Not all populists have laid siege to their central bank.
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Security forces then laid siege to the parliament for several hours.
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In 2017, his coalition laid siege to the Mindanao city of Marawi.
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The guards fled only when the Soviet Red Army laid siege to Budapest.
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Previously, anti-balaka fighters had laid siege to the area and prevented Muslims from leaving.
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Mr. Assad's forces laid siege to the area, using bombardments, mass starvation and chemical weapons.
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"He has laid siege to the foundation of our democracy: our electoral process," said Rep.
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Last month, they laid siege to the city of Ghazni, about 100 miles south of Kabul.
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On June 12, 13, a gunman laid siege to a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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Then, Kataib Hezbollah—an Iraqi Shiite paramilitary group—laid siege to the American Embassy in Baghdad.
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To cap off November, police laid siege to two universities firing tear gas, trapping protesters inside.
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Elite police commandos laid siege to the residence, eventually storming it after a roughly three-hour standoff.
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PAD protesters seized Government House for 193 days and laid siege to many government offices and parliament.
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The government laid siege to it in July, cutting off those trapped inside from food and medicine.
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In 2017, ISIS-affiliated militants laid siege to the city of Marawi in Mindanao for five months.
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Lopez Obrador's government was rocked when cartel gunmen laid siege to the city of Culiacan on Oct.
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In 1781 Tupac Katari, an indigenous leader, laid siege to Spanish La Paz 500 metres (1,600 feet) below.
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In response, the militias laid siege to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, breaking through the perimeter before withdrawing.
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But, the Trump administration has laid siege to EPA with zealous, anti-regulation Republican lawmakers not far behind.
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In 2015, Houthis laid siege to the city, occupying surrounding mountain ranges, sealing the entrances and shelling it mercilessly.
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In 2015, the Houthis laid siege to the city, occupying surrounding mountain ranges, sealing the entrances and shelling it mercilessly.
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Turkish forces laid siege to rebel towns and imposed long military curfews, and their tanks shelled the towns without restraint.
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Furious, he and his friends "laid siege" to the store where they had bought it, demanding compensation, Mr. Ji said.
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Bashar al-Assad's forces have significantly escalated their attacks on a Damascus suburb they've laid siege to for four years.
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Too good, concluded regulators, who laid siege to SAC to try to prove that the firm was profiting from insider information.
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The Saudi-led coalition laid siege to the rebel-held port from the moment it entered the war two years ago.
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Assad has laid siege to other places before, notably Yarmouk, a Palestinian camp, and Eastern Ghouta, in the suburbs of Damascus.
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Guzman Salazar mobilized his group's gunmen and laid siege to the city with the support of the forces of Zambada Garcia.
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Spain has periodically pressed its claim to Gibraltar (and laid siege to it twice) since ceding it to Britain in 1713.
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Ahead of the last election the same people who are now demanding the army chief's head laid siege to the capital.
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In 2017, Islamic State-aligned Filipino and foreign militants laid siege to the city of Marawi in Mindanao for five months.
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The government has said its forces had secured the city after the Taliban laid siege to it for five days this month.
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That was before a white supremacist laid siege to two mosques in the city of Christchurch on March 15th, killing 133 people.
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The intelligence sharing arrangement comes after insurgents aligned to Islamic State laid siege to the southern Philippine city of Marawi last year.
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Special forces of the FSB security police laid siege to a private house in Ingushetia's capital Nazran, NAK said in a statement.
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But those hopes were short-lived when the Lannisters laid siege to Riverrun, he refused to surrender, and then was killed offscreen.
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The decision to relocate the capital was vindicated when the Nazis laid siege to the city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
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That same year Saudi rulers weathered a stunning blow: Sunni extremists laid siege to Islam&aposs holiest site in Mecca for 15 days.
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In the latest wave of violence, Taliban militants laid siege to a hilltop hotel, fighting for 15 hours and killing at least 22.
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The wedding photo shoot took place as Assad's forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, laid siege to the rebel stronghold of Aleppo to the north.
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While thousands of demonstrators laid siege to the legislature, tens of thousands marched through the center of town in an annual handover anniversary rally.
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African Union troops have taken major towns from al Shabaab but the group still controls swathes of countryside and has laid siege to urban areas.
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A huge second blast, which witnesses said echoed around the city center, struck about an hour later as government soldiers laid siege to the restaurant.
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Groups like the Mara Salvatrucha — or MS-13 — and the 18th Street Gang, which both originated in the United States, have laid siege to communities.
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They followed a similar pattern in 2013 when its gunmen laid siege to the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 67 people.
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A huge second blast, which witnesses said echoed around Mogadishu city center, struck about an hour later as government soldiers laid siege to the restaurant.
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For now, the country remains in the throes of a major offensive to root out ISIS extremists that have laid siege to entire swaths of Iraq.
