Sentence examples for advancing forces from inspiring English sources

A billowing white smoke grenade offers advancing forces cover as they go room to room, exchanging gunfire with mock militants.

As Grossman moved west with the advancing forces, he became intent on calculating the number of holocaust victims.

Retreating militant fighters trained their sniper fire and launched suicide attacks on advancing forces, and set fire to oilfields.

Instead, the uprising, and the Iraqi withdrawal, appeared to draw advancing forces in, setting in motion a chaotic day.

Advancing forces faced roadside bombs, dug-in snipers, fleets of suicide car bombs and oil fire haze.

Rocket artillery and Marine howitzers located on Raqqa's periphery have also provided fire support for the advancing forces, especially during bad weather.

The opposition's advance could not be verified, nor was the size of the advancing force known.

In Mali, French paratroopers arrived this month to battle an advancing force of jihadi fighters who already control an area twice the size of Germany.

Earlier, near the Shias' holy city of Najaf, American and Iraqi troops fought an advancing force of a breakaway Shia sect, killing at least 260 of them.

The rioting started just before 8 o'clock, when police met an advancing force of Communists in the Place de la Mairie and barred the way to the cinema.

At 17:00, the advancing force was counter-attacked by the 12th SS, under the command of Kurt Meyer.