Each has self-serving reasons to suspend military operations to confront the looming jihadist threat from the east".
If true, and many observers cannot believe that a commander as senior as Suleimani could be so reckless, it would be a sign that the Quds Force is seeking to expand its operations to confront Iran's two greatest enemies, the US and Britain, directly.
The most divisive issue is the contradiction between: –Hezbollah's insistence that it must give precedence to its close relationship with Iran and Syria, show solidarity with the Palestinian Hamas movement and thus extend its theater of operations to confront Israel; and.
WASHINGTON — As the United States turns increasingly to Special Operations forces to confront developing threats scattered around the world, the nation's top Special Operations officer, a member of the Navy Seals who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is seeking new authority to move his forces faster and outside of normal Pentagon deployment channels.
The mandate of Operation Inherent Resolve is to confront the Islamic State, but the Syrian opposition wants, first and foremost, to oust President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces are far deadlier.
In the course of remaking its corporate-reward-services business, Maritz Inc., over a century in operation, twice has had to confront wrenching splits.
These included a two-hundred-and-fifty-five-million-dollar cut in military aid, placing the country on a "special watch list" of nations that violate religious freedom, and suspending reimbursement payments to the Pakistani military for operations that it conducts to confront militants.
Pollan and his fellow investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, the Fast Food Nation author who co-produced Food, Inc., with Kenner, are determined to fling open the doors to those rank, cavernous CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) and force us to confront the nasty consequences of our addiction to cheap processed convenience foods.
In addition, He oversees the day-to-day operations of the Ideological Warfare Center (IWC), which aims to confront the roots of extremism and promote the true understanding of Islam.
Mr. Fryar and Charlie Holt, BP's drilling operations manager for the gulf, described an audacious plan to confront the blowout preventer problem.
