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"counter-attack" Definitions
  1. an attack made in response to the attack of an enemy or opponent in war, sport or an argument
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An IS counter-attack on Monday inflicted heavy casualties, monitors reported.
Another witness said the jihadists had earlier mounted a counter attack.
There were no reports of an Israeli counter-attack in Gaza.
Aaron Ramsey dinked the ball over Igor Akinfeev to finish off a counter-attack in the 11th minute and Neil Taylor added a second, also from a counter-attack nine minutes later as Wales took early control.
And that's what Alma's trying [to do] with her little counter attack.
A counter-attack by AMISOM killed four al Shabaab fighters, Rono said.
In Webster City, Cruz stuck to the plan, refusing to counter-attack.
Advocates of abortion, many of them young women, are mounting a counter-attack.
The GNA recently issued a warning about a counter-attack on the capital.
A counter-attack designed to kill no more than a dozen US soldiers?
Militants had tried unsuccessfully to counter attack with three car bombs, Hadia said.
Only Son Heung-Min is staying high in anticipation of a counter attack.
South Korea is having a lot more success on the counter attack now.
If attacked pre-emptively, Iran would have had the right to counter-attack.
Republicans have launched a counter-attack against Democrats since Barr released his summary.
Cernych should have doubled Lithuania's lead but blazed wide after a swift counter-attack.
Now HBO is preparing to launch its counter-attack, backed by a phone giant.
Some of them participated in the counter-attack that killed three of Friday's attackers.
That advance triggered the counter-attack that developed into the campaign to recapture Sirte.
With Egypt throwing everybody forward, Russia has had a couple of counter attack opportunities.
A chance for South Korea on the other, but the counter attack is wasted.
He assumed this was a false alarm and refused to initiate a counter attack.
The Germans had more than 60 percent of it throughout the game but were unable make it count and break down a disciplined four-man defense, which at every opportunity fed Hirving Lozano, Carlos Vela and Hernandez for counter-attack after counter-attack.
Several people were injured, but no one died in the assault or the counter-attack.
The unprecedented imposition of fines would represent an aggressive counter attack to the Trump administration.
But our answers open the door to a well-organized and thoroughly meme'd counter-attack.
The investigation is the first step in the administration's trade-related counter-attack on China.
Already ISIS has launched a furious counter attack to reclaim the main government building in Mosul.
After a month and a half, at most, competitors reverse-engineer your math and counter-attack.
They had briefly seized it on Saturday, before losing it again in a rebel counter attack.
He grins when Trump is mocking him and he stutters when he launches a counter-attack.
France is fairly happy on the counter-attack and are eventually rewarded with a third goal.
Drawing on the pugilistic instincts that sustained his business career, he dug in for a counter attack.
Rebel shelling, meanwhile, killed dozens of people in government-held western Aleppo during a failed counter attack.
It had previously reported that 40 rebel fighters were killed and 15 captured in Wednesday's counter-attack.
More dangerous is the possibility of a counter attack, perhaps on a U.S. warship in the Mediterranean.
Even some of the GOP's staunchest defense hawks applauded Trump's restrained response to the Iranian counter-attack.
Trained by America's FBI, NABU started to attack serious vested interests in Ukraine, provoking an inevitable counter-attack.
Trump's "investigation" tweet: "Trump has a compulsion to counter-attack...I don't think that tweet helped him." pic.twitter.
But rebels said they had mounted a counter-attack on Monday, and were recovering ground in some areas.
They conceded from an own goal in the first half and a lightening counter-attack in the second.
It was much more likely to produce a counter-attack that would get people on both sides killed.
Rather than launching a spirited counter-attack against freedom of expression, faculties and administrations began to double down.
And then you launch a counter attack but it's not against the person who really launched the attack.
IS fighters recently released drone footage of a counter-attack on Iraqi forces in the western governorate of Anbar.
In the third set, Nadal really stepped up but I was able to counter-attack and play incredible shots.
The same goes for the UK: a counter-attack, such as a DDoS, would probably be breaking the law.
When the army launched its ferocious counter-attack, many survivors ended up fleeing into Bangladesh along with the insurgents.
Bearcat, in case you're after its less cuddly full name, stands for Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck.
For example, U.S. military officials misinterpreted a training tape as reality and initiated steps to launch a counter-attack.
Government forces briefly captured Handarat from rebels on Saturday, only to lose it in a counter-attack hours later.
Will Spain turn dominance into a victory, or can Morocco grab a goal or two on the counter attack?
Daniel Sedin triggered the play, sending a lead pass Boeser as the Canucks caught Montreal on a counter-attack.
Israel said it had to counter attack because of consistent rocket fire from Gaza into civilian areas of Israel.
The President will step up his counter-attack when he hits the campaign trail in Montana on Thursday night.
The White House counter-attack also implicitly called into question the legitimacy of the probe against Trump campaign aides itself.
And they could overwhelm the White House again, and complicate the President's efforts to mount an effective political counter-attack.
