(1) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(2) In this respect, it hardly matters whether Isis itself, an affiliate, or simply fighters trading under the name were responsible for the deaths of the Egyptian Copts in Sirte .
(3) Sirte had previously been held by Libya Dawn, the Islamist-led militia alliance that rebelled against the elected government last summer and has been fighting a bitter war against pro-government forces ever since.
(4) In 1981 the Sixth Fleet shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sirte in the first military collision, in modern times, between the US and an Arab country.
(5) In January, it killed 22 Christians , 21 of them Egyptians, on the Sirte shore, triggering Egyptian airstrikes.
(6) In late August, armed, masked men stopped a car carrying Egyptian workers near the Libyan city of Sirte.
(7) Some of the dead in Sirte had their hands bound together, and bloodstains and spent rifle cartridges indicated that they had been summarily executed.
(8) And he expounded his new vision – a United States of Africa, with Sirte as its capital, and himself as its self-anointed king of kings.
(9) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
(10) Nasr was evasive about when he found out his former boss was in Sirte.
(11) Nato said airstrikes pounded targets around Sirte as well as the towns of Waddan and Sabha in the southern desert.
(12) Rebels have also launched a surprise offensive towards Gaddafi's birthplace, Sirte.
(13) But as the rebels move closer to the town of Sirte, the revolutionary council is attempting to bring on board disparate tribal and local leaders and encourage a popular uprising to pave the way for a rebel takeover.
(14) Isis positions in the strategic port city of Sirte were hit by manned aircraft and drones on Monday, after a request from the UN-backed unity government.
(15) Sirte is Gaddafi's birthplace, and he is likely to heavily defend the town.
(16) Even if the rebels have the men trained to use them – which is open to question – it will be hard to turn such weapons on Sirte when the UN resolution authorising air strikes specifically says those strikes are designed to protect civilians.
(17) The Bayda government called for further “consultation and co-ordination” to counter Islamic State control of the coastal city of Sirte and its push westwards towards Misrata and to the south towards Jufra.
(18) In a few months its units conquered the town and pushed south into the Sirte Basin, taking a 100-mile stretch of coastline.
(19) Isis affiliates in Libya have not yet targeted any of these sites, but the group dominates two towns on the Mediterranean shoreline – Derna and Sirte – and has a presence in others.
(20) By Sunday night their Their rapid advance westwards is heading for the Libyan leader's home town and stronghold, Sirte, where two loud explosions were heard.
Sist
Definition:
(v. t.) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.
(v. t.) To cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court.
(n.) A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.
Example Sentences:
(1) All infections were provoked by intrauterine manipulation, such as induced abortion, as sisted delivery, or cesarean section.