Are these kinds of suburban districts future strongholds for Democrats?
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Past governments in Zambia have directed fertiliser to electoral strongholds.
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It still maintains the strongholds of Raqqa and Mosul, however.
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Kenyatta's strongholds are in central Kenya and the Rift Valley.
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This leaves Afghanistan and Pakistan as its last two strongholds.
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On Friday, ISIS' last strongholds in Iraq and Syria fell.
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The burden of this humiliation fell hardest on Republican strongholds.
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Others are longtime Republican strongholds that show signs of slipping.
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Susana Martinez — and governors who successfully won in Democratic strongholds.
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Wizz is now launching an assault on Ryanair's western European strongholds.
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Less surprisingly, she does well in the usual urban Democratic strongholds.
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In Republican strongholds, the numbers give a glimpse into the future.
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The government hit back by bombing PKK strongholds in northern Iraq.
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There were warning signs in other historically Republican strongholds as well.
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Daraa was one of the last remaining rebel strongholds in Syria.
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Daraa is one of the last remaining rebel strongholds in Syria.
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Rural areas remain largely conservative and strongholds for gun right advocates.
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Targeting Republican strongholds "Every week there's something happening," said Emerge's Gholar.
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Rather, consider how you can innovate to reinforce your strongholds instead.
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The Christian Democrats did poorly in some of their traditional strongholds.
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Others are long-time Republican strongholds that show signs of slipping.
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All of those districts, and five others, are traditionally Democratic strongholds.
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She focused on Democratic strongholds, and not enough in rural areas.
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American allies have pushed the militants from their lucrative coastal strongholds.
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The three states are traditionally BJP strongholds but that's set to change.
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And his N.H.L. dreams had been formed far from hockey's traditional strongholds.
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What's more, his coalition peeled off votes in the ruling party's strongholds.
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If it fails to improve people's lives, it could lose its strongholds.
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Much of the violence has taken place in the SLPP's southern strongholds.
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Mr Assad's men captured the last rebel strongholds around Damascus in May.
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The gang has strongholds in the US, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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A quick glance at progressive strongholds around the nation suggests no one.
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Erstwhile Republican strongholds such as Georgia, Arizona and Utah are now competitive.
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ISIS came to control half of Syria and important strongholds in Iraq.
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Our heroes have reached the final strongholds of Daesh and purified it.
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Islamist rebel groups were threatening to cut key routes connecting regime strongholds.
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The garage is one of two buildings that have become protester strongholds.
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Odinga cast his vote in the Kibera slum, one of his strongholds.
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In Odinga strongholds, residents accused authorities of trying to "force" voter participation.
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Hezbollah lost ground in the Baalbek-Hermel constituency, one of its strongholds.
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Instead her party lost seats and failed to make inroads in Labour strongholds.
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Here was this rock star Democrat who captured Republican strongholds across the country.
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One of their key tasks is to help Iraqi units targeting ISIS strongholds.
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Long-time Republican strongholds, like mostly exurban Orange Country, voted for Mrs Clinton.
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Airstrikes on rebel strongholds in Aleppo killed a woman and left several wounded.
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In Ramadi, as in many ISIS strongholds, the answer lies below the ground.
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The two counties anchoring Ryan's district—Mahoning and Trumbull—are longtime Democrat strongholds.
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Abou Bassel said conflict had bred expertise in battlefield medicine in rebel strongholds.
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He said China must "build universities into strongholds that adhere to Party leadership".
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Moreover, Scottish and Welsh nationalists have drawn much support in traditional Labour strongholds.
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The party believes it's demonstrated its ability to perform competitively in GOP strongholds.
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Younger people, we are told, stay away from these strongholds of regime influence.
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"As a result, ISIS strongholds in Mosul and Raqqah have fallen," Trump said.
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Islamic State was at last routed from its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
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The decision canceled more than a million Congolese votes from the opposition strongholds.
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In Hezbollah strongholds in southern Beirut, there was a steady flow of voters.
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Op-Ed Contributor Can Hillary Clinton win the Republican strongholds Arizona and Georgia?
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He carried traditionally Republican Willmar but also former Democratic strongholds like Itasca County.
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O'Rourke's Senate campaign, she said, offered a path to flipping longtime Republican strongholds.
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But surrogates point to Alabama and North Carolina as possible strongholds for Biden.
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They are in wealthy beach-side enclaves, middle-class strongholds and gentrifying neighborhoods.
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Protests in several opposition strongholds erupted shortly after Mr. Kenyatta's victory was declared.
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These are still their strongholds, but they are now greatly reduced in numbers.
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Jurors will be drawn from the Democratic strongholds of Manhattan and the Bronx.
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Liberal strongholds: We find two possible advantages for Trudeau within the topline numbers.
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Attacks such as this not only diminish morale but show strongholds as vulnerable.
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That would reverberate through the industrial strongholds that the Conservatives carried on Thursday.
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It lost seats in former Labour strongholds throughout the middle of the country.
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Seizing the traditional Democratic Party strongholds of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Trump won the night.
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These areas have long been Republican strongholds, but Trump, Democrats think, has changed things.
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Even in Republican strongholds, like Texas, Congressional subsidies have helped wind projects to thrive.
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UKIP, eating into Labour's working-class strongholds, took 17% of votes and 18 seats.
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If anything similar happened in its English strongholds, the party could face terminal decline.
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Critics have also complained of a lack of early voting sites in Democrat strongholds.
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Beyond Mr Barzani's strongholds the campaign for independence has begun belatedly, if at all.
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"Pipeline passes through several well dug-in PKK cells and rural strongholds," Unver said.
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The PD could yet lose Milan and possibly even Turin, one of its strongholds.
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The Leave side won crushing majorities in many of Labour's northern and midland strongholds.
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He presided over forces that carried out a string of massacres in opposition strongholds.
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Outside of those solid Democratic strongholds, the progressive candidates largely lost across the country.
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Tim Ryan, who represents the blue-collar strongholds of Youngstown and Akron in Ohio.
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He says he's been campaigning in suburban, rural and ranching communities -- traditional GOP strongholds.
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Genoa is the latest of a string of defeats in the PD's traditional strongholds.
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The fall of ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria will not end the war.
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These places are strongholds of biodiversity that provide resilience against threats like climate change.
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Those tariffs have provoked retaliatory levies on agricultural and industrial products in Republican strongholds.
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U.S.-backed forces have been fighting to retake the Islamic State strongholds of Mosul.
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Even places like Northern California and New England, supposedly progressive strongholds, have this problem.
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Tal Afar is one of the few remaining Islamic State strongholds in northern Iraq.
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It may soon be stripped of remaining strongholds in Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq.
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Supermarkets are one of the few union strongholds in the retail and service industries.
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Now some of his support is beginning to crack, even in strongholds like Varanasi.
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" Voting was postponed in four opposition strongholds by electoral officials due to "security challenges.
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Genoa is the latest of a string of recent defeats in the PD's traditional strongholds.
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The losing candidates said they failed to win a majority even in their own strongholds.
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Key areas to watch for include Conservative Party strongholds like Cheltenham, according to Open Europe.
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They evicted the Islamic State from its strongholds, suffering more than 0003,000 killed in action.
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A camp for civilians displaced by the fighting in Raqqa and other former ISIS strongholds.
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In response, the military attacked Tamil strongholds in the north, engaging in large-scale battles.
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It has made inroads into eastern parts of the country that are not traditional strongholds.
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A more immediate concern is whether the Turks plan to push into other YPG strongholds.
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By doing so, they weaken their chances of winning major races even in liberal strongholds.
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This week, police and protesters clashed in opposition strongholds in Nairobi and Kisumu, killing two.
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A lot of people wished they could have explored the areas between the game's strongholds.
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Troops strapped explosive mines to toylike, remote-controlled trucks and drove them into insurgent strongholds.
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They are hoisting flags, enlisting members and exacting levies and loyalty in former FARC strongholds.
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Meanwhile, Democrats made significant House gains in the GOP strongholds of Texas and Southern California.
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Still, Russia has leverage given Damascus's desire for continued military support to eliminate rebel strongholds.
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It shifted the locations of polling stations in anti-government strongholds days before the election.
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These included such blue-collar Trump strongholds as Youngstown, Ohio; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Roanoke, Virginia.
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Among them was a string of massacres in opposition strongholds, in which thousands were killed.
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He ordered a violent crackdown that led to a string of massacres in opposition strongholds.
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And turned affluent suburbs like Orange County, California, and Fairfax County, Virginia, into Democratic strongholds.
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Many of America's top cities for school choice — including D.C., Milwaukee, Detroit — are Democratic strongholds.
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The province links Islamic State's Syrian territories with its Iraq strongholds further down the Euphrates.
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Idlib, at the Turkish border, is one of the last major rebel strongholds in Syria.
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Captives are usually then moved into the Haqqanis' strongholds in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
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Dozens of cities, including New York and Chicago — now W.W.E. strongholds — are circled like targets.
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They saw heavier turnout in some more gentrified pockets of the district — Sanders-type strongholds.
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Democratic Party strongholds like Philly and Chi-Town are never going to eliminate these taxes.
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Clinton, outside of a handful of liberal strongholds, was like a body on life support.
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Many of these jobs are in conservative strongholds in the rural U.S. and Rust Belt.
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Yañez-Correa said the events drew a surprising amount of support, even in conservative strongholds.
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He will run up the score in North Florida and red strongholds like Southwest Florida.
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Iraqi forces recently recaptured one of the last remaining strongholds of the Islamic State group.
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The site's earliest users were in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, which are Democratic strongholds.
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Boko Haram has been driven from nearly two dozen strongholds where it had set up camp.
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Democratic strongholds like Madison and Milwaukee began early voting six weeks before last month's midterm contests.
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The states with the highest rates of search are not battlegrounds, but Republican and Democratic strongholds.
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Texas and Kansas, major Republican strongholds or "red states", produce most of the U.S. sorghum crop.
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In the 160 years since the first Republican convention, the parties' regional strongholds have also flipped.
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The poll was suspended because of the outbreak in strongholds of an opposition candidate, Martin Fayulu.
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Trump's struggles in the state's conservative strongholds are attributable in part to Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson.
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What happens in the last big rebel strongholds, on the country's borders, is harder to predict.
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There are some robust scenes as the women seek to establish their strongholds within the kingdom.
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Why it matters: In many places in Africa, protected areas are the last strongholds for biodiversity.
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Amnesty International called on authorities to investigate reports that police shot dead demonstrators in opposition strongholds.
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Have fun with it, and don't get caught up in winning or building the biggest strongholds.
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We drove through some of the eastern neighborhoods that used to be strongholds of the opposition.
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Groups such as the new and little-known United Guerillas of the Pacific are establishing strongholds.
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The militants still control cities in Abyan and Shabwa Provinces, which have long been Qaeda strongholds.
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The northern Syrian city is one of the few remaining strongholds for non-jihadist rebel groups.
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The U.S. began a campaign of airstrikes in Libya against some of the newest ISIS strongholds.
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Their efforts to wipe out terrorist strongholds may be hamstrung if they can't pay for it.
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Trump, for instance, has been stumping ceaselessly in Republican strongholds, firing up the GOP's conservative base.
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The number will only increase as Kurdish forces take on Islamic State in their remaining strongholds.
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Retaliation could hit hardest in many of the rural communities that were strongholds for Mr. Trump.
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Both cities were Islamic State strongholds that endured months of violent fighting and thousands of airstrikes.
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Wildlife needs to be able to access established habitat strongholds and new areas as ecosystems shift.
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Bold philanthropy is vital to advancing new protections for nature's strongholds on land and at sea.
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Phil Bredesen in the middle and western parts of the state that were once Democratic strongholds.
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Other drone attacks have targeted fighters in Shabab strongholds such as Jamame, Sakow, Bu'aale and Janaale.
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Unions were arguably the family's most formidable political opponent in Michigan, one of labor's traditional strongholds.
