Sentence examples for regular combatants from inspiring English sources

But M. Cherif Bassiouni, an expert on international law who is a professor at DePaul University, disagrees with the administration's reading: The Taliban soldiers are regular combatants and are part of the armed forces of that regime.

"Official estimates put the amount of active regular combatants at no more than 200, although the BIFF claim they have 5,000 and an additional 10,000 supporters who could be mobilized to combat readiness," said Banlaoi.

As a lover of trains and a commuter between Milan and Verona, Parks finds himself a regular combatant.

Pool B sees two regular World Cup combatants, South Africa and Samoa, joined by Scotland and the top qualifier from Asia, normally Japan, and the second Americas side to qualify — usually the United States or Canada.

While Bucca had few abuse complaints prior to its closure in 2009, it was seen by Iraqis as a potent symbol of an unjust policy, which swept up husbands, fathers, and sons – some of them non-combatants – in regular neighbourhood raids, and sent them away to prison for months or years.

During the 2006 peace negotiations, the frequency of sexual aggression increased with the main perpetrators being reintegrated ex-combatants and regular civilians [ 10, 15].

He argues that it is a misinterpretation of the Geneva conventions to deny prisoner-of-war status on the basis that combatants of a regular force failed to wear a uniform.

The prevalence of depression, PTSD symptoms and subjective poor health were similar between regular US and UK Iraq combatants.

Even some of the combatants are concerned.

He decided that all the Guantánamo prisoners were "unlawful combatants" -- that is, not regular soldiers but spies, terrorists or the like.

In other Latin American countries, similar reconciliation programs have largely failed; ex-combatants who couldn't find regular employment returned to militias.