Sentence examples for heavy militia from inspiring English sources

A formal UN monitoring report is being prepared but investigators are being hampered by the heavy militia presence in the area making it impossible to receive first-hand information.

One of the challenges hampering evidence gathering has been a heavy militia presence remaining in Wau Shilluk, thus making it impossible to receive first-hand information.

ISIS has lost almost thirty per cent of its turf under pressure from the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-heavy militia, backed by punishing U.S. airpower.

Mr. Maliki offered an amnesty to militants in the city and also offered to buy back heavy weapons from militia fighters.

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki offered an amnesty to militants in the city who were willing to surrender, and he also offered to buy back heavy weapons from militia fighters.

In the afternoon as rebel positions continued to come under heavy sniper fire, militia groups formed defensive lines, including dug in positions, on the outskirts of the airport but did not advance forward.

Even as he rejected criticism of the current war plan's heavy reliance on militias backed by the United States to oust the Taliban regime, the commander, Gen. Tommy R. Franks of the Army, said he could not be certain that those militias would prevail without the help of significant numbers of foreign troops, including Americans.

The plan was for us to fly from Oakland to Spokane, rent a car and, as my son suggested, drive as fast as we could across northern Idaho (which he insisted had the heaviest concentration of militia) and get to our Montana destination before dark.

The Foreign Office warned of there being "a high threat of clashes between the Kenyan military and armed Somali groups along the border", citing recent attacks on Mandera by Somali militias; heavy fighting was reported over the weekend between al-Shabaab and Somalia's transitional federal government forces near the town.

The helicopters have taken a heavy toll on the militia fighters.

The Taliban began their assault on Buner in early April, when a battalion of the Taliban militia with heavy weaponry crossed over the hills from Swat to Buner, according to an account in the newspaper Dawn that appeared on Saturday.