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THOUSANDS RALLY While thousands of demonstrators laid siege to the legislature, tens of thousands marched through the centre of town in an annual handover anniversary rally.
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African Union troops have taken major towns from al Shabaab but the militant group still controls swathes of countryside and has laid siege to urban areas.
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A perception exists that careless millennials and social-media aficionados have laid siege to the English language and that modern dictionaries have failed to hold the line.
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When social openings in the kingdom were taking place four decades ago, Sunni extremists opposed to the monarchy laid siege to Islam&aposs holiest site in Mecca.
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In 63 BC, the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus marched his soldiers across the kingdom of Judea and laid siege to Jerusalem, its heavily fortified capital city.
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The same goes for the president's decision to declare martial law throughout the island of Mindanao almost as soon as Islamists laid siege to parts of Marawi.
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The Houthis have also laid siege to cities in the country's south, held by the internationally recognized government, cutting off the flow of supplies to civilians there.
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Since March, the Islamic State, which controls most of Deir al-Zour Province, has laid siege to remaining government-held areas in the city of Deir al-Zour.
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Russian and Syrian forces have laid siege to the area, preventing smugglers and traders who once bribed their way across checkpoints to deliver essential food to the camp.
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Rebels supported by Turkish troops have laid siege to al-Bab for weeks under an operation to sweep the Sunni hardliners and Kurdish fighters from its Syrian border.
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Since March, the group, which controls of most of Deir al-Zor province, has laid siege to remaining government-held areas in the city of Deir al-Zor.
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Although she did not name Trump directly, the federal government's assistance to the island has been widely criticized, particularly after Maria laid siege to Puerto Rico's already fraying infrastructure.
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During World War I, as the British and French laid siege to Istanbul at the Battle of Gallipoli, Ottomans heard the ezan and the sela sounding across the Marmara Sea.
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Charismatic Olga Janina, like Liszt a cigar-smoker, laid siege to him armed with a revolver (to dispatch him, if he didn't yield) and bottles of poison (to dispatch herself).
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At my first Willie Nelson concert, in Austin, in the nineteen-eighties, I was in the men's room when a dozen women barged in and laid siege to the stalls.
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"Decade of Fire" positions itself as a corrective to the notion that Bronx residents were responsible for the wave of arson that laid siege to the borough in the 1970s.
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On July 1, the anniversary of the city's 1997 return to China, protesters wearing hard hats, masks and black shirts laid siege to the Legislative Council building and swarmed inside.
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Iceland had 17 attempts on target to Croatia's 13 and laid siege to the impressive Lovre Kalinic's goal with a string of corners and trademark long throws either side of halftime.
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Then, paramilitaries laid siege to a church at the edge of the main university campus in Managua after attacking and expelling the students who had occupied the campus for two months.
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Meanwhile, a separate algae outbreak—starring the saltwater-loving Karenia brevis—has laid siege to Florida's southwest coast, killing tens of thousands of fish as well as manatees, sea turtles, and dolphins.
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On one side, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, France and now Russia support Khalifa Hifter, whose forces have laid siege to Tripoli, the capital, threatening the internationally backed government there.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State clamed responsibility for an attack on a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Friday, where gunmen were holding hostages as police laid siege to the building, news agency Amaq said.
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The coronavirus has laid siege to the nation's airports, Southwest's planes are only 20 percent full, and the security lines that used to snake through Jasmine's terminal are a thing of the past.
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It's the morning after the day before, which saw a meltdown in financial markets when investors lost faith in policy intervention as the coronavirus laid siege to some of the world's top economies.
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An Islamist militant group has laid siege to the Philippine city of Marawi on the island of Mindanao, an embarrassing setback for Mr. Duterte, whose tough approach to crime is his signature issue.
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The SDF has laid siege to Baghouz for weeks but had repeatedly postponed its final assault to allow thousands of civilians, many of them wives and children of Islamic State fighters, to leave.
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For five months in 2017, a faction of the group led by Isnilon Hapilon — who was considered the Islamic State's leader in Southeast Asia — laid siege to the southern Philippine city of Marawi.
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MOSCOW — Dozens of polar bears have laid siege to a small military settlement deep in the Russian Arctic, leaving residents afraid to send their children to school, or even open their front doors.
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World Review When the South Korean military killed hundreds of pro-democracy protesters and laid siege to the southwestern city of Gwangju in May 1980, few people outside the city knew what was happening.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two years after pro-Islamic State militants laid siege to the Philippine city of Marawi, tens of thousands of people remain uprooted and rebuilding is slow, aid agencies said on Thursday.
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Bosnian Serbs laid siege to Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo, and went on a deadly rampage across eastern Bosnia, seeking to drive Croats and Muslims out of their homes, a practice that became known as ethnic cleansing.
