Sentence examples for engaged in firefights from inspiring English sources
In the video, men who appear to be Iranian commanders and soldiers are shown on patrol with Syrians, as well as engaged in firefights against rebels.
Nowshera shares a border with Darra Adam Khel, a tribal district famed for its gunsmiths, where militants have engaged in firefights with the security forces.
Last week, French forces patrolling the area around Gao engaged in firefights with militants, some of whom fired rockets, officials said.
One Marine infantry lieutenant, during fighting in Marja this year, said he had all but stopped seeking air support while engaged in firefights.
Two rival Pashtun factions that moved into the city today engaged in firefights with each other and looted stores, opposition officials said.
Tensions have heightened in recent weeks between the two neighbors, who have engaged in firefights when the Burmese Army came close to the border.
There are endless scenes of Banning moving down darkened corridors and engaging in firefights and hand-to-hand combat, shot in the usual fragmented way, which makes it impossible to see most of what is happening.
The Special Operations forces in the south, by contrast, have been acting in liaison with southern Pashtuns and independently, while also engaging in firefights with enemy troops, Mr. Rumsfeld said.
Increasingly large groups of illegal loggers cross the Thai-Cambodian border with weapons and are willing to engage in firefights in order to get the highly valuable "blood wood".
Other Special Operations forces are working more independently, sometimes engaging in firefights with roving enemy forces of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, gathering intelligence during quick raids, closing down roads and seizing weapons.
These battles have all involved boots on the ground, men and women engaging in firefights, being targets of mortar rounds, facing down homemade mines and making split-second decisions as to which person in civilian dress is innocent and which is the enemy — decisions that could cost them their own lives, and sometimes do.
