Word: flanks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brigade rolled over what for two years had been the immovable front line in this war. By dusk all resistance had disappeared, and the northerners camped for the night in the shattered ruins of Qarabagh, a target of repeated air strikes, and the roadside town of Kalakan. On the flank of a mountain to the west, part of a village blazed brightly...
...Taliban has three command posts in the trench line that winds along the ridge. Early on, a tank shell scores a direct hit on the post on the right flank, but the center and the left prove harder to crack. "Shoot at the ones straight ahead. I can't see the ones on the left," Hassan tells Bashir, his tank commander, over the radio. The T-55 fires again. Twenty minutes into the attack, the shelling tempo increases; there is an explosion every couple of seconds. At 3:55 the Alliance troops on the right flank say the Taliban...
...sure, or are they just saying that?" asks Hassan with a laugh. He surveys the battlefield, constantly kneading his prayer beads. His troops are meeting heavier resistance on the left flank. As they get out of their APC to try an assault, they are met with a crackle of AK-47 fire...
...after absorbing 50 min. of hard pounding, the Taliban troops suddenly start shelling Hassan's command post with a Russian artillery piece that had been hidden on the left flank. "They are like dogs. They never give up. They must be Arabs," says Hassan. He orders his tanks to aim at the artillery piece, but it keeps shooting back, each shell getting closer to Hassan's position. The closest round lands 25 yds. from the trench before some soldiers--and the handful of journalists observing them--withdraw...
...empty expanse of ground stretches to Taliban positions 600 m distant. Both sides of the road are heavily mined. The road itself is totally exposed. "We're in a salient out here," says Allah Mahmad, who defends the ruins ahead. "We've got Talibs and Arabs to the left flank, the right flank and out front. For the past two years they've hit us with everything they've got. We've lost a lot of people but we're still here and we're staying...