Sentence examples for contested neighborhood from inspiring English sources

Lying in an underground makeshift hospital near the intensely contested neighborhood of Khalidiya, a fighter, Bilal, who like most people gave only his first name for safety, said he cried when he saw the damage at the Waleed mosque.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A Syrian government airstrike on a heavily contested neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo killed at least five people on Saturday, while government forces battled rebels in a town outside Damascus, the capital, activists said.

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They fretted about one squad, arrested that morning en route to a clinic in the contested neighborhood of Jobar.

In Midan, a contested neighborhood of southern Damascus, a shopkeeper said that Mr. Assad's speech had dashed his hopes that the president would end the conflict.

About two months later, Mr. Baali was trying to cross from Qaboun to Jobar, another contested neighborhood, when he was hit by shrapnel from a mortar strike by government forces.

Based on the assumption that the establishment of security in Baghdad was a bedrock condition for the broader push to stabilize the country, that plan called for American and Iraqi forces to clear contested neighborhoods in the capital, which would then be held with Iraqi police officers.

They have seized several police stations in contested neighborhoods, knocking out a base for government troops and supporters.

We know rockets came only from regime-controlled areas, and went only to opposition-controlled or contested neighborhoods.

We know rockets came only from regime-controlled areas and went only to opposition-controlled or contested neighborhoods.

A day earlier, residents of Homs told The Times by telephone that there had been no pause in the shelling of contested neighborhoods by government forces.