encampment
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When city authorities dismantled an encampment along the side of a railway line last month, he couldn't find housing for everyone.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
Those aboard the train had been on their way to Quetta's main railway station from a nearby military encampment, officials said.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
At the entrance of a sprawling military encampment some 100 kilometres away from Derna, a towering portrait of Haftar overlooked the scene.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
On behalf of the intervenors, Shayla Myers argued that the encampment removal goal, approved by the City Council in a closed session, became a defacto quota system for sanitation workers to discard homeless people’s belongings.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
We visited Baghdad, the U.S. military headquarters in Fallujah, and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit encampment outside Babil, in the heart of Iraq’s so-called Sunni Triangle.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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