Sentence examples for town under control from inspiring English sources

A resident from Zabadani, a town under control of the opposition Free Syrian Army on the western border near Lebanon, said that residents were bracing for a major assault by government forces.

Firefighters managed to get the blaze at the house in Canning Town under control.

The French occupied the town in 1757, and the temple along with the town came under control of the British in 1760.

Ukrainian officials have described the town as under control of the Russian military.

Habib is a business management graduate from Logar in Afghanistan, a town still under control of the Taliban.

VICE News went to the town — back under control of the Kurds — and asked Abu Ali about his ordeal.

The crumbling, decrepit remnants of the Syrian state are overrun by the pestilence of so many mini-conflicts it is impossible to know who is fighting what at any hour of any given day, or which devastated rubble of a city or town is under control of what Sunni Islamist of Shiite faction or proxy of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia or the United States.

Back home, his comrades were still keeping the town under revolutionary control, despite ongoing threats from Nusra.

The army expected its toughest fight so far to capture Kuniguram, the most substantial town under militant control that it had taken on so far, the general said.

He travels with Fanta, a young woman "as beautiful as a gouro mask", heading for Bouake, a town under the control of northern rebels.

Shahaqa, a passenger in a car from Surobi, another town under local control, said people there were worried that the local soldiers might back the town's new self-declared ruler.