combat

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The former soldier argued the alleged killings occurred legally during combat or did not happen at all, and last year lost an appeal against the Federal Court finding.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

Evacuation orders have been issued in Lake Elsinore as around 300 firefighting personnel combat a wildfire that ignited Friday in a dry and brushy area, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

From time to time I’ll make an exception and settle into a relative page-turner: nothing with cliffhangers or lots of hand-to-hand combat, mind you, but with a brisker narrative pace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Jakarta promised last week to take "more serious steps to accelerate the development of a national electric vehicle ecosystem" to combat its "high level of energy consumption".

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

On June 2, 1943, in back-to-back missions, Zhenya Timofeyeva led a formation of nine Pe-2 dive-bombers, each with its aircrew of pilot, navigator, and gunner, into combat toward the front line at the Kuban River.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein