Several fighters had left the fleet and were heading purposefully towards them.
Some said the fighters left the city for Najaf, to make a last stand there.
Even as our last fighter left the deck, the first missiles were inbound.
The missiles would be used to attack random targets as the fighters left the target area.
The fighter accelerated and soon left the war party far below in the choppy seas, unable to follow.
Patterson noticed that when the day's training ended and the other young fighters left, Harris lingered.
In the early years of the war, no Eritrean fighter could leave the training camp without achieving literacy.
Insurgent fighters left the villages days before but some remained behind or returned to plant car bombs.
He said most foreign fighters had left the city.
Tstss didn't have any fighters left to intercept it anyway.