Sentence examples for clashes on the border from inspiring English sources
The result was two decades of hostile stalemate with periodic clashes on the border, most recently in 2016 when hundreds were killed.
Later, the years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 76) convinced Brezhnev that the Chinese were dangerous and unstable; clashes on the border in 1969 led to hints from Moscow that it might take action against China's fledgling nuclear capability.
This Four-Day War, as it's being called, saw the worst clashes on the border since the 1994 ceasefire, with soldiers killed and wounded on both sides, and the instability of the region being threatened even further.
The number of rockets fired from Gaza by Palestinian militants has begun to increase and a week ago two soldiers and two Palestinian gunmen were killed in the most serious clashes on the border for more than a year.
The governor of the northern region of Burkina Faso says at least 30 people from the Peul ethnic group have been killed and about 1,000 displaced in ethnic clashes on the border with Mali, a nation whose administration has been left in tatters after a coup two months ago.
There have also been direct Sudan-South Sudan clashes on the border before these latest events, and Sudan has been caught bombing South Sudanese territory too.
In 1969 they accused the U.S.S.R. of "social imperialism" and provoked hundreds of armed clashes on the borders of Sinkiang and Manchuria.
The clash on the border came as Pakistan's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, traveled to Beijing.
Their families have since set up roadblocks to protest against the government's inability to rescue them; IS has beheaded at least two of the captives.On October 4th-6th Hizbullah clashed on the border with Jabhat al-Nusra, which was fighting to carve out a supply route.
On top of the refugee crisis, there have been reports of clashes on the Iraqi border and in Lebanon.
Both nations were exhausted from war (Vietnam, clashes on the Soviet border) and domestic strife (antiwar protests in Nixon's case, the Cultural Revolution in Mao's).