But unlike previous CoD titles, Black Ops 4 represents a counter-attack on the world's biggest game, Fortnite Battle Royale.
Which is why Sekiro needed to also be a counter-attack, a thrust of new ideas entered into the melee.
Johansen started the scoring at 7:50 of the first period with his 14th goal off a quick counter-attack.
This led to a rebel counter-attack in early June that seized ground the government has been unable to recover.
Al Shabaab fighters often stage raids and then withdraw before government forces have a chance to stage a counter attack.
When France went onto the counter-attack, Giroud was often the decoy, drawing defenders to create space for team mates.
The Clinton counter-attack, backed aggressively by liberal interest groups, comes as she and Sanders battle furiously ahead of the Feb.
It had numbers on Croatia on a counter attack, but a couple sloppy passes gives the ball right back to Croatia.
Serbia was content to soak up pressure, preferring to invite Costa Rican pressure rather than risk giving up a counter attack.
It went with the favored tech industry one-two counter-attack that the ruling both "stifles innovation" and removes consumer choices. 
Mexico took it one stage further, combining a defensive wall with a rapid-fire counter-attack that left Germany's aging rearguard outgunned.
A commander allied to the LNA said an attempted counter-attack at Ras Lanuf by Jathran loyalists had been blocked on Monday.
It limited the defences both sides could employ so that they would remain vulnerable to a counter-attack, thus assuring continued deterrence.
The Broadcom ban is likely to be just the first volley of what the administration seems to see as a counter-attack.
On Sunday, LNA-aligned forces had to call on air strikes to repel a counter attack against Es Sider and Ras Lanuf.
Now, this hybrid metalpunk monster is back with a brand-new recording, the joyfully manic, solo-studded, wild-eyed Microphone's Counter Attack!
The LNA said this week that it was following media reports of a planned counter attack against the ports by rival factions.
On the positive side, over the last 29 minutes they've shut down every Costa Rican counter attack attempt before it could begin.
The goal came after the Habs launched a quick counter-attack following goaltender Nilsson botching an attempted stretch pass from his crease.
A source close to the situation said CEO Alberto Nagel was in constant contact with his bank's shareholders, plotting his counter-attack.
The 39-year-old Macron, seeking to counter-attack, later turned up at the site in his hometown and was met with hecklers.
Appropriately for the propaganda counter-attack that the two leaders see themselves as waging, Katyusha is the name of a Soviet rocket-launcher.
In late May, after the regime won a string of victories, rebels launched a surprise counter-attack on the village of Kafr Naboudeh.
Meanwhile there are signs Microsoft is planning a counter-attack with its growing focus on cloud gaming, where content is streamed to users.
Andre Silva and Joao Mario fired Portugal ahead in Braga but Tunisia's speed on the counter-attack was a problem for the hosts.
In May, they surged on settlements and checkpoints to the west, provoking a counter attack from Misrata to start the campaign for Sirte.
Forces led by brigades from the western city of Misrata launched a counter-attack against the jihadist group in May, and since Aug.
The Iranian defense has been doing a really good job, though they don't look likely at all to score on the counter attack.
This might be a match of intentionally soaking up pressure in order to entice midfielders forward, before hitting back on the counter attack.
The group's fighters exchanged fire with Ethiopian soldiers and repelled a counter attack by Djibouti troops deployed from another base in the area.
Islamic State launched the second counter-attack in the afternoon, "(taking) advantage of smoke and dust over Baghouz", the SDF media office said.
The rebels were well prepared for a siege imposed this summer, and preparations for a counter attack were under way, Melhem Akidi told Reuters.
Early in the fourth period, Belgium regained their two-goal advantage courtesy of a brilliant counter-attack, which ended up with Van Aubel scoring.
The attack, one of the deadliest by Boko Haram in Niger, spurred neighboring Chad to send in 2,000 troops to prepare a counter-attack.
One bit of evidence was that by the time Tencent had registered Douyin's rise, its window for a counter-attack had all but closed.
Joe Biden, the vice-president, went further, implying that Vladimir Putin would soon be on the receiving end of a covert cyber counter-attack.
If Pyongyang attacked South Korea, the North, knowing that an American counter-attack was inevitable, would be incentivized to use all of its weapons.
Ghosn went on the counter-attack the previous day, declaring his innocence before a court hearing in his first public appearance since his arrest.
ET. Trump joined the counter attack on Twitter as he lambasted his critics and Democrats who are accusing him of an abuse of power.
But Ghosn used the opportunity to deny accusations against him, kicking off what is expected to be a lengthy counter-attack against the accusations.
VICE News correspondent Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani reports from Washington, D.C., where Planned Parenthood's leadership team met behind closed doors to mount a counter-attack.
India sent warplanes into Pakistan, which then mounted a counter-attack, and an Indian pilot was shot down and captured in the ensuing skirmish.
DONALD TRUMP'S style of political crisis-management is straightforward: admit nothing, counter-attack, obfuscate, ride it out and wait for public attention to wane.
