Sentence examples for militia unit from inspiring English sources

The Tanmen fishermen were lauded as an "advanced militia unit" by state media after the incident.

Not coincidentally a militia unit of horse guards was located in each city.

During the 1850s nearly 100 of the city's men had proclaimed their desire to serve in a black militia unit.

The attack on the militia unit took place near the volatile town of Falluja, about 30 miles west of here.

He said the Misratan militia unit had no authority for its capture and detention of the journalists.

Into this pacific mix soon came a most warlike presence, the armory of the Seventh Regiment, the most prestigious militia unit of the period.

A militia unit has arrested nearly 60 people attending a "depraved" party in Shiraz, in the south, the Kayhan newspaper reported.

According to General Troshev, a Chechen militia unit recently captured Shirvani Basayev, the brother of Shamil Basayev, the Chechen guerrilla leader.

It was built as the home of a militia unit that came to be called the Silk Stocking Regiment for its high quotient of the elite.

The ambush was a virtual repetition of a rebel attack near Grozny just a month ago against an unescorted militia unit from the Russian town of Sergiyev Posad.

One day last fall, a militia unit working for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria took a call from the Tadamon district of southern Damascus, a front line between government and rebel forces in the country's civil war.