We're struggling with terrorism, refugees, addiction, and grizzlies besieging schools.
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Priisalu began to analyze the streams of data besieging the country's institutions.
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Stunned relatives gathered there, some weeping quietly, others besieging officials with questions.
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To make matters worse, it's not just the Assad regime that's besieging civilians.
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In recent weeks, the forces have been besieging the town of al-Bab.
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Israelis invaded in June 1982, smashing the PLO and besieging Beirut—a bridge
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The Taliban continued carrying out suicide bombings, assaulting districts and besieging to cities.
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Islamic State fighters are besieging government-held areas of Deir al-Zor, he added.
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Loaded down with debt, Time had little chance to overcome the forces besieging the industry.
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"We have seen a deliberate strategy of surrounding, besieging and starving innocent civilians," Obama said.
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Opposition forces are themselves besieging two pro-government towns near Syria's Idlib: Fouaa and Kefraya.
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The United Nations has blamed the government for denying food and medicines from reaching about 180,000 people in rebel-held areas; it has blamed a rebel coalition for besieging about 12,000 people and the Islamic State for besieging another 200,000 people in government-held areas.
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The scarcities in Oaxaca were not caused by a natural disaster or a besieging foreign power.
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Rebel forces are besieging Foua and Kefraya, two Shi'ite villages in Idlib that have received multiple convoys.
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Turkey recently called on the coalition to provide air support for Turkish-backed troops besieging the town.
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"It is unsafe to see another nuclear project coming and besieging us," one resident told the paper.
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The nightmare for any foreign firm in China is an angry mob besieging its factory or flagship store.
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The caliphate cannot "be eliminated by destroying some city or besieging another", al-Nabaa newspaper said last month.
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The international crisis that Mr Trump is stoking is increasingly inseparable from the domestic problems besieging his administration.
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By those standards, a couple hundred Tea Partyers besieging their elected officials in person was a borderline apocalypse.
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"The besieging of the Afrin city centre will start rapidly in the coming days," Erdogan said on Tuesday.
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No one, of course, would argue that uptown matrons will be besieging their dentists for grillwork any time soon.
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Government-allied forces and militias, including Hezbollah, are responsible for besieging hundreds of thousands of Syrians across the country.
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The result is inflation running at an annual rate of about 19 percent, besieging ordinary people and companies alike.
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Spokesmen for the Iraqi army, police and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias besieging Falluja were not immediately available to comment.
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The so-called liberal Tea Party that is besieging congressional Republicans during the recess is healthy, profound and vital.
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Why does it matter that Fox News is barely covering the Daniels story and the related scandals besieging the administration?
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Turkish-backed forces are now besieging al-Bab, the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in the northern Aleppo countryside.
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A GENERAL besieging a city will often cut off its food supply and wait, rather than risking a direct assault.
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The Raqqa campaign appeared to have stalled around Tabqa, where the SDF made only slow progress after besieging the city.
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In recent weeks Turkish troops, supported by Syrian rebels, have been besieging the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab.
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The attack targeted Turkey-backed rebels who have been besieging the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab for days.
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Russia has also aided Mr. Assad in besieging Aleppo, a rebel stronghold that was bombarded anew on Thursday and Friday.
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The Taliban insurgents have opened simultaneous fronts across the country in recent months, overrunning districts and besieging major urban centers.
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There are no simple solutions to the problems besieging the Cleveland family and other low-income residents of Southeast Ferguson.
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The wildfires besieging Australia's eastern coast are reportedly so extreme that they are creating fire thunderstorms and potentially fire tornadoes.
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"We have seen a deliberate strategy of surrounding, besieging and starving innocent civilians," Obama said during a year-end news conference.
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DOHA (Reuters) - Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Wednesday his country was against "isolating and besieging" any other country.
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With the Mueller investigation now besieging Trump, there's no better time for Clinton to deploy her special gift of enraging Trump.
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Moreover, ISIS had invaded their territory, and was besieging a Kurdish city named Kobane at the time of the US intervention.
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He also questioned the evidence that hospitals had been bombed by Russian and Syrian forces besieging rebel-held parts of Aleppo.
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The Syrian government's counterinsurgency crackdown included bombing and besieging Palestinian refugee camps, where there was some support for the Syrian rebels.
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Elsewhere in Syria, the government was besieging opposition communities until they submitted, with the last rebels and civilians often bused to Idlib.
