"zone of control" is a term used in written English.
It is often used in the military to refer to an area that a certain group or person is responsible for defending or controlling. For example: "The troops had to establish their zone of control as soon as they arrived in the region."
(That moment before the first drink or drug is what the philosopher Owen Flanagan describes as a "zone of control").
The advances sparked concerns in Turkey, which fought a long-running insurgency with the Kurds, that their old nemeses were carving out an autonomous zone of control.
Then, in late June, the company was moved again — to the military academy in south Baghdad — because its zone of control did not coincide with Baghdad's administrative districts.
Virtually all classes and various local regimes supported this, and the communists moderated their revolutionary program and terminated class warfare in their zone of control.
A similar situation is unfolding near the Ethiopian border, where an Ethiopian-backed militia has defeated Shabab forces and established a narrow zone of control.
The Gourmelon affair drove a deep rift between Paris and Washington, and the Americans started conducting their own operations in the French zone of control without telling their distrusted allies.
The received extensive military powers within an area defined as the zone of army control; control of the remainder of the armed forces was retained by the Minister of War.
It may lead to partition, or de-facto zones of control.
The Shabab commanders are fighting to turn Somalia into an Islamic state and they often impose strict Islamic law in their zones of control.
Agency spokesman Svyatoslav Neklyayev said the figures it gives are lower because they include only fires outside "zones of control," which are areas far from human settlements and infrastructure that regional governments designate as low priority for firefighting.
The following year saw a discernible pattern of hostilities: lower levels of combat and casualties but unimpeded warfare along the never-defined zones of control of the South Vietnamese government and the communists.
