are wounded in a deadly dawn raid on the al Qaeda militant group in southern Yemen, which was the first military operation authorized by Trump.
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The United States last week warned Syria it would take firm measures in response to ceasefire violations in southern Syria after reports of an impending military operation in the de-escalation zone.
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GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seized control on Sunday morning of the city of Afrin, the target of a two-month military operation against Kurdish militias in the enclave in Syria.
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But on Friday the French Defense Ministry said that it was considering mine-sweeping operations only after the military operation is over, and emphasized that France was not part of the coalition.
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They also noted that Mr. Erdogan was benefiting politically at home from his military operation in Syria, and were not sure what the negotiating strategy would be beyond threatening punishing economic sanctions.
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Cristóbal Castañeda, the head of the security for the state, confirmed that local forces had "no knowledge of" and did not take part in the military operation to capture Mr. Guzmán López.
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The agreement — which Turkey insists is not actually a ceasefire — will force U.S.-allied Kurdish forces to evacuate the area that Turkey is conducting its military operation within 120 hours (five days).
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But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that it was almost done, and added that Ankara had assured Moscow that it did not plan to launch a new military operation.
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The talks took place after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said earlier on Saturday a military operation in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region had begun after cross-border shelling by the Turkish army.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Turkey's military operation in northeast Syria should not to damage the political process in the country and that Ankara's actions there should be proportional.
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If the agreement with the United States, a NATO ally, for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia to withdraw falters, Turkey will continue its military operation from where it left off, Erdogan said.
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The claims that this would have entailed a complex or even impossible military operation are rebuffed by the facts: Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks in Syria during this same period.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will retaliate against U.S. sanctions over Ankara's military operation into northeast Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday, adding that all threats and sanctions against Turkey were unacceptable.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg agreed Turkey's military operation against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria needed to end, a spokeswoman for Johnson's office said.
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In announcing his plan, Mr. Trump became the third consecutive American president to be confounded by the conflict in Afghanistan, now the longest military operation in the history of the United States.
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President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a Turkish military operation in Idlib to drive back a Russian-led Syrian government offensive was a "matter of time" after talks with Moscow were unsuccessful.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani has canceled his scheduled trip to Turkey, Iranian state TV reported, after Ankara launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday.
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LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Turkish lira implied volatility gauges jumped to the highest levels in three-weeks after the lira weakened in the wake of Ankara launching its military operation in Syria.
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A senior administration official played down those concerns, saying that the dispute between Qatar and Saudi Arabia would pose a problem to American military operation only if it drags on over time.
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Among the group's most notorious feats was the 2002 capture of presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was held deep in the jungle for six years before a Colombian military operation rescued her.
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When he was in his 40s and 50s, the United States conducted a successful military operation in Panama, reversed Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, and drove Serbian forces out of Kosovo.
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The raid comes as the Egyptian army, backed by police, push ahead with a military operation to crush Islamist militants behind a wave of attacks on civilians and military personnel in Sinai.
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Hours after Trump said deportations of people in the U.S. illegally were being carried out as a "military operation," Kelly said the U.S. would not enlist the military to enforce immigration laws.
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In short, from the perspective of military planning, there is nothing to indicate that a U.S. military operation of the size required for war on the Korean peninsula is in the making.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish military operation over Syria's Afrin region aims to liberate it from the control of Kurdish militants from the YPG and PYD groups, a senior Turkish official told Reuters.
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Both options are explored in depth, with the defense minister, Shimon Peres, supporting the military operation and the prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, undecided as the 48-hour deadline set by the terrorists approaches.
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Machine-gunners assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response Africa move toward an objective area during a Military Operation on Urbanized Terrain exercise in Alicante, Spain, on March 29.
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Trump pays his respects to a U.S. Navy SEAL who died in a raid on al Qaeda in Yemen that went wrong, the first military operation authorized by Trump as commander in chief.
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On Sunday, President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey, which already has a foothold in northwest Syria, will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria.
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Citing a spokesperson for the Ghazni governor's office, the Post reported a military operation by Afghan and NATO troops was also taking place in a village southeast of the city at the time.
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The White House was accused of betraying Kurdish allies who had fought ISIS side by side with America, after President Donald Trump appeared to bless a planned Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, backed by Russian air power, have made large advances in Idlib, prompting Turkey to warn it may launch a military operation there unless the fighting is halted.