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The forces are now struggling to remove the group from its remaining strongholds in northern Iraq.
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She would be surprised, she said, to see this most Conservative of strongholds fall to Labour.
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The Naxalites dislike road construction projects because they improve the government's access to the rebels' strongholds.
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Vinto, a sleepy town of around 63,000 people, had for years been one of Morales' strongholds.
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Abrams won the Atlanta suburban counties of Cobb and Gwinnett, which were once considered Republican strongholds.
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The ramifications of this shift in influence are already being felt in Republican strongholds beyond Alabama.
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Attacks such as this not only diminish morale but show strongholds as vulnerable, Paton Walsh said.
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The city represented a strategic crossroads, linking Syria's capital to ISIS strongholds in the country's east.
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Most recently, sub-launched cruise missiles have taken out Libyan air defenses and Syrian rebel strongholds.
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The Conservatives will campaign hard in Labour's old industrial strongholds of the West Midlands and the north.
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The rest of the money will target GOP strongholds in Colorado, Florida, Maine, Nevada, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
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Contrary to Mr. Trump's claim that his party pulled off upset victories, both districts were conservative strongholds.
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Even in Republican strongholds such as Texas and Oklahoma, congressional subsidies have helped wind projects to thrive.
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In addition to Los Angeles, Postmates also has strongholds in large metro areas like Phoenix and Charlotte.
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Religious voters in some of Europe's most traditionally Catholic strongholds, like Italy, are latching onto populist ideas.
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Katie Porter, Mike Levin, and Harley Rouda, who flipped GOP strongholds in Orange County, California, last year.
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Both candidates will be making stops in areas of the state where they enjoy strongholds of support.
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Voting centers appeared largely empty in opposition areas across Venezuela and were even lackluster in government strongholds.
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Mr. Sanders is scheduled to make five stops in north-central Iowa, a swing through Democratic strongholds.
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A move against Kurdish strongholds east of the Euphrates river would pit its soldiers against American forces.
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But with typical government strongholds turning against Ortega, many are worried how the longtime leader will respond.
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They sell a commodity product (money) and disruptors stalk their traditional strongholds in payments, savings and lending.
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Drive through America and you know when you've entered Republican strongholds by the number of flags displayed.
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A series of bombings hit two government strongholds on Syria's coast, killing as many as 100 people.
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Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has vowed to "carpet bomb" Islamic State in Iraq and Syria strongholds.
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As FARC fighters abandon their jungle strongholds, once no-go conflict areas are opening up for business.
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In Odinga's western strongholds, Miguna's treason charges prompted demonstrations in which one person was killed on Tuesday.
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Since then, Nigerian forces have made headway in routing Boko Haram from its strongholds in remote villages.
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Both men served in Democratic strongholds and Johnson hopes that a Johnson-Weld ticket will boost fundraising.
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Government election officials were accused of purposely delaying the opening of some polling stations in opposition strongholds.
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The alliance will not contest two Gandhi strongholds won multiple times by Rahul and his mother Sonia.
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Opposition candidates, particularly in strongholds like Ankara and Istanbul, are showing strong gains, according to recent polls.
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Us has promoted similar measures in Democratic strongholds in recent years, including Rhode Island and San Francisco.
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The other states to vote Tuesday — Vermont, Oklahoma, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Utah — are likely Sanders strongholds.
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Result: The Taliban were pushed out of many of their strongholds, which were brought under government control.
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But not everyone, even those in the strongholds of Shiite faith and political power, felt comfortable participating.
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He expanded the American military effort against major strongholds of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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France intervened in Mali in 2013 to repel insurgents advancing out of northern strongholds into central Mali.
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That fragility has put even the most redoubtable of the party's strongholds under siege in municipal elections.
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Republicans insist Democrats are wasting their time targeting GOP strongholds like Hunter's, notwithstanding the incumbent's ethical issues.
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Even in reliably conservative strongholds, some say they're ready to ditch a system built on private insurance.
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Nauert's statement also references recent reports of chemical weapons allegedly used by the regime against rebel strongholds.
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Yemeni civilians in three provinces where Al Qaeda has strongholds described the American bombing campaign as unrelenting.
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Those forces have benefited from direct intervention by the Russian Air Force, which has bombed rebel strongholds.
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Erdogan fired some judges, imprisoned some editors, and he's getting closer and closer to extinguishing Gülen's strongholds.
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Resistance groups are popping up all over the country, and they aren't confined to deep-blue Clinton strongholds.
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The area is one of the last rebel strongholds in Syria after more than seven years of war.
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This is one of IS's last strongholds and was a bedrock of the Syrian economy before the war.
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Silo-ing our activism isn't the answer — we have to carve out space for ourselves in the strongholds.
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It does not just have to contend with Labor: several more conservative strongholds are under threat from independents.
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Mahathir's opposition wrested control of key states Johor and Kedah, and reduced BN's grip in strongholds like Sarawak.
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To win back the House and the Senate, Democrats need to expand somewhat beyond their cosmopolitan urban strongholds.
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The scandal also eroded the church's authority in former Catholic strongholds such as Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
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Jihadist groups remain in northern Mali despite being pushed from their strongholds by French-backed forces in 2013.
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Still, Case said, venture capitalists have a role to play in building bridges in areas with Trump strongholds.
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Yet their pitch seems have fallen flat, at least outside their strongholds, where they can still draw thousands.
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But as Odinga cried foul on Wednesday, reports were emerging of pockets of protests in three opposition strongholds.
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ISIS is in retreat, and expected to lose its strongholds in Mosul (in Iraq) and Raqqa (in Syria).
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Al Shabaab was forced out of Mogadishu in 2011 and has since lost most of its other strongholds.
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Remain had its early strongholds, such as Orkney and Clackmannanshire in Scotland, but turnout in such places underperformed.
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"The other places that have passed the $15-an-hour measure are also union strongholds," Ms. Milkman said.
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The announcement touched off small protests in a few opposition strongholds but also celebrations in pro-Kenyatta areas.
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From data centers to museums, from mushroom farms to cheese factories, businesses have been refashioning the former strongholds.
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But it has become less potent with time, even in African National Congress strongholds like this township, Mamelodi.
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Faced with airstrikes and repeated attacks by ground forces, ISIS strongholds have been steadily recaptured from the group.
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Local climate efforts aren't limited to progressive strongholds, like the state of California or the city of Portland.
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Democrats are looking to pick up Collins's and Hunter's seats, both of which were once considered GOP strongholds.
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Militants then retreated toward their final strongholds near Sirte's seafront, taking medical equipment and foreign captives with them.
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Trump defeated Clinton in part by wining traditionally Democratic strongholds like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin on Election Day.
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In many of the A.N.C.'s rural strongholds, the party remains the main source of business and jobs.
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Three opposition strongholds, Beni and Butembo in the east and Yumbi in the west, were barred from participating.
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Those districts are generally Democratic strongholds, and expanding them would often mean absorbing constituents from adjacent Republican areas.
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In 2016 I spent time in Western Pennsylvania counties that used to be reliably working-class Democratic strongholds.
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Some areas considered Labour strongholds will have a Conservative member of Parliament for the first time in decades.
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Harris said Infantino's message about development programs for countries outside the strongholds of soccer had been well received.
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The A350 also managed to penetrate Boeing strongholds including Japan where American aircraft reign supreme over European types.
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Next, there should be targeted strikes against the extremist strongholds in the border region of Colombia and Venezuela.
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The SDF is a militia that has proven to be capable of taking key ISIS strongholds in Syria.
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Even expanding to cover Saints strongholds from Baton Rouge to the Florida Panhandle doesn't boost the numbers much.
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He won election in 2012 in Pennsylvania's current 12th district outside Pittsburgh, which includes some staunch Republican strongholds.
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While Boko Haram has been pushed from some of its strongholds, this hasn't succeeded in halting the violence.
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Each camp is armed with more than enough money and unshakable strongholds in certain states and branches of government.
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The islands of Basilan and Jolo are the strongholds of the Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings and bombings.
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Many residents of opposition strongholds in southern Brazzaville left the city fearing violent protests and most shops remained closed.
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It's essential for startups to build AI strongholds that can outlast the competition and compete with the big guys.
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The first, consistent armed rebellion against Assad's brutal regime began in Idlib — now one of the last rebel strongholds.
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But their two major strongholds in those two countries are now the targets of international efforts to destroy ISIS.
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In 2016, Democrats watched its "blue wall," including traditional Democratic strongholds Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all go to Trump.
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Insurgent strongholds, including swathes of Diyarbakir's historical centre, have been pummelled by artillery fire and razed to the ground.
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Protesters from the regime's traditional strongholds in Khartoum and the north have chanted "We are all Darfur" while marching.
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Cutting off Raqqa city from IS strongholds in Deir al-Zor would be a major blow against the group.
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In Mr Odinga's strongholds, in the slums of Nairobi and in Western Kenya, protesters blocked roads and burned tyres.
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Lyme has spread into new regions of the country, and become more of a problem in its historical strongholds.
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Iran, one of the last major strongholds for the Egyptian vulture, banned the use of diclofenac in November 2015.
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Contests in Georgia, South Carolina, Montana and Kansas -- not progressive strongholds by any means -- have all gone to Republicans.
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Though the state is heavily Democratic, there are Republican strongholds where voters support local cooperation with federal immigration agents.
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But when scientists average these strongholds across leagues of otherwise empty ocean, the results show recovery has just begun.
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Secure in our partisan strongholds, we build barricades and set traps to beset the creep of perceived enemy ideas.
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Yes, Democrats have taken back power in key ALEC strongholds, but Republicans still hold total control in 22 states.
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Falluja, about 40 miles west of Baghdad, is one of the last major Islamic State strongholds in western Iraq.
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But because WhatsApp requires less bandwidth, it is also used by people in rural areas — Mr. Mugabe's traditional strongholds.
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But its commercial success has not been guaranteed outside of the cinephile strongholds of New York and Los Angeles.
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From a vantage point in the city, we could see Batista's planes bombing the rebel strongholds in the distance.
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Though California has a strong reputation for being starkly liberal, there are conservative strongholds within the Golden State. Rep.
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Al Shabaab was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been driven from most of its other strongholds.
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More importantly, it's about "strongholds," the simple idea that protecting what's intact and thriving is essential to sustaining success.
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Are we increasing the risk of ISIS and Qaeda terror attacks at home when we bomb their strongholds abroad?
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While in the country's east, coalition forces have crippled a once fearsome ISIS, driving the group from its strongholds.
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General Sharif during his tenure "cleared leftover strongholds of terrorists in northwestern Pakistan," General Ghafoor, the military spokesman, said.
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The vast security presence made infiltration difficult, and the Sri Lankan military took the fight to the rebel strongholds.
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The Islamic State, with its own agenda to rule Syria as a caliphate, is being routed from its strongholds.
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It obviously hits high-tax states the hardest, which tend to be Democratic strongholds like New York and California.
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In Republican strongholds like Alaska, Georgia and Alabama, the rate is well above the national average of 4.5 percent.
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The average cumulative tax rates in most of these Democratic strongholds is indeed far higher than their Republican counterparts.
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The extremists are dug in on the outskirts of the two cities and have repeatedly targeted pro-government strongholds.
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Many came from Republican strongholds like Utah County, home of Provo, where only 14 percent of voters backed Mrs.
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This generally benefits southern, Republican strongholds that have lower medical costs and skimpier Medicaid programs that provide fewer benefits.
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While Labour succeeded in the cities, it lost seats in working-class constituencies that have historically been Labour strongholds.
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We are engaged in a climactic effort to free the largest remaining strongholds in Iraq (Mosul) and Syria (Raqqa).
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Democrats, on the other hand, win only when they nominate someone from outside their Northeast and West Coast strongholds.
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Many of these communities, including once solidly Democratic-voting, union-heavy, blue collar strongholds, flipped to Trump in 19703.
