Sentence examples for at qaim from inspiring English sources

About 1,000 marines are now based at Qaim, a restive border town near Qusaiba, and General Sattler said last week that the force had succeeded in destroying groups of insurgents in that area who were helping infiltrators.

Earlier this week, the Iraqi authorities announced that they were opening their borders to Syrian refugees, but at Qaim, where about 2,000 refugees arrived this week, many of them complained that they were being imprisoned in Iraqi-run refugee camps and had been forbidden to return to Syria or move elsewhere in Iraq.

Officials said the rebels took two key crossings in Anbar on Sunday, a day after seizing one at Qaim, a town in the province that borders Syria.

Officials said the rebels of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant took two key crossings in Anbar on Sunday, a day after seizing one at Qaim, a town in the province that borders Syria.

The recalled New Zealanders manned a defensive position at Minqar Qaim, and rebuffed several attacks.

At Minqar Qaim, the division was to hold and delay the advance of the Panzer Army Africa for as long as it could while remaining intact.

During the action at Minqar Qaim and the subsequent breakout, the battalion's casualties were light, with thirteen men killed and it reached the El Alamein line by 28 June.

He rejoined the 2nd New Zealand Division which was refitting in Syria but then contracted malaria and missed out on its hasty recall to Egypt and the subsequent fighting at Minqar Qaim.

When the division was encircled at Minqar Qaim by the 21st Panzer Division on 27 June, the battalion, temporarily detached from the rest of the 4th Brigade, was one of the lead units in the subsequent breakout that night.

An American marine was reported shot to death on Thursday by an Iraqi Army soldier at a base near Al Qaim, near the western border, the military said Friday.

In November 2003, former Iraqi general Abed Hamed Mowhoush died at a detention facility near Al Qaim after US Army interrogators stuffed him inside a sleeping bag and beat him to death.