The word "battlefields" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a literal battlefield (an area where a battle was fought or is still being fought) or to figuratively refer to an area where a conflict occurs, for example: "The two nations have been engaged in a battle on the economic battlefield for many years."
The other fear is of a new generation of veteran militants returning from the battlefields of the Sahel to wreak havoc in the US or, more realistically, Europe.
Of the 15 gardeners who worked at Heligan that summer, some of whose names appear on the wall, at least eight were killed on the battlefields of France.
Then Colin Welland's cheeky co-opting of Paul Revere's revolutionary clarion call ("The British are coming!") backfired when the arrogant Goldcrest films came a cropper on the battlefields of Hugh Hudson's Revolution.
When the UN-backed African intervention was first planned it was envisaged it would have 12 helicopters – the kind that can fire heavy weapons from the sky as well as ferry troops to the battlefields.
We spoke to five farms that are diversifying in innovative ways, from re-creating battlefields for film sets to setting up service stations.
"Bodies of children around 12 years old have been found strewn across such battlefields," al-Hussein said.
No one can relate to decrepit emperors or the impossible-to-pronounce names of French battlefields.
Authored three years ago by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel OLCC), the 41-page memo contends that the president has broad power to carry out the targeted killing of terrorism suspects, even in geographic areas far removed from conventional battlefields.
A few miles from my house one can find battlefields where men killed and died for the right to keep other men as slaves, as well as the place where many thousands of dispossessed captive Cherokee were forced to begin a genocidal march to Oklahoma.
"The battlefields [of Iraq and Syria] are merging," Martin Kobler, the UN's outgoing envoy to Iraq, told the Security Council on July 16th.
Many refer approvingly to the observation of George Bush that Muslims from India have not in general turned up to fight the infidels on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
