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In 1934 Saudi soldiers retook towns seized by the Zaydis.
When Harvick retook the lead, Keselowski returned to pit road.
Democrats retook the House majority in last year's midterm elections.
The 49ers were awful, and Kaepernick retook the starting job.
It really wasn't the Syrian Arab Army that retook Aleppo.
In 2012, Democrats retook the state Senate — or should have.
But he said admissions officers would have to consider whether it was fair to compare the superscores of students who retook the whole test with those of students who retook just part of it.
Percent who retook the SAT 123% 212 First SAT score 220 211 1800 1900 Percent who retook the SAT 66% 64 First SAT score 1600 1700 203 1900 Note: Larger circles indicate more test-takers.
Every time the rebels gained some ground, government forces retook it.
In March, Syrian forces retook the area from the extremist group.
Shortly afterwards, the army retook the town, the state media said.
Larson gained on Truex and retook the lead on lap 47.
The police retook control of the prison late in the afternoon.
The Phillies retook the lead in the bottom of the seventh.
With Russian air support, the Assad government retook Aleppo in December.
Kent State retook the lead on Trickett's 22-yard field goal.
He later voted for her after Democrats retook the House last year.
Missouri retook the lead to go into intermission up two, 34-222.
Perhaps most significantly, Iraqi forces retook the city of Ramadi in December.
The advance came a day after military forces retook Abu Grain checkpoint.
In May 2014, Assad finally broke the rebels and retook the city.
Government forces retook the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi, near Falluja, in December.
When the army retook the area it occupied dozens of them itself.
He stayed in that office until 2012, when he retook the presidency.
Piquet retook the lead on Lap 39, with just five laps remaining.
In the spring, Mr. Oviedo retook the A+ certification test and passed.
After the Republicans retook the Senate in 2014, McConnell became majority leader.
Syrian government forces, backed by Russian troops, retook Ghouta in April 2018.
Reinforcement forces arrived after several hours and retook the fallen outpost. Dec.
In 2014, Yemen's army launched yet another offensive and retook the town.
Young retook the stage, but not to sing any tribute to Brown.
The Raiders kicked a field goal and retook the lead, 23–21.
Government forces retook territory from the insurgents last year, although attacks continue.
The Iraqi military retook Shirqat district last week, after surrounding it for months.
He ultimately surrendered to government forces when they retook the territory in November.
He retook the championship lead and an extra point for the fastest lap.
Gore decision, Democrats retook power in the late 2000s thanks to moderate candidates.
With Murray playing shakily early, the Sharks retook the lead at 210-2.
"Assume Putin decides to 'retake' Alaska, the way he 'retook' Crimea," he wrote.
The attacks were either repelled or Afghan forces quickly retook any lost territory.
White supremacist violence and repression worked, and Democrats retook control of the state.
Truex retook the lead on lap 22017 and led most of the remaining laps.
Larson quickly took the lead from Busch, but Busch retook it on lap 129.
After months of fighting — backed by US airstrikes — the SDF retook Raqqa in October.
With US support, Iraqi troops retook Mosul — the group's Iraqi capital — in July 2017.
Iraqi armed forces retook the oil-rich Kirkuk region this week, following a Sept.
Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. and coalition airpower, retook Mosul from ISIS in July.
One of Murad's brothers is now fighting with the paramilitaries who retook the area.
The U.S. retook the lead in the race to build the world's speediest supercomputer.
She retook the SAT, and started "at a great college" last fall, she said.
Kurdish forces, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, retook Manbij from ISIS in 2016.
When he retook the lead, Keselowski was up by nine seconds over Carl Edwards.
So Mitchell attended a local community college, retook some classes and improved his grades.
Three hundred students retook the math test, and of those students, 55 percent passed.
In preparation for Mosul, Iraqi forces retook Hit, raising the Iraqi flag there Monday.
After Republicans retook the House in 2010, most of Obama's legislative agenda was doomed.
And ISIS has been on the ropes since about 2017, after Iraqi forces retook Mosul.
Swathes of the country remain in rebel hands, and Islamic State retook Palmyra on Sunday.
ISIS was driven out in March last year, but then retook the city in December.
Facebook's suite of apps also retook the top 4 spots in app downloads, he noted.
Syrian government troops retook the ancient city of Palmyra, captured by Islamic State last May.
The Lions regrouped, beat the Kings and retook their place in Super Rugby for 2014.
Iraqi forces retook control of the city of Falluja from the Islamic State in June.
Hadi's supporters, backed by forces from the United Arab Emirates, retook the area in April.
The Royals retook the lead in the bottom of the eighth on a wild pitch.
President Bashar al-Assad's forces retook eastern Ghouta during a fierce offensive under massive bombardment.
On March 7, 1966, two battalions, one American and one South Vietnamese, retook Long Huu.
Virginia retook the lead at 232-227 just a minute later and never trailed again.
On Tuesday, Democrats retook control of the Virginia legislature for the first time in decades.
U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces and Iranian-supported Shi'ite militias retook the region last year.
The Syrian army retook Palmyra, some 213km (140 miles) from Raqqa, at the end of March.
In July this year it was the last to fall as his paramilitary forces retook Masaya.
Last November, Democrats retook the majority in the House while losing some seats in the Senate.
Exports had been on hold since Iraqi government forces retook Kirkuk from Kurdish authorities in 2017.
Democrats had signaled privacy legislation would be a priority when they retook the House last year.
Malian and U.N. peacekeeping forces responded and eventually retook the base, he said early Friday afternoon.
The Cardinals retook the lead in the fourth as Yairo Munoz's groundout drove in Jedd Gyorko.
The issue of impeachment has divided Democrats since they retook control of the House in January.
Troops last month retook the town of Rawa, one of ISIS's last footholds in the country.
After Obeidi's dismissal, the military retook the northern district of Shirqat, a stepping stone to Mosul.
Afterward, the subjects re-viewed the pictures, retook the math test, then looked at more photos.
She searched for the people she had photographed when they were little and retook their photos.
The district had previously fallen to Taliban control in 2015 but the government later retook it.
He retook the presidency in 2007, and has taken near total control of the state since.
Promises of local autonomy made when it retook the southern province of Daraa were quickly broken.
However, the Capitals retook the lead on Ovechkin's goal with 13:41 remaining in the first.
Last month, Iraq's central government retook control of the field from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.
He&aposd been considered a contender for speaker if Democrats retook the House in the November midterms.
But then in 2013 Egypt's military retook control of the government and cracked down on Islamist movements.
Fighters from the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces retook the former ISIS stronghold of Hajin on Saturday.
Thank god after the army advanced and retook these areas; we are now back in our homes.
Iraqi forces retook Ramadi, a provincial capital just a short drive west of Baghdad, late last year.
The once thriving town, which the army retook in September 2015, has been razed to the ground.
Output fell from 600,000 bpd last week when Iraqi forces retook control of oilfields from Kurdish fighters.
The army retook control of a canal that supplies three-fifths of the capital's water on Monday.
So after retook Congress, they set up the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Ethics as an independent watchdog.
In addition, government forces in Helmand retook Nawa District, long been held by the insurgents, in July.
"Assume Putin decides to 'retake' Alaska, the way he 'retook' Crimea," Dershowitz wrote in a 2018 book.
Many previous agreements have failed, but the dynamics have changed since pro-government forces fully retook Aleppo.
Arkansas retook the lead at 20-17 with 10:35 left on Rakeem Boyd's two-yard run.
In 2011, Mr. Page retook the chief executive job atop Google, getting something of a hero's welcome.
U.S.-backed Kurdish forces retook Manbij from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2016.
When Democrats retook the House majority in the 2018 midterm wave, Thornberry became the panel's ranking member.
The result was that Democrats won 31 seats in the House and retook control of the chamber.
The bomb attacks are the first in the city since government forces retook it from ISIS in June.
So I retook my senior photos & brought my ring light with me so my highlight would be poppin.
Most concerning: Schumer reportedly promised Republicans that the filibuster would remain in place if Democrats retook the Senate.
Fighting continued through the day and one rebel group, Jaysh al-Nasr, said the insurgents retook some territory.
The army earlier on Monday retook control of a canal that supplies three-fifths of the capital's water.
