Sentence examples for fierce insurgency from inspiring English sources

The Shabab, who are fighting a fierce insurgency against Somalia's government, have threatened to continue carrying out attacks in Kampala, as well as in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura.

In the past year alone, hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as the rebels, led by a renegade army general, have waged a fierce insurgency against the government and its allied militias.

British troops patrolling the restive southern province of Helmand have found themselves in the middle of a fierce insurgency by Taliban fighters, and six British soldiers have been killed in the province's Sangin valley in the past month.

The government and Maoist rebels ended peace talks and pledged to meet again in two weeks, raising hopes of an end to a fierce insurgency that has racked the Himalayan kingdom.

But why can't countries that produce fierce insurgencies produce good standing armies in a reasonable amount of time?

No one today remembers the death throes of the last of the colonial empires in the mid-twentieth century with their staggering population transfers, fierce insurgencies, and endless proxy wars -- even if the infant states that emerged from those bloody afterbirths gained at least a measure of independence.

Khan has promised to stage a massive rally Sunday in South Waziristan, where the Pakistani army has tamped down but not defeated a fierce Islamist insurgency.

The army has been promising to fight back against the fierce Taliban insurgency holed up in the tribal region of South Waziristan amid pressure from the Obama administration, which is about to secure a major aid package that would give $1.5 billion a year to the government here.

He indicated they may have missed opportunities to find clues about the fierce Sunni insurgency that erupted after the invasion and ultimately gave rise to Islamic State.

A fierce counter-insurgency campaign is now expected.In Egypt blame was soon angrily flung around.

And worse still, partly because of that complicity, Pakistan itself is prey to a fierce xenophobic Islamist insurgency.