"To get to my house, you have to pass a bridge with a checkpoint, an American base, a gated entrance and a further four checkpoints in one kilometre.
A Pakistani police document marked "top secret," given to me by a Pakistani concerned by the spreading tentacles of jihadis, states that Taliban agents sometimes set up armed checkpoints in one such neighborhood here.
Long lines formed on either side of the checkpoint in Nicosia, one of the world's last divided capitals, a day after restrictions on north-south crossings were lifted for the first time since the Mediterranean island was partitioned in 1974.
The opposition-linked Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels were trying to take checkpoints in Morek, one of which they had already seized, and described the town as a critical position for the Syrian army.
Thousands flee Mosul due to the clashes between security forces and militants of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Arbil, Iraq on June 11 , 2014Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Burnt vehicles belonging to Iraqi security forces are pictured at a checkpoint in east Mosul, one day after radical Sunni Muslim insurgents seized control of the city, June 11 , 2014
Of 926 vehicles screened in a Saturday-night sobriety checkpoint in Burbank, only one person was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.
CTLA-4, a key negative regulator in one checkpoint pathway, is a molecule that is expressed on the surface of active T-lymphocytes and suppresses the ability of the immune system to respond to the tumor.
There were suicide bomb attacks in Gao on Saturday and Sunday – the first in Mali – in checkpoint blasts that one Islamist group – Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao) – claimed it had carried out.
At one checkpoint in Karbala, a Bulgarian sergeant was yelling in broken English at two Iraqi men whose blue Corsica was parked by the median with the hood up.
7. Security lines at ATL tend to be quick, but one checkpoint in particular is reported to be faster than the others.