It's an expected step, and one many liberals wish had been taken as soon as Democrats retook Congress.
Armenian and Karabakhi officials say they retook the captured land, but their claims have not been independently verified.
Butler retook the lead when Kamar Baldwin stole a sloppy pass and took it in for a layup.
Syrian government forces, backed by Russian troops, retook Ghouta in April 2018, after pummeling the city for years.
Mosul, Iraq (CNN)Six months ago, US-backed Iraqi forces retook the city of Mosul from ISIS control.
In November 2010, Democrats suffered defeat at the ballot box, as Republicans retook the majority in the House.
Democrats leveraged the lawsuit to secure huge gains in the 2018 midterms and ultimately retook the House majority.
He said that pro-government forces had looted his city when they retook it from the Islamic State.
Late last year, Washington passed a same-day registration bill just months after Democrats retook the state legislature.
ISIS destroyed many other historic sites until the Syrian army -- backed by Russian forces -- retook the city in March.
Carolina responded and retook the lead, 2-1, just over two minutes later on a goal by Jaccob Slavin.
Last month, Saudi Arabia retook its lead as the world's largest oil producer, according to the International Energy Agency.
" Four years later, President Barack Obama called the 20163 midterms, where Republicans retook control of the House, a "shellacking.
Some congressional Democrats have introduced articles of impeachment both before and after they retook the House in the midterms.
The group of 20 women were captured in Mosul by Iraqi forces when they retook the Islamic State stronghold.
Many of the atrocities came to light after the Iraqi army, backed by the American forces, retook the north.
Gold briefly retook the lead, but spot palladium prices have beaten out gold prices for the past three days.
Many families returned after government security forces retook the area, Mr. Noorzad said, but they still live in fear.
Members of La Resistencia celebrated as they retook the main highway, raising their fists and singing the national anthem.
The day before, the Iraqi army retook the oil-producing Kirkuk area from Kurdish Peshmerga forces on his orders.
With Russian and Iranian help, Assad retook control of the city in December 2016 after months of brutal fighting.
Democrats, who retook the House Tuesday, have promised to pass legislation that protects LGBTQ people under civil rights law.
This gave Assad permission to move into parts of the territory that the Kurds, with American help, retook from ISIS.
Last month, the Iraqi army retook the nearby region of Hit, pushing the militants further north along the Euphrates valley.
To the west, Iraqi forces under cover of coalition airstrikes retook the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in Anbar province.
In Friday's fighting, Syrian government troops and allied forces retook several villages and moved a step closer toward surrounding Aleppo.
Kyle Busch retook the lead on a restart just past lap 200, giving way to Truex a few laps later.
Smartwatches are in the midst of a resurgence, and the biggest name on the block, Apple, just retook the crown.
Manbij was previously a stronghold for ISIS militants until 2016, after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces retook the city.
The U.S.-supported Syrian Democratic Forces retook Raqqa in October after a four-month battle for the city against ISIS.
Iraqi forces, bolstered by the U.S.-led coalition's airpower, retook Ramadi late last year and are preparing to retake Mosul.
On Wednesday, security forces retook the district of Koran-Wa-Monjan in Badakhshan, the defense ministry said in a statement.
Later the anarchists — armed with metal rods, fire extinguishers and sticks embedded with nails — violently retook control of the building.
He led a cavalry regiment that retook the city of Tal Afar from al Qaeda insurgents during the Iraq War.
The Islamic State retook Palmyra in December, nine months after Syrian government forces, backed by Russia, pushed the group out.
Last month, the Iraqi army retook the nearby region of Hit, pushing the militants farther north along the Euphrates valley.
Nineveh's largest city and capital is Mosul, which Iraqi forces with U.S.-led coalition backing retook from ISIS in July.
He did not seek office when Law and Justice retook Parliament in 2015, pushing more acceptable candidates to the fore.
The biggest blow came last December, when Assad retook Aleppo, one of Syria's biggest cities and a longtime rebel stronghold.
Iraqi forces retook the village of Nuaimiya, just south of Falluja, closing in on the city itself, al-Iraqi TV reported.
The latest evidence comes from Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, which the US-led coalition battling ISIS retook back in July.
This week, the TPP retook center stage after President Trump signed an executive order pulling the U.S. out of the agreement.
He led the Appropriations Committee in 2005-06 and regained the chairmanship in January 2015, when the GOP retook the Senate.
Nigerian troops retook the town of Damboa in August 2014 after it was briefly seized by Boko Haram the previous month.
Iraqi forces retook Tal Afar, a city of predominantly ethnic Turkmen that produced some of Islamic State's senior commanders, last month.
The Jazz retook a 203-220 lead on the strength of consecutive baskets from Gobert and Mitchell on the other end.
Then, Harvick, with 10 fewer laps on his tires, cut into Keselowski's lead and retook the top spot on lap 142.
Even before she retook the Speakership, Pelosi's political action committee, House Majority PAC, gave at least $450,000 to Planned Parenthood Votes.
Democrats learned the lesson and, in 1976, they retook the White House after nominating the moderate Jimmy Carter as their candidate.
After the government retook Kunduz last year, President Ashraf Ghani visited and promised to bring effective local government to the province.
After Democrats retook the House, they passed a cap-and-trade bill in 2009, and again lost the majority in 85033.
Last week, the Syrian Democratic Forces retook the center of Hajin, forcing the militants to fall back to the town's outskirts.
This month's midterm elections, in which Democrats retook control of the House of Representatives, may have begun to narrow that gap.
Though Page later retook the helm as CEO, Schmidt remained executive chairman and a public face of the company until 2017.
A new national Quinnipiac poll showed he just retook the lead while Warren lost half her support, dropping to third place.
Most of the tens of thousands of people in Madaya were expected to remain when the Syrian government retook the town.
The Syrian government retook the area in July during a Russian-backed offensive to drive rebels from their stronghold in southwest Syria.
They quickly retook the lead with the run in the seventh on four straight singles, including the one that prompted the review.
Moulton, in a knock against him with some Democrats, later voted for Pelosi's speakership after Democrats retook the House in the midterms.
When government forces and Shiite militias retook the Anbar capital of Ramadi in late 2015, the city was left largely in ruins.
Dallas briefly retook a 55-54 lead in the opening minute of the third quarter on a 323-pointer from Wesley Matthews.
More than 3,2 had already been safely detonated since government forces, backed by Russian jets, retook the city on Sunday, he said.
Sergeant Steven Floyd, a 16-year veteran of the correction department, was found unresponsive after state police retook C building, Phelps said.
The Beavers retook the lead at 743-21 when Nall ran in from 13 yards for his second touchdown of the game.
Iraq curtailed its output by 120,000 barrels per day in October after its military retook control of oil fields from Kurdish forces.
Among the first actions taken by Republicans when they retook the U.S. House in 2010 was to institute a ban on earmarks.
Iraqi forces backed by the coalition retook Mosul earlier this year and have since routed ISIS from the remaining towns it held.
He stepped down from the leadership of his company and only retook control of it after his three terms as mayor ended.
Coke retook control of those operations in 2010 as it wanted to adapt them to producing healthier drinks to meet consumer demand.
Forces retook the mosque on Thursday, prompting Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to declare an end to the group's "state of falsehood".
The benchmark index retook and built upon a level above 2,740 in early June, returning to highs not seen since mid-March.
But the United States retook the lead thanks to a machine, called Summit, built for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Last spring, the Russian-backed Syrian Army routed the jihadists — but in December the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) retook Palmyra.
In 2006, when Democrats won 30 seats and retook the House majority, Democrats had an 11.5 point edge in the generic ballot.
There are already 15,000 people in a crowded camp for displaced local residents set up by the military after it retook the town.
But the Eagles quickly retook the lead on their next drive as Brown found receiver Jeff Smith for a 26-yard passing score.
Netanyahu retook the premiership in 2009, and clashed with President Obama from day one on issues such as Iran and the peace process.
The al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front was among the groups that retook Kansaba, which had previously been an important base for the insurgents.
The nearly 2,600 students who didn't have significant ADHD symptoms continued on and retook the same surveys periodically over the next two years.
The small hope that she and the others were kept alive in detention was shaken in April, when Syrian government forces retook Douma.
