The Parliament then voted to suspend its session until Friday morning, in effect declaring that it was not prepared to meet under military siege.
The deadly military siege on Daraa continued.
After months of military sieges, the protests evolved into an armed rebellion.
Arafat may be under military siege, but Israel is under political siege.
Along the lower part of the broader section of its façade are small openings that served as defensive windows during military siege.
Unlike traditional military sieges, police sieges tend to last for hours or days rather than weeks, months or years.
The priest's daughter could go about unmolested even in the middle of a military siege.
According to local legend, marzipan was first made in Lübeck, possibly in response either to a military siege of the city or a famine year.
This began an extended period of military siege that would last through early 1865, beginning with martial law authorized by President Abraham Lincoln.
The conflicts escalated in several places to military sieges by the Shah's army.