• Insurgents took the town on Thursday but retreated Friday after a combined air and ground assault.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • She said that that ground assault was the "collective punishment" of 1.5m people by the Israeli government.

    BBC: Belfast hears of Gaza suffering

  • Insurgents took the town Thursday but retreated the next day after a combined air and ground assault.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The start of the war was originally designed to be an air campaign, followed quickly by a ground assault.

    CNN: Jamie McIntyre on the A-Day strikes

  • The ground assault followed a weeklong campaign of airstrikes in what Israel says is an offensive to halt rocket attacks from Hamas militants in Gaza.

    CNN: At least 4 Palestinians killed in Israeli ground assault

  • Opinion polls have suggested that the US public broadly approves of the drone programme, particularly when it is contrasted with the possibility of a ground assault.

    BBC: File image of Predator MQ-1 drone

  • Since the training ground assault on Dabo, who now plays for Lazio, Barton has been jailed for a drunken attack on revellers in Liverpool city centre.

    BBC: Banned Barton to miss six matches

  • The Israeli military said the ground assault -- which was launched Saturday night -- is the second phase of the operation to stop militants from firing rockets and mortars into southern Israel.

    CNN: Israeli military surrounds Gaza City, officals say

  • At least four Palestinians have been killed as a direct result of the ground assault, Palestinian medical sources said, bringing the death toll in Gaza to 460 since the conflict erupted December 27.

    CNN: At least 4 Palestinians killed in Israeli ground assault

  • It is not yet known exactly what role the West African troops will play or how well prepared they are for what is expected to be a challenging ground assault against the Islamist militants.

    BBC: Mali conflict: France boosts troop numbers

  • Israel launched an air and ground military assault on Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009 in an operation against Hamas.

    CNN: Gaza music students find smart ways around travel ban

  • For others, the issue has been whether Israel's now combined air-, sea- and ground-assault was "proportionate" to the rocket and mortar attacks it has suffered.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Defensive action

  • Still, the nature of the deployment gives some clues as to what British soldiers might actually do on the ground. 16 Air Assault Brigade will provide the sort of troops who might descend on northern Iraq from Turkey, assuming that the current diplomatic whirl yields Turkish co-operation.

    ECONOMIST: Britain sends in the Rats

  • Even more terrifying than their numbers was their positional superiority: a 360 degree assault from the high ground.

    CNN: Clint Romesha, the bravest of the brave

  • It includes ground troops with supporting artillery, amphibious assault vehicles and light armour, plus transport and attack helicopters and perhaps AV-8B Harrier jet fighter-bombers, capable of taking off and landing vertically.

    BBC: F/A-18C prepares to launch from the USS Enterprise

  • Israel on Monday continued its military assault on Gaza from the air and the ground.

    CNN: Israeli military surrounds Gaza City, officals say

  • But grim forebodings prove all too accurate: an air assault lays waste to the landscape and a ground invasion from an unidentified army leaves their neighbors dead and draws them into the vortex of brutality.

    NEWYORKER: Shame

  • The LACS has listed numerous cases of hunt monitors being attacked, such as Christopher Marles, who was convicted of deliberately using his horse to knock a hunt monitor to the ground, and gamekeeper Richard Clarke, who was found guilty of assault and threatening behaviour.

    BBC: Groups fight over 'confusing hunting law'

  • This socialisation for war made it only natural for Hirohito to accept (some would say welcome) the undermining of Japanese diplomacy by the army and later the navy that set Japan on its fateful course to launching co-ordinated attacks in 1941: the airborne assault on the American fleet in Pearl Harbour and the ground landing on Kota Bharu in British Malaya.

    ECONOMIST: A god dethroned

  • He is currently serving a suspended sentence for a separate assault on ex-Manchester City colleague Ousmane Dabo in a training ground row.

    BBC: Barton faces action over assault

  • The ground push has resulted in mounting casualties on both sides, as Israel continues the air assault it started on December 27.

    CNN: Israeli troops push forward, splitting Gaza

  • Its future means of performing amphibious assaults (the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle), its principal airborne assault vehicle (the V-22 Osprey) and the backbone of its dedicated ground-support aviation for decades to come (the F-35) would all be eliminated or rendered unaffordable.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Forgetting about the 'Saviors of Our Country'

  • Gilchrist merely stepped up his assault to thrash Kartik over deep square-leg, long-on and down the ground for three maximums in the 14th over.

    BBC: Johnson left the Indians reeling with a devastating burst

  • One poet described his poetic vocation as a violent assault: his personal jinni had appeared to him without any warning, thrown him to the ground and forced the verses from his mouth.1 So, when Muhammad heard the curt command "Recite!"

    NPR: Armstrong, 'Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time'

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