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But lacking a plan to keep up the pressure, his one-off military operation failed to deter Mr. Assad from using chemical weapons; there have been at least seven other attacks this year.
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Comments by Trump about a "military operation" to deport criminals added to the tense atmosphere, and prompted a clarification from Homeland Security chief John Kelly, one of the U.S. officials visiting Mexico City.
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Fazlullah previously ordered the bombing and beheadings of dozens of opponents when his band of insurgents controlled Pakistan&aposs picturesque Swat Valley from 2007 until a massive military operation routed them in 2009.
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The helicopter went down in Logar province, close to the Afghan-Pakistan border - an increasingly lawless area since a two-year Pakistani military operation pushed many Taliban and allied fighters further into Afghanistan.
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Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted as saying that 12 Syrian prisons holding foreign militants as well as eight refugee camps had been left unguarded as a result of Turkey's military operation.
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"The forces deployed in Ghouta are preparing a huge military operation in Douma if the Jaish al-Islam terrorists do not agree to hand over the city and depart," al-Watan newspaper said.
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Beyond the question of what to do with its diplomats, however, lies the larger issue of whether to undertake a military operation to depose Maduro and effectively install Guaido in the presidential palace.
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Distrust towards foreign miners was reinforced last year after a military operation to strip Chinese investors of a silver mine in Salkhit in northern Mongolia after they were accused of corrupting local courts.
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The president has faced withering criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike for greenlighting the Turkish military operation against the Kurds, who have played a critical role in the campaign against the Islamic State.
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday there will be no new military operation against Syria's Idlib by Syrian government forces and their allies, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
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The Free Syrian Army, a group of Arab militants in Syria backed by Turkey, is reported to be deliberately releasing ISIS detainees amid a Turkish military operation targeting the Kurds in northeast Syria.
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Turkey's vice president warned Washington that it would ignore any pushback on what many fear is the beginning of a military operation that will target key Kurdish partners in the fight against ISIS.
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Combatting Zika will be the largest military operation in the Brazilian history with 220,85033 troops and 315,000 other public officials deployed in support of activities aimed at mitigating the spread of the disease.
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ISTANBUL — Turkish artillery fired shells into the northern Syrian region of Afrin on Friday as Turkey's defense minister announced a military operation against American-backed Kurdish militias, despite warnings from the United States.
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The Iraqi military operation would be the first use of military force by the government in Baghdad in response to an independence vote last month by the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
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Vice President Mike Pence announced from Ankara on Thursday that Turkey has agreed to cease its military operation in northern Syria for 120 hours so that Kurdish forces can withdraw from the area.
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The ministry did not say whether the frigate was supposed to take part in the military operation in Syria where Moscow has backed President Bashar al-Assad since entering the war in 2015.
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In the wake of Turkey's military operation in Afrin in northern Syria and with presidential elections coming in 2019, the government is hoping to further consolidate Muslim nationalism as the central Turkish identity.
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Tusk, who spoke after meeting Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, said Turkey's unilateral military operation was of grave concern and should halt while Turkey's security concerns should be addressed through political and diplomatic means.
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The White House on Sunday night said Turkey will soon be launching a military operation in northeastern Syria and that U.S. troops will no longer be "in the immediate area" when it happens.
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It said the attack occurred during a roadside security check in the region east of the Euphrates river in Syria, where Turkey carried out a military operation with allied Syrian rebels in October.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday that Islamic State militants held in northeast Syria could escape as a result of a Turkish military operation there, the Interfax news agency reported.
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The White House announced late Sunday that Turkey will soon be launching a military operation in northern Syria and that U.S. troops will no longer be "in the immediate area" when it happens.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Wednesday urged Turkey to halt a military operation in northern Syria, saying the incursion would destabilize the country and risked helping a resurgence of the Islamic State militant group.
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Earlier on Wednesday Turkish warplanes and artillery pounded Kurdish YPG targets with air strikes and artillery barrages in a cross-border military operation just days after U.S. troops pulled back from the area.
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LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The cost of insuring exposure to Turkey's sovereign debt climbed 8 basis points on Tuesday amid investor caution about a planned military operation by Turkish forces in northeastern Syria.
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ANKARA, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The Turkish military operation into Syria has been launched with air strikes and will be supported by artillery and howitzer fire, a Turkish security source told Reuters on Wednesday.
