Sentence examples for hitting convoys from inspiring English sources

Hitting convoys without warning poses the same problem: Isis uses civilian drivers.

The insurgents seem often to act with impunity, hitting convoys on the highway two or three times a day and even maintaining checkpoints on it in broad daylight.

Truck drivers were reluctant to drive from Pakistan into Taliban-controlled areas and the Pentagon and British Defense Ministry had to set up a coordination cell in Islamabad to prevent airstrikes from hitting relief convoys.

Hitting a convoy made more sense, they said, particularly if Israel believed that Hezbollah stood to acquire "game-changing" arms, including antiaircraft weapons.

On Friday night, just outside the city and close to the US-run Bagram airfield, the Taliban detonated a roadside bomb, hitting a convoy of foreign troops and killing two American soldiers.

The bombing, which is expected to start this week, will prioritise Ajdabiya, coordinating with militias to hit jihadi convoys outside the town.

In Kabul, the Taliban have hit military convoys with car bombs; had they wanted to, they could just as easily hit one of the city's many crowded markets, killing dozens or even hundreds.

Although the Pentagon and British Defense Ministry have agreed to coordinate the airstrikes so that they will not hit relief convoys, aid groups said they will have a hard time persuading local truck drivers to brave the wretched roads.

The last time, as I remember it, was in the post-Vietnam 1970s, during the craze for all things truck-related that gave us the AM radio hit "Convoy" and a number of movies featuring chest hair, air horns and buxom waitresses.

She is believed to have died last week when a missile hit her convoy.

Some Russian officials suggested that artillery fire from rebels had hit the convoy.