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CAIRO, July 1 (Reuters) - Islamic State clamed responsibility for an attack on a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Friday, where gunmen were holding hostages as police laid siege to the building, news agency Amaq said.
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Many of the anti-Assad fighters holed up in the town belong to a group called Ahrar al-Sham that has laid siege to a pair of pro-regime towns in northern Syria: Fua and Kefraya.
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This past May, the last of the fighters that once surrounded Damascus either surrendered or withdrew to northwestern Syria, after government forces laid siege to the rebel strongholds and shelled them incessantly for over a month.
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Qassim Suleimani—head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force—arrived in Baghdad to help prop up Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, while hundreds of protesters laid siege to the government over his ouster.
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A similar military campaign in May drew sharp criticism from rights groups and residents who said soldiers had laid siege to villages, arrested civilians and raped women in an bid to force them hand over militants.
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Ponio said the incident may be a diversionary tactic by the Maute group, an Islamist militant organization based in Mindanao currently facing a military offensive after it laid siege to Butig in Lanao Del Sur last week.
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If you don't know the background, a mentally ill man with the last name Noid thought [Domino's "Avoid the Noid" ads] were making fun of him and laid siege to a Domino's, ending in his violent death.
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Rebels supported by Turkish troops have laid siege to al-Bab for weeks under the "Euphrates Shield" operation launched by Turkey nearly four months ago to sweep the Sunni hardliners and Kurdish fighters from its Syrian border.
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The transfer follows a pattern employed across Syria, under which the government and its Russian allies have laid siege to territory, launched air and ground assaults and provided safe passage out to rebel fighters who agree to withdraw.
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Hundreds of militants, including those who broke off from Murad&aposs force, were among black flag-waving fighters who swore allegiance to the Islamic State group and laid siege to the southern Islamic city of Marawi last year.
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ISIS has claimed responsibility over the past few years for several major attacks in Afghanistan, including one in March in which militants disguised as medical personnel laid siege to a military hospital and killed at least 30 people.
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Hong Kong police laid siege to a university on Monday, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to pin back anti-government protesters armed with petrol bombs and other homemade weapons from fleeing amid fears of a bloody crackdown.
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In 2013 and 2014, Chinese state-run news organizations reported on many attacks in Xinjiang, some involving groups of people in Uighur towns or neighborhoods who laid siege to police stations with knives, according to the news organizations.
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Throughout the day however, thousands of protesters laid siege to the Legislative Council building, and late at night a few hundred, mainly in their teens and twenties and wearing protective gear, broke in and occupied it for several hours.
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BERLIN, May 11 (Reuters) - A group of hackers which cybersecurity experts say targets critics of the Russian government has laid siege to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party since April, a security research firm said on Wednesday.
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In the past two years, the government of President Bashar al-Assad, with Russia's help, laid siege to residential areas of Aleppo, once the country's second-largest city, and several other areas controlled by opposition groups, leveling entire neighborhoods.
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According to the authors, the genomes suggest that there were several distinct but closely related strains that laid siege to humankind during the Plague of Justinian, with some strains even existing at the same time in the same place.
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In a huge security operation, Jordanian forces laid siege to the building in a residential part of the city of Salt on Saturday night in search of those responsible for a bomb attack on a police van on Friday.
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Now Mr. Hifter, whose forces have laid siege to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, is fighting the interim government and leads the faction backed by Russia and much of the Arab world but opposed by Europe and the United States.
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Mexican officials will be on high alert following the chaos in Culiacan last October, when cartel gunmen laid siege to the city and forced encircled security forces to free the detained son of jailed kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Hong Kong police laid siege to the Polytechnic University on Monday, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to pin back protesters armed with petrol bombs and other weapons and stop them from fleeing amid fears of a bloody crackdown.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and their allies recaptured areas in southwestern Aleppo on Sunday that rebels had seized last month and laid siege to the city's opposition-held eastern sector for a second time since July, rebels and monitors said.
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From early Monday morning, however, growing divides within the protest movement came to the fore, as a hard core of mostly young, masked protesters laid siege to the legislature, hours ahead of when the traditional march was due to begin.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State posted photos on Saturday it claimed to be of foreigners killed in an attack on a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where gunmen were holding hostages as police laid siege to the building, news agency Amaq said.
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CAIRO, July 1 (Reuters) - A news agency run by Islamic State said the militant group's affiliates were responsible for an attack on a cafe in Bangladesh on Friday, where gunmen were holding hostages as police laid siege to the building.
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Rebels supported by Turkish troops have laid siege to the Islamic State-held town for weeks under the "Euphrates Shield" operation launched by Turkey nearly four months ago to sweep the Sunni hardliners and Kurdish fighters from its Syrian border.
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Op-Ed Contributor MANILA — Shortly after Muslim extremists affiliated with the Islamic State laid siege to Marawi, a city in the southern Philippines, on May 23, President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law for 60 days across the island of Mindanao.
