Sentence examples for popular committees from inspiring English sources

Men in Alawite villages are forming armed popular committees.

He leads a neighborhood coalition of the post-revolutionary community groups called popular committees.

Live shots were heard in the area as citizens began forming popular committees.

Troops loyal to Hadi and their allied Popular Committees paramilitary manned checkpoints, an AFP correspondent reported.

Sakkaf said southern militiamen of the popular committees were ensuring Hadi's safety.

Young popular committees, deep underground in Syria, are liaising and organising among themselves.

They organized so-called 'popular committees' to guard homes and properties.

The 13-year-old witnessed a battle at close quarters when her school was caught in a crossfire between government forces and armed groups known as 'popular committees'.

But the Popular Committees are not purely defensive in their actions.

"So of course we took part in creating the Popular Committees to defend us".

Along with the shabiha, Assad has mobilized the Popular Committees, a nationwide militia made up largely of minority groups loyal to the regime.