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ANKARA, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday accused French President Emmanuel Macron of wanting to divide Syria, after France criticised Ankara's military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria.
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Turkey has launched a military operation in northern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, days after the Trump administration announced its controversial decision to pull U.S. troops out of the area.
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday he has "serious concerns" about the destabilizing effect of Turkey's military operation, adding that it will be a topic of discussion at next week's defense ministerial.
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Putin was cited as saying that the military operation in the area was now completed, and that the focus would switch to a political process that would eventually involve presidential and parliamentary elections.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish prosecutor ordered the detention of 11 senior members of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) on Tuesday, including its chairman, after the body criticized Turkey's military operation in northern Syria.
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While Mr. Trump referred to his instructions to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants as "a military operation," his homeland security secretary, John Kelly, said the opposite during a diplomatic trip to Mexico City.
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he was "alarmed by the scale of the military operation and reported attacks on evacuation routes" used by civilians fleeing north towards the Turkish border.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Soldiers in the southern Philippines rescued a British man and woman from members of an Islamist militant group, the army said on Monday, after their captors fled during a military operation.
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The rest of the title holds true though, as this is a military operation and there is in fact an elephant dropped out of a cargo plane — a fantastic moment in cinema history.
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Distrust toward foreign miners was reinforced last year after a military operation to strip Chinese investors of a silver mine in Salkhit in northern Mongolia after they were accused of corrupting local courts.
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So when people debate about whether the North Korean space launch had some sort of ulterior motive or was cover for a military operation, they're missing the point: it doesn't matter in the slightest.
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President Tayyip Erdogan said this week that Turkey may start a new military operation in Syria at any moment, touting support from Trump even though the Pentagon had issued a stern warning to Ankara.
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A ruthless leader, Fazlullah ordered the beheading of dozens of opponents when his band of insurgents controlled Pakistan&aposs picturesque Swat Valley from 2007 until a massive military operation routed them out in 2009.
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Pakistan's military operation to secure its northern tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border in 2015 resulted in an influx of militants into Afghanistan as they fled Pakistan, further reducing the number of targets.
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She also voiced support for Jordanian concern about Iranian activity in southwestern Syria, near its border and that of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, where Tehran's ally Damascus is ramping up a military operation.
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Oil and natural gas production from the Kirkuk region is proceeding normally despite the ongoing Iraqi military operation to seize the region form Kurdish forces, another Iraqi Oil Ministry official told Reuters in Baghdad.
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An administrative official in Kurram also confirmed the surrender took place in Kurram, where hundreds of militants fled after a Pakistani military operation forced them out of their stronghold in North Waziristan in 2014.
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Even though US forces have pulled back from the border area where Turkey is staging its military operation to clear Kurdish forces, there are still American military personnel deployed across parts of northern Syria.
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Turkish soldiers stand in front of the coffin of a soldier who was killed during the country's military operation against Kurdish forces in Syria during a ceremony at Sanliurfa Airport in Turkey, Oct. 22.
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Trump has faced a barrage of criticism, including from Republicans, for his decision weeks ago to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria ahead of an impending Turkish military operation in Kurdish-held territory there.
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Attending a commemoration in southern England, German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised the sacrifice of tens of thousands of soldiers in a military operation that brought Germany freedom from the autocratic ideology of National Socialism.
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The military operation, conducted by Syrian forces, formally marked the end of the short-lived ceasefire that sought to quell violence, coordinate efforts to defeat ISIS and allow aid to enter the besieged city.
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BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - More than 80,000 people have fled their homes in Pool province surrounding Congo Republic's capital since the government began a military operation there last year, a joint U.N. and government statement said.
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Iraq Days before the start of the week-old Iraqi offensive to drive ISIS out of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Turkey's President issued an unusual public demand to join the military operation.
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According to a July 713 poll by the Israel Democracy Institute, 271 percent of Jewish Israelis believe the country should launch a large-scale military operation against Gaza if it continues to attack Israel.
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The military operation, conducted by Syrian forces, formally marks the end of a short-lived ceasefire that sought to quell violence, coordinate efforts to defeat ISIS and allow aid to enter the besieged city.
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Last week, Turkish police launched criminal investigations into the HDP's co-chairs over their criticism of the military operation and started probes into more than 500 social accounts over "terrorist propaganda" criticizing the offensive.
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LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg agreed Turkey's military operation against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria needed to end, a spokeswoman for Johnson's office said.
