Sentence examples for cease combat from inspiring English sources

Hague also used his speech to make clear that British troops would cease combat operations in Afghanistan by 2015.

After the optimistic early years, many are now impatiently counting the days to December 2014 when NATO is due to cease combat operations and the transition to Afghans' responsibility for their own will in theory be complete.

The agreements provide the legal basis for Western troops to stay on in Afghanistan after they cease combat operations at the end of the year.The BSA should have been signed by the outgoing president, Hamid Karzai, last December.

The Syrian military said it would cease combat operations except against terrorist groups including Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the former al-Qaida wing in Syria that has publicly severed ties with the global terror network.

Though yesterday he declared that the UK forces would cease combat operations in 2014, quite a number will be left behind under present plans for training and other purposes.

Dr Fox revealed that the regular army, which had escaped relatively unscathed with a reduction of only 7,000 by 2015 (the year after it should cease combat operations in Afghanistan), would be cut by a further 5,000 in 2015, and by 20% (from 101,000 to 82,000) by 2020.

The government's writ is patchy outside the provincial capital.Since NATO ceased combat operations early this year, violence in Ghazni has fallen.

Most American and NATO troops have ceased combat operations, and the Taliban have boasted that this has given them an increased ability to assault Afghan government forces.

Galland ceased combat operations on this date, having flown 87 missions.

In 1887, Phan concluded that his tactics were misguided, ordering his subordinates to cease open combat and resort to guerrilla tactics.

Under the terms of an agreement with the Iraqi government, Britain ceases combat operations on May 31; until then, British troops will be under the command of an American, Maj.