Sentence examples for intensifying fighting from inspiring English sources

This month, 86 Golan residents who were studying in Syria asked to return home early amid intensifying fighting.

The comments come amid intensifying fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, accompanied by a spate of attacks on journalists.

Petro Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine, was in Davos but forced to cut his visit short, amid intensifying fighting around Donetsk.

President Bush, who campaigned last year on drawing down American troops in Kosovo, has tried to keep his administration at a distance from the intensifying fighting in Macedonia.

PAGE A2 Pakistan Bombs Hide-Outs The Pakistani military attacked three foreign militant compounds in northwest Pakistan, including one it said was used as a terrorist training camp, intensifying fighting that began earlier in the week.

Yesterday the European Commission broadened the legal attack on Microsoft's business practices, intensifying fighting on a second front and raising new concerns about old issues.

He has had command in Afghanistan during a critical year, as 80,000 extra Afghan and international coalition forces were added to the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, leading to intensified fighting and sharply higher casualty numbers.

The intensified fighting prompted foreign governments to pay even closer attention to Syria's chemical weapons.

Should the base fall from government hands, one likely result would be intensified fighting elsewhere.

These operations, in which the Afghan security forces play an important role, will inevitably lead to intensified fighting.

News reports on Wednesday described intensified fighting close to Azamarin, a Syrian border settlement, with mortar and machine-gun fire clearly audible from the Turkish side.