Sentence examples for offensive army from inspiring English sources

On Thursday, even as news reports described a major new offensive, Army commanders spent much of the afternoon buying and distributing food from local merchants.

To bag these men, the last prize of a brutal two-year offensive, the army claims to be using stealthy tactics, with "deep-penetration" commandos and snipers.

A final offensive by army forces in mid-May succeeded in overrunning and occupying the rebels' last stronghold, and the LTTE leadership (including Prabhakaran) was killed.

Having snuffed out rebel strongholds one by one in a month-long offensive, its army stands poised to crush the most obstinate such redoubt, the Baba Amr district of Syria's third-largest city, Homs.

LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) — Militants in Nigeria's oil heartland said Saturday they had used missiles, grenades and speedboats in a deadly offensive against army positions, but the military denied it had come under attack.

In their first major ground advance of the offensive, the army and its militia allies seized control of the Handarat Palestinian refugee camp, a few kilometers north of Aleppo, only for rebels to counter attack as night fell.

Each of the half-dozen offensives the army has launched into the tribal areas since 2004 has left it bloodied and humbled.

Recently they attacked Shia refugees from an army offensive as they collected food aid.

For that, perhaps, the United States is as much to thank as the army offensive.

The government had said a big army offensive would go on.

A recent army offensive against a nearby militia has prompted a fresh wave of sexual violence.