Sentence examples for site of fighting from inspiring English sources

In a protest square near Cairo University for Mr. Morsi's supporters, cars gutted by fire or with smashed windows marked the site of fighting that killed nine people.

Militiamen loyal to Mr. Sadr have taken cover near the shrines in Karbala, the site of fighting for much of the past two weeks.

He spent much of last week studying whether to go further and take on a more traditional peacekeeping role in Liberia, the site of fighting between rebels and forces loyal to President Charles Taylor, but hardly a country vital to American interests.

The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War.

Although investigators were unable to visit the crash site because of fighting in the area, their initial report pieced together photographic evidence of the wreckage as well as cockpit and air traffic control data.

Antyufeyev, who like most of the senior rebel leadership is an outsider from Russia, also blamed the "senseless" Ukrainian army for trying to destroy evidence at the crash site under cover of fighting.

More gunshots could be heard in mid-morning and helicopters circled above the site of the fighting.

Macedonia was the site of bitter fighting between leftists and royalists in the Greek Civil War (1946 49).

Both had reportedly hailed from the northern Syrian town of Kobani, the site of fierce fighting between Islamic state insurgents and Kurdish forces earlier this year.

Mr. Torre's state, Tamaulipas, which borders Texas on the gulf coast, has been the site of fierce fighting in recent months between rival drug organizations, the Zetas and their former allies, the Gulf Cartel.

Along and near Tripoli Street, a main boulevard and the site of intensive fighting this month, lightly armed rebels wandered the ruins, mingling with shopkeepers who had returned to claim what remained of their goods.