August 20 1955 marked the start of an offensive by the National Liberation Front, which led the independence struggle.
M23 rebels surrendered in November 2013 after an offensive by Congolese soldiers backed by thousands of UN fighters.
Mr. Muhammad, believed to be in his 40s, fled to Afghanistan in 2010 after an offensive by Pakistan's military on his stronghold in the Bajaur tribal agency.
The uninvited guests, the hypothesis goes, then trigger an offensive by the body, which uses inflammation to try to get rid of them.
Mr Khan, now Afghanistan's power-and-water minister, was deposed in 2004, partly due to an offensive by militants in Shindand district, around Azizabad.
Last year, the Ramadan holiday coincided with an offensive by the insurgents, beginning with five suicide bombings, including one at the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The site, www.marthatalks.com, is part of an offensive by Ms. Stewart in the wake of her indictment on conspiracy, obstruction of justice and securities fraud charges.
The American soldier died during what appears to be an offensive by Taliban fighters in the province, which lies on the border with Pakistan.
The people began to fear an escalation of airstrikes that could destroy their homes, and an offensive by the resurgent Northern Alliance that could kill them.
THE spectacle of American-trained Iraqi Army troops dropping their weapons and fleeing in the face of an offensive by the radical Sunni ISIS militia evokes memories of the collapse of South Vietnam's American-trained military in 1975.
The decision of President François Hollande to send French forces into action in Mali to counter an offensive by Islamist militias that control the north of the country has been greeted with broad cross-party support at home.
