Sentence examples for armed combatant from inspiring English sources

Those who have criticized me for my participation as an armed combatant in the Libyan revolution, saying that I had helped deliver a country into the arms of Islamists and al Qaeda, have now been proven wrong.

"We were reading the R.O.E. and it says that, if you are a member of one of these groups, then you are a lawful armed combatant," a former member of the brigade staff told me.

"I think the president has to retain ultimate authority to be able to deal with terrorism in a way that's different than dealing with an armed combatant from a nation state," Mr. Giuliani said in a recent interview.

Other civilians may join the rebels at certain stages, becoming armed combatants, and then decide to return home for whatever reason, thus transitioning back to civilian non-combatants".

Since the Israeli Army assassination of a Palestinian militia leader on Thursday and the retaliatory shootings of Israeli soldiers on Friday, the conflict has appeared to shift from one of mass Palestinian protests at Israeli military posts to long-distance attacks by heavily armed combatants.

"Let me remind you, journalists are not armed combatants," Jordon said.

They are certainly something different than pure, innocent civilians, and perhaps they are also somewhat different from pure armed combatants.

On Monday, federal officials repeated their claim that the dead in the ranch killings were armed combatants who shot at authorities — and not victims of another possible government massacre such as those seen in less than a year in Tlatlaya, Iguala, and Apatzingan.

Armed combatants may perpetrate GBV that is related to conflict but GBV experiences by these survivors appeared to occur across conflict and displacement and is perpetrated by a range of actors.

The United Nations Human Rights Council, among other institutions, investigated several of the cases and found the Philippine military primarily responsible for the actions, attributing them to a counterinsurgency policy called Oplan Bantay Laya, or Operation Freedom Watch, that does not distinguish armed communist combatants from activists who are out in the open.

Yet it is the reckless United States policy of arming combatants around the world without regard for regional stability or citizen security that has contributed to the depth and intensity of these conflicts.