After months of intense urban combat, US-backed militias from the nearby town of Misurata retook Sirte and surrounding regions in late 2016.
Clint Bowyer did get up to second on the restart that followed a lap-six debris caution, but Truex quickly retook the spot.
Internal Trade Minister Abdullah Gharbi told Reuters that internal trade had risen by more than 30 percent since the government retook major roads.
Once San Jose retook the lead with a little more than five minutes left in the first period, they held it for good.
The College Board invalidated a Florida high school student's SAT results after she retook the exam to improve her score by 330 points.
Coalition forces retook much of the south before the war, widely seen as a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, bogged down.
Kurdish and Arab Syrians, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, retook Manbij from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) last year.
When the race restarted for stage two, Keselowski retook the position, but Suarez maintained second until finally having to pit on lap 91.
Using packs of hounds – the same dogs used to run down runaway slaves – the Confederates retook the area, hanging rebels along their way.
A BLANKET HOG "takes heat from" you when you're sleeping, and you got back to sleep, comfortably, only once you RETOOK your comforter.
"After he loaded the wounded in the evacuation helicopter, he retook control of his commando squad and rejoined the fight," the statement continued.
But where was Mr. Trump's condemnation when Mr. Assad's forces retook the city of Aleppo in December, a month after his own election?
Republicans steamrolled his ineffectual replacement as governor, retook the Senate with the help of Democratic turncoats, and rolled back the left-wing turn.
Iraq's security forces retook a border crossing with Syria from the militants, hours after entering al-Qaim, according to the Joint Operations Command.
But they are worried they will lose more House seats a cycle after Democrats clawed back two districts as they retook their majority.
The Rebels retook a 228-23 lead when guard Ike Nwamu converted 603-point play and Morgan turned a steal into a dunk.
But it could only be a temporary hold, especially once Republicans started winning back southern congressional seats and retook the House in 1995.
Government forces retook the eastern bank from ISIS a month ago, completing a key phase in an offensive on Mosul that began on October.
Islamic State (IS), which retook the ancient city of Palmyra on December 11th, still rules wide tracts of (sparsely populated) land in the east.
The multiple collapsed with most other stocks during the housing crisis, but then retook that multiple above 30 as the latest bull market began.
When Kurds retook Kobani after five months of street battles, it boosted their military standing in the eyes of Washington, and compounded Ankara's problems.
Last year militants attacked a sparsely manned UN police base in the Malian city and held it before UN and Malian forces retook it.
Police retook the building after knocking down makeshift walls of metal lockers filled with water that inmates erected at the building's entrances, Coop said.
Although she already performed earlier in the day, Chapman retook the stage to fill in for Stevie Wonder and quickly won over the audience.
In 2012, the party retook the top job under Pena Nieto and will try to hang onto the post in Mexico's 2018 general election.
Elite interior ministry troops were clearing the Mithaq district on Wednesday, after entering it on Tuesday when counterterrorism forces also retook an industrial zone.
It briefly retook its place as the third-largest cryptocurrency, with a market value of $47 billion, a milestone it reached earlier this month.
Iraqi government forces, backed by the U.S.-led international coalition, retook several Iraqi cities from Islamic State last year and have liberated eastern Mosul.
The analysts added that the results of the 85033 midterm elections, where Democrats retook the House, indicate Trump is at least in some trouble.
The Netherlands, the European champion, retook the lead in the 48th minute when Dominique Bloodworth converted from close range for her first international goal.
That day Syrian rebel forces backed by Turkey retook the critical junction of Saraqeb, which had fallen to regime forces earlier in the month.
When American troops retook Falluja in 2004, the fierce urban fighting took place in a city that had already been abandoned by most civilians.
After another quick caution and restart, Harvick retook the lead, only to lose it a few laps later when Keselowski elected to stay out.
The California-based company retook the number one spot for the first time since 2013, according to IDC, pulling ahead of second-place Lenovo.
" Republicans, of course, gained seats in the Senate, but Democrats retook the House of Representatives — a divided outcome that most definitely wasn't a "Big Victory.
When Iraqi forces retook east Mosul and the surrounding area last week, they found Ayman and returned him to what is left of his family.
And you can be sure that when Democrats retook control of the House in the 2018 midterms, the push for impeachment proceedings would have begun.
The Syrian army retook the ancient town, which has fallen to IS twice, with help from the Russian air force, it cited Peskov as saying.
After the Clippers caught up, the Lakers retook the lead 42-41 on a dunk by Harrell with 6:49 left in the first half.
The Lightning retook the two-goal lead at 7:45 of the third when Gourde scored a rebound after Ullmark had stopped Patrick Maroon's wraparound.
Along Fifth Avenue and into the hills of Central Park, Romanchuk retook the lead, holding off Hug and Weir in a sprint to the finish.
Along Fifth Avenue and into the hills of Central Park, Romanchuk retook the lead, holding off Hug and Weir in a sprint to the finish.
Iraqi military forces retook the site early in their campaign to drive the jihadists out of Mosul, which lies about 30 km (20 miles) north.
He was openly angling to vault higher up into the leadership following the 2018 elections -- whether or not Democrats retook the House majority this fall.
They retook control of the House of Representatives, putting an end to President Trump's legislative agenda and giving them the power to investigate his corruption.
In the 2018 midterm election, Democrats retook their House majority largely on the strength of their victories is suburban seats in Pennsylvania, California and Florida.
Output and exports in northern Iraq fell mid-month when Iraqi forces retook control of oilfields from Kurdish fighters who had been there since 2014.
When Syrian government forces retook control of Rami al-Sayyed's Damascus suburb in April, he and others who had supported opposition fighters faced a choice.
According to IDC: HP retook the top spot for the first time since the first quarter of 2013, thanks to a 13% year-over-year increase.
He said the government asked the U.N. to provide assistance after it retook the former rebel-held Damascus suburbs of eastern Ghouta and released $16 million.
The Jays tied it in the second on Hernandez's RBI single, but Baltimore retook the lead for good with three unearned runs in the bottom half.
Iraqi forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition allies and Kurds, retook Mosul in July following the group's occupation of the country's second largest city in 2014.
The U.S. and its coalition partners declared victory against ISIS in March after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) retook its last pocket of land in Baghouz.
"I want to tell you what happened," Beatty said as he retook the stage after presenting the Best Picture Oscar … and after everyone realized the mistake.
And this week Iraqi forces, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, retook Al-Qayyara air base from ISIS near Mosul, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said.
Security forces retook Qaim, which lies 300 km (185 miles) west of Baghdad in the Sunni province of Anbar, on the border with Syria, in November.
Iraqi government forces retook the fields northwest of Kirkuk from Kurdish peshmerga this week, following a Kurdish independence referendum last month that was condemned by Baghdad.
Zagreb retook most of the rebel-held lands in August 1995 in a four-day offensive called "Operation Storm", which culminated with the capture on Aug.
Although Assad's forces retook the territory with Russia's help in March 2016, they were unable to hold it while engaged in their December assault against Aleppo.
Iraqi Kurdistan's oil exports more than halved to 200,000 bpd on Wednesday as the Iraqi military retook some of the biggest fields from Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces.
But already, by the first chicane, Senna retook the lead, passing Prost, whose engine had begun to backfire after he changed gears from second to third.
The US-backed campaign against the Islamic State notched a key victory this week, when coalition forces retook the key city of Raqqa in northern Syria.
Down-ballot Democrats picked up nearly 220 House seats and retook control of the Senate based on voters blaming Hoover and Republicans for the Great Depression.
Zer Gul, a commander of the local police whose forces came under fire, said the Taliban managed to overrun five outposts before Afghan forces retook them.
That's because on Friday morning Iraqi troops and US-led coalition forces retook Rawa — a small town in northwestern Iraq — after about five hours of fighting.
Additional troops that were later sent in retook the district and pushed the Taliban back out, said Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry.
And here's one example: With Russian and Iranian help, Assad retook control of the major city of Aleppo in December 2016 after months of brutal fighting.
He led a cavalry regiment that retook the city of Tal Afar from al-Qaeda insurgents during the Iraq War, an operation that garnered national attention.
The Cavaliers tightened their play at the defensive end and retook the lead at 40-39 on two free throws by Morsell with 4:04 left.
