Sentence examples for retaken around from inspiring English sources

MOSUL, Iraq, March 12 (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have retaken around 30percentt of west Mosul from Islamic State militants, a commander of the elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) said on Sunday, as soldiers pushed further into the jihadists' territory.

This rout was a major embarrassment that the KRG have been keen to redress, but a December assault only retook around a quarter of the town, then stalled.

Iraqi government forces say they have retaken some districts around Tikrit in their fight to recapture the city from Islamic State militants.

An Iraqi army spokesman, Lt Gen Qassim al-Moussawi, said a "slow and gradual" push to retake areas around Tikrit was under way.

Syrian troops advanced in their offensive to retake territory around the northern city of Aleppo Saturday, backed by Iranian troops and members of Lebanon's Hezbollah.

In recent weeks, advancing Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces have retaken towns and cities around Mosul and have cut off major supply routes on nearly all sides of the city.

A government spokesman said Ukrainian forces had retaken most of the area around the bitterly contested airport.

The town fell to local tribes around 285 and was never retaken by Rome because of its remoteness and indefensibility on the south-western border of the Roman Empire.

Idlib's population has ballooned, with thousands of fighters and civilians shuttled out of Aleppo city and areas around Damascus that the government has retaken in recent months as Assad has gained the upper hand in the war.

She did so well on a school entrance exam at six that teachers assumed she had cheated and made her retake it; second time around, she did even better.

Around 6 p.m., the police appeared to have retaken the square.