General Minh, the presidential military advisor, attributed the assault to "disgruntled pilots", and noted that no hostile troop movements had occurred.
Only in close proximity to the invading army do you begin to get any inkling of what it must feel like to live your life at the mercy of hostile foreign troops.
Worse, multicultural Britain is increasingly hostile to troops marching into countries from which British citizens or their families came, defence ministry officials complain, especially as one war after another has been waged in the Muslim world.
Their fear has been that attacks on drug lords, laboratories and supply networks will further alienate ordinary Afghans who have grown wary or hostile toward NATO troops, undercutting efforts to curb the insurgency and increasing threats to NATO troops.
Other districts — including districts considered hostile to American troops and the Afghan government — are not.
To besmirch us as hostile to the troops is untrue and creates a false image of a movement that was first of all compassionate, and for some of its members heroic as well.
Soldiers from nine European countries along with 440 tanks addressed the logistical challenges of responding to an attack from the east, in a scenario where foreign operatives and militias had fomented instability, while a hostile neighbour massed troops on the border.
After the January incidents - three Pakistani and two Indian soldiers were killed in hostile exchanges between troops stationed along the line of control - relations between the sides deteriorated so sharply that there were fears that the fledgling peace process under way since February last year could unravel.
Bostonians continued to be hostile to the troops and their dependents.
Broad areas of the country are hostile territory for government troops, and attackers have managed to hit centers of power, even in the capital, Damascus.
