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Only intervention by US Vice President Dick Cheney two and a half days later secured the release of the soldiers, who were alleged to have been planning clandestine operations within the Kurdish zone.
Although the final vote tally awaits (soldiers’ votes have not yet been fully counted), the basic result is known.
Jews were massacred in Poland even after the war, most notably in the Kielce pogrom, in which a mob of Polish soldiers, police officers, and civilians murdered at least 42 Holocaust survivors.
The army is losing dozens of men every week and facing growing disciplinary problems from its Pashtun ethnic soldiers, who hail from the border region.
The Rule of the LawlessCAIRO – In one of his last essays, the late, great historian Tony Judt asked what we should have learned from the last century, a period in which so many soldiers and civilians died in conflict.
But limiting the violence and improving the lot of at least some Syrians might be possible if the US does not rush to leave, if Sunni governments contribute soldiers and money, and if Russia can be persuaded to play a somewhat more constructive role.
If almost everyone who is shot by police or soldiers dies, this suggests that the shooters are executing people they already have in custody.
(Will Arab soldiers never learn that dictatorship increases Islamist fundamentalism and promotes instability?)
Hudbay Minerals is being sued over an episode of mass rape and property destruction in Guatemala, after soldiers and people claiming to be security officials from the company that owned a local mine arrived in a small village with orders to evict its residents.
Five of six respondents who served in the military since the 1990’s were subject to abuse as soldiers.
A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that paying 500,000 soldiers the current average Russian monthly wage of $700 would cost about $5.6 billion a year (including all taxes and pension contributions).
This estimate is an upper bound: once soldiers are no longer free, generals would most likely use them more effectively and hire fewer of them.
Also, given that 18-year olds are less skilled than average Russian workers, the military would attract better-trained and more productive soldiers, resulting in further savings.
By spending just 8% of this amount, the Russian army could match its expensive new weapons with soldiers who are able and willing to handle them well.
The armed forces operate a parallel economy, with its own mines, farms, and factories, though many soldiers and junior officers still go hungry.
Pakistani policy is threatening not only a decade and a half of US effort in Afghanistan, but also the lives of the thousands of American soldiers still stationed there.
Why, people ask, should the allied countries pay the heavy price of war, and perhaps sacrifice the lives of their soldiers, when there is no danger to their national security or vital national interests?
According to Diamonds and Clubs, a recent report from Partnership Africa Canada, soldiers have press-ganged peasant farmers into working in mining syndicates at Marange.
The soldiers then take half the proceeds.
Chinese soldiers promptly crossed the disputed frontier with India in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, going so far as to pitch tents on land that India considers its sovereign territory.
African politics has long been the exclusive domain of aristocrats, soldiers, and technocrats.
Even with the spread of democratic elections, the region’s leaders tend to come from the ranks of soldiers (Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe), family dynasties (Togo, Kenya, etc), or university professors, lawyers, and economists (Ghana, Malawi, Liberia).
Three Israeli civilians have been killed by rocket or mortar fire from Gaza, and 64 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ground invasion began.
UN cars were surrounded by 200 Iraqi soldiers and a mob, ordered out to the scene by Iraqi officials.
Only a fifth of the 200,000 soldiers remained, worn out, battered, but defiant.
Soldiers had no clothes to protect them from freezing cold.
Even if it is not, how can an internally roiled India respond adequately to its many external tests, the severity of which was underscored recently by Pakistani troops’ killing of two Indian soldiers along the Line of Control in Kashmir.
Assad’s opponents accused the regime of using force against civilians without restraint, while the government pointed to the deaths of soldiers and policeman as evidence of violent jihadists among the protestors.
Based on some disputes that I witnessed, contractors appeared to outrank soldiers.
Similarly, Chad’s soldiers fought alongside French troops against terrorists in Mali, and now they have coalesced with those of Nigeria and Cameroon in fighting Boko Haram.
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