Sentence examples for caught in firefights from inspiring English sources

He said the strikes typically came when troops were caught in firefights or the drones came across people who appeared to be planting homemade bombs, the biggest source of allied casualties.

But the new rules have also come with costs, including a perception now frequently heard among troops that the effort to limit risks to civilians has swung too far, and endangers the lives of Afghan and Western soldiers caught in firefights with insurgents who need not observe any rules at all.

For four straight months, they were engulfed in the Tet offensive and were caught in daily firefights.

"Engagement" starts with a Vietnam moment as Hays Hodges (Mr. Jones and Terry Childers Mr. Jacksonon) slog through the mud and Hodges is caught in a firefight.

Walking home from school five years ago, he said, he was caught in a firefight between American forces and insurgents and was shot in the neck.

"Yes, the whole thing could have been avoided," said Sergei Ostapchuk, one of those who was caught in the firefight, his head swathed in bandages.

In most cases, soldiers caught in a firefight may not call in airstrikes to kill insurgents who are hiding in houses in populated areas, unless the NATO soldiers are in danger of being overrun.

For a photographer in Iraq, death might come in any number of ways: being caught in a firefight, being stopped by insurgents at an illegal roadblock, or riding in a car that hits a roadside bomb.

Under the new rules, coalition forces caught in a firefight with insurgents may not order an airstrike on a house in a residential area unless they are in danger of being overrun.

It's unlike being caught in a firefight, where you can dodge and weave and think that you have some semblance of control over your fate — choosing where to stand, behind what kind of a structure and with whom.

As our colleague William Neuman reported earlier this month, the French television journalist, Romeo Langlois, was traveling with Colombian security forces on an antidrug mission in April when they were caught in a firefight with rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.