Sentence examples for start of fighting from inspiring English sources

People who had been trapped without food or water since the start of fighting told of rebel atrocities.

So Afghans were already bracing for a bloody spring, after the Taliban proclamation of their annual offensive, which marks the unofficial start of "fighting season".

It has, since the start of fighting in Syria, mainly been engaged in protecting the Kurdish population, which makes up about 10% of the population.

The journalist, Mahmud Hamid Abbas, 32, was the 20th to be killed in Iraq this year, and the 34th since the start of fighting in March 2003, according to the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders.

But that neighbor, identified as Mirna al-Hikbawy, wrote that she had not seen the start of the fighting.

ANY hopes that the start of the fighting in Iraq would quiet the opposing big guns in the United Nations Security Council have been swiftly dashed.

As in every year since 1955, when war first erupted, Christmas time is the start of the fighting season in predominantly Christian South Sudan.

They appeared to be fewer than 300, far less than the 1,000 said to be in the shrine at the start of the fighting.

The military would be wary of pulling out too many people at the start of the fighting season, but the prime minister has already made clear he does not want a "cliff-edge" withdrawal.

The Reuters news agency says the autonomous Serb area of the country is ignoring the anniversary of the start of the fighting.

After the party, when we were all still full of excitement and surrounded by our loved ones, I received news of a curfew back home, and the start of the fighting between government forces and Islamic State rebels.