How to Use militant in a Sentence

militant

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  • The militant group Hamas claimed five of the nine killed in this refugee camp this year as their fighters.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
  • The militant group is vowing to respond to U.S.-led strikes.
    — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The rooms are adorned with tiles more fitting of a home than the underground compound of a militant group.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • That is where the militant group is holding more than 200 hostages, Israel says.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The nation is still reeling from the militant group's cross-border raid last year that started the war.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Larry is unsettled, as a Jew, by the militant posters on the restaurant’s walls.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The militant group’s move has drawn condemnations from the US and the European Union.
    — Shafi Kakar, CNN, 5 June 2023
  • Some of the most disruptive attacks have been staged by the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen and has ties to Iran.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Israel and Hamas have fought four wars since the Islamic militant group took control of Gaza in 2007.
    — Fares Akram and Tia Goldenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2023
  • The Jenin incursion was meant to weaken militant groups.
    — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 7 July 2023
  • Now, with starvation, profiteering, and internal chaos on the rise, the militant group that has ruled the strip for 17 years is nowhere to be found.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The military wing of the militant group Islamic Jihad claimed the three as members.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The militant group’s 2014 assault on the museum stunned the world with its brutality.
    — Dr. Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • The strikes also killed six Hezbollah fighters, according to the militant group.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The militant group confirmed that its deputy head of police operations in Rafah was killed.
    — Frances vinall, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • In a follow-up statement, the Israeli government claimed that the source of the attack was the militant group Islamic Jihad.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The war between Israel and the militant group Hamas, now in its fifth week, has claimed thousands of lives and ignited a geopolitical firestorm.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Kurdish and far-left militant groups as well as the Islamic State group have carried out deadly attacks throughout the country in the past.
    — Time, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Part of the concern in the region, for the United States and for a variety of countries, is the threat of extremist militant groups operating in the Sahel.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Anything can be blamed on those who would oppose militant far-right ideology, so may as well try it.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2023
  • Rockets used by Hamas and other militant groups, some intended for Israel that land in Gaza, are believed to have a high failure rate.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The Israel Defense Forces launched at least 10 air attacks on the Palestinian militant stronghold.
    — Conrad Hoyt, Washington Examiner, 3 July 2023
  • Hussein said that there had been no reason to target their compound — that no one in the family was involved with militant groups, and that none were wanted by the Israelis.
    — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
  • Those killings set off a barrage of militant fire and the conflagration threatened to drag the region into another all-out war.
    — Fares Akram and Tia Goldenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2023
  • The gunmen still refused to surrender and managed to flee the wrecked house, the local branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group claimed.
    — Isabel Debre The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Two years later, the Hamas militant group overran the territory.
    — Josef Federman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • The militant group and hospital staff deny that claim, saying the military is creating a pretext to strike it.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Israel accused Hamza, and a freelancer killed alongside him, of being members of militant groups — a claim the network strongly denies.
    — Joe Snell, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Israeli bombings, missile attacks, and tank fire are most likely to push Gazans toward Hamas and other militant groups.
    — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Besides, the British police have their hands full trying to track down the Jewish militant groups who launch terror attacks against both their Arab neighbors and the occupying power.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023

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