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Police corner trapped demonstrators that had fortified university but now seek escape. Supporters try to disrupt law enforcement outside. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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The breach ends a humanitarian crisis for the estimated 70,000 people in Deir el-Zour who survived on erratic air drops of food and supplies. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Roughly 30,000 residents of a Syrian town a few dozen miles from the capital, Damascus, say they are trapped and dying of starvation as a result of a monthslong siege by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has branded the Taliban’s 18-hour siege of Kabul and places across eastern Afghanistan on Sunday an intelligence failure and called for an investigation into NATO security operations. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Two Israeli soldiers were convicted in a military court of using a Palestinian child as a human shield during their army's siege of the Gaza Strip in 2009. The soldiers, who forced the 9-year-old boy to check for suspected booby traps, are now awaiting sentencing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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On Saturday, officials in Mumbai continued hunting for clues, and for bodies, in the wake of the terror siege that began Wednesday in the Indian megalopolis. More than 170 people are known dead. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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