Sentence examples for killed the top from inspiring English sources

In their joint offensive, they killed the top government commander in Taloqan and seized the city.

On Friday, a suicide attack killed the top government official from the Zhari district, a rural area west of Kandahar.

The attacks came five days after a joint Iraqi-American raid killed the top two leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

A gunman shot and killed the top editor of the newspaper The Sunday Leader on Thursday, in the second assault on the news media this week.

News reports said that the authorities began investigating Mr. López last November after finding a video on a computer that was captured when the military killed the top FARC commander, Alfonso Cano.

Indian authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew in most parts of Kashmir, a day after government forces killed the top rebel commander in the disputed Himalayan region, officials said, describing it as a major success against fighters opposed toIndian rule.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Coalition forces killed the top-ranking Taliban official in restive Kunduz Province during an overnight raid, according to the Afghan police and a local governor.

The killing of the Palestinian, Mustafa Zubari, known as Abu Ali Mustafa, 63, was the first time that Israel had killed the top-ranking leader of a Palestinian faction in 11 months of increasing violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

"Particularly, go to the central Chinese cities and kill the top leaders, soldiers, police, prison wardens and accomplices!" it said.

"Killing the top leadership harms Al Qaeda, but it won't defeat them," said Bill Roggio of the Web site Long War Journal, which tracks drone strikes in the tribal belt, among other topics.

Read: The Taliban tried to kill the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan — and the military wants to play it down.