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President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would postpone a planned military operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria as he "cautiously" welcomed Washington's decision to withdraw its troops in the area.
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But after Putin's talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who has opposed a military operation against the rebels in Idlib, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told reporters there would not now be an offensive.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has ended the "Euphrates Shield" military operation it launched in Syria last August, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday, but suggested there might be more cross-border campaigns to come.
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However, a commander in one of the Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups that have clashed with SDF-allied groups south of Jarablus said there was no ceasefire, only a pause in the military operation.
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Trump's disclosure of his apparent decision to strike as well as the kind of weaponry to be used in a future military operation is likely to frustrate military planners, who hold such information closely.
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This was a military operation, cloaked in secrecy, to insert not only the journalists but three stand-up basses, cellos and other instruments and musicians from St. Petersburg into the Syrian front-line city.
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Even when targeted successfully, concerns over causing collateral damage have led the U.S. military to call off certain tactical strikes, which in turn have limited the scope and effectiveness of the overall military operation.
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Murphy, picking up right where the first season left off, lays out the details of a military operation to snare Pablo Escobar, who has just escaped confinement at his luxury prison complex, La Catedral.
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The White House said that Trump endorsed Turkey's planned military operation in the region, with Trump having reportedly arrived at the decision after speaking to Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, by phone on Sunday.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised speech that Turkish troops would launch a military operation east of the Euphrates in Syria, an operation aimed at targeting Kurdish militants.
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Lee visited the north of Rakhine, where the military operation is taking place, the commercial hub Yangon, the capital Naypyitaw and Kachin State in the north, where government forces are battling ethnic Kachin guerrillas.
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Saudi Arabia denies targeting civilians and defended the incident on Thursday as a "legitimate military operation" and a retaliatory response to a Houthi ballistic missile that targeted the kingdom's Jizan province the day before.
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Earlier this month, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey needed to clear the Afrin region of northwest Syria of Kurdish YPG militia fighters as the military operation in Idlib province is largely complete.
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Azzan was Al Qaeda's last stronghold in the province, and the extremists apparently abandoned it in fear of an impending military operation by Yemeni forces supported by the Saudi-led coalition, according to Col.
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The MiG-29 last made news when one crashed into the Mediterranean Sea this month near Syria, where Russia launched a military operation in support of Bashar al-Assad more than a year ago.
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An army patrol was conducting a search operation in Upper Dir on Tuesday night, near the Malakand region where the Pakistani Taliban had controlled large swaths of territory until a military operation in 2009.
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That every expert has acknowledged that a US military operation against North Korea would set off chaos across the Korean peninsula and potentially drag China into the conflict is, to Trump, besides the point.
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AMMAN/ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish army reconnaissance team scouted out Syria's Idlib province on Sunday, a senior Syrian rebel said, before an expected military operation to impose peace in the bitterly contested Syrian northwest.
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In this case, the baker was mistakenly shot by police during the military operation intended to free those being held captive during the 12-hour siege at the bakery in Dhaka this past Saturday.
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Trump's decision to disclose his decision to strike as well as the kind of weaponry to be used in a future military operation was certain to frustrate military planners, who hold such information closely.
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Churchill's address was rousing, electrifying and memorable, at once a sober account of a failed military operation, a soaring declaration of patriotic resolve and a frank admission that the situation was very serious indeed.
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But the White House said that Mr. Trump has given a green light for a Turkish military operation into northern Syria, and Mr. Trump said on Twitter that it was time to pull out.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Friday released a Kurdish lawmaker who was jailed last year for criticising Ankara's military operation in Syria and has been on hunger strike for nearly three months.
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DUBAI, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition launched a military operation north of Yemen's port city of Hodeidah against what it described as "legitimate military targets", State-run Ekhbariya TV reported on Friday.
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Last week, Turkish police launched criminal investigations into the HDP's co-chairs over their criticism of the military operation and started probes into more than 500 social accounts over "terrorist propaganda" criticising the offensive.
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ANKARA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Turkey will retaliate against U.S. sanctions over Ankara's military operation into northeast Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday, adding that all threats and sanctions against Turkey were unacceptable.
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After widespread criticism of the decision to clear the way for a Turkish military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria, President Trump switched gears on Monday and said he would restrain Turkey.