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Hezbollah would take the opportunity, he thinks, to attack Israel from its strongholds just past Israel's border in Lebanon.
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The group was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been driven from most of its other strongholds.
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There were lines, however, at poorer government strongholds, where the majority of voters interviewed said they were backing Maduro.
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What's more, weak turnout in key Democratic strongholds might have helped Donald Trump win a few crucial swing states.
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President-elect Donald Trump's election victory sent shockwaves through the country's Democratic strongholds, sparking dozens of anti-Trump rallies.
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Mr Pritzker's largesse helped Democrats reach beyond urban strongholds to commuter suburbs such as Naperville, an hour's drive from Chicago.
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Beijing is looking to hammer US agricultural exports produced in states that Trump and the GOP consider vital political strongholds.
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Sections of western and southern Idlib are considered Nusra Front strongholds, although other rebels are also present in these areas.
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Belgian-manufactured ammunition that was originally sold to Gadhafi's Libya in the 1980s has reemerged decades later in ISIS strongholds.
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Instead, Russian soldiers tightened the noose around Debaltseve, a strategic transit hub linking the separatist strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Trump's haste to drive ISIS from Mosul; Raqqa, its Syrian capital; and other strongholds may have played into its hands.
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The observation posts are aimed at ensuring that Turkey and the SDF remain focused on clearing final Islamic State strongholds.
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Instead, they saw the case as a political attack on one of the last strongholds of the US union movement.
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So making traditional predictions based on small geographic strongholds always going to one party or the other is not possible.
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The first is the stalled progress on wiping out wild polio viruses in their last two strongholds, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Large numbers of Tigrayan officials have been purged, including from their former strongholds in the army and national intelligence agency.
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Travis County, which contains the Texas capital Austin, is one of the few Democratic strongholds in a heavily Republican state.
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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are shadowing each other in the Mississippi River cities that are vote-rich Democratic strongholds.
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The provincial cities are PSD strongholds, with a party office with the red rose at the center of every town.
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The IS caliphate looks likely to be dismantled as American-backed forces close on its strongholds of Raqqa and Mosul.
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Al Shabaab was forced out of the capital Mogadishu in 2011 and has since lost most of its other strongholds.
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Patterson said the group was performing well in TV and mobile, as well as its strongholds of voice and broadband.
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An S.D.F. fighter sleeps in a room near Raqqa's National Hospital—one of the last ISIS strongholds in the city.
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But the idea that ISIS has been defeated is incorrect, as ISIS-inspired groups have found strongholds across the world.
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Similar to the European Union, Mexico's levies are designed to hit producers in Republican strongholds to hurt Trump's voter base.
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Cannabis in Lebanon is grown illegally in the Bekaa Valley, considered one of the strongholds of the militant group Hezbollah.
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That's because Democrats have made surprising gains with voters in upscale, well-educated suburbs — traditional GOP strongholds across New Jersey.
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The Tigers carried out devastating suicide bombings in southern Sinhalese strongholds, including Colombo; assassinated political leaders; and massacred Sinhalese civilians.
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White House officials have made optimistic projections that its most important strongholds could fall by the end of the year.
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The ruling brought out cheering crowds in Mr. Kenyatta's strongholds, but it stirred unrest in areas loyal to Mr. Odinga.
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China is the United States' third-largest export market, and a top destination for agricultural goods harvested in Trump strongholds.
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They originated in Mashhad and went on to Qum, two traditional regime strongholds — a sign of the regime's ideological bankruptcy.
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Beijing is also looking to hammer US agricultural exports produced in states that Trump and the GOP consider vital strongholds.
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Odinga supporters took to the streets in the capital Nairobi and regional opposition strongholds, chanting, building roadblocks, and burning tires.
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Experts said that the Shabab, which has strongholds just outside the capital, benefited from — and contributed to — that power struggle.
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Others say they do the same in antifa strongholds like Philadelphia, the Bay Area of California and the Pacific Northwest.
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But in opposition strongholds -- where much of the post-election violence has erupted -- it appeared to be business as usual.
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The Syrian towns Mayadeen and Abu Kamal are still Islamic State strongholds, as is Qaim across the border in Iraq.
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After coming to power, his administration brutally stamped out any dissent, and he presided over forces that massacred opposition strongholds.
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The group's claim to legitimacy has rested mainly on holding territory, so losing those strongholds would be a devastating blow.
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Obama adhered to that timetable for Afghanistan, despite the progress underway in the Taliban's strongholds in Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
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Both Brooks and Rokita represent districts considered to be Republican strongholds and are expected to remain in the party's control.
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Major New Mexico cities are booming and moving left politically, while Republican strongholds are losing their share of the population.
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As the election gets closer and the fighting continues, even the most traditionally Republican strongholds are looking a little shaky.
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Democratic strongholds like Madison and Milwaukee, unlike other more conservative communities, began early voting six weeks before last year's midterm contests.
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The federal income tax has been called a blue-state tax because the higher incomes tend to cluster in Democratic strongholds.
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California&aposs Central Valley is seen as one of the last GOP strongholds in a state largely relegated to Democratic representation.
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Politically, the Central Valley has Republican strongholds and loyalists to President Donald Trump, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep.
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The Taliban strongholds amount to 10 percent to 15 percent of the population, according to the latest official American government estimates.
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Meanwhile, a surge of Democrats showed up in strongholds like Madison, home of the state's flagship university, and in central Milwaukee.
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Khaled Oukab has started a factory in Gaziantep that sends women's clothes to rebel strongholds in northern Syria and to Iraq.
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Many of the cases have been in strongholds of vaccine-wary parents, swayed by anti-vax misinformation and distrust of authorities.
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On one side are conservatives from Republican strongholds, where many voters consider helping immigrants stay in the U.S. to be amnesty.
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Experts say Mali is less secure than in 2013, when French-backed forces pushed extremists in the north from their strongholds.
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While the demonstrations were largely contained in areas of the country that are known Odinga strongholds, some did descend into violence.
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It is a tactic to disenfranchise people in the opposition's urban strongholds, said one man who didn't want to be named.
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Taliban fighters maintain strongholds close to the thoroughfares, however, and during recent skirmishes, some police checkpoints on Highway 3 were overrun.
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It might even kill hundreds of people each year outside its strongholds in Iraq and Syria -- mostly in the Middle East.
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A coastal region of south Bangladesh, known as the Sundarbans, is one of the world's "last strongholds" of the Bengal tiger.
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It hits Syrian regime strongholds in Homs and Damascus with car bombs and suicide attacks, killing well over 100 people yesterday.
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Microsoft and Facebook's strongholds are less well defined, but again, there's a lot overlap and lots of space to expand into.
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Blue state, red valley The children of immigrants haven't forgotten how they were targeted in one of California's last conservative strongholds.
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Yet both experts and locals disputed the group's claims of widespread community support, even in Republican strongholds like Bogside and Creggan.
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But that lead shrunk on Wednesday and Thursday as more votes trickled in from Broward and Palm Beach — both Democratic strongholds.
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Both of those are relative Democratic strongholds and Moore has never had much of a following in those major metro counties.
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The party held on in two of its other strongholds, however, keeping Tainan in the south and Taoyuan in the north.
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Some Republicans are alarmed by polls that show a tighter-than-expected race in Republican strongholds like Utah, Arizona and Georgia.
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Since the results were announced, Odinga supporters have mounted sporadic protests in Kisumu and the Nairobi slums that are his strongholds.
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Beale said there was a need to focus on new markets and diversify away from traditional strongholds like the United States.
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It's one of Syria's last rebel strongholds, but it has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years.
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After losing its strongholds in eastern Syria last year, Islamic State launched insurgency operations from pockets of territory in desert areas.
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No entity has yet claimed responsibility for the assault, which targeted those fleeing government-held towns for more secure regime strongholds.
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The shift is stark enough that Democrats are pressing for victory in Arizona and Georgia, two historically Republican strongholds, while Mrs.
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Last month, planes reportedly dropped leaflets over IS strongholds in Syria that included pictures of two officials recently killed in airstrikes.
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But blue-collar strongholds, which helped fuel the backlash in the United States, are providing a bulwark for Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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The former vice president even maintains a narrow lead in Maine, which is close to Sanders' and Warren's New England strongholds.
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If he eats into Sanders' strongholds in places like California and Massachusetts, Biden could end the day as the delegate leader.
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Forty years ago, workers in the flip counties earned 85 cents for every dollar earned by workers in the Democratic strongholds.
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For these people, many of them affluent professionals in Democratic strongholds, it would be the biggest tax increase in recent memory.
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Republicans spent big to protect the seat and Democrats have shown they can be competitive in what were once GOP strongholds.
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Biden's got lot of strongholds in southern states on Super Tuesday as well but I wouldn't underestimate Bernie in the south.
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Separately, the British Labour Party has an unusual strategy for winning upcoming elections: campaigning in London's superrich neighborhoods, traditionally conservative strongholds.
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The group has signaled that followers of its ideology continue to exist, particularly during periods of unrest in its former strongholds.
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Intriguingly, all five of the most wind-dependent states — Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Dakota — are traditional Republican strongholds.
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In the Republic of Congo, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's re-election came with accusations that he launched airstrikes on opposition strongholds.
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A previous ceasefire agreement broke down earlier this month when Russian forces continued to bomb rebel-held strongholds in northern Syria.
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The scale of the Conservative victory, and the extent of its conquests in traditional Labour strongholds, may not have been anticipated.
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The city was one of the last Iraqi strongholds of the terrorist militant group, which seized the region in June 2014.
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Elsewhere in the Middle East, a bolstered anti-ISIS strategy has blasted the radical group from its strongholds in shattered Syria.
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And the retreat of ISIS from its strongholds in Iraq and Syria in no way means that Mideast Christians will survive.
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Some tour operators are directly protecting millions of acres of endangered species habitat, among the last strongholds for rhinos and elephants.
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Digital spaces were simply strongholds that needed to be overrun, and this would remain the government's attitude for over a decade.
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Yet this core virtue drives against the inner strongholds that make a bad leader: pride, self-centeredness, judgmentalism, control, and impulsiveness.
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Mr. Johnson's promise to "get Brexit done" attracted leave voters in traditional Labour strongholds, winning those districts by often-narrow margins.
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After the explosion, Taliban strongholds in the area were bombed, resulting in the death of four insurgents, according to local officials.
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At the same time, even a moderately unpopular Trump remains very popular in the GOP strongholds of Appalachia and the Great Plains.
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It was only after ISIS strongholds collapsed in northern Syria that Ankara intervened and assisted Free Syrian Army rebels on the ground.
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Landlocked, it shares borders with conflict-ridden Libya, Sudan, the Central African Republic and Boko Haram's strongholds in Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
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Voting in four opposition strongholds, already delayed once, was postponed again Friday, due to fears of more unrest heading into the weekend.
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Since last Tuesday, Syrian troops have targeted rebel-held areas in eastern Daraa, one of the country&aposs last major rebel strongholds.
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But with support from Russia and Iran, Assad has recaptured large parts of Syria, driving rebels from most of their former strongholds.
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The kinds of crackdowns that have seen protesters shot in daylight are now taking place at night in once-loyal Chávez strongholds.
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The data, though, shows dozens of ISIS attacks just in the last two months around the group's former strongholds in northern Iraq.
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The 20193th District, for example, is a skinny line connecting Democrat strongholds Austin and San Antonio — squigglier than 97.9% of US districts.
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They live in suburbs that have long been Republican strongholds, and in states that moved heavily toward Trump in the 83 election.
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While the League strongholds are in the rich northern regions of Italy, 5-Star votes are concentrated in the country's poorer south.
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The study does not take into account intense fighting in recent months around Baiji, Sinjar or Ramadi — all former Islamic State strongholds.
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And it has expanded mobile coverage from 39% to 99% of Iran, including to 27,000 villages which the hardliners hitherto considered strongholds.
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In Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan - once union strongholds - those governments have enacted so-called right-to-work laws, significantly weakening workers' organizations.
