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Mr. Cocke and several others had escaped but were recaptured by SS troops.

Some 200 villages and towns in the north-east of Syria were recaptured by the YPG in May alone.

The rest were taken back to the Soviet Union after they were recaptured by the Red Army at the end of the war.

These places were recaptured by the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in the early summer but they remain desolate and uninhabited.

Two Iraqi refugees facing deportation to Baghdad made a dramatic escape from an asylum detention centre but were recaptured by police using dogs and a helicopter.

Several days later, on March 18, they were recaptured by Confederates that had "orders to arrest any one, white or black, that was going north or south, east or west, that did not have papers to show who they were or where they were going," Pierson noted.

Occupied in 1942 by the Japanese, the peninsula was recaptured by Allied forces in 1943.

Sinjar was recaptured by Kurdish forces in November last year after Isis seized control in mid-2014.

William escapes, only to be recaptured by bounty hunters; then he escapes all over again.

In 1779 it was recaptured by the French, but it was restored to Britain in 1783.

By Robin Wright December 13 , 2016A soldier loyal to Bashar al-Assad on Monday in Aleppo, which has been recaptured by the Syrian Army.