The word "attacks" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to an act of aggression or hostility, either physical or verbal. For example: "The bully attacked his classmate, leaving him scared and shaken."
That could involve irregular troops, cyber attacks and inflaming tensions with ethnic Russian minorities in nations seen as part of the country's "near abroad" by Moscow.
The situation in Northern Ireland, overshadowed by the attacks in the US, is heading towards uncharted territory.
After the September 11 terror attacks, IMU militants fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan but were wiped out by US forces by 2002.
But on his third bout of global diplomacy since the attacks on America the prime minister got to within three hours' flying time across the Gulf of Oman.
Zawahiri emerged as the "brains" of the militant group, playing a key role in several big attacks.
Without mentioning Bachmann by name, McCain described the attacks on Abedin, a Muslim, as an example of ignorance and fear.
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, the voice of fiery al-Qaida propaganda videotapes after the September 11 attacks, was convicted Wednesday of conspiring to kill Americans for his role as the terror group's spokesman.
The verdict came after about five hours of deliberation in the case against Suleiman Abu Ghaith, the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to face trial on US soil since the attacks.
Amid a steadily improving economy that has seen the highest pace of job creation in years, Republican attacks on Obama's handling of the country's finances were rarer than during the 2012 election campaign, when the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, styled himself as the candidate to turn around America's economic fate.
The study did say that storms, starfish attacks and coral bleaching were responsible for the dramatic loss of coral cover on the reef.
He has used the many attacks on him – not least from the European commission – to justify what critics correctly see as a comprehensive attempt to undermine checks and balances, and remake the entire country in the image of one political party.