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In recent years there have been signs of deepening disillusion with the Assembly in the republican strongholds of Belfast and south Armagh.
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On the one hand, mournful reports from rural or post-industrial strongholds of locals resentful of big cities and fearful of migrants.
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He needs to turn out the Republican voters from suburbs like Macomb County and hope Democratic strongholds like Detroit stay at home.
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The demonstrations have led to regular clashes with police in Nairobi and at least four deaths in opposition strongholds in western Kenya.
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In the days after the second election protesters fought against police in Mr Odinga's strongholds in western Kenya and Nairobi, the capital.
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They captured suburban districts they were expected to win, but they also earned shocking victories in what should have been Republican strongholds.
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The potential introduction of the feature signals that one of the last phone-free strongholds might finally fall to our smartphone addictions.
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Odinga's strongholds include his ethnic heartland in the west; the coast, where many of the nation's Muslims live; and the urban slums.
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Nearly three-quarters of states have expanded Medicaid since 2014, and support for the program has boosted Democratic candidates in conservative strongholds.
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Despite the postponement, voting was disrupted by malfunctioning voter card readers which caused lengthy delays in some regions, particularly southern opposition strongholds.
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A "fortress city" with a collection of obsolete strongholds, Verdun was largely a sector French commanders would strip units and artillery from.
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The more the Democrats go with what works in their coastal strongholds, the less chance they have of winning back the heartland.
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The group was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been chased from most of its other strongholds across the country.
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The Lib Dems are hoping to make substantial gains in these places, and also in their traditional strongholds in the south-west.
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Stability in a deeply divided country A hero in his sectarian strongholds, Hariri is an altogether different figure on the national stage.
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"Democrats flipped the house w/ historic wins by women + people of color, some slashing decades-long red strongholds," director Ava DuVernay tweeted.
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Voters expanding Medicaid -- a plank in the Democratic, not Republican, party platform -- in three of the biggest conservative strongholds in the country?
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In their statement, the the Russian Defense Ministry says the airstrikes were aimed at ISIS strongholds, ISIS militants and ISIS military equipment.
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However, the electoral commission's controversial decision to delay voting in three opposition strongholds has all but guaranteed the result will be challenged.
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He was accused of ordering a string of massacres in the early- to mid-1980s in opposition strongholds to consolidate his power.
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Islamist terrorism is of rising concern to the world, however, with the West launching airstrikes on ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
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It is assessed that ISIS is consolidating its chemical weapons capabilities in order to boost its ability to defend its remaining strongholds.
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Recent shake-ups in her campaign staff make this an unlikely test of whether that new coalition can win in Republican strongholds.
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The international response to these latest attacks will likely influence how Syrian President Bashar al-Assad eliminates remaining rebel strongholds in Syria.
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The bombers that flew from an airfield in Russia hit "terrorist strongholds" in the valley of the Euphrates river, the agencies reported.
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Modi's party has invested significant political capital to make inroads into opposition strongholds, and increased its tiny seat share in West Bengal.
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After winning the presidential election in Zimbabwe last week, Emmerson Mnangagwa is pursuing a campaign of violence and intimidation in opposition strongholds.
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One right-wing activist joked that colleagues should stand outside polling stations in Mr. Gantz's strongholds, wearing face masks to deter voters.
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"I made it clear from the beginning that our mission in Syria was to strip ISIS of its military strongholds," he said.
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The Taliban leadership had made it clear: During the cease-fire, no fighters should leave their rural strongholds to venture into cities.
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Strikingly, the rally on Wednesday featured protesters from across the socioeconomic spectrum, including some from areas that had once been Chavista strongholds.
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Republican victories in the Senate came mainly in the conservative strongholds where Mr. Trump's popularity has remained steady or grown since 2016.
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In that case, Republicans squeezed revenue from states dominated by Democrats and returned the benefits to Republican strongholds elsewhere across the country.
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For Sanders, this might fly in deep blue or ultra-liberal venues; it won't where it would be most necessary: conservative strongholds.
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Its endemic corruption, environmental mismanagement, foreign wars and sheer brutality have alienated many of its citizens, including those from traditional regime strongholds.
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Imagine telling the parents of kids in affluent metropolitan Democratic strongholds, sorry, we have to skip a day a week of school.
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Pielke said New Jersey's statistics jumped out at him, in part because of its history as one of the Northeast's gridiron strongholds.
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Democratic turnout could continue to break records — yet it could also be concentrated in predictable Democratic strongholds rather than crucial swing districts.
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Since 2001, the Pakistani military has launched 10 operations against militant strongholds in the region, most recently in 2013 in North Waziristan.
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One was far more likely, in fact, to share dinner with exiled district governors from Taliban strongholds like Musa Qala and Baghran.
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In February, during Nigeria's latest elections, false information about the supposed violence in polling stations located in opposition strongholds was widely spread.
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The group was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been driven from most of its other strongholds across the country.
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This would enfranchise minority party voters in traditional majority party strongholds without eliminating the need for candidates to generate broad geographic appeal.
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"We have seen an infrastructure of cells with connections" to the Islamic State's strongholds in Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq, he said.
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The fall of Aleppo, one of the rebels' few urban strongholds, in December brought the regime closer to victory than ever before.
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Yet, this argument overlooks the fact that despite his victory, Trump lost many suburban districts that had been Republican strongholds for decades.
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The big picture: It's the second time in six days that the president has been booed during public appearances in liberal strongholds.
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The Islamic State has struggled to reassert itself in the city, as well as in other strongholds such as Mosul in Iraq.
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What's more, after the earlier conflicts, they emphasize that they have participation and support across the country, including Republican strongholds like Nebraska.
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Traditional Labour strongholds in the Midlands, the North and Wales were flipped, electing Conservative politicians for the first time in their history.
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"This is a major setback for the PD." Genoa is the latest of a string of defeats in the PD's traditional strongholds.
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As he racks up electoral victories in regions once considered liberal strongholds, Mr. Salvini has applied excruciating external pressure on the coalition.
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The rebels were ousted from their strongholds in Aleppo, once Syria's largest city, late last year, partly because of Russian air support.
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In a tweet on Monday, Mr. Chamisa accused election officials of causing delays to suppress the vote in the opposition's urban strongholds.
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With unrest over a divisive new citizenship law sweeping the country, the prime minister is losing some support, even in his strongholds.
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ISIS has some strongholds in eastern Diyala, which it uses to launch attacks in the province and even, at times, into Baghdad.
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Voters in some Democratic strongholds who came out for Barack Obama in 2012 seem to have passed on Clinton this time around.
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O'Rourke's unapologetic progressivism stands out among Democrats who are campaigning outside the party's liberal strongholds in the Northeast and on West Coast.
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The group has benefited from the chaos of Yemen's civil war, although it has lost major strongholds, including the port city of Mukallah.
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Clinton has called for better intelligence, new efforts to counter online recruiting of militants and smashing Islamic State strongholds in the Middle East.
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The African Union AMISOM force, alongside the Somali army, launched a campaign last year that drove al Shabaab out of its major strongholds.
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It makes sense for Western countries to keep numerous counterterrorism strongholds throughout the broader region where the jihadist scourge has been most serious.
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The conservative People's Party (PP), which suffered heavy losses last month, is focusing on damage limitation and maintaining strongholds including the Madrid region.
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Partly, this is because of redistricting and gerrymandering that happened across the South in 2012, which divided up strongholds of reliable Black voters.
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Ali Mayhoub says the army captured the former IS strongholds in the Palestinian Yarmouk camp and Hajar al-Aswad after a monthlong campaign.
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Even if the coalition does capture the port, the Houthis will still have the capital, Sana'a, and their strongholds in the northern mountains.
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When the Kurds cleared IS from its strongholds near the Turkish border, the relief felt around the world was not shared by Turkey.
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Excessive force by police against protesters and residents in strongholds of opposition leader Raila Odinga caused the deaths in Nairobi, the report said.
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Despite abolish ICE protests sweeping liberal strongholds across the country, the agency is scoring huge wins in the fight against illegal immigrant crime.
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ISIS may be losing money and losing ground in some of its biggest strongholds, but they have one powerful, unpredictable weapon: Social media.
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There is no doubt that we need to thoroughly vet people coming from countries where there are strongholds of ISIS and al-Qaida.
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Four weekends in a row in the spring, he was burning rubber as he visited Trump campaign strongholds like West Virginia and Ohio.
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Iran has said that the five gunmen and suicide bombers who were killed had fought in the militants' strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
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To the east of Aleppo, Kurdish forces are, with American support, eyeing the remaining ISIS strongholds along the Turkish border -- Jarablus and Manbij.
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He wants to "carpet bomb" ISIS strongholds, despite numerous military strategists having said would amount to a violation of the laws of war.
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What's been done: Trump loosened restraints on U.S. military commanders, resulting in more airstrikes and ISIS has lost strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
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Democratic strongholds in the state have shrunk while Republican ones, particularly in the north, like Bentonville, where Wal-Mart is headquartered, has grown.
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That leaves, on the whole, a fairly moderate district — albeit with some party strongholds that are key to get-out-the-vote efforts.
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Wisconsin may come down to the level of turnout in these blue-collar Trump strongholds versus the more establishment-friendly areas around Milwaukee.
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In December, Xi said universities had to become ideological "strongholds" of the party and they must serve the party's rule and promote socialism.
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The latest: The most recent additions to the list of targets include districts in the Republican strongholds of South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.
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Trump has also shown underwhelming results in traditional GOP strongholds such as Texas, which has voted Republican in the last nine presidential elections.
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In Odinga strongholds, such as Kisumu, residents had defiantly blocked roads, clashed with police, and intimidated election officials to prevent voting on Thursday.
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In the unlikeliest cities — once the strongholds of the conservatives — Iranians have taken to the streets, demanding, not just reform, but a referendum.
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Any gains in Republican strongholds would help Democrats reduce potential losses around the country as the party faces a daunting re-election map.
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That boycott manifested in violence and protests in Odinga strongholds across the country, suppressing turnout and preventing some polling stations from opening altogether.
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It was the in the Dominican strongholds, including Washington Heights east of Broadway and parts of Inwood, where she edged out her competition.
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Also, Trump lost California by more than 210 million votes to Democrat Hillary Clinton despite traditional GOP strongholds in places like Orange County.
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Anger has been rising in the sect's strongholds in the north since the army killed 347 IMN members in the city of Zaria.
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They also come as Obama seeks to help Iraqi forces retake ISIS strongholds of Mosul and Raqqa by the end of this year.
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Eastern Ghouta is one of Syria's last rebel strongholds, but it has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years.
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Last month, Hezbollah forced Nusra Front militants and Syrian rebels to leave nearby border strongholds in a joint operation with the Syrian army.
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" Referring to Abu Sayyaf's strongholds, he said: "They must stay there, My order to the navy ... is to blow them up, no surrender.
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At the core is the mission of eradicating ISIS, which does appear largely to have been accomplished, at least in its Syrian strongholds.
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His pitch to boost U.S. automakers against foreign rivals helped him win voters in former Democratic strongholds in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Rep.
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Developing the 12 Iraqi oil fields, which lie in southern and central areas away from Islamic State strongholds, will take longer than that.
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But he may also have to commit time and resources to states like Arizona, Georgia and Utah, which have historically been Republican strongholds.
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Voters in African-American strongholds like Ensley and Collegeville could tell you exactly what a Woodfin vote meant for their family and community.
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Dibaga Camp now has 43,000 refugees from Mosul and other Islamic State strongholds, with about 11,000 arriving in September alone, Mr. Mohiadin said.
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As its fighters are pushed out of their strongholds, many are going underground, vowing to continue their battle as hit-and-run insurgents.
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In the months leading up to Monday's vote, the opposition was allowed for the first time to hold rallies in ZANU-PF strongholds.
