The good news: such threats are easier to deal with than the terrors of ambush or armed attack.
Even then, not every act of this sort is armed attack or war (see examples 1 and 3 above).
It envisages a collective response to armed attack against one of its members.
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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The first U.S. armed drone attack, which appears to be the first such strike ever, took place in mid-November 2001 and killed the military commander of al Qaeda, Mohammed Atef, in Afghanistan.
Police investigations indicate that Pizango ordered armed gunmen to attack the police and that he personally approved the executions of the police officials.
As part of this increased security drive, the Seychelles coast guard has intensified its patrolling efforts, with fast-attack armed vessels monitoring a newly defined zone for fishing.
Things literally go from bad to worse for the squad as they contend with hundreds of enemy soldiers, armed vehicles and formidable attack choppers.
Turkey wants more from its American friends, including Cobra attack helicopters and armed Reaper drones.
The Algerian armed forces staged an initial attack on Thursday as militants tried to move some of their captives from the facility.
And so, for the first time since its creation, the United Nations voted to use armed forces to repel the attack from North Korea.
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.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has said he is taking no sides and blamed last week's attack on Syrian armed groups which had infiltrated his country.
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Earlier this month, a committee of MPs warned that the UK was being complacent about the threat to national security from a cyber attack on the armed forces.
The winner, however, was Steve Meretzky, developer of Zoo Tycoon, whose concept game Bac Attack pits players armed with light and radiation against a bacterial colony in a petri dish -- when the player is inevitably overwhelmed by the bacteria, Steve suggests calling the government to arrange a sale.
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.
"We are afraid to return to the camp, because armed men may come back to attack us, " Fatima Adam Badaui, a woman from the Kassab camp, told UNAMID.
Serving in a segregated army, barred from facilities at the base where he trained, he fought heroically in Europe, leading a daring daylight attack against a heavily armed enemy.
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At least eight people have been killed in an attack by a group of armed men in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa.
The peacekeepers were on a reconnaissance patrol because U.N. officials had heard rumors several days earlier of armed men in the area threatening to attack a village, she said.
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Karremans said a long Serb blockade before the attack had left the lightly armed Dutch battalion desperately short of food and fuel, but requests for fresh supplies went unheeded.
The Blue Shield network, which works to protect cultural property from attack in the event of armed conflict, has also urged Egyptians to prevent actions that could result in the damage or destruction of their cultural heritage.
Moroccan armed forces are reported to have launched an attack on a protest camp near the capital of the region, Laayoune.
But, it says, the UK's ballistic missile submarines should now be converted to an attack fleet and equipped with conventionally armed cruise missiles.
Designed to complement Boeing's Apache attack helicopter, the lesser-armed Comanche will operate up to four unmanned drones that fly ahead to scout for enemy targets.
"Andrew Jaipaul was minding his own business when, out of nowhere, a large, armed gang came across him, decided to attack him, chased him down and brutally murdered him near a children's play area, " she said.
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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.
"It is not enough for the armed forces to do their best to prevent an effective attack, " they said.
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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.
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