besieged

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"They're still besieged -- completely encircled. They aren't allowed to bring in any humanitarian aid, including the aid we're trying to deliver," Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif told AFP in an interview this week.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

Abdul Karim Omar, representative of the Kurds' autonomous administration in Damascus, told AFP Aleppo's Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods were "completely besieged".

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

In May, a U.S.-backed operation extracted five of Machado’s aides who had been living in a besieged Argentine diplomatic residence in Caracas and flew them to U.S. soil, along with the opposition leader’s mother.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

Steven Skybell, magnificent in the role of the besieged patriarch, led a superb cast that brought a new understanding to an old chestnut through the force of Yiddish language and culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Smiling feebly, Mundín stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez