Sentence examples for operations arm from inspiring English sources

Mr. Simatovic, now 63, was Mr. Stanisic's deputy and headed the security service's special operations arm.

NAIROBI, Kenya — The plot was hatched weeks or months ago on Somali soil, by the Shabab's "external operations arm," officials say.

The massacre plot was hatched weeks or months ago on Somali soil by the Shabab's "external operations arm," according to American security officials.

In Iran Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, the external operations arm of the Revolutionary Guards, said the US had "no will" to fight Isis.

On Sunday, the office put out a statement saying that it believed that Los Aztecas, a violent street gang working for La Línea, the operations arm of the drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, was responsible for the shootings.

American officials said they are sure that the man, Gholam Shakuri, is an officer of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, as asserted in the criminal complaint unveiled last week by the Justice Department.

Nokia's chief executive Stephen Elop said that the network operations arms had strengthened its financial performance and that progress in high-speed connections – principally LTE connections now being rolled out by network operators – is "an attractive growth opportunity".

Estimated to be several thousand strong, the Quds force carries out a range of highly sensitive functions: intelligence, special operations, arms smuggling and political action – anything that constitutes protecting the revolution or attacking its enemies, Israel foremost among them.

Gen Soleimani is the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' overseas operation arm, the Quds Force.

Provincial governor Atta Mohammad Noor oversaw the operation armed with an AK47, denouncing the attackers as the "enemies of Afghanistan".

They wanted to know the location of weapons and drugs hidden in the slum, after Operation Armed Peace had not led to results.