Sentence examples for fighting military from inspiring English sources

A large proportion of casualties always occurs in the first weeks of fighting, military experts say, because soldiers are essentially brushing up on their skills while in combat.

A resident of Hama said that the attack took place on a supply route linking Hama to troops fighting military defectors in the northern province of Idlib, near the Turkish border.

As for Hamas and Islamic Jihad, they have had many different aims: fighting military occupation, showing an extreme level of commitment to their cause and destroying the peace process in order to regain their former place at the centre of Palestinian politics.

Mr Mercer told BBC Radio 4's World at One the defence secretary was running a department "under serious financial strictures" and fighting military campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya.

In Basra, one British soldier was killed during fighting overnight, military officials said.

After nearly 10 years of fighting, a military solution was not feasible.

This time, the activists streaming across Qasr el-Nil Bridge were fighting the military, not the central security forces.

Throughout the more than two years of fighting, the military prowess on both sides has been heavily linked to the reliability of their international backers.

Now an 86-year-old great- grandmother, she has supported Castro since he was a rebel fighting the military dictator Fulgencio Batista.

He said he believed that media reports of army deaths at the hands of "terrorists" should be attributed to fighting between military intelligence officers and conscripts who disobey orders to open fire.

As a result, the global coverage of the trial has focused on whether it was appropriate to charge a former child soldier with murder for fighting against military forces in combat, and on the interrogations he underwent as a teenager.