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Boko Haram militants have overrun a string of towns in the area in recent weeks.

As fighting intensified demonstrators appear to have overrun a compound of presidential guards inside the capital, then moved on to other parts of the city.

In recent weeks, rebels have overrun a half-dozen bases around Damascus, Syria's capital; two in the country's eastern oil-producing area; and the largest military installation near the country's biggest city, Aleppo.

Authorities were struggling to reassure locals that the armed forces would defend them against the Boko Haram militants, who have overrun a string of towns in the area in recent weeks.

The Free Syrian Army – as well as jihadist military outfits such as Jabhat al-Nusra, outlawed by Washington this week – have overrun a succession of Syrian army bases and military schools, and is now turning the regime's weapons on them.

Pro-Russian forces in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk have overrun a government building and proclaimed they have taken over the regional administration, locals have told the Guardian.

Tuareg rebels are already taking advantage of the confusion, and have overrun an abandoned garrison.

In what appeared to be a strategically less significant but symbolically important rebel victory, insurgents also claimed to have overrun an army battalion in the suburbs of Dara'a, the southern city where the uprising against Mr. Assad began.

It's not the first time armies of the birds have overrun an unsuspecting town.

It's the one about the gangs that Williams claimed had "overrun" a posh Ritz-Carlton where he stayed during Hurricane Katrina.

On November 7th, the Rwandan government announced that it had overrun a deeply entrenched Hutu military and militia camp on Iwawa Island, between Rwanda and Zaire, on Lake Kivu.