But if Democrats retook the Senate, they could simply refuse to consider any Trump nominee for the seat — as Republicans did for Merrick Garland in 2016.
WASHINGTON — A day after House Democrats retook the majority, Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a message to her colleagues that would soon be adopted as a creed.
Baghdad's forces retook Ramadi, the Anbar provincial capital near Falluja, in December but have not yet tackled a bigger challenge - IS-held Mosul, Iraq's largest northern city.
"Assume Putin decides to 'retake' Alaska, the way he 'retook' Crimea," Alan Dershowitz wrote in 2018, a year and a half before officially joining Trump's legal team.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Apple briefly retook its title as the largest publicly listed U.S. company by market capitalization on Monday, beating out Microsoft and Amazon.
Baghdad's forces retook Ramadi, the Anbar provincial capital near Fallujah, in December but have not yet tackled a bigger challenge — IS-held Mosul, Iraq's largest northern city.
Democrats retook the House majority thanks in large part to the rejection of Trump and his tactics by suburban women in places like California, Pennsylvania and Florida.
Democrats nationalized the midterm campaigns around the issues of the war as well as congressional Republicans, and they retook control of the House and Senate in 2006.
Southern states readmitted to the Union were now essentially left to their own devices on racial matters, and white conservative governments retook power, as this map shows.
The army on Monday retook control of a canal that supplies three-fifths of the water to Delhi, a metropolis with a population of over 20 million.
McCain briefly took over with a bounce from the GOP convention, which started on Labor Day, but Obama retook the lead for good just two weeks later.
Fresno State quickly retook the lead at 20-313 on McMaryion's second TD of the game, a 6-yard run, with 4:21 left in the third.
They switched back and forth briefly before Bezos retook the top spot, which he has mostly held onto ever since, although Gates currently has the high spot.
Archaeologists and reporters confirmed that much of the Mosul antiquities museum's collection has been completely destroyed after Iraqi forces retook the museum from ISIS earlier this week.
In last year's midterm elections, they retook the House largely by appealing to suburban moderate voters on issues such as healthcare and not focusing on Trump's conduct.
Ten days after the army retook her neighborhood, she was making bread when her stove was knocked over during a mortar attack and she was set ablaze.
But the Democrats would be wise to remember that they retook the House in a midterm contest that saw healthcare consistently ranked as the top voter concern.
When he finished, Mr. West retook the center, then lay prostrate on the floor as Kirk Franklin, the gospel maximalist and bridge-builder, emerged to give a benediction.
Among neighborhoods now in regime hands is eastern Aleppo's biggest district, Masaken Hanano, while on Monday forces retook another key district, al-Sakhour, according to Syrian state media.
When Democrats retook the House in 2018, they did so without recapturing almost any of the small-town and rural districts they had lost in those two landslides.
Iraqi government forces retook eastern Mosul in January and began a new push on May 27 to capture the remaining enclave, where up to 200,000 people are trapped.
Niger troops briefly regained control of Bosso on Saturday morning, according to the defense ministry, but the militants retook it on Sunday night, Bosso Mayor Mamadou Bako said.
Iraqi forces recently retook Nimrud, just south of Mosul, we came to have a look -- lone visitors to a lone hilltop that hasn't seen a tourist in years.
Food supplies have withered in eastern Ghouta since the government retook two neighborhoods in Damascus that were used to smuggle goods to the rebel-packed suburbs in May.
He stepped down as CEO in 2000, but retook the helm in 2008 after the U.S. housing crisis sent Starbucks, which had been on an expansion tear, spiraling.
As one Congress ends and another begins, many are looking forward to a rebalancing of power — especially in the House of Representatives, which Democrats handily retook in November.
Pro-government forces retook the eastern Ghouta region from rebels in April after besieging the region for years and launching a brutal bombing campaign with their Russian allies.
Several months later, the Nigerian military retook the town but elements of Boko Haram have returned in surrounding areas, posing a threat that has severely hampered aid deliveries.
The president has been unflinchingly positive in his response to the midterm results, where Democrats retook control of the House by defeating a number of Trump-backed candidates.
Insurgents advanced to within a few km (miles) of government-held Hama city earlier this year, before the Syrian army and its allies retook the territory in April.
Peshmerga forces of the autonomous Kurdish region, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, retook Sinjar in November while he was back in the United States for a break.
Since he retook power in 2010, Hungary has recovered from a devastating financial crisis, eased by tens of billions of euros in development financing from the European Union.
Bolton retook the reins of the John Bolton PAC and the John Bolton Super Pact, two groups he had headed before joining the White House 17 months ago.
" But a few months later, when the Kurds retook it, he called it "'a big deal,' especially as ISIS had defined Kobani as a 'symbolic and strategic objective.
This was also a big night for HBO, which retook the lead in Emmy nominations (from Netflix), setting a new record for the most nominations in the process.
Iraqi forces retook several villages on the outskirts of Makhmour early Thursday and hoisted the Iraqi flag there, according to the spokesman for the Joint Military Command, Brig. Gen.
Variety reported, however, that some industry observers believe attempts to raise the national cap "are probably DOA" now that Democrats retook the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterms.
After the Iraqi army retook Nimrud and nearby areas this week, more details are expected to emerge on the scale of the damage done by ISIS to the relics.
The Syrian government retook the area around the Nassib border crossing with Jordan in July during a Russian-backed offensive to drive rebels from their stronghold in southwest Syria.
Busch retook the lead from Elliott on the restart at the beginning of the final stage, but his car still had a significant tire rub from the Stenhouse contact.
The Ravens (6-5) have consecutive wins for the first time since the opening two weeks of the season, and they retook the sixth and final AFC playoff spot.
Shi'ite Hezbollah retook most of the area held by Nusra during an offensive last week that killed nearly 150 of the Sunni militants and about two dozen Hezbollah fighters.
By the time the Pakistan Army attacked the Taliban in South Waziristan, Hussain was probably already dead, but, nonetheless, the army retook his longtime stronghold and blew it up.
Just a few election cycles later, Democrats retook the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and won a majority of governorships for the first time in over a decade.
Biffle got out front temporarily on lap 28 and when Keselowski got back out front, Biffle challenged for a few laps before Keselowski retook command of the top spot.
He also retweeted one from a CNBC reporter who notes former President Obama's approval was at 2023 percent in 2010 — the same year Republicans retook control of the House.
Democrats retook control of the House -- a widely expected development that likely guarantees two years of gridlock in Washington and an array of fresh investigations into the Trump administration.
Iraqi government forces retook eastern Mosul in January and began a new push on May 27 to capture the remaining Islamic State-held enclave in the city's western side.
Feisal Helkani of the Peshmerga forces said Amin surrendered on Monday morning near the town of Sinjar, Iraq, which Iraqi forces retook from Islamic State fighters late last year.
Yet Trump's U.N. speech heightens the need for the opposition to communicate its own international agenda, clearly articulating how Democrats would engage with the world if they retook power.
Iraqi government forces retook eastern Mosul in January and began a new push on May 27 to capture the enclave where about 200,000 people are trapped in harrowing conditions.
Iraqi government forces retook eastern Mosul in January then a month later began the offensive on the western side where bout 200,000 civilians remain trapped behind Islamic State lines.
"He (Al-Atta) is no longer around," a video circulated on social media showed a smiling Netanyahu saying after he retook the stage in Ashkelon, to cheers from onlookers.
From a currency perspective, a notable reversal could be seen in the trend towards the increased use of the euro as a funding currency as the dollar retook the baton.
Republicans are still high on November's election, in which they kept control of the Senate and retook the White House while ignoring the concerns of minority groups and demeaning women.
ERBIL (Reuters) - Iraq's security forces retook a border crossing with Syria from Islamic State militants on Friday, according to Iran-backed Shi'ite militias who are taking part in the offensive.
And just as the PRI predicted, the two National Action presidents floundered, getting their initiatives through Congress only with the help of the PRI, which retook the presidency in 2012.
The following years for Biden, until Democrats retook control in 2006, were defined by his close relationships with Republicans like McCain, Hagel, and Lugar, who chaired the Foreign Relations Committee.
