Sentence examples for contested towns from inspiring English sources

When asked by BBC's HardTalk earlier this month why Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters had appeared to melt away when fighting IS in key contested towns, Masrour Barzani, the head of the KRG's National Security Council, responded: "The problem is that the Peshmerga do not have the same kinds of weapons [as IS has] to fight back".

Though the rebels and the SPLA are able to strategically retreat from contested towns, civilians cannot and have borne the brunt of the war.

JUBA, Sudan (AP) — Northern Sudanese troops appeared to have seized the contested town of Abyei on Saturday night, a United Nations spokeswoman said, increasing fears of conflict as the south prepares to become the world's newest country.

The Third Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry, was based in the area, at Forward Operating Base Kalsu, late last year, but then was ordered to Anbar Province to establish control over the heavily contested town of Karma.

BEIRUT, Lebanon Syriaia's state news media said Thursday that government forces had "restored complete control" in a strategic, bitterly contested town east of Damascus, offering new claims — disputed by rebel fighters on the ground — that loyalist troops are reversing the flow of battle in some areas, severing a crucial insurgent supply line on the approaches to the capital.

Two battalions of fresh infantry had been sent up the Nile by barge to the forward base, some 20km south of the heavily contested town of Bor.

Two battalions of fresh infantry had been sent up the Nile by barge to the forward base, some 12 miles south of the heavily contested town of Bor.

The trio faced hours of delays at army and rebel checkpoints — between patches of no man's land and buffer zones under threat of fire — as they returned to their homes in Duma, a heavily contested town barely five miles away.

The Syrian Observatory said at least 23 people were killed Tuesday, most of them in Syrian government airstrikes in the contested town of Douma, near Damascus.

Under continuing heavy attack from pro-Russian rebels, the Ukrainian government pulled its troops back from the contested town of Debaltseve.

French and Malian troops have entered the contested town of Diabaly in the west of the country after the retreat of Islamist fighters.