Sentence examples for unrest armed from inspiring English sources

Political unrest, armed conflict, and related population displacements are well known to be severe barriers to the provision of public health programmes (including immunisation programmes).

After years of battling armed rebels seeking independence, the security forces in the region never fully shifted their mission from counterinsurgency to addressing unrest by civilians armed with nothing but rocks.

Last year, we witnessed armed conflict, political unrest, erratic and severe weather patterns, disasters and diseases that devastated homes, livelihoods – and lives.

The government disputes the death toll and has blamed armed groups for the unrest.

In his first response to the uprising, long before the rebels had armed themselves, he declared the unrest was sure to become a civil war.

On Monday, the government issued a statement blaming "armed Salafist groups" for the unrest, referring to an ultra-conservative form of Islam that is popular in Saudi Arabia.

Sana also claimed that the military had not put down a popular uprising, but had defeated "armed terrorist groups" responsible for the unrest in the city.

Mr. Jumblatt seemed uneasy about the prospect of further unrest in the mountains, especially in light of the raids by heavily armed Hezbollah fighters into the Druse mountain heartland over the weekend.

But crying foul got him little attention.No fightingThe presence of security forces across the country on election day including irregulars armed with cudgels—has so far seen off any chance of popular unrest.

The government blames the unrest on a foreign conspiracy to divide the country and says it is battling armed groups who have killed at least 700 police officers and soldiers in the past six months.

And unrest in Shia villages outside the capital has continued on an almost nightly basis as young Bahrainis armed with Molotov cocktails battle police using tear gas, birdshot and batons.