| Uniforms are used to distinguish combatants from noncombatants or enemy combatants. |
| These are not indications of a completed peacekeeping mission, nor yet one that might be successfully handed over to noncombatants. |
| But with the onset of hostilities, soldiers become combatants and are thus imbued with a fundamentally different moral status than noncombatants. |
| The Assad regime in Syria has carried out a horrifying crime, killing 1,400 noncombatants with poison gas. |
| For example, in such operations we often find noncombatants involved in acts of violence like rioting or looting. |
| The noncombatants attached to the expedition suffered terribly, 72 casualties, including five Spanish women. |
