Sentence examples for lightning assault from inspiring English sources

May: Isis captures Ramadi, the capital of the western province of Anbar, in a lightning assault.

AS MILITARY epics go, Hitler's lightning assault on Moscow in June 1941 and the desperate but successful defence of the Russian capital that winter can hardly be matched.

The German tactics of using heavy artillery against the city do not suggest a lightning assault but rather that siege methods are contemplated.

Mr. Ouattara at first tried to distance himself from the former rebels fighting in his name when they began a lightning assault that took them to the gates of Abidjan within days.

Syrian rebels have seized a sprawling military base in a lightning assault, marking the latest in a series of defeats for President Bashar al-Assad's increasingly embattled forces, rebels and activists said.

More than a week after insurgents launched their lightning assault, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dismissed several senior officers, including the commander for the northern province of Nineveh, the first to fall.

Those units are trained and equipped for 30-day missions where they are expected to conduct lightning assaults and secure territory but not hold it for long periods.

Within sight of Sheikh's home in Barawe, Somalia, crack American navy Seals had launched a lightning amphibious assault on the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab.

The lightning evening assault on the park and nearby square followed a warning from Erdogan that protesters should quit Gezi Park or be removed by security forces ahead of a rally of his supporters in Istanbul on Sunday.

A strategy was developed based on the tactic of Blitzkrieg (lightning war), which involved using quick coordinated assaults that avoided enemy strong points.

These were the final preparations for an assault that was executed with lightning speed and the use of a powerful, untested and potentially lethal gas -- and killed 41 of the guerrillas and at least 118 hostages.