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For the ninth year running, Bangkok (2109) and Singapore (22009) retained their strongholds, welcoming 278 million and 14.7 million overnight international arrivals respectively.
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But the DCCC has been inundated with what they say are very strong recruits from districts across the country, including traditional Republican strongholds.
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But in the summer of 2015, newly elected Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari launched a new offensive against Boko Haram's strongholds in northeastern Nigeria.
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The cap drew loud protests from politicians in high-cost, high-tax states — and Democratic strongholds — like New York, New Jersey and California.
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The relationships he made in prison paved the way for him to take on a series of leadership roles in Red Command strongholds.
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Those districts include longtime Republican strongholds, like Newport Beach, and rank among the country's largest users of the state and local tax break.
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Then go comparison shopping at the trio of salt water taffy strongholds, James', Fralinger's (which has the same owner as James') and Shriver's.
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Turkish forces in recent months have swept across the border into Syria to attack Islamic State strongholds, an offensive the Pentagon has applauded.
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On Friday, after a five-hour battle, the military seized two other structures, including another mosque, that it said had been enemy strongholds.
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Protests even spread to longtime strongholds of Mr. Ortega's Sandinista movement, with some demanding the president's resignation and setting fire to government buildings.
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Commanders in Paktika and Nangarhar - two other provinces regarded as strongholds for the Taliban – also said they would continue their attacks as planned.
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As part of the final accord, the group agreed to turn over their weapons to the United Nations and leave their jungle strongholds.
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Months after the recapture of Falluja showed that Iraq could regain one of the Islamic State's strongholds, the victory now seems at risk.
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Puerto Rican migrants have also settled in Republican strongholds like Texas, aside from traditional magnet states like New York, New Jersey and Illinois.
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And their anti-Brexit stance may not help them regain old strongholds in south-west England, most of which voted Leave in 2016.
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Talk of nationalisation may anyway be moot: our reporting suggests Labour may lose traditional strongholds to the governing Conservatives in next month's poll.
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A cold coming they had of itOn a rainswept night the Conservatives marched into constituencies long seen as Labour strongholds (see Britain section).
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Democrats have been overperforming in GOP strongholds, most recently winning a special election in a Pennsylvania district that Trump carried by 20 points.
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But there are Labour seats in constituencies that voted Leave, many in traditional working-class strongholds such as in the north of England.
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Democratic voter enthusiasm has helped deliver the party victories in some Republican strongholds, suggesting that Democrats will have the upper hand in November.
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The electoral maps hint as much: the old pattern held up, as not just Winston County but other strongholds of the yeomanry embraced him.
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Yet bookmakers reckon at least one of the strongholds, and perhaps both, will change hands because voters like Mr Richardson are so fed up.
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A large turnout in the bigger cities may improve the chances of opposition parties whose main strongholds are in Nairobi, the capital, and Mombasa.
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Clouding any potential ceasefire is the Syrian government's frequently used tactic of pushing rebels to surrender their strongholds after long sieges and military offensives.
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And President Trump was, as well, being able to pick up these Democrat strongholds that hadn&apost gone for Republican in quite some time.
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Assad has vowed to retake the whole city, once Syria's commercial heart and now one of the last urban strongholds still in rebel hands.
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Turkey's army cleared IS from strongholds overlooking the border in early September, and fighting continues near al-Bab, a town north-east of Aleppo.
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Turnout was strong in Democratic strongholds such as Madison, the state capital, and the largest city, Milwaukee, but also in Republican suburbs around Milwaukee.
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The offensive follows the pattern of previous assaults on rebel strongholds, deploying air power and tight sieges to force insurgents to accept "evacuation" deals.
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In Egypt, dozens of young men living in mostly poor neighborhoods stereotyped as Islamist strongholds are rounded up in regular sweeps, say defense attorneys.
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"Under normal circumstances you'd expect that these states would all be Republican strongholds," said Colm O'Comartun, a former head of the Democratic Governors Association.
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Clinton has deep strength in rural counties, Senator Barack Obama showed in 2008 that Iowa is won with broad support, not with isolated strongholds.
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As we've seen so many times in the last year, incredible things happen when progressives living in Democratic strongholds choose to exercise their power.
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Regional politics were also at play in the Republican tax overhaul, which has been designed to hit Democratic strongholds like New York and California.
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Strongholds of political centralism (Castile in Spain), prosperous borderlands (Skane in Sweden) or regions with a self-sufficient spirit (Bavaria in Germany) leant right.
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A poor performance by the BJP in the three "will be indicative of slipping ground in strongholds," said Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, a biographer of Modi.
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ISIS's main urban strongholds are now in the crosshairs, and we're going to see more American boots on the ground to help take them.
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Mr Northam performed strongly in traditional Democratic strongholds—Northern Virginia, Richmond and the heavily African-American Tidewater cities of Hampton, Portsmouth and Newport News.
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Reproductive rights activists are fighting back against Republicans' anti-abortion agenda with their own wave of state legislation — and not just in Democratic strongholds.
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The government canceled the election because of insecurity in these eastern opposition strongholds and in the northwestern town of Yumbi where unrest broke out.
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His rejection of results triggered demonstrations and a deadly crackdown by police in his strongholds, including Nairobi slums and the western city of Kisumu.
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It seems that investors just aren't confident right now that these once stock market strongholds are are worth as much as they once thought.
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Its policy here will cripple small business and deplete local tax bases, largely in progressive strongholds, and few Democrats have done anything about it.
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Opinion polls and voters suggested Labour would lose seats in some traditional strongholds, testing the authority of its new left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
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While North Carolina and Virginia appear rife with opportunity, GOP strongholds like Arizona and Georgia are going to be a tougher reach for Clinton.
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Al Jazeera notes that the area "is one of the last remaining opposition strongholds," making it a major target for Syrian and Russian forces.
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D. laws, new residency requirements, ending early voting, restricting third-party voter-registration drives, and reducing the number of polling places in Democratic strongholds.
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He insists he can compete even in Democratic strongholds such as California, where Mitt Romney in 2012 drew just 37 percent of the vote.
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In recent years, his military has crushed strongholds held by an array of rebel factions, some that had received Turkish, Gulf or U.S. backing.
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In addition to the terror attacks, rockets fired from IS strongholds in Syria have killed 21 people in Kilis, a town near the border.
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The proportion of migrants may be relatively low in Leave strongholds such as Boston, in Lincolnshire (where 15.4% of the population are foreign-born).
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Still, the Blue Dogs have been heartened by the shift in attention away from the liberal strongholds of the cities and the two coasts.
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But the city is one of Mr. Trump's apparent strongholds, along with Long Island and Western New York, where he is spending Monday evening.
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The pizza chain tested e-bikes in Houston, Miami and New York, three densely populated cities that are strongholds of third-party delivery services.
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Kurdish fighters led the assault on ISIS strongholds across Syria alongside US special operations troops, brutally attacking entrenched ISIS fighters at a devastating cost.
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Baghdad is conducting trials of thousands of suspected IS fighters, including hundreds of foreigners, many of whom were arrested as the group's strongholds crumbled.
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Turnout improved in Democratic strongholds of Milwaukee and Madison as well — Neubauer beat Dallet's vote totals in both cities — but by far smaller margins.
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Both are poised to make history this fall as the first Latinas from Texas to serve in Congress since both seats are Democratic strongholds.
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" Speaking during a Pentagon press conference, Mattis said the U.S.-led coalition was increasing its pressure on ISIS by encircling fighters in their "strongholds.
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The original objective of defeating the Free Syrian Army and occupying its strongholds like Aleppo, with the help of Russian air strikes, has failed.
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The expansion of solar beyond liberal strongholds like California and the Northeast has been critical to garnering Republican support over the last few years.
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She was expected to win by significant margins in the state's most populous counties, some of which are traditional Democratic strongholds in general elections.
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"You can't bomb [ISIS strongholds] Raqqa or Mosul and think these so-called jihadists are going to vanish," she told me over the phone.
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That includes CBS news and sports strongholds with rights to broadcast 45 pro sports teams (think the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, and the Patriots).
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While the jihadist group is overwhelmingly outnumbered by Iraqi forces, it has been using suicide car bombs and snipers to defend its remaining strongholds.
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Ruby-red Republican strongholds take up most of the South, the Great Plains, the Mountain States and the suburban and rural areas in between.
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The former governor said the Democrats' local election wins will help hone a message that extends beyond the traditional party strongholds in coastal cities.
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He had just walked with his extended family out of the town of Marashida, one of the last strongholds of ISIS in Eastern Syria.
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But the automakers said President Trump's threatened tariffs on imported cars and car parts would force them to curtail operations in these Republican strongholds.
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We decided to get outside of what Hungarians call the "Budapest bubble" and visit Fidesz's political strongholds in the more rural parts of Hungary.
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But what about other traditional Republican strongholds, like the Central Valley, where a moderate incumbent, Representative David Valadao, just conceded to a Democratic challenger.
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Since the 1970s, the Haqqani Network has been active in trench warfare in Afghanistan, operating out of its strongholds in Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.
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Outside of the state's liberal strongholds, conservative anti-vaxxers have championed their beliefs as medical choice and balked against vaccine mandates as government overreach.
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But with overdoses ravaging Republican and Democratic strongholds alike, members of both parties have found broad areas of agreement, a rarity in today's politics.
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The governments of Iran, Iraq, Russia and the United States have pounded Islamic State strongholds, and Raqqa has been under attack in recent weeks.
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That meant reaching beyond the Tory heartland of southern England and looking to smash the Labour strongholds of Wales and England's midlands and north.
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The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared on Tuesday that Raqqa, the last of ISIS's major strongholds, had been taken back from the terror group.
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A merging of bears from these two wild strongholds is considered critical for the long-term genetic viability of grizzlies in the Lower 48.
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Trump strongholds in the South and rural America send a much higher proportion than the national average of their populations to the armed forces.
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GOP strongholds in places like Chesterfield County tend to report their results early, while Democratic bastions like Fairfax tend to count ballots more slowly.
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The group has urged its supporters to launch attacks around the world as it goes on the defensive in its Iraqi and Syrian strongholds.
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Forces backed by the United States have launched an offensive to drive ISIS from its final strongholds in northeast Syria, U.S. officials announced Tuesday.
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With Mr. Trump's approval ratings hovering around record lows for this point in a presidency, formidable candidates are lining up even in Republican strongholds.
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Security had been increased on Friday in opposition strongholds amid concern that a ruling in favor of either side could provoke protests or worse.
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The voting was also rocked by an Ebola outbreak and instability in the east, where two cities considered opposition strongholds were excluded from participating.
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Last week in Caracas, citizens from the poorest neighborhoods that had been Chavista strongholds in the past took to the streets in unprecedented protests.
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Yemeni government security forces have been deployed in most of former Qaeda strongholds but the militants still exist in Baydha and Shabwa's Sayed district.
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Businesses operating in these ethnic strongholds complain that they have to pay levies to ethnic armed groups, as well as taxes to the government.
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The US has declared victory in its fight against ISIS, with American allies retaking the last of the group's major strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
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Cutting off Raqqa city from IS strongholds in Deir al-Zor province to the southeast would be a major blow against the group in Syria.
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Iraq is conducting trials of thousands of suspected Islamic State fighters, including hundreds of foreigners, with many arrested as the group's strongholds crumbled throughout Iraq.
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But now shale oil from the U.S. Permian basin is pouring ever more into traditional strongholds for Nigerian oil in Western Europe, India and Indonesia.
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Now the country is reduced to a series of strongholds and survivor's camps, and most of the actual functions of government are outsourced to Bridges.
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He has travelled to each of Texas's 254 counties, including plenty of Republican strongholds, which no other candidate for Senate in the state has done.
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The development is the latest significant defeat for IS as the militant group sees its self-proclaimed "caliphate" crumble and lose almost all urban strongholds.
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The Syrian army and its allies pushed into the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, one of the last strongholds of Islamic State in Syria.
