Sentence examples for state army from inspiring English sources
He was rumoured to be close to the drug lords of the local United Wa State Army and is said to have let them steal land from local farmers to allow the army's friends to cultivate poppies on it.
The United States is not at war with the state army of Afghanistan or its people, but with a small group of terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Hezbollah is the world's most powerful nonstate militia, but the group lacks the assets of a major state army and is acutely vulnerable to overstretching.
When an agreement giving Ireland Free Statehood is signed, a part of the band ceases to fight, and its erstwhile leader becomes a Free State army officer.
The New Yorker, November 8, 1947 P. 24 Talk story about the Irish Free State Army team that came over here for the National Horse Show.
The next day, as Mr. Assad insisted that the rebels stop shooting first, Mr. Nasrallah called on all Syrians — "people, regime, state, army" — to lay down their arms "simultaneously".
Special Region No. 2 is controlled by the largest of Myanmar's ethnic militias, the United Wa State Army UWSAA).
In Myanmar, there are eight parties listed for recruitment and use of children: the Tatmadaw, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, the Kachin Independence Army, Karen National Liberation Army, Karen National Liberation Army-Peace Council, Karenni Army, Shan State Army-South and the United Wa State Army.
While the negotiators were meeting in Nay Pyi Taw, armed clashes continued unabated in Shan and Kachin States involving the Shan State Army-South (SSA-South), the Ta'ang National Liberation Army TNLAandand the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).
Another cease-fire agreement, signed in December, between the government and the Shan State Army-South — a large militia in northern Myanmar — appears to have broken down, with reports of clashes between the two sides in recent days.
In January it signed a ceasefire with the Shan State Army-North, but has already breached it.On the back of its formal military role, the army has also built up a suffocating economic grip on the region.