The main purpose of Zapad, which literally means west, is to simulate defense and counter-attack in case of war with NATO member countries.
But even before Tuesday night's counter-attack by the Iranians, Democrats had been struggling to agree on exactly what that resolution would look like.
In a separate interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Pompeo argued that the White House is prepared for a potential counter-attack from Iran.
As part of their counter-attack, rebels bombarded government-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, where the population is estimated at slightly over 1 million people.
In addition to offensive firepower, there would be moves to defend U.S. allies and citizens in the region from a North Korean counter-attack.
He's promised to allow police "to go and counter-attack" and to allow border patrol and immigration enforcement agents to deport immigrants at will.
The Chinese navy also is in the region to carry out a "counter-attack drill," according to the newspaper run by China's People's Liberation Army.
Mexico scored a monumental upset Sunday by beating defending World Cup champion Germany ... courtesy of a brilliant counter attack that culminated with Hirving Lozano's goal.
Two Iraqi journalists were reported killed and two others wounded as they covered the security forces' counter-attack to take back the village on Friday.
Kohli also needs to plug leaking singles and dropped catches as it allows batsmen like Steve Smith to settle down and launch a counter-attack.
Sandberg used a German Facebook initiative to screw with a neo-Nazi Facebook page as an example of an effective counter-attack on extremist speech.
The President's tried and tested political defense mechanism is to whip up chaos to tip his enemies off balance and launch a fierce counter attack.
Substitute Arnor Ingvi Traustason scored from close range deep into added time after collecting a through ball from Elmar Bjarnasson following a swift counter-attack.
Georgia, dangerous on the counter-attack, could have gone on to win but Levan Mchedlidze missed when clean through and Valeri Qazaishvili hit the bar.
The goal came after the South Africans had weathered Spain's early dominance with desperate defending and then began to look threatening on the counter-attack.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Islamic State fighters who had withdrawn from the oil field mounted a counter-attack overnight against government forces.
"We are looking forward to a more beautiful counter-attack and will keep increasing the pain felt by the U.S.," the Chinese-language column said.
He revels in the limelight and the quick-tempered soldier is also swift to counter-attack, often throwing out personal insults or threats to silence opponents.
A statement from the alliance on Tuesday said they had thwarted an IS counter-attack outside Manbij which included the use of vehicles laden with explosives.
He has followed his tried-and-true method: Counter-attack, dig in, and double-down, all while claiming that he, in fact, is the wronged party.
A rebel counter attack, heavily supported by Sunni Muslim jihadist groups, broke the siege in August, but government forces reimposed it in the last few days.
Not only that, but the counter-attack was launched with early voting already underway in some states and the deadline to change the ballots already past.
The US has ground-launched missiles that could riddle Syrian or Russian defenses, but would carry a high risk of counter attack as they're less mobile.
Walker's pace over 20-30 metres matches anyone at the World Cup and has helped ensure England have never really been exposed by a counter-attack.
Using the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), the US would have fifteen minutes upon learning of a nuclear strike to launch a nuclear counter attack.
On Monday, Novartis went on the counter-attack at an American Heart Association meeting in California, contending its new analysis underpinned canakinumab's value as a targeted therapy.
Oh, and after the battle, the victorious Henry V was worried about a counter-attack, so he had literally thousands of French prisoners put to the sword.
Haftar's forces seized the ports from a rival armed group that had controlled them for more than two years, and fended off a counter attack on Sunday.
Young Link was up next, and unfortunately I couldn't get the job done thanks to Daisy's counter-attack where she throws Toad up like a human shield.
"We made a counter-attack against the Burmese army, as they did offensive attacks in the land of our comrades," said Arakan Army spokesman Khine Thu Kha.
During their isolated missions, crews watch for signals that the UK still exists — and may launch a counter-attack if they believe their country has been destroyed.
Sunderland's fate looked set when Bournemouth's Josh King side-footed in the winner at the Stadium of Light in the 88th minute after a swift counter-attack.
Insurgents have meanwhile launched a counter attack to try to break the siege on eastern Aleppo, which has been mostly surrounded by pro-government forces since July.
The jihadists are putting up stiff resistance and had sought to counter-attack again on Monday morning, according to Mustafa Bali, head of the SDF media office.
Another rebel spokesman, Hamza Birqadar of the Jaish al-Islam group, said in a tweet on Thursday that insurgents had regained some positions in a counter-attack.
The Syrian army and its allies recently made advances against Islamic State in Raqqa province, but were driven back from some of those areas by a counter-attack.
On Tuesday, SDF forces thwarted an Islamic State counter-attack near Tabqa and advanced to within 2 km of the city from the east, an SDF statement said.
Germany came close to scoring on the counter-attack in the last minute when Charlotte Stapenhorst cut into the circle on the right but her shot was blocked.
Instead of acquiescing the dating giant's request to rename the app, 3nder launched a spectacularly childish counter-attack, encouraging its users to ship dirty socks (!) to Tinder's headquarters.