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On the other hand, experts say it is precisely because they are being confronted in their strongholds that they are lashing out in our streets.
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Key battleground states including Florida and Nevada are now leaning in Clinton's favor, while traditionally Republican strongholds like Arizona are now in play for Clinton.
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I always loved the fantasy of being a medieval lord, designing and building unconquerable strongholds and then watching my enemies shatter themselves against the ramparts.
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But it wasn't that odd—the 50 divisions (not precincts) in Philadelphia who went unanimously for Obama were Democratic strongholds, as were those Ohio areas.
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Much of the League anger is focused on stalled efforts to hand greater autonomy to the regions — something the party's northern strongholds have long demanded.
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Since a regional offensive last year drove Boko Haram from most of their strongholds, the Islamist militants have waged a guerrilla-style campaign targeting civilians.
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But at the same time, there is no real clarity on the Trump administration's strategy on Syria following the apparently imminent eradication of ISIS strongholds.
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Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of suspected members of Islamic State, many of whom were arrested as the group's strongholds crumbled throughout Iraq.
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He said that vote totals were still coming in from Broward and Palm Beach counties – both Democratic strongholds – and that a hand recount appeared inevitable.
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Block notes that the farm states, which would be hurt by proposed Chinese tariffs on grains, are all Republican strongholds that had voted for Trump.
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In Pennsylvania, a state that will certainly be crucial for Democrats to win in 85033, a wave of Democrats scored victories in traditionally Republican strongholds.
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At the same time, in more rural Republican strongholds, says Patrick Murray, the director of polling at Monmouth University, Mr. Trump's appeal has only grown.
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Even more importantly, those gains took place in the larger and more quickly growing parts of the state, including former GOP strongholds in the suburbs.
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Since the start of the year, rockets fired from IS strongholds in Syria have killed another 21 people in Kilis, a town near the border.
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The proportion of migrants may be relatively low in Leave strongholds such as Boston, Lincolnshire, but it has soared in a short period of time.
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He handily won all three of these states in 2016, and will likely want to rally his support in these Republican strongholds ahead of 2020.
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Tehran originally sought to defeat the West-backed Free Syrian Army and occupy Aleppo and other rebel strongholds under ruthless air cover provided by Russia.
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Still, most surveys show Cruz with a healthy lead among evangelicals and Tea Party supporters; Trump's strongholds have been self-described moderate or liberal Republicans.
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As narrow a victory as it was, it nonetheless counted and served as an important signal that Democrats could win contests outside their traditional strongholds.
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WASHINGTON — The Syrian military was foundering last year, with thousands of rebel fighters pushing into areas of the country long considered to be government strongholds.
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She's campaigned for James Thompson in Kansas and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, but can she help outsider candidates in areas that aren't liberal strongholds?
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The Idlib area is the largest remaining opposition-held territory in Syria, its population swelled by insurgents and civilians retreating from shrinking rebel strongholds elsewhere.
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They delivered him victories in conservative Southern strongholds like Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, as well as Northern states like Massachusetts, where centrist Republicans hold sway.
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Holding Conservative strongholds in London's Westminster and Wandsworth boroughs is seen as the dividing line between a bad day and a terrible day for May.
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Looking toward 2018, I assume there's a predicted dip in civilian casualties with the effective end of the battles for the key urban IS strongholds?
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Shelter Island's churches, school, library and fire department are all volunteer strongholds that keep people active throughout the seasons and raise the quality of services.
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Turnout among Democrats could set records this Election Day, but the impact would be blunted if it's concentrated in predictable strongholds rather than swing districts.
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At least 70 people have died in political unrest since then, most of them opposition demonstrators and residents in opposition strongholds shot by the police.
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According to Mexican officials, they specifically chose to target goods from Republican strongholds, to hit Trump's party where it hurts ahead of the midterm elections.
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Ms. Nabourema said the recent demonstrations have been notable because they started in regions of Togo that are the traditional strongholds of the Gnassingbé family.
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And in a country traumatized by violent crime, his iron-fisted approach to law and order has appealed to voters in traditionally left-wing strongholds.
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On Friday, Google removed the Infowars Android app from its Play Store, extinguishing one of the last mainstream strongholds of infamous conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
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Many loyalists, however, see it as a witch hunt, and it's not uncommon to see flags celebrating Soldier F's parachute regiment fluttering in loyalist strongholds.
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Now, its strongholds of Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria, its self-declared capital, are besieged, and senior leaders have fled as opposing forces close in.
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Protesters in Shiite strongholds typically loyal to Iran burned the Iranian flag and chanted for the Islamic Republic to stop meddling in the country's affairs.
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Affluent areas that were once Tory strongholds now hang European Union flags from the windows and could fall to the unashamedly anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats.
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His district appears to be getting more ethnically diverse, but it still has affluent Republican strongholds that have helped him remain in power since 2003.
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When they were ousted in 1979, they retreated to strongholds like Malai on the western fringes of Cambodia along with thousands of soldiers and supporters.
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So too has the United States, in what it says is an attempt to rout the Islamic State from its strongholds along the Euphrates River.
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On the other side of the state, in the counties around Philadelphia, Democrats have been buoyed by victory after victory, even in longtime Republican strongholds.
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According to Weinstein, around 40% of its users are in North America, with most of the remainder spread throughout its strongholds in Europe and Asia.
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There were operations near Cambodia such as Junction City, with thousands of troops and a unique parachute jump searching for but not finding Vietcong strongholds.
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But while there have been scattered protests in Odinga strongholds, the demonstrations were relatively muted as supporters waited to hear what Odinga had to say.
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Operations to clear the militants from their final strongholds in Iraq have continued, despite a concurrent military advance on Kurdish-held territory in the north.
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Al Shabaab, which once controlled much of the country, was forced out of Mogadishu in 2011 and has since lost most of its other strongholds.
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Instead, the top contenders have established contrasting beachheads of support among the key demographic groups -- and struggled to build bridges to constituencies beyond their strongholds.
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It is not unlike the strategy that President Trump applied in the United States by campaigning in blue-collar, Democratic strongholds in rust-belt Ohio.
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A French-led intervention drove out Islamic extremists from strongholds in northern Mali in 2013, but the extremists have continued targeting peacekeepers and other forces.
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The results declaration could spark a new wave of protests in opposition strongholds across Guyana's sugar belt, which earlier this month led to one death.
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Sabri is where Haftar's rivals had their final strongholds, and was bombarded by LNA heavy artillery and air strikes up until a few weeks ago.
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Its peak membership reached 18,000 in 1999 and has since deteriorated to about 8,000, but the group still holds key strongholds in the Colombian jungle.
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The situation remains unclear as to how Syria's civil war would unfold from here with Assad determined to focus on retaining opposition strongholds throughout the country.
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He and other officials suggested that wresting control of Islamic State's major remaining strongholds in Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa, Syria is only a matter of time.
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This week the Taliban stormed into the northern city of Kunduz and launched a separate attack in Helmand province, one of its strongholds in the south.
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The Turkish military started a major counterinsurgency campaign last month, imposing round-the-clock curfews in Kurdish areas to drive Kurdish militants out of their strongholds.
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As ISIS lost territory over the last year, Sanliurfa, an ancient city near the Turkish border, saw the bulk of new arrivals from former ISIS strongholds.
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But MacFarland said the coalition had made advances on the field over the past year, regaining control over ISIS strongholds like Ramadi and making advances elsewhere.
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This had, in turn, cut off another of the group's strongholds, Fallujah, which was recaptured from ISIS by Iraqi forces, assisted by the coalition, in June.
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In their strongholds, principally in western Kenya and certain Nairobi slums, they could prevent the electoral commission from holding a vote that would satisfy the courts.
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Assad's offensive in the southwest aims to reclaim one of two remaining rebel strongholds in Syria, the other being Idlib and adjacent areas in the northwest.
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Opposition parties, however, see the measures as making the vote counting process less transparent and as allowing the government to move ballot boxes from opposition strongholds.
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In the Syrian Kurds' eastern strongholds, which stretch from Manbij to the Iraqi border (see map), they are flanked by as many as 2,000 American troops.
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Results from local elections in some parts of Britain show that UKIP has been wiped out in parts of England that were once considered its strongholds.
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The announcement came on the heels of Tuesday's elections in Virginia, where Democrats won the governor's office and triumphed in local races in some Republican strongholds.
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"We will take Mosul, we will take Raqqa and we'd better have strategies as to how to handle those places," McCain said, referring to ISIS strongholds.
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The source said Saudi Arabia would enhance its participation in the US-led coalition fighting to oust Islamic State from its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
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Similar methods were used against rebel areas of eastern Aleppo recaptured last year, and in opposition strongholds around Damascus that have fallen over the last year.
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His popularity came on the back of the military operation Zarb-i-Azb, which drove back Pakistani Taliban militants from their tribal strongholds and improved security.
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There will also be more of an effort to isolate ISIS fighters in their existing strongholds rather than pushing to be on run across remote areas.
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You would continue our successful efforts to take out ISIS strongholds, work with our allies to dismantle global terrorist networks, and improve intelligence gathering and analysis.
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Many of the counties in Kentucky most reliant on Medicaid—both for health coverage and to keep rural hospitals financially solvent—are also steadfastly Republican strongholds.
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Amid the push for that alliance, the Iraqi government is struggling to rebuild recently liberated Islamic State strongholds and confronts a newly assertive Kurdish independence movement.
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Aside from artillery strikes against the group's strongholds, however, it has avoided challenging IS inside Syria, preferring instead to wage war against Kurdish insurgents at home.
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Watts said Sanders will likely "play a tremendous role in the convention" and predicted the Vermont senator wins Iowa and New Hampshire and several liberal strongholds.
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A large part of the discussion focused on how to address the threat from the growing Qaeda strongholds in southern Yemen, two senior American officials said.
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Trump was informed that pockets of ISIS militants remained in the Euphrates River valley and that US military had not yet eliminated all of their strongholds.
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Over eight months, there have been thousands of arrests in France's Muslim communities, dozens of judicial procedures, heavy surveillance, and repeated bombing of Islamic State strongholds.
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While the National Liberation Front normally operates in Idlib, the National Army's strongholds are located close to the Turkish frontier in an area north of Aleppo.
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Similar patterns show up in Denmark and Germany, with the center-left doing better in cosmopolitan metropolitan areas and with populists gaining in former leftist strongholds.
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Nairobi (CNN)Kenyan police clashed with protesters in opposition strongholds, leaving one person dead and more injured as the nation voted for a new president Thursday.
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THE TOPLINE: Forces backed by the United States have launched an offensive to drive ISIS from its final strongholds in northeast Syria, U.S. officials announced Tuesday.
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Regulators have cracked down on some of Goldman's longtime strongholds, such as trading, and have forced big banks to maintain bigger capital cushions for some assets.
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The 56 women and children held inside have been there for months, after being swept up by the Nigerian military during raids on Boko Haram strongholds.
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The grave, near an agricultural college, is presumed to be the work of Isis, which has killed hundreds as it retreats from its strongholds in Iraq.
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It has also been driven from some of its strongholds by the Nigerian Army, assisted by Niger, Chad and Cameroon, to which many refugees have fled.
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During this year's two elections, an election official was killed, pockets of violence in opposition strongholds were reported and there were accusations of widespread voter irregularities.
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Early voting is far more popular in Democratic strongholds like Milwaukee and Madison than it is in other more rural, more conservative parts of the state.
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Iran has said that the five gunmen and suicide bombers who were killed in the attacks had fought in the militants' strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
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Switzerland (an example cited by Charlemagne) does indeed have German, French, Italian and Rumantsch strongholds, but official business can, and does, take place in all four.
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The once-dominant California Republican Party, by contrast, was a rump force, with little power or influence outside of its historic strongholds in the state's interior.
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Iraq is conducting trials of thousands of suspected members of Islamic State, including hundreds of foreigners, with many arrested as the group's strongholds crumbled throughout Iraq.
