Rebels mounted what they called a "decisive battle" for Aleppo, Syria's largest city, after months of brutal but inconclusive fighting, aiming to seize control of predominantly Christian and Kurdish neighborhoods from which, the rebels say, security forces and pro-government militias have attacked.
One great service that the Green Party, or indeed any well-heeled non-party philanthropist, could do the British people is to establish a fighting fund aimed at heading-off abuses off this kind, so that a local council with a superstore trying to gobble up one of its playing fields could endure the inevitable series of planning appeals in the knowledge that its costs would be covered.
The guerrilla tactics of Hezbollah have increasingly appeared to be borrowed by Palestinian groups fighting for the aim Hezbollah achieved: Israeli retreat and withdrawal.
As it was, the incoming Socialists quickly rededicated themselves to fighting terrorism, an aim to which they were already pledged in a formal anti-terrorist pact signed with the PP in 2000.The Socialists came to office as surprised as everyone else that they were there (though Mr Zapatero protests otherwise), and utterly unprepared.
The paper mainly deals with the design of hardware for an automatic fire fighting system, which aimed at closed combustible places.
TEL AVIV — When Israel assassinated the top Hamas military commander in Gaza on Wednesday, setting off the current round of fierce fighting, it was aiming not just at a Palestinian leader but at a supply line of rockets from Iran that have for the first time given Hamas the ability to strike as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
As for Hamas and Islamic Jihad, they have had many different aims: fighting military occupation, showing an extreme level of commitment to their cause and destroying the peace process in order to regain their former place at the centre of Palestinian politics.
Some feel his proposal to freeze fighting in Aleppo aims to cover failures of policy on Syria.
A large part of the $150 billion a year this country spends fighting pollution is aimed at removing trace toxins that are suspected of contributing to cancer.
The country was dragged into the US-Vietnam conflict in 1953 when the Vietnamese-backed communist forces Pathet Lao began fighting for leadership, aiming to oust the Royal Lao Government.