Spectators weren't happy about Minaj's response (or response time) to Remy Ma's "ShEther"; Minaj's counter-attack amounted to another boast about her album sales and level of fame.
Iran, who have already qualified as group winners, were happy to cede possession to the home side and invited pressure, hoping to punish Korea on the counter-attack.
It now appears to be applying the same tactics to eastern Aleppo after a counter-attack, in which some 200 rebels were killed, failed to reopen the road.
South Korea, which had mostly been relying on the counter attack, picked up the pace after the goal and got the ball into dangerous areas a few times.
"When attack and counter attack stopped the BGB members went to the spot and found two Rohingya laid down on the ground with bullet (wounds)," he told Reuters.
Sampaoli's players struggled with the set-up and could have been two goals down in the opening quarter, blitzed on the counter-attack by the pace of Kylian Mbappe.
No U.S. or U.S.-backed forces died but the U.S. official who spoke anonymously estimated that more than 100 pro-Syrian government forces were killed in the counter-attack.
The army had declared victory over Islamic State in Albu Kamal earlier this month but the jihadists then staged a counter-attack using sleeper cells hidden in the town.
West Brom offered the odd counter-attack but the one-way traffic continued after the break as Victor Moses was denied by a splendid low save by Ben Foster.
But some families refuse to go, shrugging off the danger of a mortar fired two blocks away or a counter-attack from the militants who move around at night.
Like a welter-weight boxer, it started to use its small size in its favour, punching above its weight in a counter-attack led largely by its young people.
Italy went close again in the 40th minute when Barbara Bonansea's volley at the end of a quick counter-attack forced Brazil keeper Barbara to make a spectacular save.
The Italian mounted an aggressive counter-attack after Murray won the first set easily, repeatedly wrong-footing the Briton on the baseline, or drawing him in with drop shots.
The city's police department bought a 17,000-pound armored vehicle—a Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck, or "BearCat"—with money from the federal Homeland Security Grant Program.
Despite scoring two back-to-back goals in the second half, Japan gave three back, including a profanity-inducing Belgian counter-attack in the final minute of extra time.
Lee Seung-Woo unleashes a little South Korean frustration on Layun, earning a yellow card after he clears out Layun's legs on a counter attack down the right side.
But when one of these threats does come to light, whether by counter-attack or strategic leaking of information, the balance of terror is disrupted and calls for retaliation.
Queiroz had clearly given his side instructions to defend deep and look to break on the counter-attack and two minutes before the break that approach almost bore fruit.
They and their neighbors - some wearing rubber sandals, some barefoot - were running from an IS counter-attack in this part of Mosul, dodging gunfire as the militants closed in.
Granted, after 117 minutes, Portugal's counter attack was far from roaring, but it was enough to please the masses and put the majority Europe to bed just before midnight. Ahhhh.
On Sunday Haftar's forces repelled a counter attack at Es Sider and Ras Lanuf by an armed faction that previously controlled the terminals and had blockaded them for several years.
Late in the day all eyes turned to local favourite McIlroy who produced a thrilling counter-attack in a bid to make the cut after his sorry 79 on Thursday.
In the nick of time McKinley found the language to mount a populist counter-attack, presenting "sound money" as a way to ensure that workers earned dollars of enduring value.
Since the ports changed hands, Haftar's rivals have tried to counter attack from the desert to the southwest, which could become a new flashpoint in the country's low-intensity conflict.
On Sunday, rebels led by the militant Turkestan group waged a counter attack against the Syrian army and Iranian backed militias near the Abu Duhur air base in southern Idlib.
The latest counter-attack by the President comes with his White House, as is the case almost every Monday morning, consumed by new controversies that popped up over the weekend.
A far superior example is Superhot VR, a slow-mo action game where the player freezes time, and, using their body IRL, grabs weapons in the virtual world to counter attack.
A well-placed blast will push both you and whoever snuck up on you in opposite directions, which should give you the time to hit your Jump Jets and counter-attack.
Beijing has already made it clear it will respond in kind with a "beautiful counter-attack" to quote The Global Times, which is published by the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily.
"I knew I had to come after him, because he is so good on the counter-attack and there was no way I wouldn't be punched," he said of his tactics.
Cruz used a question about whether he's eligible to be president because he was born in Canada to counter-attack Trump's recent attacks in Thursday night's GOP debate in South Carolina.
Nishino's side went all out to try and restore their lead in an attempt to avoid extra time but they were punished for their adventurous approach by Belgium's deadly counter-attack.
While the PD is expected to pressure Visco to accept some blame for the banking crises, the opposition hopes that he will counter-attack by pointing the finger at government failings.
For physically smaller enemies, I'd time my dodges to hit them with a counter attack and leave them open an easily repeated uppercut/juggle move that shredded most threats in seconds.
As special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation began to wind down this spring, Giuliani began laying the groundwork for a counter-attack against the president's political foes centered on the Ukraine.