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" Air strikes have reportedly started: "The Turkish military operation into Syria has been launched with air strikes and will be supported by artillery and howitzer fire, a Turkish security source told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Setting off a diplomatic, military, and political firestorm last Sunday night, Trump initially green-light a long-sought Turkish military operation to sweep Kurds of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) out of northern Syria.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the situation in northeast Syria with his Turkish counterpart by phone on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, amid tensions over a possible Turkish military operation there.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council will meet on Syria behind closed-doors on Thursday, diplomats said, after Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in the northeast of the country.
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Erdogan announced on Wednesday that Turkey has captured a wife of the late ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while also appearing to downplay a recent US military operation that led to Baghdadi's death.
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The strike and Jarrard's statement of support for the Syrian Democratic Forces come as Turkey has launched its own military operation into Syria, targeting Kurdish YPG fighters in the Afrin area in northwest Syria.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister said Ankara would launch a new military operation in northeast Syria if the area was not cleared of what he called terrorists, state-owned Anadolu agency reported on Monday.
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Soganub made an appearance under duress in a militant propaganda video about a week after his capture, urging the government to stop the military operation in Marawi in exchange for sparing lives of hostages.
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"President Trump did not share any 'concerns about escalating violence' with regard to the ongoing military operation in Afrin," the source said, referring to one comment in the White House summary of their conversation.
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Norbert Roettgen, a conservative foreign policy expert and lawmaker, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper the Turkish military operation was in violation of international law, and Gabriel should halt any plans to approve the tank upgrades.
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Some 100 peacekeepers have died in Mali, where France launched a military operation in 2013 to push back Islamists who a year earlier had hijacked an ethnic Tuareg uprising in the north of the country.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday his country, which already has a foothold in northwest Syria, will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria.
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The battle to drive Islamic State out of Mosul, a city many times larger than any other the jihadists have ever held, is the biggest military operation in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
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CASSANDRA CAVANAUGHNew York The landing of a German U-boat on the coast of Labrador in 1943 was not "the only known Nazi military operation on North American soil" ("Eye of the storm", July 6th).
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The ruling, announced by the Ankara governor's office, came as Turkey pursued a near two-month-old military operation in Syria in support of rebels to drive Islamic State militants away from its southern border.
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In eastern Yemen, forces loyal to Hadi, backed by troops from the United Arab Emirates, drove members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula from the city of Mukalla in a military operation in May.
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In his "The Bow of Kings," boys uniformly clad in white dress shirts and gray slacks appear to be going about spontaneous, unsupervised acts of play with the paradoxically grim determination of a military operation.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the country's military operation in northwest Syria'S Idlib province was largely completed but the neighbouring region of Afrin, controlled by a Kurdish militia, remained an issue.
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Additionally, the polls are being held as nationalist sentiment is high following a Turkish military operation into a Syrian border enclave earlier this year that drove away Syrian Kurdish fighters that Turkey brands as terrorists.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will launch a new military operation in northern Syria within days, targeting Kurdish militia fighters who are supported by U.S. troops east of the Euphrates river, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah group on Saturday started a joint military operation with the Syrian army against an Islamic State pocket on Syria's border with Lebanon, the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar television station reported.
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"Any uncoordinated military operation by Turkey would be of grave concern as it would undermine our shared interest of a secure northeast Syria and the enduring defeat of ISIS," Pentagon spokesman Sean Robertson said recently.
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Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a U.S. military operation in Syria, sources in the region said, and U.S. President Donald Trump was due to make a "major statement" at the White House.
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But in both tone and substance, Trump's announcement was in stark contrast to the moment on May 1, 2011, when President Barack Obama announced the al-Qaeda leader's death, also in a special military operation.
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Since Moscow entered the war in September 2015, helping to swing momentum in the conflict in the favor of Syrian government forces, the strategic center of Russia's military operation has been Hmeymim airbase, near Latakia.
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The importance of the looming military operation has been highlighted in the halls of power from Washington to Baghdad, but Saeed is concerned that few discussions are centered on the plight of his fellow Moslawis.
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"The President has determined that he has the authority to take military action against (ISIS), and Congress has ratified that determination by appropriating billions of dollars in support of the military operation," the motion read.
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Al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine and other Islamist groups hijacked a Tuareg rebel uprising in 2012 to seize Mali's desert north, but they were pushed out by a French-led military operation a year later.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Heavy gunfire erupted in Ivory Coast's second port city, San Pedro, on Monday, residents said, as a four-day nationwide army mutiny spread despite government threats the restore order with a military operation.
