Sentence examples for combatants killed from inspiring English sources

Altogether, the defense of Leyte cost the Japanese some 75,000 combatants killed or taken prisoner.

The proportion of civilians compared to combatants killed on the ground during American wars since Vietnam has been disputed by researchers.

Turkish soldiers and Kurdish militants clashed Tuesday in the most intense battles of the country's separatist conflict this year, with 26 combatants killed at three army outposts in the southeast, officials said.

But in the war on terror Obama has tolerated quite high numbers of civilian deaths: in certain campaigns in Afghanistan, according to leaked documents obtained by The Intercept, the ratio of civilians to combatants killed by drone has been as high as six to one.

Before the ceasefire, the numbers of combatants killed in fighting could reach dozens each day.

There has been no word from state media, but the UK-based activist group said both sides had suffered losses, with at least 160 combatants killed over the weekend, including 100 rebels and 20 members of a pro-government Iraqi Shia militia, the Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigade.

News reports also spoke of civilian casualties in the Mingora region, with up to 35 non-combatants killed.

The Pentagon's press secretary, Peter Cook, said: "One step the department can take is to make condolence payments to civilian non-combatants injured and the families of civilian non-combatants killed as a result of US military operations".

The result was that they failed to find Libi but killed six Taliban fighters and then, when they approached the rubble of a madrasa, they found "initial assessment of 7 x NC KIA" which translates as seven non-combatants killed in action.

An independent assessment of the US-led air campaign by monitoring group Airwars has identified several reports of more than 750 non-combatants killed, although because of the multinational nature of the campaign it is often difficult to establish which nations carried out problematic strikes.

"Although we will not comment on specific cases, were non-combatants killed or injured in a US strike, condolence or other ex gratia payments, such as solatia, may be available for those injured and the families of those killed," Price told the Guardian.