Sentence examples for from foreign forces from inspiring English sources

Those leaders, he said, came to power "either by a military coup or with backing from foreign forces".

The film was derided by liberals as pandering to Mr. Putin's worldview of a virtuous Russia under threat from foreign forces.

Under pressure from foreign forces supporting Somalia's government, and riven with disagreement over its relations with al-Qaeda, al-Shabab has been pushed out of Mogadishu into the semi-autonomous Puntland.

The scheduled end of the Nato combat mission in 2014 meant the Taliban had no choice but to cover up the death of a leader whose legendary status and claim to be the "commander of the faithful" was critical to holding together Islamist fighters during the onslaught from foreign forces.

Practice makes perfect, and prior to Sept. 11 the nation suffered acts of war on its own soil from foreign forces only at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and in the War of 1812, when the British burned down the White House.

The attack came the night before the start of a conference about the gradual transition of civil and military responsibility from foreign forces to Afghans, although an Afghan government official told reporters that the hotel was not one of the venues to be used by the conference or its delegates.

"We don't want anything from the government or from the foreign forces," said Dr. Stoman, who identified the victims by their clothing, boots and shawls.

At the moment the regime's deep internal contradictions could be leading towards a revolutionary climax, the US and its allies are giving Khamenei a possible way out by allowing him to externalise the problem and claim that the Iranian nation is under attack from hostile foreign forces, rather than definitively changing from within.

Al Shabab maintains support among some Somalians by presenting itself as protecting their country from predatory foreign forces.

Mr. Karzai insisted that he was asking for an accelerated transfer of authority for Afghan security from the foreign forces to the Afghans.

No one doubts that the Taliban have stepped up their attacks, but what is less clear is whether they are trying — or able — to mount an all-out attempt to test the Afghan security forces as they begin to take over completely from withdrawing foreign forces.