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In comments released by the Kremlin, Putin said the military operation in the area was now finished, and that the focus would switch to a political process that would eventually involve presidential and parliamentary elections.
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The military operation has sharpened the tension between Suu Kyi's six-month-old civilian administration and the army, which ruled the country for decades and retains key powers, including control of ministries responsible for security.
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Erdogan, who was speaking at Ankara airport ahead of his departure for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Syrian situation, also expressed disappointment with comments from Iran criticizing Turkey's military operation in Syria.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Sunday to bring to an immediate halt the military operation in northern Syria, a German government spokeswoman said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to halt new arms export licences to Turkey as a result of concern over its military operation against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, the foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday.
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President Trump describes move to deport undocumented immigrants as a "military operation"; press secretary says he meant the level of precision White House effort to justify travel ban causes growing concern for some intelligence officials.
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The Taliban have been fighting for 16 years to re-establish their ultra-Islamist regime that was toppled in a U.S.-backed military operation over sheltering the al Qaeda terrorist network that planned the Sept.
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President Trump last week gave the go-ahead for an expanded military operation to secure expansive oil fields in eastern Syria, and the Pentagon has already sent new troops and armored vehicles to the area.
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"President Trump did not share any 'concerns about escalating violence' with regard to the ongoing military operation in Afrin," the source said, referring to one comment in the White House summary of their phone call.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - A soldier from the United Arab Emirates died while taking part in a Saudi-led military operation in Yemen, state news agency WAM reported on Friday, without clarifying the circumstances of his death.
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At the end of his memo, Mr. Roebuck offered some diplomatic options, including maintaining relations with Turkey and making clear to Turkish leaders they will bear the brunt of the costs for the military operation.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Trump on October 6 that he would go ahead with a planned military operation in the region, where the US's Kurdish allies had been fighting the terrorist group ISIS.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's military operation against a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in Syria's Afrin region will have a very limited impact on the Turkish economy and budget, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Monday.
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Russia is about to end its military operation in Syria that tipped the scales in the devastating war in favor of government forces, President Vladimir Putin said at surprise talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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"The military operation was necessary and appropriate to preserve the effectiveness of the international ban on the use of chemical weapons and to warn the Syrian regime of further violations," Merkel said in a statement.
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Investors hope Genish, who has described running GVT like "a military operation", will set in motion a similar overhaul at Telecom Italia, a former state monopoly saddled with 25 billion euros ($29 billion) of debt.
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A four-year military operation to push the terrorist group from Iraq and Syria ended on Saturday when American-backed forces took back the last speck of land in the region controlled by the group.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Youths torched and vandalized scores of cars in the Swedish city of Gothenburg and surrounding towns and Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Tuesday the disturbances looked organized "almost like a military operation".
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Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009, began on Wednesday with an ex-Navy SEAL's assertion that he knew the military operation to find the missing soldier would be dangerous.
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Mervan Qamishlo, a spokesman for Syria&aposs US-backed Kurdish-led force, said the intensification of ISIS attacks began even earlier, since October, when Turkey began a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
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Trump has faced tremendous blowback over his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria as Turkey prepared to launch a military operation at the border, including harsh criticism from some of his Republican allies.
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Ahsanullah Ahsan, a spokesman for the breakaway Taliban faction, told The Associated Press late Sunday that along with striking Christians celebrating Easter, the attack also meant to protest Pakistan's military operation in the tribal regions.
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Mr. Trump has spoken before about launching a military operation to police the border, only to have his aides walk back the remarks amid a backlash from members of his administration and officials in Mexico.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump has instructed his military commanders to quickly wrap up the American military operation in Syria so that he can bring troops home within a few months, senior administration officials said on Wednesday.
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Speaking to journalists in Abu Dhabi about the Turkish military operation in Syria, he said that, according to earlier agreements, Turkish military can only cross into Syria and go 5-10 kilometers into its territory.
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Turkey threatened to send a wave of refugees into Europe Friday, in an apparent bid to pressure the West into backing its military operation in Syria after dozens of soldiers were killed by Syrian airstrikes.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday called on Turkey and others to show restraint in northeast Syria, a sign of Moscow's growing concern about a Turkish military operation there against Kurdish forces.
