An organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties.
Questions tagged [war]
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Did the U.K. sabotage Russia/Ukraine peace deal in April?
According to the description of a video from the The Jimmy Dore Show YouTube channel, titled Revealed: U.K. SABOTAGED Russia/Ukraine Peace Deal In April!:
Did you know that back in April, just a couple of months after Russia’s invasion
of Ukraine,…
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Was the first German bombing of London an accident?
A 2002 Telegraph article reports:
The first German bombing of London on the night of Aug 24, 1940, was an accident but sparked a war of attrition that would last for five years.
German aircraft heading for a military target flew off course and…
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Did Christian soldiers commit the first recorded suicide bombing?
According to this Sky News article:
The first recorded suicide bombing came from Christian soldiers during
the Crusades to free The Holy City of Jerusalem from the control of
Muslim armies. During the Crusades, the Knights Templar destroyed…
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Did Pakistan military and allies rape 200-400 thousand women during the 1971 war?
A 2016 article from the Indian Express, When raped women and war babies paid the price of a new nation, refers to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and states:
An official estimate of 200,000 to 400,000 women were raped by the Pakistani military and…
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Are there up to 100,000 people in Eastern Aleppo as of December 2016?
I'm seeing a lot of people talk about 100,000 left and remaining in eastern Aleppo,
EXCLUSIVE: UN in talks to evacuate 100,000 from east Aleppo
A United Nations source speaking to Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity said on Tuesday that it…
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Were chemical weapons used in the civil war in Syria by the Assad regime before 2014?
From Erdogan: Assad using chemical weapons in Syria at The Jerusalem Post:
Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that the regime of Syrian President Basher Assad has used chemical weapons in his fight against opposition forces,…
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Did US forces use tens of thousands of Japanese women as sex slaves after the WWII?
Alternet.org said in a report:
Examples are not hard to find. Before and during WWII, the Japanese enslaved as many as 200,000 "comfort" women, and after the defeat of the Japanese, the United States continued to use tens of thousands of Japanese…
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Did civilian fatalities in wartime climb from 5% in the 1900s to over 90% in the 1990s?
I saw an article by UNICEF about the context of their work with some eye-opening statistics. If they're referenced, I couldn't see the reference:
Civilian fatalities in wartime climbed from 5 per cent at the turn of the century, to 15 per cent…
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Did the Nixon administration use anti-drug law against anti-war movement?
The History Channel stated that Nixon administration actively used anti-drug law to get rid of anti war activists. Is it true?
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Did 2.5 million Americans serve in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars from 2001 to 2013?
This article quotes a man who says that it was millions! That sounds way off.
Since the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, about 2.5 million members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard and related Reserve and…
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Did Morocco provide 2,000 monkeys to the American-led effort in the Iraq War?
I've heard in various places - chief among them, Will Ferrell's 'You're Welcome America' - that Morocco contributed monkeys for bomb or land mine detonation in the 2003 Iraq War. Did this deal actually go through? If so, what role did these monkeys…
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Did Russia's parliament, Duma, propose invading Poland in 2022?
Twitter user @sentdefender, with >160K followers, recently tweeted
The Russian State Duma has proposed that after the Invasion of Ukraine, that Poland be Invaded and denazified next due to their clear Support for "Nazi Elements" in Ukraine and…
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Did Syrian army Pantsir systems destroy 23 Tomahawks (using just 25 missiles) in an attack on Damascus?
It's been claimed in a Russian documentary that
When NATO delivered a Tomahawk strike against Damascus, it was the Pantsir systems of the Syrian army that destroyed 23 targets, using just 25 missiles. Those Tomahawks that pieced through did so in…
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Have heroRATS cleared more than 100,000 mines?
From the Washington Post (emphasis added):
The Belgian organization APOPO has been training its “heroRATS” to find land mines for 20 years, and it says the animals have helped clear more than 100,000 mines from former war zones.
From The…
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Did the North Korean Navy sink the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Chicago by torpedo boat in 1950?
I am from an Eastern bloc nation. In my childhood I was taught that the North Korean Navy sunk the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser U.S.S. Chicago by torpedo boat in 1950. The teaching was such:
On June 29th, 1950, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Chicago,…
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