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4 days ago · He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for “Blackwater.” Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film “Dirty Wars,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.
5 days ago · Get FREE shipping on Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill, from wordery.com. Jeremy Scahill, a regular speaker on UK and US news channels, exposes America's new approach to war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly
1 day ago · List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
3 days ago · war, in the popular sense, a conflict between political groups involving hostilities of considerable duration and magnitude. In the usage of social science, certain qualifications are added. Sociologists usually apply the term to such conflicts only if they are initiated and conducted in accordance with socially recognized forms.
- Joseph Frankel
3 days ago · According to the pro-Moscow Chechnya government, 160,000 combatants and non-combatants died or have gone missing in the two wars, including 30,000–40,000 Chechens and about 100,000 Russians, [157] [158] while separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov (deceased) repeatedly claimed about 200,000 ethnic Chechens died as a consequence of the two ...
1 day ago · The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) [ nb 1] was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. [ 29] An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict ...
5 days ago · Iran and its Lebanon-based proxy Hezbollah have vowed retaliation against Israel after senior Hamas and Hezbollah figures were killed. This is what we know about the weapons they have.
