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He held the No. 1 ranking and had recently captured his first French Open.

Kassar predicted that they would be interested in only one of the products on the list: ammunition for a type of Russian tank that the Israeli-backed Lebanese Christians had recently captured from Syria.

"They've turned it into a military airport lately," said Abdul Rahman al-Barra, 27, an activist in the Damascus suburbs, adding that rebels had recently captured 40 pro-government militiamen in ambushes on the airport road.

Now in command of an alliance checkpoint in the village of Cheshma Kharoti 10 miles south on the road to Kabul, he showed off two Taliban prisoners he and his men had recently captured after a firefight.

The British spent the winter in Philadelphia which they had recently captured.

Driven away from Cayenne by a British expeditionary force that had recently captured the colony, Topaze took refuge under the gun batteries of Guadeloupe.

Some even expect to it to vastly overshadow the touch-screen technology that has recently captured attention.

Kidnappings are becoming a tactic of choice in the Middle East, and nearly every group that has recently captured a foreigner in Iraq has produced an accompanying video.

Kenyan authorities have been tightening security along the border, and they say they have recently captured several Shabab fighters trying to flee into Kenya.

Unfortunately, the T-shirts are in short supply, and rebels have recently captured and worn some, creating utter confusion.Liberia's war is as horrific as it is messy.

The US is putting pressure on Iraqi leaders to form a unity government capable of dealing with Isis, which has recently captured further territory in northern Iraq and is threatening the Kurdish capital of Irbil.