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Palestinian security officials said Israeli tanks destroyed a checkpoint held by Yasir Arafat's Force-17 presidential guard, slightly wounding three members of the unit, as they entered Qalqiliya.

To enter Mosul, Martany, the driver she'd hired, and the journalist had to go through a checkpoint held by Iraqi soldiers.

Along with his two brothers and a group of friends, the teenage Sahib would go out in his father's Toyota Land Cruiser and attack checkpoints held by the army.

Heavy armored personnel carriers unleashed volleys at trenches and checkpoints held by lightly armed Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas in the mining town of Belacevac, six miles west of Pristina, the provincial capital.

Security maps of southern, eastern and much of northern Afghanistan are coloured livid red, to denote areas of Taliban control, with seams of green showing highways and checkpoints held by the government.

After crossing the border, they then made a 19-hour journey, mostly by bus, to Aleppo via Afrin, which included passing through checkpoints held by Syrian al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al Nusra.

The checkpoint was the third held by the department this year.

Barricades burn after commando raid Jump to media player The BBC's Oleg Boldyrev reports from the scene of an operation in eastern Ukraine where commandos cleared checkpoints that had been held by pro-Russian separatists.

Many Ukrainians embarrassed by the sorry state of their army are feeling moments of pride as the defense forces have wrested back control of border checkpoints and territory that had been held by rebels.

At the entrance to Timbuktu itself, the checkpoint was manned by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), while the city was held by Ansar Dine.

A resident from Homs reached through Skype called the situation "unbearable," saying the roads had checkpoints and barricades every few miles, while snipers were visible on rooftops of buildings held by pro-government forces.