Sentence examples for establishing a buffer from inspiring English sources

The initial goals were modest: sealing Chechnya's frontiers and establishing a buffer around the republic.

Operation Free Sinjar aims to seize back the town, shutting off major Isis supply routes and establishing a buffer zone to protest its civilians from artillery fire.

The officials said the idea of establishing a buffer zone between Syria and Jordan — which would be enforced by Jordanian forces on the Syrian side of the border and supported politically and perhaps logistically by the United States — had been discussed.

Establishing a buffer zone is very important for the sustainability of the PA.

For Israel, establishing a buffer zone in southern Syria not only creates distance between its border and pro-government forces – particularly those backed by Iran – it also cements Tel Aviv's control over the occupied Golan Heights, an area of Syrian land that the Israeli army captured in 1967.

A United Nations UNN) peacekeeping force established a buffer zone between the two armies.

Some critics had accused the Turkish government of wanting to establish a buffer zone in northern Syria to weaken the growing Kurdish autonomy in the region.

A more likely intention is to send the Islamists a message and establish a buffer zone along the Kenyan border that would be controlled by friendly Somali forces, including thousands of government troops trained in Kenya.

Kenyan troops moved into Somalia in October 2011 to try to establish a buffer zone between the country and Kenya following a spate of cross-border attacks by al-Shabaab.

It wants to establish a buffer state in the south, perhaps to be called Jubaland, in order better to protect its national interests.

Calls for the international community to establish a buffer zone inside Syria might not yet have substantial international support, but the FSA's numbers are growing.