There is very little traffic on the road and correspondents say in many ways, Peshawar is starting to feel like a city under siege.

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Activists in Qusayr said the city was under siege Sunday from several directions.

CNN: Violence surges in strategic Syrian city

General Galic is accused of commanding Serb troops who held the city of Sarajevo under siege for three-and-a-half years from April 1992.

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"The city has been under a choking siege by the regime's army, " the group said.

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He breached the Assyrian siege by digging his famous water tunnel under the city.

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The old city, once as admired as Paris for its beauty, has been under siege since the Communist Revolution, and its charming hutong, or narrow-lane neighborhoods, have been steadily disappearing ever since.

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