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Antigovernment activists said Wednesday that Al Heffa's residents had fled in the face of relentless attacks by the Syrian military.

A spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, said Thursday in Geneva that the Syrian regime blocked civilians in Palmyra from fleeing in the face of the Islamic State group until the government forces themselves were able to leave.

"Even intelligence from other countries shows the three Bs - Bush, Berlusconi and Blair - are consid ered the most exposed to this type of risk". Mr Calderoli added: "The moment has come to start thinking of our own interests". His remark prompted scornful disavowals from several of Mr Berlusconi's other supporters, one of whom said a withdrawal from Iraq would mean "fleeing in the face of terror".

Hundreds of thousands of Christians have fled Iraq and Syria in the face of Islamic extremism and conflict.

Like so many other Jews, he fled Spain in the face of the Almohade onslaughts of 1140.

The gas chamber was then disabled as SS guards began to flee in the face of advancing allied troops.

Rose fled from the police out of fear, she speculated.

Not everyone flees, even in the face of repression or death.

In the second half of 2014, refugees fleeing Iraq and Syria in the face of the incursions of the Islamic State further exacerbated the pressure on the Turkish immigration system.

He came to the UK in 1993 and is among a large group of Islamists who fled from the Middle East to London because they faced persecution.

The broader aim is to secure an arc of defence to the north and west of Baghdad.Nineveh and Mosul, its capital, are beyond the reach of Iraq's security forces, which fled from that area in the face of ISIS a month ago.