"With less risk of attack from international forces, the insurgents are massing bigger groups of fighters and getting into an increasing number of face-to-face ground engagements with Afghan security personnel," a report released by the International Crisis Group (ICG) said on Monday.
If it chooses to continue to lash out at Israel's civilians, it could find itself face to face with a ground offensive, a development that would take the current operation to a new level.
To some extent the face to face covers the same ground as the phone screen but in more depth.
"This vote", said the head of the Democratic caucus, "came face to face with the reality on the ground".
Just as Anya is ruminating about the disaster that is her life — a scenario that's pictured in a succession of panels showing ever-more-crowded thought bubbles — she falls into a deep hole in the ground, landing face to face with a skeleton.
"She came face to face with him.
They met face to face again last May.
Sometimes the fighting was face to face".
"It was face to face," Holley said.