Islamic State fighters hidden in Albu Kamal launched a counter-attack days later and forced the army and its allies to pull out of Albu Kamal, residents said on Nov. 13.
They were among more than 8,000 soldiers who were tasked with protecting the Allied left flank from counter-attack as the biggest seaborne invasion in history landed ashore and advanced inland.
Les Bleues now looked fresher but at the end of a quick counter-attack by Brazil, Debihna's shot beat Bouhaddi, only for Griedge Mbock to clear the ball away from the line.
Earlier this month, the Observatory said IS fighters had seized the town from government forces, part of a counter-attack by the jihadists whose territory in eastern Syria has been whittled down.
Image: WikimediaPrey animals are capable of defending themselves in an amazing of ways, but when it comes to mounting a sophisticated biological counter-attack, sea urchins have taken it to another level.
They began a major offensive to retake the eastern districts in late September and a rebel counter-attack was launched by insurgents based in the countryside west of the city in late October.
IS launched a vicious counter attack after Iraqi forces, backed by US air support, on Monday successfully advanced towards the southern edge of Fallujah and captured a police station inside the city limits.
Having gone in 1-1 at halftime in their opening Group G game, England came up against opponents clearly playing for a draw, defending deep in numbers and barely threatening a counter-attack.
He also said that Kurdish forces are looking to work with Syrians and Russians to counter-attack against Turkish forces in the north, and that American forces could be caught in the crosshairs.
Trump must draw a line in the sand, explaining to Putin that America would launch a massive counter-attack in cyberspace, impose additional sanctions and much more if Russia ever tried this again.
After Serbia fails to gain anything from a four-on-one counter attack, Nemanja Matic gets into it with a member of the Costa Rican staff and players on both teams come together.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants captured several villages from Syrian rebels in a counter-attack near the Turkish border that forced the foreign-backed insurgents to retreat, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
John Ruwitch, Reuters Shanghai bureau chief who was helping with coverage in Hong Kong, watched the police counter-attack and was swept away with the fleeing crowd, but then doubled back to the legislature.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that IS fighters had captured those villages in a counter attack near the Turkish border, but the Turkish military statement contradicted this account.
There is "Citizen Kane" for Otis Ferguson, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" for James Agee, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" for Parker Tyler and Zoltan Korda's seldom-screened "Counter-Attack" for Manny Farber.
However, the summary says that team leader assessed that his combined force could defeat the threat and he and the commander of the Nigerien contingent led a flanking counter attack, killing four ISIS fighters.
These voters now want the former Army captain to lead a conservative counter-attack against the progressive agenda of the leftist Workers Party (PT), which led Brazil for most of the past 15 years.
"Nearly every mass shooting illustrates that large capacity magazines can increase the death toll and that forcing a shooter to reload more frequently can provide opportunities for counter-attack by those around," Donohue said.
The subsequent angst and outrage will be compounded by a joyless hour or so of laboured attacking from the home team, before Chelsea nab a second on the counter attack in the 92nd minute.
Both teams have played about as expected, as Serbia attempted to put crosses into the box for their strong attackers, while Costa Rica has been content to defend and wait for a counter attack.
Lukaku led the counter-attack which led to Belgium's second goal against Brazil in the quarter-final and also set up their winner against Japan in the second round with an astute, unselfish dummy.
MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russian long-range bombers struck Islamic State on Friday in Albu Kamal in eastern Syria, where the jihadists have staged a counter-attack after the Syrian army declared victory over them.
A five-step plan This is, after all, the playbook we've seen the Kremlin adopt in crisis after crisis -- from the occupation of Crimea to the Olympic doping scandal: deny, counter-attack, confuse, equate, repeat.
That's why every counter-attack by GOP politician and pundits against Kimmel has fallen flat on its face: in the symbolic war between sick babies and man-baby Senators, the sick baby will always win.
After Haftar's forces swiftly handed operational control of the ports to the NOC, the NOC's early work to restore production has been only briefly disturbed by a counter attack that was repelled within the day.
But within a few days progress stalled, when a counter-attack by no more than 250 IS fighters resulted in the loss of the village of al-Nasr and the high ground it sits on.
The success of the rebel counter-attack, dubbed the "Great Battle of Aleppo", appears to have been down in part to a large influx of weapons and money that crossed from Turkey in recent weeks.
It was never quite explained how 'the bus' would catch teams out several times on the counter-attack but, hey, show us a footballing metaphor that doesn't fall down on internal consistency and practical sense.
BEIRUT/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Syrian Kurdish special forces have joined an offensive against Islamic State militants in eastern Syria, a commander said, after the jihadists recovered ground from U.S.-backed forces in a fierce counter attack.
Despite dominating the opening half, it still took until the opening minutes of the second period for Belgium to take the lead when Lukaku finished a counter-attack by rifling a shot into the far corner.
