Meanings of lightly-armed in English

Assad's forces have increasingly used helicopter gunships and warplanes against the lightly-armed insurgents.

Roger rode behind him, and was followed by the two lightly-armed men, who were to act as messengers.

It had been designated a United Nations "safe zone" and was being guarded by 600 lightly-armed Dutch UN soldiers.

Though vastly superior in a charge, the troopers' horses were ill able to come up with the active steeds of the lightly-armed smugglers.

It has smashed its way into cities to crush lightly-armed rebels and civilians alike in 11 months of suppression by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Some of the lightly-armed fighters wanted to return to the frontline while others wanted to regroup in Ras Lanuf and resume the attack Monday morning.

The convoy of 17 buses carrying about 300 lightly-armed fighters and 300 civilians has been stuck in Syria's eastern desert since Tuesday.

Lightly-armed UN peacekeepers, in what had been declared a UN "safe area", did nothing as the violence raged around them.