Sentence examples for militants down from inspiring English sources

The army was out in force, hunting the militants down, while air force bombers harassed them from the air.

After militants downed another helicopter on 29 May, killing the general responsible for training Ukraine's new National Guard in combat, Washington said it was concerned about the separatists' continuing "access to advanced weaponry and other assistance from the outside".

Shortly thereafter, Turkmen militants shot down a Russian helicopter that had come to rescue the downed plane's flight crew.

Mr. Khettab said the militants turned down Mr. bin Laden.

Eight years ago this week, Hindu militants tore down a 16th-century mosque with sledgehammers and crowbars.

Adnan said Isis militants hunt down gay people through mobile phone and Facebook contacts of people they capture.

Somalia has been the paradigm of failed states since before 1993, when militants shot down two Black Hawk helicopters and killed 18 American soldiers in Mogadishu.

Antigovernment protests are extremely uncommon in Syria, where grim memories are vivid of thousands of Islamic militants mowed down by government troops in the early 1980's.

Social media A posting on an account linked to a pro-Russia separatist leader in Ukraine, on a Russian social network site, claims that militants shot down at least one Ukrainian military plane near the Donetsk region town of Torez.

The effort began with a conversation between two young researchers in late February, days after shocking footage emerged of Islamic State militants tearing down and smashing artworks in the Mosul Museum in northern Iraq.

In 2011, Taliban militants shot down a U.S. military Chinook helicopter, killing all 38 people on board.