Divisions from the Iraqi army and federal police, backed by units from Shi'ite paramilitaries, retook al-'Ayadiya on Thursday, military officers told Reuters, after several days of unexpectedly fierce fighting.
Clashes broke out when federal forces retook the disputed city of Kirkuk and other areas outside the autonomous Kurdish region that the Kurds had seized from the Islamic State group.
Iraqi government forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition, retook Mosul in May - by far the largest city to fall under militants' control - after nearly nine months of urban warfare.
Pro-government forces retook the eastern Ghouta region from rebels in April after besieging the region for several years and launching a final brutal bombing campaign with their Russian allies.
Iraq's army and federal police, participating in a U.S.-backed offensive launched last month to recapture the largest population center under the jihadists' control, retook this area over the weekend.
When government forces retook Aden from rebel forces in July 2015 and Hadi pledged to set up a temporary capital there, uncertainty spread over whether the CBY would shift base.
House Democrats retook the majority in 2018, and are looking to defend their majority and grab new seats in suburban districts in what they see as a backlash against Trump.
Trump fired Sessions just a day after Democrats retook the House of Representatives in Tuesday's midterm elections, sparking rumors about the future of the Mueller investigation into Russian election interference.
Nigerian forces finally retook the ship in a nighttime raid off the islands of Sao Tome and Principe, apprehending some of the pirates and freeing 16 of the crew members.
In May 2012 -- three days after Putin retook the Russian presidency -- he signed a foreign policy paper stating that fighting the US Magnitsky Act was his top foreign policy priority.
The jihadist group still mounts attacks in Syria, however, including a swift advance in December to capture Palmyra, which it held for several weeks before the army retook the city.
Tampa Bay retook the lead 5-4 on a two-out double by Souza in the third that was just beyond the grasp of a diving center fielder Adam Jones.
Clayton Kershaw looked like he had gotten out of the inning with another double-play, but a replay kept the Red Sox alive and Boston retook the lead, 3-2.
The history of this spot possibly extends even earlier: a checkpoint was set up close to this site in 1673, when the Dutch briefly retook New Netherland from the English.
He says he distrusted the opposition, but when the army retook eastern Ghouta, his two brothers chose not to come back under government control and joined the exodus to Idlib.
He was 9 years old when the Romanian Army retook the region from its Soviet occupiers in 1941, murdering his mother as he lay upstairs in bed, ill with mumps.
In the end, IS suffered its most decisive defeat and watched their self-proclaimed caliphate evaporate in Iraq, then in Syria as Kurdish-led forces retook Raqqa, IS's urban stronghold there.
"Despite the ongoing air raids, IS retook all of Palmyra after the Syrian army withdrew south of the city," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman, using another acronym for the group.
Baghdad agreed for the first time to divert crude from Kirkuk province, which it retook from the Kurds, to Iran, where it will supply a refinery in the city of Kermanshah.
Criticism of Syria It comes as Obama also finds himself reckoning with a worsening humanitarian emergency in Syria, where Russian and Iranian-backed government forces recently retook the city of Aleppo.
Busch momentarily gave up the lead when Ryan Newman elected to stay out during the caution between the first two stages, but when the race restarted, Busch retook the top spot.
Security forces backed by French and U.S. military personnel retook the luxury Splendid Hotel and secured surrounding buildings during an hours-long operation in which four suspected Islamist militants were killed.
Output and exports in northern Iraq fell in mid-October when Iraqi forces retook control of oilfields from Kurdish fighters who had been there since 2014, and declined further last month.
But if Democrats retook the Senate, they could and likely would simply refuse to consider any Trump nominee for the seat — as Republicans did for Obama's nominee Merrick Garland in 2016.
The Islanders retook the lead at 21-213 when Brock Nelson dug the puck out of the boards near the neutral zone and forced a turnover by Philadelphia defenseman Radko Gudas.
Republicans retook control of the House and did so with a rightward generation of tea party Republicans who would tie up the White House in perpetual gridlock over the coming years.
The coalition retook Yemen's second city, Aden, from the Houthis and Saleh's forces in July, the northeastern town of Marib in September and the small northwestern port of Midi this year.
But government forces retook several of those on Saturday, in an attack which put them on the front foot in northern Hama for the first time in weeks, the Observatory said.
Iraqi troops reached the city center, an hour's drive west of Baghdad, last week but militants had holed up in some parts, including Golan district which the military retook on Sunday.
But their strategy remains the same as it was when they retook power in January: Turn up the heat slowly and don't do anything likely to risk a 2020 presidential victory.
The Democrat came within single digits of ousting Cruz Tuesday night but was ultimately unable to overcome the incumbent senator, as Democrats retook the House but Republicans expanded their Senate majority.
Kurdish and Arab forces retook the town of Shaddadi in eastern Syria last week, cutting off what Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter called the last major artery between Raqqa and Mosul.
The United Nations reports largely reflect what residents of East Aleppo have told The New York Times in recent days as Syrian government forces retook control of most of the city.
As Syrian forces and their allies retook rebel-held areas of Aleppo this month, Russia proposed new peace talks in Kazakhstan to replace those sponsored by the United Nations in Geneva.
The Packers retook the lead 1:03 into the fourth when Rodgers found his other running back, Jamaal Williams, for a wild 3-yard scoring toss to make it 24-17.
Rather than focusing on the number of times they retook control, Aurora's engineers used those moments as fodder for more simulation, more fuzzing, and more tweaks that improve the car's skills.
The Syrian army, aided by Russian airpower and Iranian militias, retook control of Deraa from rebel forces in July on its way to regaining control of the bulk of Syrian territory.
Republican lawmakers say there is more work to be done, even after Iraqi forces retook Mosul from the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Sunday.   Sen.
Logan's 31-yard field goal gave the Rebels their first lead early in the second half, but Vann hauled in a 5-yard score the Gamecocks retook the lead 34-30.
Last year, the Russian military staged a similar performance at the ruins of a stone amphitheater in the ancient city of Palmyra after Syrian forces retook it from the Islamic State.
But that would have to be passed by the state legislature, an unrealistic scenario last year given that the Senate was controlled by Republicans until Democrats retook the chamber in November.
While Democrats handily retook the House, they still have a chance to extend their lead pending the outcome of the final six races, and possibly snatch back a seat in the Senate.
Gaining such approval has been difficult for Obama since the Republicans retook control of Congress in the 20153 election—hence the executive actions, even if their effects are limited by insufficient funding.
The Badgers retook the lead, 23-222, with 220:2 left, but a flagrant one foul on Happ at the 227:213 mark allowed Indiana to knot the game at 225-54.
After Sasson had defeated El Shehaby on Friday and the pair retook their places in front of the referee, the Egyptian backed away when Sasson bowed and approached him to shake hands.
Thousands of people — rebels and civilians — left Douma on buses to north Syria in the days after the attack, believing they could not live under government authority after it retook the town.
Coalition forces quickly retook Aden and smaller coastal towns, but since then neither side has made much progress in the war, widely seen as a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Iraqi Kurdish fighters retook the city of Sinjar last fall, and a major offensive for the city of Mosul has added to the pressure on the Islamic State's hold on northern Iraq.
In 1968, the year the Republicans retook the White House, Mr. Schultze returned to teaching and became a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the liberal-leaning research and policy studies organization.
Pelosi has faced divergent voices on the House floor in the past; after Republicans retook the House majority in 2011, the California Democrat lost more than a dozen members on the floor.
The fires are likely to be a point of discussion for lawmakers returning to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since Democrats retook control of the House in the midterm elections.
Once Democrats retook control of the House of Representatives in last year's midterm elections, great expectations were placed on their new ability to hold public hearings to probe the Trump administration's malfeasance.
After Stanton's homer, his 33rd of the season, gave the Yankees a 2-1 lead in the third, the Tigers retook the lead on Ronny Rodriguez's two-run blast in the fourth.
The American presence also discouraged Mr. Assad's forces from sweeping into the area even as they retook major areas elsewhere from anti-government fighters, often with the support of Russia and Iran.
The Associated Press reported that militants briefly overtook the recruitment center on Friday, setting fires and killing at least two civilians while wounding 15 others before Afghan security forces retook the building.
The Associated Press reported that militants briefly overtook the recruitment center on Friday, setting fires and killing at least two civilians while wounding 15 others before Afghan security forces retook the building.
The last estimate by Abadi put the cost of post-war reconstruction at $50 billion, a figure calculated before Iraqi forces retook Mosul, which severely damaged the biggest city in northern Iraq.
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Once his colleagues in the House retook a majority, McConnell worked with them to force trillions in budget cuts, first in the 2011 spending fight and then in that summer's debt ceiling showdown.
ZAGREB, Croatia – Croatia on Sunday celebrated a victorious 1995 military offensive in which it retook lands held by rebel Serbs, while Serbia&aposs president compared the operation to the policies of Nazi Germany.
The Syrian military, with help from its Russian and Iranian allies, this month retook control of Eastern Ghouta, a suburban area that was the last major rebel-held enclave near Damascus, the capital.
Located 80 km (50 miles) west of Mosul, Tal Afar lies along the supply route between that city - which Iraqi forces retook from IS in July after nine months of fighting - and Syria.
By surrendering the congressional"power of the purse" before they even officially retook control of both houses of Congress, many Tea Party and other conservative Republican voters lost faith in the party establishment.
The Turkish military, backed by Syrian rebels, retook it in February, a contingency that has not much disrupted the spate of knifings, bombings and vehicular homicides linked to known ISIS associations in Europe.
The Republicans retook the House, added six seats in the U.S. Senate, and gained 680 seats in state legislative races, breaking the previous record of 628 set by Democrats following the Watergate scandals.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab insurgents killed 15 Somali soldiers and retook a town northeast of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, just one day after it had fallen to government forces, the military said.
And in recent weeks, the regime retook a large swath of southern Syria from the opposition, pushing forward to seize a last pocket near Suwayda, home mostly to the country's minority Druze sect.
The Sharks retook the lead 2-1 at 3:54 when Suomela banked the puck off Campbell from below the goal line for his first goal of the season in his 17th game.
That year, female candidates across the ideological spectrum flipped the majority of House seats that Democrats retook, and flipped both Senate seats the party won as well as the majority of gubernatorial seats.
U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces retook eastern Mosul in January and began a new push on Saturday to capture the enclave where about 200,000 people are trapped, regularly dropping leaflets telling families to flee.
At least 83 people were killed in the 48 hours before the Syrian army retook the town, the war monitor said, adding that IS had accused the civilians of being "agents of the regime".
The company is helping Iraqis remove explosive ordinance and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) left by Islamic State before U.S.-backed Iraqi forces retook the city, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, in December.
"We retook the camp, but the regime burnt it with phosphorous bombs," said Abu al-Hassanien, a commander in a rebel operations room that includes the main brigades fighting to repel the army assault.
The offensive by jihadist and other insurgent groups this week was their biggest near Hama since March, but the army late on Wednesday retook the villages it lost in the attack, the Observatory said.
"Some of the doors were rigged with trip wires," said the head of one of the battalions that retook the apartments, whose name, Colonel Ibrahim, has been graffitied on the walls by his men.
Reuters journalists spent several days reporting in a small neighborhood of Kalasa that they also visited in 2017 after the government retook the area, interviewing dozens of residents including several they had met previously.
Almost immediately upon departing, Bannon retook the helm of Breitbart, a news site strongly supportive of Trump and opposed not only to Democrats but Republican leadership figures like McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The S&P 500 health care sector had rallied after the November midterm elections as investors figured that threats to the Affordable Care Act would fade after the Democrats retook control of the House.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Kurdish officials said on Thursday thousands of their people had fled Kirkuk region fearing persecution since Iraqi armed forces retook it following a referendum on Kurdish independence that was rejected by Baghdad.
In Christmas 1920, after 15 months of political indecision, the exasperated Italian government finally retook the city, a feat made much easier by the fact that d'Annunzio's ramshackle government was already imploding from within.
There has been no major ground offensive since Turkish-backed rebel forces retook territory seized by Moscow and its Syrian allies in rural parts of east Idlib province last month, rebels and diplomats say.
This comes several days after Iraqi security forces and supporting militias retook the key town of Karma from ISIS, the government's first significant victory in its push to reclaim Falluja from ISIS, the command said.
Busch restarted with the lead, but when the race returned to green, Keselowski quickly retook the lead and was the front-runner until Elliott returned to the top spot with just over 5003 laps remaining.
Even more striking, the team of scientists retook the biological measurements of both groups after they'd spent two months at Everest Base Camp and found the energy levels in the muscles of the lowlanders dropped.
Iraqi forces backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition retook the northern city of Baiji in October and then Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, at the end of last year.
Madagali is located on the border with Borno state, the birthplace of the militant group Boko Haram, and has incurred many attacks and abductions since the military retook the area from the militants in 2015.
For Russia, Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and the Habomai islets are part of the Kurile chain, which the Japanese seized during the 19th century and the Soviet Union retook during those dying days of the war.
Iraq, Iran and Turkey blocked Erbil's air traffic and banking communications and on Tuesday Iraqi forces retook major fields back from the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, thus effectively halving oil production under direct control of Erbil.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after Iraqi forces retook two more districts in the west of the city from Islamic State.
And crucially, after the GOP retook the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms, Heritage Action decided to aim a great deal of that heat at Republicans who were backing policies they deemed insufficiently conservative.
The Afghan military says these Taliban fighters quit to try to save their lives after Afghan forces retook three districts from the Taliban during desperate, pitched battles in the northeastern province of Badakhshan in September.
The last major international attempt to resolve the crisis ended in failure when the International Syria Support Group, which included Iran, was disbanded after Syrian government forces retook the rebel stronghold of Aleppo in 2015.
They have mostly surrounded Shirqat, 250 km (160 miles) north of Baghdad, and last week retook a major air base from the militants to use in the main push on Mosul, 60 km further north.
That work was stopped when Islamic State fighters seized the dam in 2014; though the government retook it within two weeks, many of the dam's engineers did not return and regular maintenance did not resume.
Islamic State militants operating in the area have turned to insurgency-style tactics aimed at bringing down the government in Baghdad ever since it retook all territory and declared victory against them in December 2017.
After the government retook control, Mr. Sayyed was among the thousands who decided to leave for one of the country's few remaining opposition-held areas, hundreds of miles away, rather than risk arrest by staying.
Democratic candidates are clearly aware that Trump has lots of vulnerabilities, but are also cognizant that their party retook control of the House last November with a message centered largely around issues like health care.
An American pull-out also allows the Turks free rein to carry out military operations against America's allies in the largely Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which were the ground troops that retook Syria from ISIS.
As Matt O'Brien rightly said recently, even the incremental changes Hillary Clinton is proposing are very unlikely to get through Congress; the radical changes Bernie Sanders is proposing wouldn't happen even if Democrats retook the House.
Read more: Why the Trump inauguration is under criminal investigation Since Democrats retook the majority in the House of Representatives, their committees in the chamber have launched a number of investigations into Trump and his administration.
Justin Peck: A staff sergeant in the US Army who participated in operations in Raqqa, clearing the city of explosives after a Syrian Kurdish-led coalition retook the city in October with US-led coalition support.
This is the way much of the fighting is being conducted in the capital of western Anbar province, which the militants seized in May and the Iraqi military retook last month following a six-month siege.
While exports from the south are at record levels, output in northern Iraq is down after falling in mid-October when Iraqi forces retook control of oilfields from Kurdish fighters who had been there since 2014.
Syria's army and its allies retook a village near Hama on Saturday, a Syrian military source said, as the government tries to turn back a major insurgent offensive, but bitter fighting continued, a war monitor said.
In October, Iraqi forces retook disputed territories, including the oil city of Kirkuk, that had came under Kurdish control in 2014, and Baghdad imposed sanctions on the KRG, such as suspending international flights from Kurdish airports.
The hardline militants, who were routed from Palmyra when the Syrian army backed by heavy Russian air power retook the ancient city in March, have staged a comeback in the area in the past two weeks.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned from his position the day after the 2006 midterm elections, when Democrats retook the House and Senate majorities amid upheaval over the Iraq War under former President George W. Bush.
The corps recently retook the isolated southern district of Khanishin close to the border with Pakistan after persuading local people to abandon support for the Taliban, and Stanekzai said winning over the population would be vital.