Ireland had a brief positive spell but Witsel made it two for Belgium with a pinpoint header after 61 minutes, and Lukaku completed the rout with a simple finish after another counter-attack nine minutes later.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State mounted a fierce counter-attack against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance of militias in the city of Raqqa on Friday, but there were divergent accounts of its success in regaining ground.
"We did not cover the spaces, we did not play our usual attacking game, we lost possession too often and so had to cover big distances, so the Mexicans had space to counter-attack," he said.
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. backed Syrian forces repelled a major counter-attack by Islamic State militants holding out at the country's largest dam and in the nearby town of Tabqa, the group and activists said on Sunday.
Their own defense was exposed on the counter-attack, however, and it finally buckled in the third minute of stoppage time when a corner fell to an unmarked Kim who poked the ball home from close range.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces repelled a major counter-attack by Islamic State fighters at dawn on Wednesday in a district south of the Old City of Mosul, their remaining enclave in the city, a police commander said.
The LNA says it is mobilizing for a counter attack, personally overseen by Haftar, against the BDB, the most recent armed faction to contest ports that should account for more than half of the OPEC member's exports.
They were forced to withdraw from the complex after a ferocious counter-attack by Islamic State fighters, who deployed at least six suicide car bombs, although residents said the army was able to hold some territory nearby.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - East Libyan forces said on Thursday they had retaken the shuttered oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, hours after clashes resumed south of Ras Lanuf during a counter-attack by rival factions.
The Netherlands looked to hit the Americans on the counter-attack and that approach almost bore fruit in the 26th minute when Vivianne Miedema released Lineth Beerensteyn through the middle but U.S. keeper Alyssa Naeher was alert.
Sweden 1-0 Switzerland July 3, 2018 Round of 16 Sweden were 1-0 up and under pressure from Switzerland late in the game when they broke through the Swiss cordon and launched a quick counter-attack.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that the rebels had launched a counter-attack on the eastern pincer at the village of Sukeik, and that dozens had been killed in the fighting.
The army retook Tal Kusaiba hours later in a counter- attack, though one senior official said militants were still holed up inside some houses in the predominately Sunni village, around 35 km (20 miles) east of Tikrit.
In the nation of catenaccio, counter-attack and tough defenders, Zeman decided to employ an extremely aggressive calico style based on a high-tempo 4-3-3 formation, offside tactics, and frenzied movements of players and ball.
Islamic State fighters withdrew from frontlines with Syrian rebel forces north of Aleppo on Wednesday as the rebels mounted a counter attack against the jihadist group near the Turkish border, an opposition source and monitoring group said.
The rebel counter-attack sought to abort a push north from Khan Sheikhoun, which Syria's Russia-backed army seized with the help of Russian ground troops last week, towards the rebel-held city of Maarat al-Numan.
In a fierce counter-attack after days of failing to control a torrent of damaging disclosures, the Trump White House branded the inquiry an illegal bid to overthrow the 2016 election and blocked testimony from a top diplomat.
Moving forward or attacking also leaves you open to attack, so it's just as important to be able to defend from unnecessary hits — and then counter-attack (often knowing as "punishing") the attacker in their moment of vulnerability.
Barack Obama's most notable foray into explicitly advocating redistribution was not only tentative; it triggered a disappointingly successful counter attack from "Joe-whose-name-was-not-Joe-and-was-not-a-plumber" dressed up in a populist disguise.
"We need to stick together and work hard on the defensive part, and hopefully we can nick a set piece or even a counter-attack, but of course we go into every game for a win," Olsson said.
Though the reason they have opportunities for counterattacks is because England has had most of the possession in Colombian territory Ashley Young's corner was easily caught by David Ospina, who almost started Colombia on a dangerous counter attack.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters launched a counter-attack against advancing U.S.-backed Iraqi forces in western Mosul during an overnight rain storm, as the battle for control of the militants' last major urban stronghold in Iraq intensified.
BARTELLA, Iraq (Reuters) - When Iraqi forces faced a fierce Islamic State counter-attack last month at a hospital in Mosul they had stormed without enough troops to hold it, U.S. advisers behind the front lines shepherded them to safety.
"We launched a counter-attack that inflicted heavy casualties to the Taliban and reopened to the highway but it is heavily mined and our engineers are working to clear IEDs off the road," army spokesman Mohammad Mohsen Sultani said.
Rebel fighters captured the villages of al-Jabin and Tel Melah in northern Hama province in early June during a counter attack against government forces that have been waging a Russian-backed offensive in the area since late April.
The action marked a counter-attack amid a series of corruption allegations against Fernandez, who left office last year and has said she could end up behind bars for what she calls "political persecution" by Macri's center-right government.
BEIJING, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea are destined to "pay the price" for their decision to deploy an advanced missile defence system which will inevitably prompt a "counter attack", China's top newspaper said on Saturday.
Substitute Rodriguez doubled Seattle's lead after 76 minutes when he lashed home a low drive from 18 metres before Ruidiaz wrapped up the victory for the Washington outfit when he finished off a quick counter attack in the 90th.
