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Recent Examples of national guard
In early February, Trump also suspended tariffs after Sheinbaum promised to send 10,000 national guards to the northern border to contain drug trafficking.
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Fabiola Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
Mexico’s national guard did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Since Operation Northern Border kicked off on Feb. 5, Mexico's national guard has seized more than 26,000 pounds of drugs, the majority of it methamphetamines.
—Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dispatched an additional 10,000 national guard members to the border.
—Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Fabiola Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
Mexico’s national guard did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Since Operation Northern Border kicked off on Feb. 5, Mexico's national guard has seized more than 26,000 pounds of drugs, the majority of it methamphetamines.
—Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dispatched an additional 10,000 national guard members to the border.
—Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for national guard
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The Ukrainian leader also mentioned maintaining the country’s standing army of about one million soldiers and a peacekeeping contingent from European countries, or some combination of these measures.—
Andrew E. Kramer,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Editors’ Picks 10 Gut Myths, Corrected Are Dental X-Rays Safe? Image With 1.2 million troops, North Korea’s military ranks among the world’s largest standing armies, and its entry into the war was a profound escalation in a war now approaching its fourth year.—
Marc Santora,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Bashir faces charges at the International Criminal Court of carrying out a genocidal campaign in the early 2000s in the western Darfur region with the Janjaweed militia, the RSF precursor.—
Samy Magdy and Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Parts of Khartoum are still held by the RSF militia which controls the country’s western, southern and central regions, including Darfur where ethnically motivated killings are common.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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Yet what this film really nails is the battalion camaraderie that goes beyond spending hours, days, weeks with the same folks and flips into something else entirely once shots are fired.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Officers’ Affairs Office oversees recruitment into the brigades, divisions, and battalions.—
Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
7 Apr. 2025
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The spread Then, the virus takes over, multiplying inside the cells and building up an army for an attack.—
Emily Baumgaertner Nunn,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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The company showed off new features that highlight more connectivity, higher computer horsepower and an army of games coming to a system that’s launching June 5, 2025.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2025
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