NATO's charter says that an armed attack against one of the organization's members is considered an attack against all of them.
On Wednesday, a Turkish police officer was killed in "an armed attack on a police car, " according to the office of the governor of the southeastern province of Mardin.
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It will include the present Article Five, which declares that an attack on any member will be an attack on all and in effect commits their armed forces to the defense of the endangered country.
The Algerian armed forces staged an initial attack on Thursday as militants tried to move some of their captives from the facility.
Theories for the motive behind the brutal attack include an armed robbery gone wrong, a drug deal interrupted, even a family row, our correspondent says.
At least eight people have been killed in an attack by a group of armed men in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa.
But, it says, the UK's ballistic missile submarines should now be converted to an attack fleet and equipped with conventionally armed cruise missiles.
Moroccan armed forces are reported to have launched an attack on a protest camp near the capital of the region, Laayoune.
"It is not enough for the armed forces to do their best to prevent an effective attack, " they said.
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The United States could, therefore, face in the future chemically armed adversaries without an in-kind retaliatory capability to deter such an attack.
The authorities have taken several days to confirm the blast was an accident rather than a deliberate attack by one of Mexico's armed groups.
Because as common law appreciated, not only does an armed individual have the ability to protect himself or herself but criminals are less likely to attack them.
Syria's government on Thursday said that an investigative commission found, in its preliminary results, that 600 to 800 armed men launched a seemingly coordinated attack on government forces.
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