One police lieutenant told us that he'd heard about an old army compound near Dos Brazos.

Wang Shuo grew up in an army compound in Beijing.

"It's huge," she said at last, looking up at the massive metal building at the back of the army compound.

What had previously been a two-family, Buddhist hamlet, was now an unsightly army compound.

Many attacks have been similar to the one in Hilla, with bombers driving vehicles into large crowds of hopeful applicants gathered outside police stations and army compounds.

Palestinians rushed into the vacated army compound, tore down an Israeli flag on the roof and raised a Palestinian banner, the radio said.

At the top, very near the place from which Jimmy and I had made our observations in the afternoon, I looked back at the army compound.

The others are all Jewish settlements, religious sites or army compounds surrounded by Palestinian areas, or the junctures between Israeli and Palestinian-ruled territories.

On 10 February 2011 the TTP claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at an army compound in Mardan that killed at least 31 people.

A week earlier, an army compound at the north edge of the city was invaded and twenty men were killed while they slept.