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After a decade of fruitlessly besieging the city of Troy, the Greeks seemed to sail away for home, leaving behind a gift.
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Artillery fire from the rebels besieging the government-held city of Taiz, 300km south of Sana'a, has destroyed that city's sole Baskin-Robbins outlet.
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In 1346 the Mongols catapulted the corpses of people who died of bubonic plague into the Crimean town of Caffa which they were besieging.
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Vassiliou went out to the balcony and realized that there was no escape there — he even came under fire from forces besieging the hotel.
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Instead, they think it will stall, much as Hurricane Harvey did over Houston last year, besieging the area for days with wind and rain.
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He said pro-government "Resistance Forces" had no tanks in Taiz, adding that it was the Houthis who were besieging the city and terrorizing civilians.
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Haftar's forces have been fighting against Islamist militants and other foes in eastern Benghazi and are besieging the city of Derna to oust militants there.
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He hoped Astana might bring a cessation of hostilities in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, where Assad's forces are besieging almost 400,000 people.
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Four months into its operation in Syria, the Turkish army and the rebels it backs are besieging the Islamic State-held town of al-Bab.
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It didn't take long for a number of rival teams to start besieging the league for estimates of how much they stand to lose, too.
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Asked to translate, he lied that the jailer planned to send one of them with a message to the British and French forces besieging the town.
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Areas around the city have periodically changed hands, and the regime's recent gains have put it within striking distance of totally besieging the rebel-held east.
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Washington urged the Assad regime to end its escalating attacks on Aleppo and Daraya, as well as besieging towns and obstructing humanitarian access, the department said.
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It depicts six wealthy men who, in 1347, volunteered to be executed by a besieging English force as a price for mercy to their fellow-citizens.
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Matt Villano had to make that kind of choice when he was forced to evacuate to escape the Kincade fire, one of the blazes besieging California.
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For nearly four decades, Koch Industries has spent its time quashing the labor movement, besieging the environment, and stealing oil from the Osage Indians in Oklahoma.
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Mr. Elddin said that local militia fighters had responded to the incursion by besieging the building and that their gunfire may have caused the most casualties.
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A spokesman for the Kurdish-led fighters said Friday they were not withdrawing from Ras al-Ayn because Turkish forces are still besieging and shelling it.
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Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-air strikes are also besieging Islamic State forces in the city of Raqqa, the militants' de facto capital in neighboring Syria.
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Short of that, it could consign Afghanistan to a protracted, bloody civil war, with Taliban fighters besieging the capital, Kabul, as they did in the 1990s.
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In Syria, Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-air strikes are besieging Islamic State forces in the city of Raqqa, the militants' de facto capital in that country.
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Haftar's forces have been fighting against Islamist militants and other foes in eastern Benghazi and are besieging the city of Derna to try to oust militants there.
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Meanwhile, the Americans insist that Russia adheres to its commitments to put pressure on Assad to cease bombing and besieging civilian areas and to accept political transition.
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Ghafor Ahmad Jawed says the insurgents overrun the base late on Monday night in Faryab province, in the district of Ghormach, after besieging it for three days.
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"The Turkish army is besieging Afrin from three sides," Rezan Hiddo, a Kurdish official in Afrin told the AP. The chief of the U.S. Central Command Gen.
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No matter your level of attention to the news cycle, it's likely you're aware of a poisoned drinking-water crisis currently besieging the city of Flint, Michigan.
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Russia in recent weeks has stepped up its airstrikes in Aleppo province, besieging tens of thousands of civilians in rebel-held areas in the city of Aleppo.
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He urged Americans to stop besieging stores after a weekend in which basic staples like pasta, meat, toilet paper rolls and cleaning products vanished from supermarket shelves.
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New York's immense all-day summer street festival returns for its 21th iteration, with over 223,220 free events — many of them participatory — besieging the city with sound.
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Turkey-led forces will begin besieging the town in coming days, part of Ankara's operation to drive out the Kurdish YPG militia, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
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In a statement, the Hong Kong government said it "strongly condemns the protesters who blatantly challenged the national sovereignty by maliciously besieging and storming" the liaison office building.
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Pro-government forces retook the eastern Ghouta region from rebels in April after besieging the region for years and launching a brutal bombing campaign with their Russian allies.
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In Toronto, he was embraced especially by the city's large Greek community, with fans adopting him as their own, waving Greek flags and besieging him with autograph requests.
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It's 11 AM and a journalist from a local Bavarian TV station is besieging anyone who looks Asian to ask what what they think of the whole thing.
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The United Nations maintains that government forces and the Islamic State are responsible for besieging most of the 487,000 people besieged for months and unable to get basic relief.
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Sheer deprivation can make the intentions of even the most fervent activists begin to dissolve, which is the whole point of the Syrian government strategy of besieging rebel holdouts.
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The party needs "an acceptable 'not Kelli' choice who can surf the policy divides that are besieging our party right now," said Chuck Coughlin, a Republican strategist in Arizona.
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With photographers besieging the hotel, another driver tried to take them to a restaurant, but could not shake them off and took them back to the Ritz for dinner.
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Instead of supporting rebel groups fighting in Aleppo or pressuring the Assad forces besieging the city, Turkey raced to capture territory from the Islamic State before the Kurds did.
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The Turkey-backed Syrian rebels have been besieging the Islamic State-held town of al-Bab for weeks, while clashes between the jihadists and rebels have intensified in recent days.
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Pro-government forces retook the eastern Ghouta region from rebels in April after besieging the region for several years and launching a final brutal bombing campaign with their Russian allies.
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It is a result of Assad's forces besieging Aleppo for most of the past year, leaving only a thin rebel-held corridor, constantly under Russian air attack, to the outside.
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Turkey launched an operation to drive the jihadists away from the Syrian border five months ago and have been besieging the Islamic State controlled town of al-Bab for weeks.
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Islamic State fighters are besieging Syrian government forces in the provincial capital, Deir al-Zour, so by routing them, the United States would be helping Mr. Assad, whom it opposes.
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Such withdrawals of fighters along with groups of civilians have grown commonplace in Syria's six-year war, as a way for besieging forces to accelerate the fall of populated areas.
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For example, when the Israeli army was besieging Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound during the second intifada [Palestinian uprising] in 22016, that's not something that you would see in other contexts.
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You could end up spending hours researching school test scores, interviewing families at the local playground and besieging your friend's sister's cousin with questions about what it's like to live there.
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But the biggest single siege, of about 200,000 people in Deir ez-Zor, is not affected by the cessation of hostilities because the besieging IS forces are excluded from the agreement.
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U.S.-backed Iraqi forces pushed the militants back and are besieging them now in their last major urban stronghold, on the western side of the city of Mosul, in northern Iraq.
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The Karps spent summers in Charlotteville, but at first Mr. Karp did not publicize where the museum was because "he didn't want artists besieging him with slides" to look at, Mrs.
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Presiding judge O-Gon Kwon said the three-year Sarajevo siege, during which the city was shelled and sniped at by besieging Bosnian Serb forces, could not have happened without Karadzic's support.
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But the biggest single siege, of about 200,000 people in Deir al-Zor, is not affected by the cessation of hostilities because the besieging Islamic State forces are excluded from the agreement.
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On Sunday, the insurgents were besieging the governor's compound in Ajrestan district in Ghazni, south of the capital Kabul, although officials said reinforcements had arrived and were relieving police defending the town.
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Taliban insurgents have taken control of much of the province and have been besieging its capital, Tirin Kot, for weeks, held off mainly by the American air support for Afghan security forces.
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A full evacuation from Aleppo would be the largest success of the government's starve-or-surrender strategy, bombing and besieging areas out of its control until fighters and residents agree to surrender.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk were on Wednesday besieging several polling stations containing election staff, four days after a national vote, the head of the electoral commission said.
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As for Tyrion Lannister, he's currently in the camp of the slave masters who are besieging Meereen, but he recently escaped bondage by making a deal with a mercenary company, the Second Sons.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's government has given verbal assurances that aid convoys can go into three or four of the areas that its forces are besieging, U.N. humanitarian advisor Jan Egeland said on Wednesday.
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A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led coalition besieging the city on Thursday fully encircled it after closing the militants' last way out from the south, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
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Further besieging Rusal, creditors and bond-holders are trying to offload the firm's liabilities because many financial market players believe that to handle Rusal debt could leave them too susceptible to U.S. sanctions.
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Crown Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz, a shrewd strategist, worked with other princes, got a religious decree from the clergy, and forced King Saud to abdicate after besieging his palace with the National Guard.
