Sentence examples for insurgency spread from inspiring English sources

In Sierra Leone a bloody insurgency spread terror by hacking the limbs off civilians.

Mr. Karzai had also failed to act as the Taliban insurgency spread into the north in recent years, he said.

With two wars and G.M. in bankruptcy proceedings, shouldn't the president be glued to the grindstone, emulating W.'s gravity when he sacrificed golf in 2003 as the Iraq insurgency spread?

Stupefied as the insurgency spread around him, and paralyzed by Washington's insistence that everything was under control (for months, Rumsfeld forbade American officers to use the word "insurgency"), Sanchez effectively delegated the strategy for the war to the lower-ranking generals beneath him.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 22 — In a 12-month period during which the Taliban insurgency spread in Afghanistan and violence rose in the country's major cities, Afghans grew increasingly concerned about security and more people came to regard it as the most serious issue facing the nation, according to the results of a poll set for release on Tuesday.

As the insurgency spread, Macedonia went on a small buying spree in Ukraine, acquiring a small fleet of MI-24 Hind helicopter gunships, MI-8 Hip transport helicopters equipped with rocket launchers, Su-25 Frogfoot attack planes and BM-21 truck-mounted rocket launchers.

But, in order to quell the insurgency spreading in Iraq, they would have to become "net fishermen," taking down terrorist networks, he said, in a 2015 interview.

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, on Wednesday warned of the dangers of the Isis insurgency spreading into a larger conflict.

That Mr Karzai's government is welcoming investment from India makes a bad situation almost intolerable.As Afghanistan's Pushtun insurgency spreads, it is hard to disagree with the Pakistanis' analysis.

War has a life of its own: insurgencies spread, weapons intended for one cause end up in the service of another, and turmoil is rarely contained by lines drawn on a map.

To counter the insurgencies spreading throughout southern Korea, the Republic of Korea National Assembly introduced the NSL.