Sentence examples for foreign combatants from inspiring English sources

To most Cherokees in 1861 and 1862, though, the Civil War was a battle between two foreign combatants.

The return of a US soldier held by foreign combatants is a prime concern to the US military.

Still, there is, as yet, no significant presence of foreign combatants of any stripe in Syria, fighters and others said.

The United States military will continue indefinitely to operate a section of the Parwan complex holding foreign combatants, even as the two countries mark a transfer of authority.

In a conflict in which there are now so many foreign combatants and sponsors, this can only mean that the fighting in Syria is set to rage on.

The detainees were getting more access to judicial review, he maintained, than the writ of habeas corpus would have given foreign combatants when the Constitution was adopted.

Ten years ago Saturday, the Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that foreign "enemy combatants" held at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station had a right….

TO THE relief of many of America's allies, not least Tony Blair, the Supreme Court announced on November 10th that it would consider the fate of the 660 foreign "enemy combatants" held at the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.

Ten years ago Saturday, the Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that foreign "enemy combatants" held at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station had a right to challenge the legality of their detention in court.

Illustration: Tom Bachtell Ten years ago Saturday, the Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that foreign "enemy combatants" held at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station had a right to challenge the legality of their detention in court.

The brief, filed late Tuesday, argues that a 2006 law that stripped the federal courts of jurisdiction to hear habeas corpus petitions from Guantánamo detainees did not violate the Constitution because foreign enemy combatants had no right to habeas corpus in the first place.