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Her son, Artem, was captured in 2022 in the southern city of Mariupol after a weeks-long siege by Russia's army.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Although a tense urban peace has taken hold since then, many residents of Paris, Toulouse, Marseille and other cities beset by riots still feel under siege, much like Los Angeles after the 1992 riots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Much of Delhi looked like a city under siege on Saturday, with roads barricaded and offices, shops and restaurants shut.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Supply chains that transform crude into fuel are still under siege, and that is keeping prices high—helping drive a brutal bond selloff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

It came as no surprise to the ferret to see a large siege tower under construction.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Modern battlefields are increasingly urban; sieges increasingly prolonged; hunger increasingly systematic.

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

Volker Turk said sieges and abduction of hostages were both against international law.

From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 2023

The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

I had read about sieges like this in my English history book, but in ancient days soldiers had worn armor and ridden horseback and used battering rams against the city walls.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

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

On which ground, too, I have often, in sea-storms and sieged cities and other death-scenes, exhibited an imperturbability, which passed, falsely enough, for courage.’

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

It has also levied some sanctions on those doing the sieging.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

The admiral's power exceedeth the king's," wrote Cecil to Nicholas White: "he is sieging of Poitiers, the winning or losing whereof will make an end of the cause.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

So thinks Czarish Majesty, as well as Soltikof, privately, though there are difficulties as to Dantzig; and, in fine, except Colberg over again, there can be nothing attempted of sieging thereabouts.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle

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

The War, since Friedrich got out of it, does not abate in animosity, nor want for bloodshed, battle and sieging; but offers little now memorable.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle