Sentence examples for seizing territory from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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

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

Isis had been seizing territory in Iraq and Syria during the past two years or more.

For centuries, the sultans of Istanbul sent forth their armies, seizing territories across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

As Saddam Hussein's regime was disintegrating, Kurdish forces swept into the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, seizing territories where there was or had been a Kurdish majority before Saddam Hussein's ethnic cleansing.

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

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

The solution Stalin advanced was not to seize territory from abroad, but to colonize itself from within.