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Some well-known direct primary care practices in the country are based in liberal strongholds, like Forward in San Francisco, and Parsley Health in New York.
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His troops trained under an Israeli mercenary, and to practice what they had learned, they slaughtered union workers at banana farms that were supposedly guerrilla strongholds.
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"The last terrorists in some districts of the eastern part of Aleppo are evacuating their strongholds and Aleppo this evening will be clean," he told reporters.
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Rahr first honed his insights about strongholds in his college thesis at Yale, after discovering the work of one of America's pioneering 19th century fish conservationists.
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The way that game world was set up was that you had kind of separate areas, separate strongholds, that you'd sort of land in and explore.
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But though the first cities to ban facial recognition have been liberal strongholds like San Francisco and Oakland, several Republican lawmakers are also raising concerns. Rep.
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It will pass through five southern Afghan provinces — Herat, Farah, Nimruz, Helmand and Kandahar — that have been Taliban strongholds, and security had been a major concern.
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Even outside hip-hop strongholds like New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles, rappers from cities like Charlotte, N.C.; Baton Rouge, La.; and Pompano Beach, Fla.
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This scenario has provoked strong criticism from Democratic incumbents who tend to win by large margins in Democratic strongholds like Hudson County in northern New Jersey.
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But those charts above show something quite astounding: Republican margins of victory in these districts have shrunk to single digits, after being GOP strongholds for decades.
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On Wednesday, hundreds of his supporters demonstrated in Nairobi, the capital, and in some opposition strongholds around the country, demanding the resignation of senior election officials.
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One hundred years earlier, Selma was one of the last Confederate strongholds during the the Civil War and a munitions supplier of the South's war effort.
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Democrats have an uphill battle in Texas's Senate race, but they've been feeling more bullish on elections in redder states given recent upsets in GOP strongholds.
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But all of the evidence shows that it is the Republican-leaning strongholds outside of the major metropolitan areas that are the least touched by diversity.
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De-escalation zones Renewed air and ground offensives by Russian-backed Syrian forces against rebel strongholds have also targeted the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta.
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Democrats have an uphill battle in Texas's Senate race, but they've been feeling more bullish on elections in redder states given recent upsets in GOP strongholds.
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The militants were driven out of Mogadishu in 2011 and have since lost most of their other strongholds, but still carry out frequent attacks across Somalia.
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The militants were driven out of Mogadishu in 2011 and have since lost most of their other strongholds, but still carry out frequent attacks across Somalia.
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Kasich's comments come as the GOP looks to defend Republican strongholds in the House and Senate, as well as in statehouses across the country, in 85033.
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The source said Saudi Arabia would enhance its participation in the U.S.-led coalition fighting to oust Islamic State from its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
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Al Shabaab, which once controlled much of the country, was forced out of Mogadishu in 2011 and has since then lost most of its other strongholds.
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"We've seen across parts of northern and eastern Syria progress as ISIL [an alternative acronym for IS] has been pushed out of some strongholds," Rhodes said.
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Its attorney general's office has an annual budget of more than $600 million, more than five times higher than other major Republican strongholds such as Arizona.
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On that day, government forces reacted with great brutality to early morning assaults on three military installations, afterwards cracking down on neighborhoods identified as opposition strongholds.
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Somalia's economy is picking up slowly after the army and an African Union peacekeeping force helped drive Islamist group al Shabaab out of Mogadishu and other strongholds.
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Somalia is preparing for an offensive with African Union forces meant to push al-Shabab fighters out of their strongholds in Lower Shabelle and Middle Shabelle regions.
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Most are reliably Democrats—77% of Indian-Americans backed Hillary Clinton in 2016, for example—who cluster in partisan strongholds such as California, New York and Illinois.
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In a statement, the Iraqi military command said the airstrike Saturday hit the meeting in Hajin, one of the last strongholds of the militants in eastern Syria.
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Iraq and Syria are the strongholds of Islamic State (IS) militants although the jihadist group has taken responsibility for deadly attacks in many countries around the world.
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But as companies of all types and sizes shift their computing operations to the cloud, the three tech giants are fighting to establish strongholds in different areas.
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Afghan government officials said 152 fighters from the Islamic State strongholds of Darzab and Qush Tepa surrendered to security forces in the early hours of the morning.
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That includes majorities in every state -- including states such as Mississippi and Alabama that are often seen as conservative strongholds -- and a majority of Republicans as well.
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In his strongholds in the west, an area that has long felt excluded from political and economic power, protesters prevented polling stations from opening in four counties.
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Imamoglu won support even in traditionally pious Istanbul districts, once known as AK Party strongholds, ending the 25-year-long Islamist rule in the country's largest city.
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The US had struck ISIS strongholds in the area of Deir Ezzor dozens of times in recent months, but had not seen Syrian forces at this location.
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Irbil, Iraq (CNN)As Iraqi forces advance on ISIS strongholds, a sign discovered near Mosul reveals the extent of the militants' invasive control of populations they subjugated.
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McMahon — with dreams of grandeur and "finishing" the war — decides he actually needs 40,000 more troops so he can go after Taliban strongholds and eradicate the counterinsurgency.
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At least 28 people were killed in election-related violence, many of them shot by police after the results were announced, amid scattered protests in opposition strongholds.
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The big picture: Cities, particularly coastal ones, are Democratic strongholds that have been protesting Trump policies like immigration and health care since day one of his administration.
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The army is conducting an offensive against rebels in the southwest, one of their two remaining strongholds in Syria, and has captured nearby territory in recent days.
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Investigators will be looking into his travels to both countries -- especially to areas recognized as Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds -- to see if he was radicalized abroad.
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Still, the delegates are assigned by congressional district, and Sanders's pockets of support ended up being offset by traditional Democratic strongholds in every corner of the state.
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In recent days, scores of civilians have become the victims of the government's Russia-backed offensive to regain control of the last rebel strongholds in Northwestern Syria.
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Army General Joseph Votel told the Senate Armed Services Committee he would seek to ensure a coherent and well-resourced strategy to go after Islamic State strongholds.
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The US -- under Presidents Obama and Trump -- has focused on supporting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to drive ISIS out of its northern Syrian strongholds.
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And the result was not just a defeat for Remain, but a defeat driven by pro-Brexit sentiment in traditional Labour strongholds in the North and Midlands.
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Attorneys general in 16 states including liberal strongholds like New York and California have filed a lawsuit opposing the declaration and saying it threatens their states' funding.
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Since the army launched an operation against militant strongholds near the Afghan border in 2013, it has earned broad support from a Pakistani population, including its media.
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And even if such glitches don't affect the outcome of the election, a snafu or two in traditional GOP strongholds will most definitely fuel the conspiracy theories.
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The party forged various coalitions with Berlusconi, always as a junior partner, with its ambitions firmly tied to its wealthy strongholds in the Lombardy and Veneto regions.
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Support for the dissident union wing in Oaxaca and its other traditional strongholds in Chiapas, Michoacán and Guerrero had seemed to be waning, officials and analysts said.
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For decades, Orange County—the birthplace of Richard Nixon, the Crystal Cathedral, and the "Real Housewives" reality-TV franchise—was one of the country's proudest Republican strongholds.
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The GOP has seen candidates in Texas and Tennessee strengthen their position and make it less likely Democrats can pull of upsets in the red state strongholds.
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Trump was told that pockets of ISIS militants remained in the Euphrates River valley and that the US military had not yet eliminated all of their strongholds.
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And the service employee unions, with their diverse member rolls of low earners, have reemerged as a force in liberal politics in Democratic strongholds such as Pittsburgh.
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He is doing well with white working-class voters in Democratic strongholds like Youngstown, where industrial jobs have vanished, and in rural counties along the Ohio River.
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The stated purpose of the offensive is to clear Islamic State militants from one of their last remaining strongholds and supply lines on the Syrian-Turkish border.
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Some Clinton allies are also organizing "souls to the polls" buses that take church members to vote immediately after Sunday church services in Democratic strongholds like Cleveland.
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The decision technically canceled more than a million Congolese votes from the opposition strongholds as the final election result is expected to be announced in mid-January.
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Such reforms are the hallmarks of social democracy, the fragile compact between capitalism and the welfare state now coming undone even in its Scandinavian and Canadian strongholds.
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The list includes traditionally Republican states like Alabama and Texas, the Democratic strongholds of Oregon and Illinois, as well as purple states like New Hampshire and Nevada.
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Civilians are fleeing by the thousands -- many to government-controlled western Aleppo -- as the regime pounds the east with airstrikes and rebels fire back from their strongholds.
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Paramilitary units comprised of a variety of police forces were deployed to quell riots that broke out in opposition strongholds—"hotspots," as top security administrators called them.
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This spring, together with its Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS allies and local partners, the United States launched operations to liberate the final ISIS strongholds in Syria.
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As well as taking the Ouagadougou Center, the militias drove Islamic State members from about seven of their strongholds, including the hospital, a university and other places.
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He even lost the GOP's populous strongholds of Mobile County and Madison County by single digits -- both places Trump won in 2016 and Strange won in 2006.
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Konashenkov added that a Russian bomber had destroyed strongholds in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, where Islamic State had executed Syrian civilians en masse recently.
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These Likud strongholds are replete with so-called Mizrahi Jews, whose parents and grandparents immigrated to Israel at midcentury from countries like Morocco, Egypt, Libya and Iraq.
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Recent weeks have seen the AfD rise in the polls ahead of important state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, both traditional strongholds of the chancellor's conservative bloc.
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Clinton has pledged to defeat Islamic State and has said the first step to fighting the militant group is to eliminate its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
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Mr. Cuomo, who purportedly has national ambitions, called the bill "political retaliation through the tax code," noting that states like New York and California were Democratic strongholds.
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The remaining urban strongholds, in Asheville, Fayetteville and Greensboro-Winston-Salem, were filleted along party lines, with their most Democratic areas absorbed by otherwise rural Republican territories.
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In Indonesia, activists warn that illegal logging linked to a company with Chinese partners threatens one of the last strongholds for orangutans on the island of Borneo.
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NEW DELHI — Climate change and rising sea levels eventually may wipe out one of the world's last and largest tiger strongholds, scientists warned in a new study.
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President Trump has allowed military commanders more say in conducting operations against the Islamic State, urging them to surround the militants in their strongholds and "annihilate" them.
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Assad's forces would overwhelm these rebel strongholds and attack markets, schools, and even hospitals to make the situation untenable, not just for combatants, but for all civilians.
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While many of these species were previously regarded as secure, some strongholds "have burnt out so extensively [they] may now actually be much less secure," he said.
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AU and Somali troops have driven al Shabaab from major urban strongholds and ports, but they have often struggled to defend smaller, more remote areas from attacks.
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Both countries, he said, are widely seen as strongholds of climate denialism - alongside Canada and the United Kingdom - despite evidence of worsening droughts, wildfires, floods and storms.
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A series of ex-Republican lawmakers who lost narrowly in Trump strongholds in 2018 are plotting rematches next year with dreams of riding on the president's coattails.
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According to the United Nations, over 1,000 people have died in a government offensive on the rebel enclave -- one of the last opposition strongholds in the country.
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Over the past 25 years, many suburban areas near the country's biggest cities have gone from dependable Republican strongholds to competitive battlegrounds or even safe Democratic territory.
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Both countries, he said, are widely seen as strongholds of climate denialism - alongside Canada and the United Kingdom - despite evidence of worsening droughts, wildfires, floods and storms.
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And in a district where Republicans held a voter registration advantage of nearly 13,000, the Democratic Party sees it as evidence it can win in Republican strongholds.
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With ISIS having lost its territorial footing in the past year, Russian-backed Syrian forces are making a major push to overrun the country's remaining rebel strongholds.
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That came on the heels of South Korea announcing a new precision ballistic missile it claimed is capable of destroying North Korea's nuclear facilities and tunnel strongholds.
