Sentence examples for seizes territory from inspiring English sources

Pentagon officials said other options included assigning the Marine Corps a major piece of the long-term peacekeeping operation -- though it has traditionally been an expeditionary force that seizes territory but does not hold it for lengthy periods -- or turning to individual Army battalions or brigades if they have not yet seen duty in Iraq.

2013: AQI morphs into Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, seizes territory in both countries, funds expansion with oil revenues, and imposes order by imposing a severe strain of Islam.

1967: Israel seizes territory from Arab neighbors after a long history of border disputes and ethnic strife; America, bogged down in Vietnam, publicly maintains neutrality but privately supports Israel.

It erupted in February, 2014, after ISIS started seizing territory.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is seizing territory on the periphery.

VICTORY is not a matter of seizing territory, Dan Halutz once explained.

Other of these groups are simply collections of local militias or extremists interested in seizing territory.

But Suri seized territory and limited Minasian's chances to counterattack.

And in Yemen, roiled by the Arab Spring unrest, the Qaeda affiliate was seizing territory.

Others are simply collections of local militias or extremists interested in seizing territory.

The objective was to take the fight to Taliban troops and seize territory.