Sentence examples for bitter insurgency from inspiring English sources

Though President Thein Sein's government has concluded cease-fires with several ethnic guerrilla groups, it still faces a bitter insurgency from the Kachin Independence Army.

Witnesses said that at least five villagers were killed in Zargali by Turkish jets targeting rebels from the PKK, whose bitter insurgency in Turkey for Kurdish rights has been reignited in recent days after a two-year ceasefire.

Meanwhile, in East Africa legendary German General Paul von ledtow-Vorbeck led an army of African troops in a bitter insurgency war against the allies, a forgotten war that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of black Africans.

However the chaos in the Sinai - where the Egyptian military is waging a bitter counter-insurgency struggle against a loose coalition of Jihadists and local criminal groups - means that Egypt probably cannot seal the border to the Gaza Strip as firmly as it might wish.

Even through the years of bitter anti-Indian insurgency in Kashmir, Hindu pilgrims have always trekked to Amarnath.

The tough guys in Afghanistan have always fought by retreating — in the face of the British, farther back in the case of Alexander the Great — and then fighting a bitter war of insurgency.

It has well-organised local supporters and good candidates who have been actively campaigning and, despite bitter memories of the Islamist insurgency in the 1990s, Algerian experts believe the Islamists will gain many seats.

The stunning murders of two senior American officers within the high-security command and control center of the Afghanistan's Interior Ministry, followed by the wounding of other American soldiers by a grenade thrown into a camp in Kunduz, is a bitter disgrace for the counter-insurgency strategy that Gen. Stanley McChrystal brought there in 2009.

On Saturday, MSF announced that Myanmar's government has allowed it to resume operations at clinics in the Yangon region as well as in the embattled states of Shan and Kachin, where ethnic insurgencies have waged a bitter struggle for autonomy.

Attempts to quell the insurgency have been uncoordinated, exacerbated by bitter rivalry between the different armed services and agencies.

So amid the euphoria over the news of Mr. Hussein's capture looms a larger question: what does history tell us about the prospects for success against a guerrilla insurgency committed to fighting until the bitter end?