Sentence examples for near fighting from inspiring English sources

The Scottish club argued that Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, was too near fighting between Russian troops and rebels in Chechnya and that Dagestan itself was suffering terrorism.

Although the town of Buta, from where the Ugandan troops were flown today, is far from the front line, Ugandan officials said soldiers will soon be sent home from Gemena, near fighting in the northwest.

But the nearest fighting to Baghdad's airport is on the western outskirts of Abu Ghraib, more than 10km away.

As Mr. Trump's graduation neared, the fighting in Vietnam was intensifying.

The lack of strong winds, however, has allowed the authorities to set more backfires near homes, fighting fire with fire.

"The situation is very bad," said Syed Ahmed, one of Mr. Khan's local commanders in Adraskan, a town near the fighting.

His father said he died near Aleppo fighting for al-Qaida's Syrian branch, Jabhat al-Nusra.

Friends of Julian said they had seen him sitting on the hood of a car near the fighting crowd of 10 to 20 people.

With the increased troop presence in 2010, there are now three Army combat aviation brigades in the country, and detachments of medevac helicopters have been moved to small outposts near the fighting — minutes away from many firefights or bomb blasts.

About 2,000 families from Zawiyah, Tripoli and other cities near the fighting on the Libyan coast passed through one rebel checkpoint on Wednesday, according to rebel officials registering the names.

A third — Dr. Suhail Atrash, an anesthetist from Benghazi — disappeared from an area near the fighting in Ras Lanuf, according to Dr. Gebril Hewadi, the head of the radiology department at Al Jalla Hospital in Benghazi.