Meanings of militant stronghold in inglés

But one major militant stronghold has not been tackled -North Waziristan.

The policemen were heading towards Kabal, a militant stronghold, when their vehicle hit the bomb.

Israel calls the militant stronghold a "hotbed of terror activity".

In the southern Doura neighbourhood, another former Sunni militant stronghold, gunmen wounded three patrol members manning a checkpoint.

Damadola is an important militant stronghold and was the first Pakistani area to be attacked by pilotless U.S. drones.

They were living at the time in Abu Ghraib, once a notorious Sunni Arab militant stronghold in west Baghdad.

Earlier, security officials said a U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into a northwestern militant stronghold killing four people.

Hundreds of people have been killed in attacks in retaliation for an offensive against a militant stronghold launched in October.

Clashes intensified after troops carrying out a search operation in Matta, a militant stronghold, came under rocket fire, a spokesman said.

Another 104 insurgents surrendered in Kanju, once a militant stronghold in the restive Swat valley, the military said in a statement.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, also of Fatah, said Israel committed a brutal and ugly crime in Nablus, a militant stronghold.

Israeli troops scouring a West Bank militant stronghold have killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded three others in clashes with stonethrowers.

Militants firing rocket-propelled grenades ambushed the military convoy in North Waziristan, another militant stronghold on the Afghan border, intelligence agency officials said.

In West Bank violence, medics said soldiers killed a Palestinian civilian in a similar stand-off in Balata refugee camp, a militant stronghold.

The fighting began on Wednesday when tribesmen attacked and captured a militant stronghold in a village near Wana, the region's main town.

In the captured militant stronghold of Ladha, Brigadier Farrukh Jamal said his men had surrounded 35 militants hiding in forest-covered mountains nearby.