In January, rebels killed 51 coalition troops, the second highest toll since President Bush declared hostilities over in May.
Before Monday's commemorations, the French and German presidents paid emotional tributes on Sunday at a meeting in Alsace, 100 years after Germany declared hostilities against France.
"If you do anything contrary to that," the colonel explained in a calm, firm voice, "you are declaring hostilities between me and you.
The declared hostility of the great powers after 1945 and the diplomatic sanctions imposed by the United Nations (UN), from which Spain was excluded, gave Franco's opposition in Spain and in exile new life.
It wasn't Donald Trump who donned a flight suit and landed on an aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego to personally declare that hostilities were at an end in Iraq just as they were truly beginning, and to do so under an inane "Mission Accomplished" banner prepared by the White House.
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
Since the President declared major hostilities over on the flight deck that May 1, at least 287 service personnel have been killed in steadily mounting attacks -- nearly twice as many as in the war itself.
The Iraqi Governing Council put forward a set of regulations on Wednesday creating a five-member court empowered to try Iraqis on such charges stemming from activities from July 17 , 1968 the day Mr. Hussein's Baath Party came to power, until May 1, 2003, the day President Bush declared major hostilities over.
He declared "eternal hostility" toward Trump, condemned the president-elect's attitude toward Muslims and urged him to abide by existing U.S. international commitments.
Many religious settlers walk around the streets with guns, as if they're declaring their hostility with every step, sending signals of violence.
By moderating their statements on the religious dimensions of the conflict in Iraq, Khamenei and others may hope to avoid attracting the increased ire of Isis, who have already declared their hostility to Iran's Islamic republic.
