Allied forces might encircle Baghdad within 5 to 10 days, but would eventually have to enter the city, he added.

Their forces encircled the city, and the Swiss were out-numbered.

With triumphant shouts the force encircling the two rushed in for the kill.

The communist forces encircled the city in a pincer movement carried out by an eastern and a western group.

These forces would then encircle the Egyptian army.

At first, the forces encircled the compound without attacking, believing that Diem would comply with their demands.

Serbian forces had effectively encircled Gorazde, whose population of 40,000 was about 75 percent Muslim before the war.

Right after that, all the Russian forces attacked and quickly encircled the main Turkish army on the left-bank.

Busse's force, almost encircled, cut off from the armies on its flanks, was close to annihilation.

Zhukov's forces were encircling Berlin from the north.