siege

Srebrenica, a mainly Muslim town in eastern Bosnia, falls to Bosnian Serb troops shortly after the start of the siege of the capital Sarajevo at the beginning of the Bosnian war in April 1992.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

A veteran anti-Assad activist, Jandali, 48, lived through siege and exile and has written more than 20 books.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

At the time, rebel-held areas in Homs were under siege by the government, and residents were struggling to access food and medicine.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Many modern histories of the siege assume that there was only one possible outcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

After a while the king led his men away somewhat eastward, to come between the fires of the siege and the outer fields.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Modern battlefields are increasingly urban; sieges increasingly prolonged; hunger increasingly systematic.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

We stretch beyond the cathedral and onto Pamplona’s city walls, where the stone holds centuries of sieges, prayers, and heartbreak.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

"If we cannot work because we're always suffering new interruptions, sieges, strikes or blockades, we lose strength," said Fernando Hurtado, president the region's industrial chamber Cainco, in a video message alongside other business heads.

From Reuters ● Jan. 3, 2023

I had read about sieges like this in my English history book, but in ancient days soldiers had worn armor and ridden horseback and used battering rams against the city walls.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

On February 28, 1993, law enforcement sieged Mount Carmel Center ranch, the compound that belonged to Koresh and his religious cult.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023

And a subsequent screening he met several audience members who said they were from Mariupol and that their relatives were escaping the sieged city at the same time he was.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

“There is quite a lot of people still remaining in the absolutely sieged city of Mariupol in some inhumane conditions,” he said during a video briefing.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2022

Over these past weekends, many of my friends have attended medical first aid courses, survival courses on how to survive in an occupied or sieged city.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2022

We're sieged in by planes and ground forces of Savannah Fortress.

From The Night of the Long Knives by Virgil Finlay

It has also levied some sanctions on those doing the sieging.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

Otto went about, sieging much the same, with the iron in his head; and is called Otto MIT DEM PFOILE, Otto SAGITTARIUS, or Otto with the Arrow, in consequence.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle

"But there is time ahead of us," said everybody at Breslau; "Glogau will take some sieging!"

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

The War, since Friedrich got out of it, does not abate in animosity, nor want for bloodshed, battle and sieging; but offers little now memorable.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

Outside of these lines, with a 50,000 dashing fiercely round us, under any kind of leading; pouncing on our convoys; harassing and sieging US,—our siege of Toumay were a sad outlook.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle