Rio de Janeiro has launched a citywide offensive against crime, particularly drug-fueled violence in the shantytowns.
French-led forces are continuing their offensive against Islamist militants who seized northern Mali last year.
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At Mali's request, France launched the offensive against militants in its former colony a month ago.
At Mali's request, France launched the offensive against militants in its former colony last month.
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Not surprisingly, vets have mounted a full-court offensive against a federal mandate, calling it unwarranted.
Similar scenes have unfolded throughout Katanga province as people flee the military offensive against the Mai Mai.
Boeing's lobbyists in Washington are building congressional support for a renewed trade offensive against its European rival.
Attackers said the raid was a result of the French offensive against Islamist militants in northern Mali.
The German offensive against the Allies that May was shatteringly swift, achieving a success that stunned Hitler himself.
Meanwhile, the Jackson camp kept up its offensive against the negative publicity surrounding the singer's arrest last week.
In east Africa, the United States is already intimately involved in a full-blown offensive against al-Qaeda in Somalia.
Yamamoto was the first foreign journalist killed in Aleppo since a Syrian government offensive against rebels began last month.
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That August Zhukov sprang his surprise offensive against the Japanese, routing them even though their forces were slightly larger.
The Pakistani military has been conducting a month-long offensive against the Taliban, centered in the Swat region of North West Frontier Province.
France launched the offensive against militants in its former colony three weeks ago.
Jacques Chirac, for his part, threw himself into a solitary offensive against enlargement, rapidly countered by Germany, Sweden and Austria.
As we continue the US offensive against terrorism, we have in mind not only the more familiar kinds of terrorism.
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Operation Panther's Claw, a UK offensive against the Taliban in Helmand, began in June and took place throughout much of July.
He has based his presidential platform on "12 Commitments, " the first of which is his promise to take the offensive against terrorism.
Russian troops launched an offensive against separatist rebels in Chechnya last October, in the name of the unity of the Russian state.
Yemeni security forces recently launched an offensive against suspected al Qaeda hideouts.
Mali's military offensive against the militants has gathered pace in the past two weeks, with backing from France and other international allies.
Meanwhile, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, a government offensive against districts where rebels have been operating has reportedly been continuing.
Britain's shareholders won a notable battle in their offensive against executive pay.
Algeria said the attack was in retaliation for allowing France to use Algerian airspace for an offensive against Islamist militants in neighboring Mali.
This comes as Pakistan's Frontier Corps launched an offensive against suspected militants and their hideouts in Lower Dir, which neighbors the violence-plagued Swat.
Iraqi and American forces have been engaged in an offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq in Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital.
State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell cited "Iran's destructive behavior in Syria, " a reference to its support for the government's fierce offensive against its opponents.
American forces have already suffered casualties, and more may well follow, even though the marines will not take part in an offensive against Kandahar.
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