The three strikes came almost exactly on the first anniversary of Islamic State's declaration of its caliphate, and it is possible they were coordinated.
BEHIND THE NEWS The talks among North Korea, its Asian neighbors and the United States were stalled waiting for the North to produce a declaration of its nuclear activities, which it finally delivered in June, six months late.
But when Syria submitted a preliminary declaration of its chemical weapons program that month, it declared only 23 sites.
He lived in Old Westbury, N.Y., and Palm Beach, Fla ."Be Confident, Shop Pergament" was the company's slogan, a vibrant declaration of its mission to attract do-it-yourselfers, people so proud of their new houses in the new post-war suburbs that they were eager -- or at least willing -- to try their hand at improving them.
Notting Hill's wealth enables it to make vibrant declaration of its diversity - its Italianate Victorian villas, petite mews houses and council estates accommodate an astonishing variety of peoples from Spain, Italy, Ireland and especially the Caribbean.
OPCW officials had predicted that the first few days in Syria would be spent going through paperwork on the country's declaration of its chemical weapons stockpile to ensure it included all the relevant information, and to make plans with Syrian officials to visit the production plants and munitions.
The White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, issued a terse statement noting that Mr. Hussein had met the deadline with "what it claims is a declaration of its programs to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems".
Although Hawthorne gives the tale an equivocally happy ending, he follows it with a frank declaration of its darker purpose: "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another, and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
Affecting over half of the entire country, it's the largest declaration of its kind in American history.
Given the news, it was kind of funny to read Yahoo's declaration of its "mobile first" ambitions, but what the company means is that it's going to spend time on its more innovative and popular apps, and less on these general purpose (read: boring) creations.
Iraq confirmed today that it would turn over a voluminous declaration of its arms programs to the weapons inspectors late Saturday in Baghdad.