The goal was the first Brazil had conceded in six games at the Copa America but it did not shake their confidence and they retook the lead moments later after a well-worked move from midfield.
ERBIL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces retook a northern village from Islamic State on Monday, supported by artillery and air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition, as they try to close in on the city of Mosul.
The past few days have brought a spike in urgency and desperation for civilians in Idlib, many of whom landed there from other parts of Syria after the government retook their home areas from the rebels.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have a lot of questions for Whitaker; the hearing on Friday was set to be the first high-profile oversight hearing into the Trump administration since Democrats retook the majority.
Syrian government forces, with crucial support from Russia and Iran, recently retook large areas near the capital, Damascus, and are waging a new offensive in the south that U.N. officials say has displaced more than 270,000 people.
LONDON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurdistan's oil exports more than halved on Wednesday in the first major supply disruption since the independence referendum last month as Iraqi military retook some of the biggest fields from Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces.
Though the Democrats would lose the White House in 753 (despite winning the popular vote), they retook it decisively with Barack Obama in 275, a more liberal figure than Clinton who nonetheless mostly governed as a moderate.
The last major international attempt to resolve the crisis ended in failure when the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), which included Iran, was cast aside after Syrian government forces retook the rebel stronghold of Aleppo in 2016.
The Penguins retook their one-goal advantage 2:03 later with a power-play goal by Malkin, who passed off to Chris Kunitz before he drove hard to the net to complete the nifty give-and-go.
The army retook Tal Kusaiba hours later in a counter- attack, though one senior official said militants were still holed up inside some houses in the predominately Sunni village, around 35 km (20 miles) east of Tikrit.
By using the difference between students' initial scores and the nearest multiple of 100 to predict whether they retook the exam, the researchers were able to estimate the true effect of taking the test a second time.
Mr. Crowley, who is twice Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's age, is the No. 4 Democrat in the House of Representatives and had been favored to ascend to the speaker's lectern if Democrats retook the lower chamber this fall.
As Syrian government forces retook Aleppo from rebel fighters last week, and Turkey, Russia and Iran brokered a deal for civilians to leave, it was clear that the Abeds would be among thousands displaced by the conflict.
Hammam al-Alil, a town south of Mosul once famous throughout Iraq for its healing hot waters, is back in business after a U.S.-backed offensive retook the area from Islamic State militants and authorities reopened its spa.
Related story: Iraqi court issues death sentences in 'Speicher Massacre' Before Iraqi forces retook the base in 2015, so-called "Speicher families" waited nearly a year to find out what happened to their missing sons, brothers and husbands.
Iraqi forces retook the center of the western city of Ramadi from IS last week, a victory that could help boost Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who has been rebuilding the military after a series of stunning defeats.
Protests also continued in Brazil over the imprisonment of popular former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, the center-left retook power from the right in Argentina and the United States hit Venezuela and Cuba with sanctions.
Arizona retook the lead when Hanzal fished the rebound of Ekman-Larsson's shot off Condon's pads and fed Duclair at the far post for the rookie's 222th goal of the season at 22010:48 of the first period.
"We got Iran back from the hold of Western powers; we retook control of our country," said Fatemeh, a museum employee and member of the Basij, who spoke on the condition that I use only her first name.
Yessir. The Blue Devils led by nine points with under seven minutes remaining, but NC State retook the lead with a 20-5 run, held off a Duke rally, and sealed the game with a last-second steal.
Mass Yazidi graves have been found since Kurdish forces retook areas north of Sinjar in December 2014, and the town itself in November 2015, but Islamic State had already transferred many Yazidis to other areas, including Tal Afar.
As the world watches the horrors unfolding in Aleppo, Syria, where government forces and allied militias bombed civilians and carried out summary executions as they retook the last rebel-held areas, a different tragedy is transpiring in Mosul.
The IS attack, which began late on Friday, retook villages including Akhtarin and pushed towards Turkman Bareh, some three km (two miles) east of Dabiq, said the British-based Observatory, which tracks the war using contacts on the ground.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops clashed briefly with pro-Islamic State militants in the volatile south on Saturday, the army said, in their first engagement since the government retook Marawi city in the country's biggest battle since World War Two.
The brief jubilation after last year's vote to break away from Baghdad was shattered when the central government imposed swift punitive measures and retook the oil city of Kirkuk, which had been held by the Kurds for three years.
Satellite pictures taken after the 2,000-year-old temple was dynamited by the jihadi group, and other images broadcast since Syrian government forces retook the city on Sunday, show almost the entire structure collapsed in a heap of rubble.
"As much as they try to oppress us, we are just as determined to resist them," said Mohammed Qassim Mohammed, 25, an engineering student who was protesting near a bridge in Baghdad that the security forces retook on Saturday.
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Iraqi forces retake Karma On Thursday, Iraqi security forces and supporting militias scored their first significant victory in the push to reclaim Falluja, when they retook the key town of Karma from ISIS, a spokesman for Iraq's Joint Operations Command said.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian pro-government troops retook a front-line town in Latakia province from insurgents on Tuesday, a monitoring group and state media said, in a push by President Bashar al-Assad's forces to recover lost territory in the west.
The rights group said army forces, backed by Hezbollah militants and seeking to put down a new rebel offensive, on Saturday retook pockets of neighborhoods where rebel fighters a day earlier unleashed a series of deadly car bombings and mortar assaults.
In the weeks since September's failed Kurdish independence referendum, Iraq has agreed for the first time to divert crude from Kirkuk province, which it retook from the Kurds, to Iran, where it will supply a refinery in the city of Kermanshah.
At the end of the trip, the process worked in reverse, and drivers retook control of the car as it rolled to an exit — unless they wanted to simply leave it behind and walk, letting the car recirculate to another driver.
They retook the chamber long enough to push through a military spending bill, including provisions addressing the Zika crisis, but brushed aside calls for consideration of gun legislation — and appear ready to stand firm on that position through the year.
A day after Syrian government troops retook control of the city, the most hopeful appraisal came from Maamoun Abdulkarim, Syria's antiquities director, who said 80 percent of the Unesco World Heritage site that encompasses the 2,000-year-old ruins remained intact.
Yemeni and Emirati soldiers retook the Yemen seaport city of Mukalla on Sunday, the de facto capital of al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP), as part of a major offensive to drive the group out of their southern strongholds.
Women also flipped the lion's share of House seats that Democrats retook in 2018, as well as both Senate seats, and research has long shown that women candidates win at the same rate as men when they run for elected office.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government re-opened the highway between the cities of Homs and Hama on Wednesday a month after its forces retook a rebel-held pocket that had straddled the road that was closed for almost seven years.
In the south of their sector, rebels retook some positions from the army and its allies in the Sheikh Saeed district where fighting in past days has been concentrated, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said.
Special forces troops freed around 150 hostages on Saturday and retook a hotel in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou that was seized by al Qaeda fighters the day before, but the attack killed at least two dozen people from 18 countries.
HQ Trivia employees petitioned to remove co-founder Rus Yusupov from the CEO position HQ Trivia employees petitioned to remove co-founder Rus Yusupov from the CEO position Following the tragic death of co-founder and CEO Colin Kroll, Yusupov retook control.
Russian airstrikes and Iranian/Hezbollah help on the ground had shifted momentum elsewhere in Syria in favor of the beleaguered Assad regime, which retook the city of Palmyra from ISIS and secured corridors between the capital, Damascus, and other government-held areas.
Iraqi forces retook Qaraqosh about a month ago in the early stages of their campaign to drive Islamic State out of Mosul and terminate the group's self-styled caliphate, but it may be too late to reverse the decline of Iraq's Christian minority.
After two years of ranking second below Java, C retook the top spot in the IEEE's annual programming language rankings, a popularity assessment based on various programming language's appearances in each of a dozen sources, including Google search, Github, Stackoverflow, Reddit, and others.
The government has designated Mosul as the next target for Iraq's armed forces after they retook the western city of Ramadi last month, the first major success of the U.S.-trained force that initially fled in the face of Islamic State's advance.
The move came almost exactly six months after the party retook the House of Representatives and two months after Representative Richard Neal, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, asked the Internal Revenue Service to hand over six years of Trump's tax filings.