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Turkey has been massing troops for days along its border with Syria and vowed it would go ahead with the military operation and not bow to the U.S. threat over its plans against the Kurds.
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The Turkish military operation "will have a great negative impact on our war against the Daesh organization and will destroy everything that has been achieved with regards to stability during the last years," it added.
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After a lightning advance last month, the military operation to take Baghuz has stalled as commanders negotiate an end to the siege with the Islamic State, according to three American officials and two militia commanders.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained 24 people for "spreading terrorist propaganda" on social media related to Ankara's military operation against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, and the capital city's governor has banned all protests.
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Kabunin, who was 2227, was one of hundreds of military contractors secretly recruited by Moscow for combat operations in Syria since Russia's military operation began there in 211, according to people familiar with the deployment.
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One day when the diplomatic history is written, people will wonder what happened here and why officials didn't do more to stop it or at least speak out more forcefully to blame Turkey for its behavior: an unprovoked military operation that has killed some 200 civilians, left well over 100,000 people (and counting) newly displaced and homeless because of its military operation targeting Tel Abyad and Ras Ayn, but also Kobane, and Ayn Isa, and dozens of Kurdish villages surrounding each of these towns.
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Bush had relative calm by the fall of 1992, though the military operation against Iraq with Operation Desert Storm had proven that the end of the Cold War did not mean the end of military conflict.
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pledged a swift military operation to take over the airport and seaport without entering the city center, to minimize civilian casualties and maintain the flow of essential goods.
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"I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred, and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population," Zeid said.
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He told reporters that Cameroon's Special Defense and Security Forces, "in synergy with Nigerian forces," killed at least 58 Boko Haram insurgents in a successful military operation near the Nigerian forest of Madawaya earlier this week.
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In a discussion about the U.S.-backed military operation in Libya, for the first time, while admitting that the oust er of Moammar Ghadafi didn't work out as well as hoped, Clinton compared Libya to Syria.
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Donors including the United States and the European Union have funded a joint military operation by five Sahel countries to contain the violence, and thousands of French and U.N. troops have been deployed to the region.
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Nigeria's presidency said on March 12 that the government planned to negotiate for the release of the kidnapped girls rather than use a military operation to free them, to ensure that they make it home unharmed.
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"The current ballistic rocket launching drill like a real war is the first step of the military operation of the KPA in the Pacific and a meaningful prelude to containing Guam," KCNA quoted Kim as saying.
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In 2007, Aziz and his followers were engaged in an armed standoff with government forces at his mosque in the capital Islamabad, culminating in a eight-day military operation that saw Pakistani commandoes raid the mosque.
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Turkish authorities have detained people who criticized a military operation in Syria on social media and those who posted comments about the economy "in a provocative way", as the lira tumbled against the dollar this year.
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Earlier on Thursday, President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's military operation in northern Syria will target the town of Manbij, recently liberated from Islamic State by Kurdish-led forces, and Raqqa after the town of al-Bab.
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Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday that if a planned safe zone in northern Syria is not established and if threats continue against Turkey, Ankara would launch a military operation east of the Euphrates river.
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The Rakhine military operation has sharpened the tension between Suu Kyi's six-month-old civilian administration and the army, which ruled the country for decades and retains key powers, including control of ministries responsible for security.
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The military operation by the central government was launched as a punishment for Kurdistan holding an independence referendum in September and caused a drop in production and a lack of clarity on who owns the barrels.
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"We are trying to be balanced and responsible but Hamas's leaders are forcing us into a situation in which we will have no choice but to embark on a broad and painful military operation," Lieberman said.
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that President Donald Trump can't be satisfied with the military operation in Niger that left four men dead, but declined to comment on the details of the raid.
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One of the group's most notorious feats was the capture of presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt in 2002, who was held deep in the jungle for six years before she was rescued in a Colombian military operation.
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The public record shows he has a decades-long record of defending Islamism, referring to Hezbollah's 1983 attack in Beirut costing the lives of 85033 U.S. marines as a "military operation" and not a terrorist attack.
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Two days after the missile strikes that he hailed as a well-executed military operation, President Donald Trump still wants to bring the small number of U.S. troops in northern Syria home, the White House said.
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Turkey said this month it would launch a new military operation to sweep the YPG Kurdish militia from northern Syria, but put that on hold after the United States said it would pull its troops out.
