Sentence examples for from the firefight from inspiring English sources

Here are a few posts from the firefight that has resulted on Twitter.

The six-minute segment intersperses Mr. Bribiesca's harrowing video from the firefight with an explanation of how he captured it.

An American official briefed on the operation said the SEALs withdrew from the firefight to avoid civilian casualties.

Captives from the firefight still raging around them had given up their boss, the new arrivals were told.

Her son, Bernard Gooden, a Marine corporal, was 21 years old then, eight months away from his orders to deploy to Iraq, 312 days from the firefight that killed him, on April 4. "He fought for six and a half hours," Mrs. Palmer-Thompkins said.

Now, that effort to harvest lessons from the firefight of July 13 , 2008 has contributed to a new battlefield manual that will be delivered over coming days to Army units joining the fight in Afghanistan with the troop increase ordered by President Obama.

It was not so long ago that American forces sometimes had to escort the workers at the Tourism Board home, shielding them from the firefights in the street.

Instead, it works best as a report from stateside: the early news of the firefight; the visit from Navy officers; the drive up from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, escorted by police units along the way, to burial at Calverton National Cemetery.

A statement from the First Marine Expeditionary Force said the firefight began about 3 p.m. Thursday with an ambush on a Marine convoy.

Still, within half an hour of the blast, the area was cordoned off by an array of Afghan security forces, as onlookers listened to the firefight from beyond the security perimeter.

Although the insurgents did not enter the main air base, which is set back substantially from the main road, the firefight disrupted traffic for several hours on the road, the main route to the Pakistan border crossing at Torkham.