Sentence examples for combatant groups from inspiring English sources

The choices are dividing the country in two, which would simply confirm the present status quo, more or less; dividing the country into three, following the ethnic lines of the major combatant groups; or keeping the country one.

According to the study, 53% of the women reporting direct, face-to-face contact with RUF fighters also reported that they had been sexually assaulted, compared to less than six percent for those exposed to other combatant groups.

Since the mid-1980s, UNICEF has played a key role in advocating and securing the release of children from armed forces and other combatant groups in Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Uganda.

Success in combat, the sine qua non of military organizations and the ultimate purpose of military technology, depends on the ability of the combatant group to coordinate the actions of its members in a tactically effective manner.

But they belonged to the same outfit, the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), thought to be behind them.The climate of fear was increased by a letter faxed to a Spanish newspaper, ABC, purportedly from al-Qaeda, which threatened more attacks that would "make blood flow like rivers" in Spain.

And the Other some militant combatant group of their choosing or "Robbers".

However, considering that the beta-value of -.01 for the latter interaction is small, these two interaction terms suggest that the protective effect found in other ex-combatant groups is masked in the present data set by those who had demobilized individually.

As foreign fighters pour into Syria at an increasing clip — now estimated at more than 6,000 combatants — extremist groups are carving out pockets of territory that are becoming havens for Islamist militants, posing what United States and Western intelligence officials say may be developing into one of the biggest terrorist threats in the world today.

Its founder, Saif Allah Bin Hussein, is a former al-Qaeda combatant in Afghanistan.The group has been affected".Things are tough, but we have a lot of supporters," Mr Mazouz says.

It's worth noting that there is a precedent of former western combatants with militant groups in Syria returning to Europe battle-hardened.

In the second case, the United States is expanding its definition of enemy combatants to include groups in Yemen and Somalia, and this makes even the State Department uncomfortable.