The phrase "armed assailants" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing violent incidents, crime reports, or security situations involving individuals who are armed and attacking others.
Example: "The police responded quickly to reports of armed assailants in the area, ensuring the safety of the residents."
Alternatives: "armed attackers" or "gunmen".
Armed assailants burst into the casino on Thursday afternoon, swearing and shouting for customers and employees to get out.
In a departure from most previous clashes around the Egyptian revolution, in Port Said the police also faced armed assailants.
The authorities, learning that he had joined an opposition movement, sent armed assailants to his farm to assassinate him.
The violence took place in the neighborhood of Abbaseya, where at least 11 people were killed on Wednesday when armed assailants attacked on a sit-in calling for an end to military rule.
In 2009, armed assailants believed to be working for the Zetas drug gang broke 53 inmates out of a prison in the northern state of Zacatecas while guards stood by and did nothing to stop them.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Only days after heavily armed assailants stormed a crowded mall and killed scores of people in the capital, militants killed three people near the border with Somalia, Kenyan officials said Thursday, putting this country even further on edge.
Defense Minister Walker San Miguel said on state television that the government was working with Brazil to capture armed assailants seeking to flee across Pando's border into the Brazilian Amazon.
But very soon after the announcement, the state prosecutor acknowledged that a group of heavily armed assailants, with their faces covered, showed up at the funeral home where Mr. Lazcano's body had been taken and forced the funeral director to drive it away in a hearse.
According to the Qaeda-affiliated account, the planners of the assaults, which began Sunday evening, coordinated the detonation of 12 car bombs and a barrage of mortar rounds and rockets to kill sentries outside the prisons, as groups of heavily armed assailants, who had taken an oath not to emerge alive until the prisoners were freed, breached the entrances.
Now when we see each other we ask, 'Were you raped today?' " The report says: "Armed assailants, including members of state security forces, operating with complete impunity, sexually assault, rape, beat, shoot, and stab women and girls inside camps for the displaced and as they walk to market, tend to their fields, or forage for firewood".
Armed assailants pursued the US Research Vessel Maurice Ewing while they were in waters 30 km off the coast of Somalia.
