When strikes do happen, they're the result of a failure of negotiations, not commie militants looking for a conflict.
American officials were initially concerned that the strike might have been connected to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and that the gunmen were Islamist militants looking for Americans.
To much of the world, the bombing may have appeared to be another in a series of escalating attacks by militants looking to destabilize the American-backed administration of President Hamid Karzai.
They have a hell of a time adjusting to the tempo of daily life after a week "on the ropes," protecting the vice president (who is himself running for the presidency) against every threatening contingency, watching for faces that appear in their files of kooks and fringe-group militants, looking for a hand with a gun in it.
I decided that 2014 was the year to do something about my aviophobia, which has never stopped me from travelling, but has spoiled many holidays, lent an extra patina of fear to hairy journalistic missions (I confess that my greatest concern when going to northern Nigeria was not the Boko Haram militants looking to decapitate me but the ancient Arik Air 737 that was to get me there).
BUDAPEST, Hungary ― The leaflets, supposedly from ISIS militants looking for apartments to rent in the capital, appeared in Hungarians' mailboxes last week.
At least five militants have been killed in shootouts since November as security forces have cracked down on Islamist militants looking to establish a sharia-based Muslim state.
At least five militants have been killed in shootouts since November as security forces have stepped up a crackdown on Islamist militants looking to establish a sharia-based Muslim state.
The agreement, brokered by a temporary partnership between the White House and the Kremlin, had been on the rocks virtually since it began, with both the Syrian military and militants looking to oust President Bashar al-Assad continuing hostilities.
When he visited Heidenau, where the first clashes between militant demonstrations and police took place over refugees, he managed to make even rightwing militants look smart by playing to mob mentality.
