The phrase "army shells" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to artillery shells used by the military or to describe a type of shell associated with military operations.
Example: "The soldiers prepared for the mission by stockpiling army shells for the artillery."
Alternatives: "military shells" or "artillery shells".
Refugees said the violence was becoming simultaneously more remote — as the army shells from afar rather than risk venturing into towns — and more visceral, with stabbings and beating deaths they blame on sectarianism.
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On February 16th NWFP's government, which is led by the Pushtun-nationalist Awami National Party, vowed to implement sharia law in the district of Malakand, where over 1,000 civilians are reported to have been killed recently by army shells or by beheading at the hands of the local Taliban.
Excerpt: "After the death of Marie Colvin, in a blizzard of Syrian Army shells in Homs in February 2012, much of the Western media drew back from covering the country.
At one point they came under army shelling, he said, and for food, they picked almonds.
Then the army shelled it, so we started taking injured people to safe houses.
The army shelled the neighborhood of Qusair's central administration building before moving into the city.
No, their homes had been destroyed by army shelling last October.
Syrian army shelling destroyed the centuries-old mausoleum according to activists and a monitoring group.
About 25 attackers were killed as the army shelled the mixed Panshekara district.
Both sides committed atrocities, but army shelling killed most victims, it concluded.
