Sentence examples for guerrillas fought from inspiring English sources

Guerrillas fought Chinese troops in eastern Tibet, and a significant number of refugees flowed into the capital.

Its guerrillas fought the war that ended in replacement of Ian Smith's white minority Rhodesian regime in 1980.

Last month, a large force of FARC guerrillas fought a pitched battle with hundreds of AUC fighters around the village of Bellavista.

Marxist priests embracing "liberation theology" encouraged peasants to arm themselves against oppressive regimes, and Cuban-backed guerrillas fought American-trained troops.

In the 1980's, Soviet troops and American-backed Islamic guerrillas fought a brutish war there that helped speed the Soviet Union's demise.

For many people here, the model of resistance is now Hezbollah, the militant Muslim group whose guerrillas fought Israeli troops in southern Lebanon.

One gloomy assessment puts Saudi Arabia as the third-likeliest country, after Tunisia and Egypt, to experience a revolutionary change of government if Islamic guerrillas fight their way to power in Algiers.If even a couple of these countries go under the Islamic wave, the internal consequences will be spectacular.

Leftist guerrillas fight the state and illegal right-wing paramilitary organisations, which often collaborate with sectors of the Colombian armed forces".

According to U.S. military estimates, about three-quarters of Taliban guerrillas fight within five miles of their home.

When the guerrillas fight back, Paul, alternately defiant and enthralled up to then, puts down his camera (by now he has trained as a a combat photographer), picks up a weapon and shoots one of them.

In the 1950s, during the struggle for independence, he helped found the TMT, the Turkish Resistance Organisation, a paramilitary group even then promoting partition of the island in reaction to the Greek-Cypriot Eoka guerrillas' fight for enosis – the union of Cyprus with Greece.