combat

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Justice, defence and crime ministers held an "urgent meeting" to finalise a "plan to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance", the government said.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

In other remarks, he emphasized what he called “lethality over likability,” arguing that military leadership must prioritize combat readiness and battlefield effectiveness over cultural or institutional concerns.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

The epicenter of the drone-fueled combat is in central Sudan’s Kordofan region, which is divided into North, South and West Kordofan states.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

It’s become a big enough problem that the world’s main repository of open-source code—GitHub—has instituted new policies and features to combat it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

By the end of 1914, after less than five months of combat, more than 600,000 soldiers on both sides had been killed on the Western Front.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman