In any case, the situation in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state of 180m people, looks dire.
And on the other hand, it warns Israel daily that it opposes any independent Israeli operation to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed state.
Mr Netanyahu praised the president for his stance on Iran, saying he was "absolutely convinced" that Mr Obama was determined to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear armed state.
These attacks are perpetrated by non-state armed groups and state actors alike.
Alamo Group ( ALG) makes serious mowers, like the long-armed kind the state uses to mow highway medians, or the kind pulled behind tractors into fields.
The city is powerless, suggests Mr Atrianfar, to force the conservative-run armed forces and the state broadcaster to pay the millions of dollars of back taxes they owe.
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Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of Iran's armed forces, according to state-run Press TV.
In a 1996 interview, he told CNN the time for an armed struggle for a Palestinian state was over.
South Korea has put its armed forces on a high state of alert.
The state said Pistorius armed himself, attached his prosthetic legs and walked 7 meters to shoot Steenkamp through a bathroom door.
It's not confined to a state's armed forces or to rebel groups.
Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, said in December that the Aldershot move would mean 440 job losses among civilian staff.
He was already an experienced criminal who had been convicted of shooting a Michigan state trooper during an armed robbery attempt.
So the government is also promising a new border task-force, bringing together the federal and state police with the armed forces.
The government is likely to argue that Mr Sharif's attempt to sack General Musharraf endangered the state by undermining the armed forces.
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Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari objected to the draft treaty's failure to include an embargo on transferring arms to "terrorist armed groups and to non-state actors".
Tuesday's violence happened in Jonglei state, haven for armed groups.
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Jamam is one of three Upper Nile camps sheltering at least 113, 000 refugees who have crossed the frequently unmarked border to escape a counter-insurgency campaign in neighbouring Blue Nile state conducted by heavily armed Sudanese government troops.
While regional peace conferences are always risky enterprises, it's difficult to imagine bringing a cease-fire to the Syrian situation without all parties that border that state or who have armed and financed any faction in the dispute being at the conference table.
At least five police officers have died in an armed clash with gunmen in eastern Sabah state, officials in Malaysia say.
Besides General Athor, another losing candidate, David Yau Yau, is at large in Jonglei with hundreds of armed followers in Pibor, in the state's east.
"The state, its security services and armed forces must take one stand so they can do their part in these conditions and protect our Christian brothers because they are our partners in rebuilding this nation, " al-Hashemi said.
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In 1907 he organised an armed robbery on two coaches carrying treasure to the state bank in central Tbilisi.
The armed forces also appealed to Egyptians to protect public and state property, Ali said.
State media said 18, 000 military and armed-police personnel had been sent to help with recovery efforts, along with 23 helicopters.
State media said 18, 000 military and armed-police personnel had been sent to the region to help with recovery efforts, along with 23 helicopters.
Without them, organizers of major air shows like Wings over Wayne at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina and Skyfest 2013 at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state scheduled for this weekend, coincidentally on Armed Forces Day, opted to cancel.
In the state of Guerrero, for instance, in 2013 armed citizens groups set up roadblocks, taking the law into their own hands.
Eliot Spitzer showed that by welcoming mutual fund whistleblowers a state regulator with the political will to take action armed with a small staff lacking industry expertise could have greater impact than a federal regulator with a huge staff that had grown too close to the regulated industry.
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Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U.N. special representative for children in armed conflict, plans to release a report in October on the state of Afghan children.
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