Synonyms
Examples for "attacks"
Examples for "attacks"
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for attacks on civilians in several countries.
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Government forces retook territory from the insurgents last year, although attacks continue.
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Organised crime was likely behind the attacks, the state attorney general said.
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The government said local political networks had been involved in the attacks.
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Bombing, killings and attacks against government officials, civilians and oil facilities continue.
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Since Israel's Gaza offensive 18 months ago, cross-border violence has largely abated.
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Bryant had an offensive way of dismissing what he called 'ordinary crime'.
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What is particularly offensive is the way the government has announced this.
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What's more, there are serious legal consequences for using this offensive term.
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The next criticism is a related one: the great 'straw man' offensive.
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The crackdown follows a number of reversals for the Russian military offensive.
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Analysts said the military offensive was probably timed to impress Mr Bush.
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The recent military offensive has not been accompanied by a parallel political effort.
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Foreign Minister Ann Linde on Thursday condemned Turkey's military offensive in northeastern Syria.
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Turkey halted its military offensive last week under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
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Sharif said stepping up security and military offensives in the northwest would not work.
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But Pakistani efforts, which have included military offensives and peace deals, have largely failed.
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Pakistan's military offensives so far have been directed primarily at those militants which threaten the Pakistani state.
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Several Pakistani military offensives in the tribal regions such as Khyber have failed to crush militant groups.
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Policy has been flip-flopping between inconclusive military offensives and peace deals that critics say embolden the militants.
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Rebels say they are fighting back against government offensives in the north.
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Outside of important local gains, the great western offensives have been failures.
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They hoped it would continue and so permit offensives of their own.
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After these initial offensives, both men stepped back to catch their breath.
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But last year rebel offensives reached both countries' capitals before being beaten back.
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The leaders of the two major parties have been on charm offensives today.
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Steadfastness has, however, been sapped by ongoing government offensives in Mosul and Aleppo.
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But two Taliban offensives this week are a direct challenge to that assertion.
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Winter was approaching rapidly, and so, therefore, was the season of Soviet offensives.
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Turkey has launched two previous offensives against the Kurds in Syria since 2016.
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They should launch such offensives in different parts of the country.
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Cadorna's army was incapable of successful offensives against competently defended positions.
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The army has conducted offensives in tribal regions such as Bajaur and Mohmand.
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It has responded since April with offensives against militant strongholds in the northwest.
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The violence followed offensives that the army said had weakened the al Qaeda-linked Taliban.
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Sharif said stepping up security and military offensives in the northwest would not work.
