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Analysts say those rebels must now try to unite a country cleaved apart by more than a decade of civil war, one in which dozens of heavily armed militias and remnants of the old regime linger.
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Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
The martial law lasted only six hours, but during that brief period, heavily armed forces surrounded the parliament building, backed by army helicopters and armored vehicles.
—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Dec. 2024
China has ramped up the number of heavily armed Chinese coast guard vessels its sends into waters around the Senkakus in recent years.
—Micah McCartney, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
For Lebanese exhausted by chronic state failures and economic collapse, Hezbollah’s unique status as a heavily armed state-within-a-state is increasingly a key part of the problem, not of the solution.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2024
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Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
The martial law lasted only six hours, but during that brief period, heavily armed forces surrounded the parliament building, backed by army helicopters and armored vehicles.
—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Dec. 2024
China has ramped up the number of heavily armed Chinese coast guard vessels its sends into waters around the Senkakus in recent years.
—Micah McCartney, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
For Lebanese exhausted by chronic state failures and economic collapse, Hezbollah’s unique status as a heavily armed state-within-a-state is increasingly a key part of the problem, not of the solution.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Heavily armed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily%20armed. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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