passage of arms

For months during the siege, Turkish and Syrian Kurds watched as Turkish authorities blocked the passage of arms and fighters to the city, and as they cracked down on protesters at the border and in predominantly Kurdish cities.

Mr. Oakley’s portfolio in the 1980s encompassed the Iran-Iraq War; the continued captivity of American soldiers in Lebanon; the passage of arms to the U.S.-supported mujahideen in Afghanistan and the Soviet departure from that country; encouraging the restoration of democracy in Pakistan after long military rule; and maintaining the fragile peace between nuclear-armed archenemies Pakistan and India.

Turkey, which hosts the FSA in the border area and is in the forefront of diplomatic efforts to unseat Assad, says it is not supplying the rebels with weapons, nor allowing passage of arms through its ports or across its territory.

And Tennyson—what a fierce passage of arms that was long ago between Bulwer and him; and now what cordial mutual admiration!

To the lawyer there was nothing disturbing in such a passage of arms as this.