armed hostilities
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After decades of debilitating armed hostilities, the Philippine government signed a 2014 peace pact with the largest Muslim separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in the south of the largely Catholic nation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
The armed hostilities ended on Tuesday when al-Sadr called on his followers to withdraw.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
The United States, after all, is still in a state of armed hostilities with North Korea.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2017
But perhaps we will know the next world war not by bold moral declarations that armed hostilities have begun but by the flood of refugees that follow.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2015
During the war manufacturing became largely developed, partly through our own embargo, partly through the armed hostilities.
From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