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Mr. Sharif — who managed to survive huge street protests last year and in 2014, when Mr. Khan, the opposition politician, and his supporters laid siege to the capital for several months — has refused to buckle under the legal and political pressure.
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For hours after Guzmán's plea, members of his organization -- armed with machine guns, grenade launchers and other weaponry -- laid siege to parts of the city of one million people, according to a timeline released by Defense Minister Luis Crescencio Sandoval.
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Since the clashes on Monday, questions have been raised about why the police stood by for hours as demonstrators laid siege to the walls of the building, then retreated when it became clear that they had breached the legislature's inner chamber.
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Since the clashes on Monday, questions have been raised about why the police stood by for hours as demonstrators laid siege to the walls of the building, then retreated when it became clear that they had breached the legislature's inner chamber.
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Islamists have attacked shopping malls on the continent before, including Kenya's Westgate building where Somali militant group al Shabaab massacred at least 67 people, including foreigners, and held out for four days as security forces laid siege to the complex.
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MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was preparing to make a deal with Islamic State-inspired militants in the days after they laid siege to a southern city, but aborted the plan without explanation, an intermediary involved in the process said.
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Fortes was appointed commander of the army's 103rd Brigade in January and oversaw a series of operations on the island of Mindanao to disrupt the Maute, a group that has sworn allegiance to Islamic State which later laid siege to Marawi City.
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Mr. Alvarez pointed out that even if the Marawi crisis ended, there was still the lingering threat of retaliatory violence from the Abu Sayyaf and Maute groups, which laid siege to Marawi while backed by fighters from Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
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BEIRUT/HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and their allies again laid siege to rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Sunday, while Turkish-backed fighters drove Islamic State from all the areas along its border, in two significant but separate developments in the multi-sided conflict.
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The deaths of Hapilon and Maute is a major win for a military criticized for its slow progress in retaking Marawi and the ease with which rebels laid siege to it on May 23, before holding the heart of the city for nearly five months.
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Fourteen police officers were killed in an ambush last month in the state of Michoacán and, days later, cartel gunmen laid siege to the city of Culiacán, in Sinaloa State, forcing the government to release one of El Chapo's sons, whom it had just arrested.
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In a significant escalation, Hong Kong police laid siege to a university in the city on Monday, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to push back anti-government protesters armed with petrol bombs and other weapons in an attempt to stop them from fleeing.
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For the next few hours, the mob — a mix of several hundred hard-line Islamists, nationalist militia members and hired local street thugs, armed with rocks and sticks — laid siege to the building, smashing windows with rocks and bricks and making death threats to those inside.
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The rebels who laid siege to Marawi are from an extremist faction of the Abu Sayyaf group, led by Isnilon Hapilon, the so-called "emir" of Southeast Asia, and members of the militant Maute family, which has deep clan connections in the lakeside town and surrounding areas.
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More than 160 people were killed in the November 2008 attack on the Indian financial capital when 10 gunmen laid siege to several buildings including the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels, the city's historic Victoria Terminus train station, and the Jewish cultural center, Chabad House.
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for four suicide bombings since July last year in the Philippines, which fought its toughest battle since World War Two in 2017 when extremists seeking to establish an Islamic State laid siege to Marawi City and occupied it through five months of air and ground assaults.
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In October, soldiers detained one of Chapo's sons, 29-year-old Ovidio Guzmán López, in the Sinaloan capital Culiacán, but they were forced to release him after hundreds of heavily-armed cartel foot soldiers laid siege to the city and threatened to execute the families of the men involved in the capture operation.
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"The operation is over, or as good as over, but requires a little more time to be completed practically on the ground," SDF spokesman Kino Gabriel told al-Hadath TV. The SDF has laid siege to Baghouz for weeks but has repeatedly postponed its final assault to allow thousands of civilians, many of them wives and children of Islamic State fighters, to leave.
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The unchecked power of organized crime was on full display this October, when hundreds of gunmen for the Sinaloa Cartel laid siege to the city of Culiacán in broad daylight, forcing the government to surrender a notable cartel figure — the son of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as "El Chapo" — and set him loose, right back into the underworld.
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"The operation is over, or as good as over, but requires a little more time to be completed practically on the ground," SDF spokesman Kino Gabriel told al-Hadath TV. The SDF has laid siege to Baghouz for weeks but has repeatedly postponed its final assault to allow thousands of civilians, many of them wives and children of Islamic State fighters, to leave.
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This fearsome foursome, along with poster-boy soldier Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), his soul-sucking sword-wielding bodyguard Katana (Karen Fukuhara), Australian thief Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and "a man who can climb anything" named Slipknot (Adam Beach), are called upon by den mother/bad mutha Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) to stop a terrorist threat that has laid siege to Midway City in exchange for the half-hearted promise of freedom.
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