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• n  the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack

• The heart of the capital was under siege.
• The siege of Plei Me began two unsuspected days before the first shot was fired.
• When the siege started on Sept.

• besieging
• beleaguering
• military blockade

News & Articles

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• Siege by gunmen of Pakistani hospital ends
  QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's interior minister says the siege of a hospital in southwestern Pakistani has ended after security forces stormed the building.
  June 15, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Pakistan hospital under siege
  The siege at a hospital in southwestern Pakistan -- where casualties of an earlier bus bombing were taken for treatment -- ended with nearly two dozen dead, police said. Eleven people, including four militants, have been killed in an armed siege at a ...
  June 15, 2013 - WGAL 8 Susquehanna Valley
• REVIEW: "Siege 13,’’ by Tamas Dobozy
  FICTION: Stories that plow the siege of Budapest, and beyond.
  June 15, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Yasser Arafat in The Associated Press
  This decision proves the imposed siege failed to oust Hamas from power and did not achieve its objectives, but brought devastating damages to the legitimate Palestinian economy,said Yasser Abdel Baki, a 34-year-old food wholesaler in Gaza City.
• Mahmoud Abbas in Palestine Note (blog)
  We also see the need to lift the Israeli siege of the Palestinian people, the need to open all the crossings, and the need to let building material and humanitarian material and all the necessities go into the Palestinian people,said Abbas...
• Ayman al-Zawahri in 940 News
  Provide them (Hamas) with money, do your best to get it there, break the siege imposed on them by crusaders and Arab leaders traitors,al-Zawahri, who is Osama bin Laden's top deputy, said, addressing Muslims around the world. "Facilitate...