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The French ministry of defense issued a statement Thursday saying that its forces had conducted a military operation Wednesday 45km east of the town of Akabar, Mali, which sits very close to the border with Niger.
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The Trump administration on Sunday lambasted Russia's involvement in a deadly ongoing military operation in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, saying the country has dropped bombs — at "least 20 daily" between February 24 and 4003 — on innocent civilians.
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The puzzler: During his meeting with CEOs in the manufacturing industry earlier today, President Trump referred to his administration's removal of unauthorized immigrants as "a military operation" to get "really bad dudes out of this country."
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Here's one: that time climbing through a hillside bamboo thicket during a military operation when the heat felt so intense it got inside me, and yet I couldn't seem to drink enough water and was vomiting.
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Experts on Syria's war cited France and perhaps even Britain and Middle East allies as potential partners in any U.S. military operation, which would aim to discourage future chemical weapons use in Syria's brutal civil war.
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In private conversations, Turkey's Kurds described onerous constraints in their lives and described their dread that Turkey's latest military operation in Syria was going to bring more oppression for Kurds on both sides of the border.
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That's one of the many reasons he works as a casualty model today, leveraging his amputee status to train soldiers and medical workers about what to expect when things go horrifically wrong during a military operation.
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That agreement did not prevent clashes from breaking out between Kurdish and Turkish forces on Friday and has not restrained other Trump allies from criticizing his decision to leave the region prior to Turkeys military operation.
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The deputy commander of the American-led military operation in Iraq said the Defense Department was putting the service members through medical examinations to see if the headaches and other complaints amounted to traumatic stress injuries.
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In 2012, Mali's north fell under the control of Qaeda-linked jihadist groups that hijacked an ethnic Tuareg-led rebel uprising, though the Islamists were largely ousted by a French-led military operation in January 2013.
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BAYBUKH, Iraq (Reuters) - Hundreds of civilians who fled fighting near Islamic State-controlled Mosul last week are stranded without basic humanitarian assistance, underlining the challenges of the largest military operation in Iraq in over a decade.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Ankara had assured Moscow that it did not plan to launch a new military operation in Syria despite earlier comments, the TASS news agency reported.
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A local government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters, said the military operation was explicitly designed to secure oil and gas facilities in Shabwa Province.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council will meet on Syria behind closed-doors on Thursday, diplomats said, after Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in the northeast of the country.
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The U.S. has been working on establishing a safe zone along the border in order to reduce tensions, but the plans have thus far been unsuccessful and Turkey has threatened a military operation near the border.
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In late January, at least 30 people were killed in a U.S. commando dawn raid in southern Yemen, including at least 10 women and children, in the first such military operation authorized by President Donald Trump.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Warplanes targeted rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo on Friday in a second day of heavy bombardment hours after the army announced the start of a military operation there, rescue workers and activists said.
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The city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, erupted in violence Thursday afternoon amid a major Mexican military operation that led to the capture — and abrupt release — of at least one son of cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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In anticipation of the commercial payoff, the report said, a Russian ship laden with mining equipment docked at the Syrian port city of Tartus, where Russia has a naval base, even before the military operation began.
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"We understand that there is going to be some kind of security zone which will be very specifically targeted to a military operation or to an area where there has to be some clearance," Moumtzis said.
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MOSCOW, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the situation in northeast Syria with his Turkish counterpart by phone on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, amid tensions over a possible Turkish military operation there.
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Elsewhere in the emerging market universe, Turkey's lira slid 20.29%, breaking through what traders called a key support level of 2723.5 against the dollar, after Turkey launched a military operation targeting Kurdish fighters in northeast Syrian.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey must consider that its bid to join the European Union requires it to adhere to EU foreign policy, the bloc's executive Commission said on Thursday, again rejecting Ankara's military operation in northern Syria.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Ankara had assured Moscow that it did not plan to launch a new military operation in Syria despite earlier comments, the TASS news agency reported.
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President Donald Trump's announcement of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi revealed a slew of sensitive details about the secret military operation that could imperil future raids, special operations and intelligence, veterans fear.
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And he demanded European support for his military operation against a Russian and Syrian offensive in northern Syria that has displaced at least a million Syrians, many of whom are now heading toward the Turkish border.
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Turkey shelled targets in northern Syria on Monday and said it would swiftly crush the U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG fighters who control the Afrin region, amid growing international concern over its three-day-old military operation.
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