Sentence examples for surrounding troops from inspiring English sources

The militants appear to have no escape route; they are cut off by surrounding troops and army helicopters overhead.

Examining the poles, Drew and other nuclear experts from the Pentagon's Nuclear Disablement Team concluded that they were apparently designed to raise and lower a radioactive source and expose surrounding troops, equipment or objects to the radiation.

An anonymous Iraqi army general yesterday warned of the impending slaughter of his surrounded troops if reinforcements did not reach them.

One company commander, given the cypher "Soldier D", described in his statement how a large Protestant crowd surrounded troops who arrested a Catholic man armed with a shotgun.

Instead of reinforcing his surrounded troops, he threw a Hail Mary pass, staging an amphibious landing at Inchon, 150 miles to the north, seizing Korea's narrow waist and decimating the suddenly encircled North Korean invaders.

"If it really is surrounded, then according to the normal logic of things, those who are surrounded will make attempts to break out, and those who are outside will make attempts to organise a corridor for the surrounded troops to leave," Putin said.

Evacuation of wounded and surrounded troops was carried out by the aircraft carriers and.

In late August regular Russian troops entered Ukraine and surrounded Ukrainian troops at Ilovaisk, where they killed hundreds.

Pakistani officials in Islamabad are livid about the strategy surrounding the troop surge.

"We were surrounded by troops and firepower," he wrote.

Mr. Abdi was shot in the heart at the market as the Islamists surrounded government troops.