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Many say the woes besieging the nation's infrastructure have been compounded by the lack of toilet paper on store shelves, which is leading some to use paper towels, napkins or baby wipes instead.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - One of Brazilian President Michel Temer's closest aides resigned on Wednesday following allegations he had received graft money from engineering conglomerate Odebrecht in a widening corruption scandal that is besieging the government.
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Blockades have been a common feature of the nearly five-year-old civil war that has killed an estimated 250,000 people, with government forces besieging rebel-held areas and rebel groups blockading loyalist areas.
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That means they were born around the time Iraqi forces severed Islamic State's last major supply route from Mosul to Syria, besieging the militants inside the city, but also creating acute shortages of food.
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Turkey launched an operation, dubbed "Euphrates Shield", to drive jihadists away from the Syrian border more than five months ago and has been besieging the Islamic State controlled town of al-Bab for weeks.
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BAGHOUZ, Syria (Reuters) - Dozens of people, comprising Islamic State fighters, women and children, surrendered to U.S.-backed forces besieging Islamic State's final shred of territory in eastern Syria on Thursday, a Reuters witness said.
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"The U.S.-led warplanes are besieging the convoy in the heart of the desert, and preventing any aid of the convoy which include sick and wounded people as well as elders," Al Manar said.
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"I wanted to be on the field when the stands emptied and marauding mobs waylaid him on the basepaths, tackling, besieging and occasionally holding him hostage to a new kind of love," she writes.
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Government forces have now captured more than half the rebel enclave, entirely besieging Douma and the large town of Harasta, cutting them off from each other and neighboring areas with advances on Saturday and Sunday.
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The scenes of tens of thousands of refugees streaming across Europe, crashing through borders, whipped up deep, dark memories from the distant past, of Arab armies poised at the Pyrenees, of Ottoman armies besieging Vienna.
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The attack fed a conspiracy theory by opposition supporters that it may have been a government setup and overshadowed other drama on Tuesday, including the besieging of opposition legislators by gangs in the National Assembly.
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The evacuation deal, brokered by Russia, Turkey and Iran, was intended to relieve one of the more crushing aspects of Syria's war: the practice by both sides of besieging their opponents and bombarding their communities.
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"We are removing the last remaining obstacles standing before our besieging of Afrin city center," he said, adding there was still about six kilometers (3.7 miles) to go to reach Afrin from the outskirts of Jinderes.
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Syrian government forces backed by allied militias and Russian air power launched a major assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo in September after besieging the area, which the United Nations says is home to 275,000 people.
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BAGHOUZ, Syria (Reuters) - Islamic State launched two counter-attacks on U.S.-backed fighters besieging their final shred of territory in eastern Syria on Wednesday but were beaten back without any progress, the Syrian Democratic Forces said.
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DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - Three suicide attackers in women's clothing killed six people leaving the last Islamic State enclave in eastern Syria on Friday in simultaneous blasts, the U.S.-backed forces besieging the area said.
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Erdogan also said that Turkish forces and their Syrian allies would begin besieging the town of Afrin in the coming days, as Ankara pursues a month-long push to sweep a Kurdish militia from its southern border.
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"We are concerned about the potential use of this carrier group to increase attacks against civilians in Aleppo," Stoltenberg said, referring to the war-ravaged Syrian city where government forces are besieging its rebel-controlled eastern half.
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Mr. Kerry cited evidence of the Islamic State massacring hundreds of Shiite Turkmens and Shabaks at Tal Afar and Mosul in Iraq; besieging and starving the Turkmen town of Amerli and kidnapping and raping Shiite Turkmen women.
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The United States and Russia have been on different sides of the seven-year-old war, with Moscow heavily backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad whose forces are besieging eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held area near Damascus.
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The money arrives on its own' His first leftist presidency, from 1985 to 453, ended in national catastrophe, with one of the worst cases of hyperinflation in global history and the Shining Path all but besieging Lima.
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Lastly, if serious economic difficulties are once again besieging Cuba, a country on which Mr. Maduro's survival depends entirely, for security and intelligence reasons, Havana should be enticed or pressured into understanding that he has to go.
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Invoking the country's current state of chaos, he wrote of a sense of alienation among students at the school — regardless of race, class and privilege — that stood apart from the larger political and social crises besieging us.
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This isn't a new series of tactics by the regime and Russia: they have previously talked about a ceasefire, before bombing, besieging and pursuing their military objectives -- eventually demanding that all human life leave an encircled area.
