Operation Abstention was a code name given to a British invasion of the Italian island of Kastelorizo (Castellorizo) off the Turkish Aegean coast, during...

Look up abstention in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abstention is refusing to vote in an election or in a parliamentary vote. Abstention may also refer...

An abstention doctrine is any of several doctrines that a United States court may (or in some cases must) apply to refuse to hear a case if hearing the...

Mediterranean Theatre Operation Abstention – 25 February 1941 Operation Ironclad – 5 May 1942 Operation Agreement – 14 September 1942 Operation Torch – 8 November...

Admiral Luigi Biancheri (1891–1950), Italian naval commander during Operation Abstention in the Mediterranean in 1941 Raoul Biancheri, Chancellor of several...

deep-water German naval action of World War II. 25-28 February, Operation Abstention, the British assault and occupation of Kastelorizo is thwarted by...

Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of...

Operation branch, it was never executed." A disastrous invasion of the islands, the Dodecanese campaign, was conducted in 1943. Operation Abstention Operation...

attempt to contest Italian control of the Dodecanese, codenamed Operation Abstention, was thwarted in February 1941, when Italian forces recaptured the...

Malta. The ship took part in the Battle of Cape Spada in July 1940, Operation Abstention in February 1941, and the evacuations of Greece and Crete in April–May...

9 ships sunk and 1 German Fw 200 Condor shot down 25–28 February Operation Abstention – British attempt to land on the Italian-occupied Greek island of...

During the Second World War, on 25 February 1941, in the course of Operation Abstention, British Commandos occupied the island, but Italian forces from Rhodes...

naval and air bases. The main operation Biancheri was involved in the Italian counterattack after Operation Abstention: on 25 February 1941, a British...

convoys or providing cover for them. She did play a small role in Operation Abstention, an unsuccessful invasion of an Italian island in the Dodecanese...

Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. Torch was a compromise operation that met...

African forces captured Mogadishu, the capital of Italian Somaliland. Operation Abstention: At dawn hundreds of British commandos landed on the Italian-held...

was one of the escorts for destroyers carrying reinforcements for Operation Abstention, the attack on the island of Kastellorizo, off the Turkish coast...

5 January 1941 as part of Operation Compass. On 25 February 1941 she landed a Royal Marines unit during Operation Abstention, an ill-fated attempt to seize...

U.S. authorities for racketeering and drug trafficking. The operation, codenamed Operation Just Cause, concluded in late January 1990 with the surrender...

Operation Aquatint was the codename for a failed raid by British Commandos on the coast of occupied France during the Second World War. The raid was undertaken...

Operation Roast was a military operation undertaken by British Commandos, at Comacchio lagoon in north-east Italy, during the Spring 1945 offensive in...

as Resolution 929 (1994), on 22 June, with 10 votes of approval and 5 abstentions. The "multilateral" force consisted of 2,500 troops, only 32 of them...

British and Australian forces attempting to occupy the island during Operation Abstention. In December 1941, a covert attack by Italian forces took place in...

Operation Pedestal (Italian: Battaglia di Mezzo Agosto, Battle of mid-August), known in Malta as Il-Konvoj ta' Santa Marija (Santa Maria Convoy), was...

Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom. By a vote of 108 to 9, with 27 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly condemned it as "a flagrant violation...

49°25′48″N 2°21′54″W / 49.430°N 2.365°W / 49.430; -2.365 Operation Basalt was a small British raid conducted during World War II on Sark during the...

Operation Freshman was the codename given to a British airborne operation conducted in November 1942 during World War II. It was the first British airborne...

Hereward landed commandos on the island of Kastelorizo as part of Operation Abstention, but they were overwhelmed by an Italian counter-attack. Only a few...

Operation Frankton was a commando raid on ships in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France during the Second World War. The raid...

Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid on a German coastal radar installation at Bruneval in northern...