Sentence examples for key town from inspiring English sources

Srebrenica was a key town in the Bosnian conflict.

For the first time military defectors are reported to have secured a ceasefire in a key town close to Damascus.

After four months of intense clashes, the key town along Syria's border with Turkey was taken by Kurdish forces.

An ambitious military offensive has been launched to retake a key town from Isis - in a bid to split the militant group's territories in two.

Ukrainian forces are retreating from a key town where rebels appear to have emerged victorious after claiming that hundreds of government soldiers had surrendered or been captured.

In Rastan, a key town along a central road to the Syrian-Turkish border, the regime sent in hundreds of tanks to do precisely that.

Soldiers are being mobilised to help Nato and Afghan forces as the Taliban continue to advance, overrunning the key town of Sangin.

Maarat al-Numan, a key town on Syria's north-south road, which was seized by rebels last week, has come under intensive aerial bombardment.

The seizure of a key town shows that the government is taking back the country from the extremists, Yemeni officials say.

At Tanf is a key town on the Iraq-Syrian border that has been home to a U.S. special operations training outpost for months.

YPG fighters, backed by US-led airstrikes and other rebels, on Tuesday consolidated gains made last week, when they seized the key town of Tal Abyad from isis on the Syria-Turkey border.