Sentence examples for hostile gunfire from inspiring English sources

But the Marines said they had taken hostile gunfire after the explosion and had fired to defend themselves from perceived threats.

The first group storming the smaller guesthouse met the sternest resistance and, it is now clear, the only hostile gunfire of the whole operation.

— Marines from an elite combat unit who American military commanders said killed 19 Afghan civilians last year after a suicide bomb attack withstood hostile gunfire immediately after the explosion, witnesses testified on Wednesday.

But while these explanations are true to some degree, they overlook the fact that, in the earliest days of the war, the mountains of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee were one of the conflict's first fronts and often echoed with the sound of hostile gunfire, conflicts that would subtly set in motion some of the war's defining gears.

Criminal investigators found no evidence to support assertions by Blackwater employees that they were fired upon by Iraqi civilians, contradicting initial assertions by Blackwater officials who said that company employees fired in self-defense and that several vehicles were badly damaged by hostile gunfire.

The head of the UN observer mission in Syria has told the Security Council the observers were targeted by hostile crowds and gunfire before his decision to suspend operations, diplomats say.

One Afghan man was killed and three were wounded by gunfire from unidentified hostile forces on a major road near Gardez and Khost.

Israeli officials blame the Palestinians for hostile activity at the border, including gunfire and the planting of explosives by militants.

Another hostile machine was shot down by anti-aircraft gunfire.

On Friday, there were clashes between rival factions of the Malian Army in Bamako, with gunfire heard echoing from a barracks of paratroopers hostile to the element that supported a military coup in March.

The kidnapping was the culmination of a morning of checkpoints, gunfire, bleeding casualties, a minefield and a traffic accident – all part of the Safer Edge Heat (hostile environment awareness for humanitarians) training in a beautiful but incongruous Cotswolds setting.