Sentence examples for hostile fighters from inspiring English sources

At Fort Sill, Okla., he learned to clear buildings of hostile fighters.

American officials said that nine Afghan men who were killed in an American air raid there may have been local tribesmen, not hostile fighters.

That figure has been revised to 20,000, including perhaps 2,000 foreigners, not counting the thousands of hostile fighters American and British troops have killed; these are the crudest of estimates.With insurgents reported to be dispensing criminal justice and levying taxes, some American officers say they run a "parallel administration".

For example, on a mission to circulate a recorded message asking the residents to turn in their weapons, and to spot any remnants of hostile fighters, a young marine who was driving a vehicle nudged the staff sergeant sitting next to him in the front seat, hardly suppressing his laughter.

American commanders reported today that United States-led bombing attacks and ground assaults may have already killed as many as 400 hostile fighters of a total of perhaps 800, a formidable concentration for an enemy force that was in headlong flight only three months ago, and which may never have numbered more than 5,000 men.

The UN drones are used not only for actual surveillance and monitoring tasks, but also to hover at low altitude in full visibility of hostile fighters, as a deterrent to remind them they are being actively observed.

But Jose Padilla, the so-called dirty bomber, was first detained at Chicago airport as a material witness to a grand-jury probe, not as a criminal suspect or hostile fighter.

The European woodland scheme was designed to minimize visibility from above, as the threat from hostile fighter aircraft was felt to outweigh that from ground-fire.

They are hosting Christians who have fled Damascus suburbs as fighting encroached, some of them saying they were pushed out by hostile Sunni fighters.

Fighters hostile to the rebels still battled on the streets and rooftops of Tripoli, wounding or killing at least a dozen people.

Infiltration from the Pakistani tribal areas, where many of the fighters hostile to American forces have been sheltering for the last year, has increased in recent months, United Nations officials have said, and Afghan security officials have been warning that new attacks are imminent.