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The Turkish military operation, dubbed 'Euphrates Shield', was launched more than four months ago to drive Islamic State militants away from the border region and in recent weeks the forces have been besieging the town of al-Bab.
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Isik said 16 Turkish soldiers had been killed in the northern Syrian town of al-Bab in recent attacks by Islamic State, as the Turkish-backed Syrian rebels have been besieging the Islamic State-held town for weeks.
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Last summer, as the Taliban intensified its offensives across the country and the security in Oruzgan deteriorated, the noose around Mr. Samad's fighters tightened, the Taliban besieging them for more than two months, Mr. Samad said in an interview.
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In Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is involved in a two-year-old war and has been criticized for blocking humanitarian aid, Jubeir accused the Iran-aligned Houthis of besieging civilian areas and preventing supplies from coming in or out.
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What the accounts agreed on was that during and after bloody clashes, the Islamic State had carried out a wave of killings in the outskirts of the contested city, where, the United Nations says, the extremist forces are besieging 200,000.
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The government, backed by the Russian air force and Shi'ite militias, has this year steadily closed in on eastern Aleppo, first besieging a population estimated by the United Nations to number 270,000 and then launching a major assault in September.
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"The racial issues besieging communities of color are now competing with and in many ways trumping conventional general election issues," Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster who is black, wrote in a memo that was forwarded to The New York Times.
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PALM BEACH, Fl./BAGHOUZ, Syria (Reuters) - Islamic State militants in eastern Syria still held out late on Friday, the U.S.-backed militia besieging them said, after U.S. President Donald Trump said the jihadist group had lost its last scrap of territory.
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The US has never outright fought Assad's regime, and our support for the anti-Assad rebels is not what has caused the massive humanitarian disaster in Aleppo — that was largely caused by Assad and Russia besieging and bombing the city indiscriminately.
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NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria (Reuters) - Hundreds of Islamic State fighters surrendered on Wednesday and hundreds more of their comrades were caught trying to escape the jihadist group's last, tiny scrap of land in eastern Syria, said a commander in the militia besieging it.
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At first glance, the store did little to distinguish itself from other trinket purveyors besieging the tangled lanes of Stone Town, the historic quarter on the coast of Unguja, Zanzibar's main island: "Hakuna Matata" T-shirts obscured the facade and tourists browsed souvenirs.
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But as the day wore on it became increasingly unclear whether the United States could safely retain a diplomatic and military presence in Iraq without embarking on a wholesale confrontation with the militia — and its Iranian backers — now effectively besieging the embassy.
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But as the day wore on it became increasingly unclear whether the United States could safely retain a diplomatic and military presence in Iraq without embarking on a wholesale confrontation with the militia — and its Iranian backers — now effectively besieging the embassy.
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The Turkey-backed rebels have for days been besieging the IS-controlled town of al-Bab, around 30 km south of al-Rai, as part of the three-month-old offensive to drive the jihadists away from the Syrian side of the Turkish border.
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"You want to ask my views on Europe, don't you?" he jokingly asked a scrum of reporters and cameramen who had been besieging his London home all weekend, desperate to find out which side he would back after Cameron announced the date of the referendum.
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Once we were back in the car — the event ended, as usual, with a throng of fans besieging Smith for autographs, photos and writing advice — I asked whether she felt she had been successful in her goal of finding ways to communicate across divisions.
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In addition to the cold, the isolation and the possibility of literally falling off a cliff thanks to climate change, researchers have to deal with unruly locals, like the dozen or so polar bears currently "besieging" scientists on Troynoy Island in Russia's Great Arctic State Nature Reserve.
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A bigger problem, he said, is that any open discussion of the choices Russians made during the war undermines Mr. Putin's efforts to rally Russia around the heroism of the past and his hostility to the internal and external enemies that the Kremlin presents as besieging the country.
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The Syrian government needed to give an answer within seven days on permission for convoys to go to six more areas, which its forces are still besieging almost three weeks into a truce, Egeland said, to help them reach 1.1 million people by the end of April and vaccinate children.
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They need to trust that you will actually fight for the things that you say you will when the push comes to shove, the lobbyists are blowing up your phone, when they're besieging the white house, and when they buy off your best friend to call you and make you a pitch.
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With his first trip abroad as president behind him, when President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE lands in Washington overnight Saturday he arrives to a slew of controversies besieging his administration.
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