"militia" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But a Syrian official said Damascus did not wish to move against Palestinian and Iranian-backed militias while Israel still controlled its so-called security zone in southern Lebanon.
- In this last army push, which many here regard as too late to make a big difference, Mr. Olmert wants to ensure that the Iranian-backed militia and its stockpiles are at least cleared out of southern Lebanon.
- They say the American policies that have empowered Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have been counterproductive to Israel's interests.
- The officials add that Syria's backing of the Amal Shiite militia against the Iranian-backed militias is by far the greatest show of Arab firmness yet against Iranian expansionism in Lebanon.
- Mr. Dirani, a member of another Iranian-backed militia who had custody of a missing Israeli airman, was seized from his home in Lebanon in 1994.
- The muscular posture against the Iranian-backed militia of Ayatollah Hakim is in accordance with recent sharp pronouncements by the Bush administration, which has accused Iran of giving support to leaders of Al Qaeda.
- According to Taliban officials, all had been caught driving trucks loaded with Iranian military goods when the Taliban captured Mazar-i-Sharif, which had been the headquarters of an Iranian-backed anti-Taliban militia.
- Similar tactics were used more recently to great effect in Iraq by al-Qaeda's Sunni Muslim terrorists and Iranian-backed Shia Muslim militias to instigate sectarian strife.
- Some accuse him, a Christian, of splitting Christians in Lebanon into rival camps, further weakening them, while others blame him for abetting Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite militia.
- Neither the Sunni insurgents nor the Iranian-backed Shiite militias seem to fear Iraqi police officers or soldiers.
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