Sentence examples for overrun several from inspiring English sources

In the past few months they have overrun several military bases in the south, seizing heavy weapons, even tanks.

Qaeda-linked militants had taken advantage of political turmoil in Yemen to overrun several major towns in Abyan Province, which neighbors Aden.

The army, backed by a breakaway Karen militia, has managed to overrun several bases of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA).

Outside Damascus on Thursday, the airport road was blocked and flights were canceled as government forces attacked rebels in a swath of eastern suburbs, an apparent effort to push back fighters who had overrun several military bases in the area in recent days, according to activists in Damascus and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group based in London that tracks the conflict.

After that success the Poles slowly but steadily pushed the Soviets back beyond the first line of defences that had been overrun several days before.

Along the way, they overran several military bases, seizing the heavy weapons, armored vehicles, and ammunition depots inside them.

In the past week alone, the Taliban have cleared out several villages, displacing up to 1,000 people and overrunning several security checkpoints, locals and Afghan officials say.

In February, Isis kidnapped more than 220 Assyrian Christians, after overrunning several farming communities on the southern bank of the Khabur River in the northeastern province of Hassakeh.

The Mahdi Army then swarmed into town and overran several police stations, levelling them with explosives.

In rural areas, between 2014 and 2016, the group overran several African Union military bases.

The militants overran several smaller villages in the area as well, forcing out the local officials and police, according to several refugees.