Sentence examples for impending offensive from inspiring English sources

Diplomatic efforts seem to have delayed the impending offensive, at least until after Mr Kabila's state visit.

In Iraq, the coalition launched four strikes near the town of al-Asad and three near Mosul, an Isis occupied town which is the target of a reported impending offensive by Iraqi forces.

When NATO officials in Brussels can see Russia moving military equipment toward Syria, but can't properly predict an impending offensive, she reasoned, the problem isn't so much intelligence-gathering as having the frame of reference to understand the intelligence you have.

On his first day at the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Obama's most important diplomatic encounter was with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq, with whom he discussed an impending offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

There has been no official confirmation of an impending offensive against the Old City.

STAVKA, already informed of the impending offensive, called for an advance toward the German defenses positioned near the town of Kozelsk, which would drive south with the help of the armies of the Central Front.

The liberation of the city came at the cost of widespread damage, a pattern that has come to characterise operations against entrenched Isis forces who rig entire houses with explosives in the face of impending offensives.

She said the guerrillas had gone around the villages in early December warning the population of an impending government offensive and instructing civilians to head for towns and refugee camps outside the area.

Russian war planes have launched fresh strikes on the Syrian province of Idlib, a monitor says, as talks in Tehran failed to stop an impending military offensive there.

Throughout 28 January, the Coalition received a number of warnings suggesting an impending Iraqi offensive.

He was given command of the "Alexandria Line" of defenses against an impending Federal offensive that was being organized by Brig.