siege
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It was the longest city siege in the savage history of modern warfare.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
At the time, rebel-held areas in Homs were under siege by the government, and residents were struggling to access food and medicine.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
A veteran anti-Assad activist, Jandali, 48, lived through siege and exile and has written more than 20 books.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Many modern histories of the siege assume that there was only one possible outcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Others were on guard, as if expecting a siege at any moment.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Similar sieges unfolded across Syria—in Duma, Zabadani, and beyond.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
This frequently happens in sieges, such as Germany's encirclement of Leningrad during World War II.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2024
The tactics to enforce the sieges have also limited residents’ access to health and education, forcing one in 12 people across the country to flee their homes, the organization said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Human Rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that "sieges" were illegal under international law.
From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 2023
The beat knights had gone to perfection, leaving the wont to hold their sieges.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
On February 28, 1993, law enforcement sieged Mount Carmel Center ranch, the compound that belonged to Koresh and his religious cult.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023
And a subsequent screening he met several audience members who said they were from Mariupol and that their relatives were escaping the sieged city at the same time he was.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
“There is quite a lot of people still remaining in the absolutely sieged city of Mariupol in some inhumane conditions,” he said during a video briefing.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2022
Over these past weekends, many of my friends have attended medical first aid courses, survival courses on how to survive in an occupied or sieged city.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2022
If Atla-Hi had been able to do anything more for us—that is, if they hadn't been sieged in, I mean—they'd sure as anything have pulled us in.
From The Night of the Long Knives by Virgil Finlay
It has also levied some sanctions on those doing the sieging.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
Italy, all but some sieging of strong-places, may be considered as lost for the present.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle
But Clive's keen eyes discerned stuff for better things than the sieging of Indian forts in the young volunteer.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy
He knew that before him lay the culminating battle of his long and ardent sieging of Fortune's stronghold.
From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum
As it is, the Austrian Army is not annihilated; only bottled into Prag, and will need sieging.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle
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