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Therefore, it is essential that those fighting take very seriously their obligation not to target civilians – indeed, to do everything possible to protect them.
To ensure that the rebels have a fighting chance against Qaddafi’s better-equipped troops, Western countries will have to move beyond air strikes and offering the TNC diplomatic recognition.
That approach means that countries are not fighting for a bigger piece of the pie at the expense of others.
Even though they are fighting side-by-side in Libya, with their armies expressing a deep confidence in each other, there are distinct nuances in each country’s position on military intervention.
In August 2008, European diplomats scrambled to stop the fighting.
Arab youth had finally moved, and Obama and his team made the right statements to encourage them, while also making it clear to the Egyptian and Tunisian regimes that they could no longer hide behind the claim that they were fighting America’s war in north Africa.
According to the author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, Germany is in the international forefront of fighting climate change: “The clear alternative and the best news from 2012 came from Germany, the one big country that’s taken climate change seriously....There were days last summer when [Germans] generated more than half the power that they used from solar panels.”
“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting,” they declared, “but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
Macron may be trying to achieve too much at once, but a more democratic, dynamic, and united EU is a prize worth fighting for.
We demand an easy policy: stricter rules (especially when fighting conflicts of interest), a specific rating scale for complex products, and regular publication of their returns.
“While all NATO countries voted to intervene in Libya,” he reminded them recently, “most [have] chosen not to participate in the actual fighting.”
The UN spends billions of dollars promoting human rights, protecting the environment, fighting disease and reducing poverty.
But in countries where the Church’s influence remains strong, IVF’s opponents are fighting back.
Hence, US troops, the CIA, drone missiles, or US-backed armies are engaged in fighting across a region stretching from the Sahel in West Africa, through Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond.
His government then illegally annexed Crimea and is fighting an increasingly brutal guerrilla war in eastern Ukraine, through proxies and, it now appears, direct engagement of Russian forces.
Others have suggested that the 26-year-old Tamerlan, an ethnic Chechen, may have witnessed the Russian/Chechen war of 1999, or Russia’s brutal efforts to pacify insurgent fighting in the North Caucasus.
They also prevent the animals from wasting energy by moving around or fighting with each other.
Hamas’s control of the Palestinian Authority does not diminish or increase the need for Israeli military action, but it does increase its political benefits, because the fighting and destruction tells Gaza’s population that their rulers are endangering their physical survival.
Thus, Israel is using the opportunity brought by the current fighting to search out and destroy Hezbollah’s underground and other hidden sites where it keeps its rockets and missiles.
Its deployment in Lebanon, its fighting capacity, and its thousands of missiles are all still intact.
These NGOs, who flourished during the fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, had seen their funding dry up after Russia’s withdrawal, so funds for fighting poppy seemed a gift from heaven.
Significant funds have been collected in the name of fighting corruption worldwide.
This, in my opinion, is a social group that is fighting a rearguard battle against the growing social power of women, immigrants, and other religions.
It is also fighting against secularism, such as the teaching of modern biology and evolutionary theory.
While this competitive mentality is not new in science – the seventeenth-century mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz spent more than a decade fighting bitterly for credit for the discovery of calculus – it has intensified to the point that it is impeding progress.
Only when the fighting has stopped can Syria make genuine progress toward a political transition.
After all, even stopping the fighting between regime forces and some armed groups – that is, those that associate themselves with the Syrian National Coalition, or are at least willing to coordinate with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the partly Saudi-sponsored Islamic Front – would be a major achievement.
A ceasefire is critical, because the fighting serves the interests of the most brutal elements on both sides of the conflict.
Abysmal air and land transport limit the ability to move fighting forces to where they are needed most.
During the fighting in Gaza, he publicly demanded a halt to the warfare and requested that Israel open Gaza’s borders to relief aid.
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