Some observers conjured images of Sarajevo in describing Syrian attacks on the besieged city of Homs earlier this year.

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Al-Arab, the Homs resident, said military planes were over his besieged city Wednesday.

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The opposition Syrian National Council warned that 40, 000 civilians' lives were in danger amid the violence and called for the Arab League to hold an emergency meeting to protect the besieged city.

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The deluge left the factory under more than six feet of water for more than a month as runoff from the north besieged the city.

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Battles between the two sides have raged, including in the besieged Syrian border city of Qusayr, where government forces and Hezbollah fighters have been battling rebels for control.

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The BBC's Orla Guerin entered the besieged western Libyan city, visiting a hospital and finding the intensive care unit full of people with serious injuries and multiple shrapnel wounds.

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On Wednesday, in the rural outskirts of Bandung, a highlands city of more than two million people, police besieged a house being rented by nonlocal Indonesians.

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