free-fire zone
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A specific area in which any person or vehicle can be fired upon without warning, typically in a military context.
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- The commander declared the valley a free-fire zone before the operation began.
- Civilians were warned not to enter the free-fire zone after dusk.
- Our unit advanced cautiously through the free-fire zone, keeping radio silence.
- Maps from that period mark the coastal strip as a free-fire zone.
- Journalists avoided the free-fire zone because shots were fired without warning.
- Crossing into a free-fire zone can be fatal, even by mistake.
- Patrols reported drone activity over the free-fire zone throughout the night.
- The rules of engagement later lifted the free-fire zone designation for the area.
- He insisted that the village had never been a free-fire zone during the conflict.
- Troops operating inside the free-fire zone were authorized to engage without prior clearance.