Sentence examples for confrontation troops from inspiring English sources

In one confrontation, troops ordered Palestinian residents out of a four-story apartment building in Al Amari, a refugee camp in the city, and then exchanged fire with two wanted Hamas men inside.

In Egypt, too, the government tried to prevent an international confrontation, sending troops to the border in anticipation of a planned march there from Cairo.

This incident aroused strong protest; student demonstrations at Kent State University in Ohio led on May 4 to a confrontation with troops of the Ohio National Guard, who fired on the students without orders, killing four and wounding several others.

In the first confrontation, US troops were reported to have killed at least 70 people in a raid on a "terrorist" training camp about 90 miles north-west of Baghdad.

It resulted in a confrontation with troops at the town's Westgate Hotel which left around 20 protesters dead.

The US has accused Russia of an "act of aggression" in Crimea after a dramatic armed confrontation by troops at Belbek airbase.

A champion of universal suffrage, he led a march of around 3,000 people in to the town and a confrontation with troops positioned at the Westgate Hotel which left many protesters dead.

Hanoi entered into a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, straining Sino-Vietnamese relations, and after a period of border confrontations, Vietnamese troops in December 1978 entered Pot Pot's Cambodia and removed the regime.

As news of the intervention spread through Manama, the landmark Pearl roundabout in the centre of the capital, which has become a focal point for the protests, and a nearby overpass played host to tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them prepared for fresh confrontations with troops.

But radical voices in the crowd called for confrontation with American troops.

The reaction catapulted a large crowd toward a confrontation with Israeli troops at a junction between Israeli and Palestinian territories.