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On January 5, 1,000 soldiers from Puntland traveled to Mogadishu to help in the disarmament of the capital. [21] In Marka, Lower Shabelle, at least four people were killed in inter-militia fighting; two other militia and two civilians were wounded. [22]
During the initial phase of the Troubles (1969-1972), the Provisional IRA was poorly equipped and primarily used weapons from World War II.Beginning in the 1970s, the Provisional IRA began importing modern weapons from the United States, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and arms dealers in mainland Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere.
Disarmament means the physical removal of the means of combat from ex-belligerents (weapons, ammunition, etc.). Demobilization means the disbanding of armed groups. Reintegration means the process of reintegrating former combatants into civilian society, reducing the number of people immediately ready to engage in armed combat.
Four senior ISIS leaders were killed in last month's U.S.-Iraqi military raid in western Iraq including the group's top operations leader in Iraq and its chief bombmaker for whom the United States ...
The May 3, 2023, strike in northwest Syria was supposed to target a senior al Qaeda leader but instead struck a civilian named Lufti Hasan Masto, the statement said, adding that the investigation ...
In December 2009, the LRA forces under Dominic Ongwen killed at least 321 civilians and abducted 250 others during a four-day attack in the village and region of Makombo in DR Congo. [ 37 ] [ 62 ] In February 2010, about 100 people were killed by the LRA in Kpanga , near DR Congo's border with the Central African Republic and Sudan. [ 63 ]
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (lived c. 1942–2011, ruled 1969–2011) The 2001 September 11 attacks in the United States were denounced by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi . [ 9 ] Following the U.S. military response in the War in Afghanistan , Gaddafi increasingly sought to normalize relations with the United States , initially focusing on the ...
Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction , such as nuclear arms .