The poll, taken June 2628–28503, is the latest of several polls since the beginning of 22019 that show Democrats with a clear advantage in the battle for control of the House, which Democrats retook with a blue wave during the 2018 midterms.
The Syrian military announced on Monday that Damascus and its surroundings are now "completely safe" after it retook the last neighborhoods in the southern part of the capital held by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), The Associated Press reported.
Washington (CNN)With President Donald Trump set to deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night directly in front of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, much attention will be paid to the longtime Washington politician who retook the speaker's gavel last month.
Security forces retook a hotel in the city of Ouagadoudou on Saturday a day after jihadi al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed two dozen people from at least 18 countries, marking a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.
The campaign has gained momentum in recent weeks after government forces restored Falluja and retook a key air base south of Mosul, though some officials still question whether the military will be ready and what will happen in Mosul after Islamic State is removed.
After congressional Democrats retook a House majority last year by sweeping Republicans out of suburban districts across the country — including three in Virginia — next week's off-year elections here will test whether voters angry with the president will make an independent judgment on other Republicans.
The government retook Mosul with help from a U.S.-led coalition and Kurdish forces a year ago but 380,333 people were displaced from the northern city, which had a population of 2 million prior to its capture by the militant group in June 2014.
The Iraqi army captured a handful of the mockups last week at a training site it retook from the group north of Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in the country, which government forces have almost surrounded but only breached so far from one direction.
When Pelosi retook the speaker's gavel in January—after a midterm blue wave built on a strong national distaste for Trump's GOP—there was much speculation about how she would deal with the fissures that have appeared in the Democratic Party over recent years.
We saw this ability after the 2018 midterms—the Democrats retook the House despite plenty of anti-Pelosi ads—when she easily defeated a muddled challenge to her leadership from mostly moderate Democrats, thanks at least in part to her legendary skill at fundraising.
NEAR AL-BAB, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian rebels forced from their towns when government forces retook eastern Ghouta near Damascus are starting over in the far north, aiming to build hundreds of homes for displaced fighters and civilians on opposition-held land near the Turkish border.
Opposition forces say Dumair airport had been used in the military campaign to regain eastern Ghouta, a rebel enclave on the outskirts of Damascus that the Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, completely retook in the last few days after a relentless bombing offensive.
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. government's aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria on Monday, the most senior U.S. civilian official to visit the war-struck city months after American-backed militia retook the area from Islamic State.
When Republicans finally retook Congress in the 212 election, it too was a predictable consequence of a changing electorate: The New Deal Democrats had given way to a solidly Republican generation of voters who came of age during the early years of the Cold War.
Early in the second half, Texas Southern retook the lead at 215-212 on a Tyrik Armstrong layup, and then two big runs occurred that illustrated the back-and-forth nature of a game in which neither side led by more than eight points.
Lee capped a 63-yard drive when he called his own number from the 1 to give the Cornhuskers their first lead 17-14 with 11:14 remaining before the Huskies retook the lead 21-17 on Huff's 2-yard run six plays later.
"We retook the camp, but the regime burnt it with phosphorous bombs ... We were able to protect it, but the bombing burnt our vehicles," said Abu al-Hassanien, a commander in a rebel operations room that includes the main brigades fighting to repel the army assault.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — When pro-government forces retook her hometown from Syrian rebels, Nisrine accepted the same surrender deal the government has offered tens of thousands of Syrians: a one-way bus trip to a place she had never been — the northern, rebel-held province of Idlib.
" As Vox's Li Zhou noted, "Women also flipped the lion's share of House seats that Democrats retook in 2018, as well as both Senate seats — and research has long shown that women candidates win at the same rate as men when they run for elected office.
Along with Norman L. Eisen, a former top Obama White House ethics lawyer, Mr. Berke has consulted with the committee since Democrats retook the majority this year to organize and carry out a sprawling investigation into possible abuse of power and obstruction of justice by Mr. Trump.
Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by five months of fighting, the longest urban combat in the country since World War II. The Philippine Army, with help from the U.S., retook control in October, and residents are now beginning to return to collect their belongings.
The roar of the military planes triggers painful flashbacks for one of our patients, Hamza, a 10-year-old boy from a Mosul neighborhood that had been controlled by the Islamic State from 2014 until very recently, when the coalition forces retook most of the city.
Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday a day after al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed at least 28 people from at least 18 countries and marked a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.
Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday, a day after al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed at least 28 people from at least 18 countries and marked a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.
When he failed to complete the purchase of his shares by a pre-arranged September deadline, Tom Walkinshaw effectively retook control of the them and the T-Minus branding vanished from the car (replaced by Morgan Grenfell, who had backed Malik's purchase and eventually took Arrows to court).
U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces retook eastern Mosul in January and began a new push on Saturday to capture the group's remaining enclave in western Mosul, comprising of the Old City center where the mosque is located, and three adjacent districts alongside the western bank of the River Tigris.
It's also a return to the "drain the swamp" message employed by House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calf.) in 2006, when Democrats retook the House and Senate.
Airstrikes carried out by the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have destroyed an air defense system and other equipment the terrorist group seized when it retook the ancient city of Palmyra from Russian and Syrian forces last weekend, the coalition said Friday.
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday a day after al Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed at least 19723 people from at least 18 countries and marked a major escalation of Islamist militancy in West Africa.
In the weeks before Iraqi and American forced retook Mosul from ISIS, as Iraqi forces prepared to capture the Nuri mosque, ISIS detonated it, bringing the revered structure to the ground, and ensuring that no speech could be given from the same podium to counter Baghdadi's message of extremism and hate.
Oil exports from southern Iraq have fallen by 110,2.53 barrels per day this month, according to shipping data and an industry source, adding to the drop in flows caused by a shortfall from the northern Kirkuk fields when Iraqi forces retook control from Kurdish fighters who had been there since 2014.
The rebellion that overtook the Attica Correctional Facility in New York in 1971 — and lasted for four days before state police and prison guards retook the prison in a horrific massacre — isn't well understood by the public, because the state of New York spent four decades keeping it that way.
The flurry of changes since the co-founder retook control have been numerous: an algorithmic timeline that shows tweets out of order; a plan to expand the character limit for tweets; a handful of anti-harassment measures; the Moments tab; and increased investment in live-streaming with its standalone Periscope app.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but it appears to resemble previous bombings carried out by the Yemeni branch of Islamic State that have targeted security forces or senior officials in Aden since supporters of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi retook the city from Iran-allied Houthis last year.
The scale and brazenness of the assault threatened to further subvert a nominal and often violated cease-fire that had taken hold in parts of the country since Mr. Assad's forces retook the northern city of Aleppo in December with Russian help, emboldening the Syrian leader to think he could win the war.
When Israel retook these areas in a defensive war that Jordan started by shelling civilian homes in West Jerusalem, and opened them up as places where Jews could pray, study, receive medical treatment and live, the United States took the official position that it would not recognize Israel's legitimate claims to Jewish Jerusalem.
Obama has made it very clear, ever since Republicans retook the House in 2010, but especially since the Supreme Court nomination fight this year, that he views Republicans' unwillingness to so much as consider administration initiatives to be unprofessional and corrosive to democratic norms that have kept the federal government functioning for centuries.
IHS reported spikes in territory lost by ISIS when the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, took control of the strategic city of Ash Shaddadi in March, moved on to Manbij in May, and in mid-October when Euphrates Shield, Turkey's ground operation against ISIS in Syria, retook the symbolically significant town of Dabiq.
Democrats have long promised to get hold of President Trump's tax returns once they retook the House, but House Ways and Means Committee chair Richard Neal's lack of urgency to submit a request — 3 months into the new Congress — means that the documents might not be handed over before the 2020 elections, the HuffPost reports.
While gridlock has been the norm since Republicans retook the House in 2011, last year legislators succeeded in permanently fixing Medicare doctor payments, passing a five-year highway funding bill, replacing No Child Left Behind, extending the solvency of the Social Security disability program, and making a whole raft of tax breaks for low-income families and corporations permanent.
Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenGiuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' Three women accuse Gordon Sondland of sexual misconduct Top Obama-era official says Trump is 'destroying' executive privilege amid investigations MORE retook the national lead in the Democratic primary in a new Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday as South Bend, Ind.

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