armed clash

Examples (10)

• The border dispute escalated into a violent armed clash.
• Reports are coming in of an armed clash between rebel forces and the military.
• Diplomats are working to prevent a minor disagreement from becoming a full-scale armed clash.
• The region has been plagued by a series of armed clashes for decades.
• What began as a territorial argument ended in a deadly armed clash.
• Historians pinpoint that specific armed clash as the start of the revolution.
• The peacekeepers were deployed to investigate the recent armed clash.
• An unexpected armed clash erupted along the ceasefire line.
• Any provocation could lead to another armed clash in the volatile area.
• The government confirmed that the incident was an isolated armed clash, not the start of a war.