Searching for food, friends and family after a brutal 70-day siege, the civilians flowed in a great river of humanity that grew all morning.

The Serbs had plunged Bosnia into "a dark night of terror," conducting "brutal sieges and ethnic cleansing."

The wasted manpower galled him almost as much as the media's brutal siege.

Resisting the brutal Serbian siege, that ancient city has become the symbol of Muslim survival.

Bragadin had surrendered the city following a brutal 10-month siege in which 6,000 Christian defenders held off an army of more than 100,000 Ottoman Turks.

Most of the city's Calvinist Protestants, including Rubens's own father, were driven out between 1567 and a brutal siege in 1584 and 1585.

Nevertheless, the silencing of the guns represents a remarkable change in the brutal siege of Sarajevo.

For months it has been under a brutal siege, not by Serbs but by Croatian separatists.

He will pay a high price, and we will eventually end this brutal siege of the Bihac area.

Castle walls were built to withstand brutal sieges; some were built so well that they're still standing.