SDF forces led by the Kurdish YPG militia said they had waged a counter-attack against Syrian troops it said were backed by Russian forces, adding they were driven "far away" from four villages they had seized earlier in the day.
The rebels, the main force fighting the governement in the famine-hit nation's civil war, had briefly occupied the northwestern town, near the border with Sudan and Central African Republic, before withdrawing to nearby bases to prepare for a counter-attack.
There is also the danger that such a well-trailed counter-attack would elicit escalatory retaliation from Russia, which might be more destructive than anything Fancy Bear or Cozy Bear could achieve, such as an attack on critical national infrastructure.
The military carried out a counter-attack almost immediately after, deploying fighter jets to kill over 40 militants suspected of involvement and destroying six of their vehicles, according to a video released by the military showing aerial footage of air strikes.
CAMPUS TOUR Huawei, a privately held firm that offers few details about its internal operations, has in recent months offered media interviews and invited journalists to tour its facilities as part of a counter-attack against the allegations of spying.
Victor Rodriguez doubled Seattle's lead after 76 minutes when he lashed home a low drive from 18 metres before Raul Ruidiaz wrapped up the victory for the Washington outfit when he finished off a quick counter attack in the 90th.
An effort to withdraw the 1,000 remaining US troops in northern Syria is underway, after new intelligence shows US forces in the crosshairs of a Turkish offensive against the Kurdish-backed Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) and a possible planned counter-attack.
"If the United States and South Korea harm the strategic security interests of countries in the region including China, then they are destined to pay the price for this and receive a proper counter attack," the paper added, without elaborating.
Brigades largely composed of fighters from Misrata advanced this week to the perimeter of Sirte's city center, after launching a counter attack against Islamic State last month and driving the militant group back along the coastal road between the two cities.
LONDON (Reuters) - When soccer's governing body in Europe began to get tough on the sport's finances from 2009 onwards, the British club Manchester City came up with a two-pronged counter-attack, a trove of documents relating to soccer shows.
The second is to do what dos Anjos did each time he wanted to bang the body along the fence in this bout—dig the body shot and immediately fall into the clinch, smothering any attempt at a counter attack.
Clinton, who spent Tuesday firing off her own assault on Trump, hit back at his counter-attack during a visit to North Carolina, interrupting a speech on her economic policy to accuse the presumptive Republican nominee of attacking her because he lacks substance.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic State in Syria advanced to within 2 km (1 mile) of a key stronghold near the jihadist group's de facto capital of Raqqa on Tuesday, and a counter-attack by the militants was repulsed, officials said.
There have been rumours for weeks that a counter-attack was being planned under the name "Libya Pride", which in Arabic is a play on "Libya Dawn", the coalition of militias that brought the salvation government to power in Tripoli three years ago.
Faced with the mighty gun-power of the imperial army, Takeko led an unofficial unit of 217-219 women in a counter-attack against the enemy, felling at least five opponents with her naginata blade before taking a fatal bullet to the chest.
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Syrian rebels were forced to retreat from the outskirts of an Islamic State-held town at the border with Iraq and a nearby air base on Wednesday after a counter attack by the jihadists, two rebel sources said.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian militias backed by U.S.-led air strikes have repelled a second Islamic State counter attack in 24 hours near a city being targeted in a major offensive against the jihadist group, an official and a monitoring group said on Monday.
Surprise missile tests paired with military exercises historically brought about two kinds of scenarios: Lucky accidents, where the missiles malfunctioned before they could register as an attack, and there was lucky hesitation, where the person responsible for a counter-attack decided to wait.
"I told the players to go and take a shower because they were just standing there not able to do anything," said a dejected Nishino after Nacer Chadli's winner deep in stoppage time from a lightning quick counter attack after a Japan corner.
LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - When soccer's governing body in Europe began to get tough on the sport's finances from 2009 onwards, the British club Manchester City came up with a two-pronged counter-attack, a trove of documents relating to soccer shows.
BEIRUT, April 19 (Reuters) - Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power launched a counter-attack against rebels in the northwestern province of Latakia, a rebel group and a conflict monitor reported, as violence was reported across much of the northwest on Tuesday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday that Islamic State fighters had captured a town in Homs province from government forces, part of a wider counter-attack by the jihadists as they come under intense pressure in eastern Syria.
There have been rumors for weeks that a counter-attack was being planned under the name "Libya Pride", which in Arabic is a play on "Libya Dawn", the coalition of militias that brought the salvation government to power in Tripoli three years ago.
But just two minutes shy of going to penalties, a Portugal counter attack saw a Ronaldo attempt, a Croatian keeper's stop, and Ricardo Quarsema coming in to clean up the slop with a header that seemed to pluck a hovering ball out of midair.
Joshua said after dispatching Martin that he would "walk through" Fury, but the self-styled Gypsy King launched a counter-attack on his British rival at a news conference for his cousin Hughie Fury's forthcoming WBO intercontinental heavyweight title fight with American Fred Kassi.
The main opposition Congress party said that most opposition parties - there are more than 20 of them, some caste-based - were on one page in launching a counter-attack on the BJP line that India needs a leader like Modi to take on Pakistan.
Perhaps on the day people won't turn up for either man; perhaps the two of them will throw enough vitriol to destroy each other; perhaps what is left of Mr Bush's $100m war chest will leave the elite time to mount a counter-attack.
The fierce counter-attack by Trump, the White House and the Republican National Committee is less an attempt to defend the President's behavior or dispute Comey's points than to raise questions about his integrity and motivation in order to devalue his devastating takedown of Trump.
Phil Neville's side initially struggled to keep the ball but had the chance to take the lead in the 17th minute when Ellen White was put through on goal on a counter-attack, only to see her effort go wide of the far post.
Machis scored a spectacular goal to put his side further at ease early in the second half, bursting down the left wing on the counter-attack and holding off three defenders before cutting inside to lash the ball into the net from just inside the area.
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, and each side accused the other of using poison gas.
Islamic State, seeking to break a siege on Manbij, counter attacked on three fronts around the city on Saturday, followed by a further counter attack over Sunday night and in the early hours of Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and an SDF official said.
That has prompted fears of a counter-attack or insurgent campaign that could enable the militants to show they are still in business despite the rout, a heavy blow for a group that is also under intense military pressure in its core territory of Iraq and Syria.
Islamic State forces launched a counter-attack on Friday.. The insurgent position in Mosul is several hundred meters wide and thousands of civilians are trapped there in harrowing conditions, with little food, water, medicine and no access to health services, according to those who managed to flee.
This meant the ability to order an immediate counter attack was a cornerstone of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), a 60s-era theory of warfare that aimed to prevent nuclear war by ensuring that a nuclear conflict would result in the destruction of both the US and USSR.
Samuel Umtiti headed in from a corner for the only goal of the game to knock Belgium out, and Martinez said that while he was pleased his team negated France's threat on the counter-attack, his players did not show their usual finesse in front of goal.
But in the afternoon, just when the enemy thought he had won the position by an  immense sacrifice of men, the French made a powerful counter-attack, led by an army corps which had been held in reserve, and after a prodigious struggle the German effort was stopped short.
"Against Germany I think we played really well, we defended really well and were good on the counter-attack so I really feel it is a big, big chance for us to go the whole way and to be able to play a final," said striker Sofia Jakobsson.
If they are to get over the hump and progress to the quarter-finals for the first time in over 30 years, they will have to overcome a Brazil side using the same defensive organization and pace on the counter-attack that did for Germany in the group stages.
The Samurai Blue looked on track to reach their first quarter-final in three last-16 attempts after going 2-13 ahead early in the second half, only to see Belgium roar back and snatch a 3-2 win with an explosive counter-attack deep into stoppage time.
"It is a brutal, physical, lethal attack with the intention to kill those individuals who could put up a defense or mount a counter-attack, or who perhaps were of no use to them, whether it was a man or a very pregnant woman, too young or too old," Mirazón Lahr.
If it can kill civilians from Paris to Brussels to San Bernardino to Orlando by just being a label that criminals can attach themselves to, they have achieved a goal that maybe even their leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, had never envisioned: The creation of a terror group that defies conventional counter attack.
Just prior to the announcement that Russia would resume talks with Ankara on the issue, wire services and social media widely published photos of what appeared to be Turkish special forces and infantry massing along side newly equipped Syrian rebel allies and heavy armor for a counter attack on the Syrian lines.
In another scene, the town of Concord, New Hampshire (where two murders have occurred since 2004), holds a Council meeting on whether it should accept a federal grant to purchase a BEARCAT armored vehicle, a 20-foot, 17,000-pound "Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck" that resembles a Hummer crossed with the Batmobile.
Korea were pulled back for offside when they found the net in the 58th minute before a Nigerian counter attack saw Oshoala, a three-time African women's Footballer of the Year, ran half the length of the field, brushed past a defender, rounded the goalkeeper and squeezed the ball home from an almost improbable angle.
"Nearly every mass shooting illustrates that large-capacity magazines can increase the death toll and that forcing a shooter to reload more frequently can provide opportunities for counter-attack by those around," He added: "Accordingly, a ban on high-capacity magazines is absolutely essential if one wants to reduce the loss of life from active-shooter scenarios."
By the 61st Day of Trump's presidency, Trump's closest ally on the House Russia investigation -- the very leader of that probe, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes -- took a secret trip to the White House to review documents provided by the White House that allegedly supported Trump's own counter-attack to the Russia questions, false accusations that he was the victim of surveillance by former President Barack Obama.
And Republicans have been gleefully circulating a 2005 video in which Clinton declares in India that "there's no way to legislate against reality, so I think the outsourcing will continue," comments that undercut her current argument that she can help fight to bring back manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Democrats and their allies are very cognizant of the risk, and are already preparing for a counter-attack.

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