Sentence examples for slice of territory from inspiring English sources

And al-Qaeda controls an expanding slice of territory in the south and east.

Confining people in abject poverty in a tiny slice of territory is a recipe for continued bitterness, fury and radicalism.

Like the West Bank and Gaza, the Golan Heights is a slice of territory that Israel seized during war and remains disputed until this day.

The last slice of territory still under UN control was handed over to the army only at the end of last year.

One candidate being mentioned is Abdul Rashid Dostam, who controlled a slice of territory until it was taken by the Taliban.

Despite his determination to break from the Muslim-Croat part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Dodik remains the president of the Serb autonomous region, a slice of territory nearly the size of Belgium.

Although President Burhanuddin Rabbani's ousted government still holds Afghanistan's UN seat, his forces now control only one province, Badakshan, and small slices of territory in the north.

In fact, many realise it would be more sensible to take just those districts where they are a large majority rather than incorporate slices of territory full of sullen Sunni Arabs who might make Kurdistan unworkable.

Separate slices of territory may be controlled by rival factions, including ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Democratic Union Party, known by its Kurdish initials, PYD, which appears to be co-operating with Mr Assad and controls slabs of the north.

Under the five-year interim agreement, the Israelis have grudgingly been handing back slices of territory: either to full Palestinian control, or to Palestinian administrative authority while Israel keeps security control.

Both men were from Kashmir, the disputed slice of Himalayan territory.