As an example, he cited an Albertson resident who said he had phoned the town on several occasions in March with a complaint about a retaining wall that looked unstable.
Hasan spoke by phone from the town of Qusayr, near Homs.
"What I didn't do was get on the phone to the town supervisor and ask," he said.
"We all share the same problems – struggling to survive," Dzeletovic said by phone from the town of Zvornik.
It is some of the longest clashes in Kobani," said Kurdish activist Farhad Shami by phone from the town.
The Associated Press, citing its reporter who traveled there on a government-organized trip, said vans packed with families and their belongings appeared to be returning residents to their homes, though other residents reached by phone said the town remained largely deserted.
Residents reached by phone in the town, Amerli, 100 miles north of Baghdad, said that ISIS fighters had surrounded it, mined the roads and posted snipers so that no one could leave.
Cecilia Villalobos, Urique's head of tourism, said by phone that the town had gone into "a psychosis situation" on Feb. 27, when widespread gun violence was reported in a nearby village.
How could I stay abreast of what was going on in my house if, when the snow came, my every footstep in the yard would leave a trail of incrimination and such clear proof of a prowler on the grounds as to get Diana on the phone to the town police?