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Kurdish militias are fighting IS militants in northern Syria with American support and the PKK itself has clashed with the jihadists around its strongholds in northern Iraq.
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African Union and Somali troops have driven al Shabaab from major urban strongholds and ports, but they have often struggled to defend smaller, more remote areas from attacks.
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Odinga himself upped the stakes on Friday, accusing the Ministry of Interior and National Police Service of "systematically profiling" counties and slums well-understood to be NASA strongholds.
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Fighting has sharply escalated in Afghanistan since the insurgency started spreading from its traditional strongholds in the south and east of the country to the once peaceful north.
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Around 2,000 US special operations commandos and trainers have been working alongside some Syrian rebels and a Syrian Kurdish militia to defeat ISIS in its last remaining strongholds.
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Despite opposition from America, which teamed up with the YPG to crush Islamic State's "caliphate", Mr Erdogan's government has repeatedly threatened to attack the YPG's strongholds in Syria.
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Imamoglu won support even in the traditionally pious Istanbul districts, once known as AK Party strongholds, ending the 25-year-long Islamist rule in the country's largest city.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Eastern Libyan forces on Thursday expelled Islamist fighters from one of their last strongholds in the country's second-largest city of Benghazi, military officials said.
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Its strongholds are in Nariño, on the border with Ecuador, as well as in Antioquia in central Colombia and Arauca and Norte de Santander in the north-east.
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Since the beginning of the Russian intervention in September 2015, Assad has steadily retaken territory; major rebel strongholds, like the city of Aleppo, have fallen to regime forces.
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Seventeen people died in clashes after President Denis Sassou Nguesso's disputed re-election, including in gunfights that broke out on Monday in the opposition strongholds of southern Brazzaville.
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Istanbul (CNN)For months, the US has been building up an alliance in the Middle East aimed at dislodging ISIS from its strongholds in both Iraq and Syria.
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The flood of cash is upending contests in some once-solid Republican strongholds, including a handful of districts that traditionally have been the most conservative in the country.
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But they know, for the movement to work, it needs to take hold outside of the capital city and in the rural strongholds of Mugabe's ZANU-PF party.
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But confrontations emerged a day later between police and protesters in opposition strongholds in the capital and the western city of Kisumu, leaving at least two people dead.
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And many believe the party — and Clinton in particular — lacked an economic message to win communities, especially former Democratic strongholds, that have lost jobs to outsourcing and automation.
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The group has been driven out of major strongholds by the African and Somali forces but continues to launch bomb and gun attacks against officials, politicians and others.
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We were there to see them pull out, removing themselves from a flat stretch of what Colonel Matthew Grosz called "Taliban country" -- a main thoroughfare between insurgent strongholds.
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Pounded by tanks and artillery inside their urban strongholds, some of which now resemble areas of Syria, the militants have increasingly resorted to suicide- and car-bomb attacks.
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But that could change as the coalition moves toward the Islamic State's largest urban strongholds — Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria — raising a potential problem for the United States.
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But Broward and Palm Beach – both Democratic strongholds – lagged behind the rest of the state in tallying up votes, causing new counts to come in Wednesday and Thursday.
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Violence has surged in the country's predominately Kurdish southeast in recent months, after Turkey undertook a major military operation to eradicate militants from their strongholds in the region.
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The ultra-hardline group has staged attacks on villages near areas it controls as it is being pushed back towards its strongholds of Raqqa and Deir al-Zor.
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But last-minute campaigning by President Donald Trump boosted the turnout for DeSantis in Republican strongholds, as well as many suburban and exurban communities surrounding the Democratic cities.
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Manbij and Jarablus have been key ISIS strongholds along its supply line from the Turkish border to the capital of its self-declared caliphate, Raqqa, to the southeast.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to wipe out Abu Sayyaf and has intensified military operations in its strongholds, although bombings targeting civilians and military have continued unabated.
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Still, Ortega said he was keen to restart dialogue, following a lull in clashes after security forces flushed protesters from strongholds in a lethal offensive earlier this month.
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The group had a number of strongholds near the southern capital of Aden, where the government has been based since it was driven from Sana by the Houthis.
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In some cases, airstrikes have been down due to weather and a lack of ISIS targets as the terror group retreats from its strongholds in the Middle East.
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After US-backed Kurdish allies evicted ISIS from their strongholds, the northern oil fields were either controlled by the SDF or the US, experts said to The Post.
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The ultra-hardline Sunni group issued its call as military pressure increased against it with offensives targeting its strongholds in Raqqa, Syria, and in Falluja, west of Baghdad.
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The two candidates who won Tuesday night — DesMarais and Pellegrino — are harbingers of a wave of women Democratic candidates crashing into GOP strongholds around the country, Fiddler said.
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Officials running Mr. Obama's presidential foundation have made about 10 trips to tech strongholds in California in the past year as they help him plot his next steps.
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"We turned out where we had to turn out our voters, and even though he did really well in his strongholds the turnout wasn't big enough," Anzalone said.
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Failure to eradicate polio from these last remaining strongholds could result in as many as 200 000 new cases every year, within 10 years, all over the world.
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The E.U. tariffs focus on products that tend to be manufactured in Republican strongholds: whiskey and playing cards from Kentucky, recreational boats from Florida, and rice from Arkansas.
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Its intelligence helped oust the extremists from their last urban strongholds last year and it now aids the hunt for the group's leaders, like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Despite facing mounting threats, Guaidó hasn't been afraid to hold events in public, popping up here and there in opposition strongholds where he's certain he won't be arrested.
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And a lot of people said to us how they found the game… Not exactly unsatisfying, but they wish they could have explored the areas between the strongholds.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to wipe out Abu Sayyaf and has intensified military operations in its strongholds, though bombings targeting civilians and military have continued unabated.
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At the football powerhouses in the American South, the sport resisted integration nearly a decade longer than lunch counters, bus systems, hotels and other strongholds of Jim Crow.
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In turn, she won in Democratic strongholds like Atlanta and Savannah, but also in the vote-rich Atlanta suburbs that were not long ago centers of Republican influence.
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But eleventh-hour polls from Swayable and Data for Progress also show a major Biden bump in states that were not seen as strongholds for him, like Texas.
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Mr. Schulz is seeking a seat in Hesse, where the party hopes to make inroads in one of the traditional strongholds of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats party.
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To really signal that Arizona is turning blue, support for Democrats would need to grow in Republican strongholds that include largely white areas, like Scottsdale, Mr. Stone said.
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Instead of one mobility company that will rule them all, Evans and Granholm predict more partnerships between companies, governments and even economic and tech strongholds like Silicon Valley.
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US officials have previously expressed concerns that as ISIS losses its last strongholds in Syria, its fighters may seek to flee to other affiliates in places like Afghanistan.
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While expanded gun controls are unpopular in rural areas that largely vote Conservative, the idea is popular in large cities that are Liberal strongholds including Montreal and Toronto.
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The militants are contesting every move by the counterterrorism forces, and they are making full use of the hundreds of thousands of civilians still trapped in their strongholds.
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The objective was bombing the training bases and strongholds of al-Qaeda and the Taliban across Afghanistan, and capturing al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden dead or alive.
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At the last minute, the shameless electoral commission switched ballot sites for hundreds of locations, affecting approximately hundreds of thousands of voters, all of them in opposition strongholds.
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These are just a few of the doleful indicators, numbers that paint a gloomy picture of the political status quo in liberalism's strongholds and especially the United States.
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Earlier on Saturday, Johnson visited former strongholds of his Labour opponents in northern England and pledged to repay their trust for helping to deliver his stunning election victory.
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And the violence is about to get worse, as there are now reports of ground attacks on Eastern Ghouta, one of the last rebel strongholds in the country.
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Iraq has been conducting trials of thousands of suspected Islamic State members, including hundreds of foreign men, women and children who were detained as the group's strongholds crumbled.
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Backed by US airpower and military aid, Iraqi and Kurdish forces have rooted ISIS from its former strongholds in Ramadi and Fallujah and moved steadily closer to Mosul.
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Government officials have been returning camp residents to their homes as a stepped-up military push has rooted Boko Haram members from many villages that had been their strongholds.
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The government now controls major opposition strongholds and key cities like Aleppo, Homs and even Daraa, the southern city where the uprising was born from protests in March 2011.
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Separately, members of the Syria Democratic Forces, a coalition of Arab and Kurdish groups, captured the major town of Tel Rifaat, one of the largest militant strongholds in Aleppo.
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Nigeria's military has been busy chasing Boko Haram militants out of large swaths of the country's northeast over the last year, pushing fighters out from their camps and strongholds.
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Yet Ocasio-Cortez is only the most visible symbol of a grassroots insurgency that has sprung up across the country, including in spots far from deep-blue Democratic strongholds.
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Those wishing to relocate wanted guarantees of safe passage to rebel strongholds, and those wishing to stay wanted to be sure they wouldn't be killed later on, he said.
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Yet the Massachusetts governor is showing that Republicans can survive – and thrive – in Democratic strongholds, in part by carving a moderate agenda and studiously avoiding the national political circus.
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He also took with him to Istanbul a black facemask, a map depicting Islamic State's strongholds in Syria and a chart of the border crossings between Turkey and Syria.
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The election of 2017 saw them increasing their number of parliamentary seats in Scotland from one to 13 and making impressive gains in northern Labour strongholds such as Copeland.
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Polls increasingly point to a decisive win for the Democratic nominee on Election Day, with traditional Republican strongholds such as Arizona, Georgia, Utah and Texas emerging as competitive battlegrounds.
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They will be vital to driving up swing-state turnout in Democratic strongholds like Cleveland, Philadelphia, Northern Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, and parts of Florida that could decide the election.
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A military operation kicked off in 2011 against the militant group led by the Kenyan military and African Union has pushed the insurgents out of several strongholds in Somalia.
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The ISIS engineers appear to be repurposing any engines they can get their hands on, including some from motorcycles found in the latest descent on ISIS strongholds in Mosul.
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The Saudi air force has joined U.S.-led bombing strikes on ISIS strongholds, and should a major ground offensive materialize, the Saudi's Sunni troops could be most effective partners.
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For the first time in recent memory, half of the challengers in GOP strongholds being targeted by Democrats—the 38 toughest, most competitive House races out there—are women.
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Moscow, which has provided crucial military support to Assad, is eager to show that the situation in Syria is normalizing now that the government has recaptured most opposition strongholds.
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The expected offensive on Idlib comes after government forces captured major rebel strongholds earlier this year near the capital Damascus and in the southern provinces of Daraa and Quneitra.
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Republicans are targeting several narrowly divided legislatures where just a seat or two would give the party a voice in potential Democratic strongholds, such as New York and Connecticut.
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Al Shabaab, which is trying to topple Somalia's Western-backed central government, was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been driven from most of its other strongholds.
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The al Qaeda-linked militants have been active in Somalia since 2006, but were pushed out of Mogadishu and other strongholds by African Union (AU) peacekeeping forces in 2011.
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In the past two years, African Union and Somali government forces have driven al Shabaab out of important urban strongholds but it remains active from bases in rural areas.
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A popular narrative argues that deteriorating economic conditions provided the fuel for the Trump conflagration as it swept through the former union strongholds of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio.
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"We've seen across parts of northern and eastern Syria progress as ISIL has been pushed out of some strongholds," Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters in Hanover.
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The ISIS, or as the Arabs say, Daesh, strongholds of Mosul and Raqqa are about to fall, with much thanks to Iraqi forces, American advisers and miscellaneous militia units.
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At a time Amazon is raking in one conquest after another, Sears may be jeopardizing one of its very few remaining strongholds — its hold on the major appliance market.
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His poll numbers are dismal — so bad, in fact, that he's putting GOP strongholds like Arizona, Georgia and Utah in play, and jeopardizing down-ballot Republicans across the nation.
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If I were the GOP, which now has won four special elections since the fall in Republican strongholds by significantly smaller margins than are customary, I would be concerned.
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The FSA also says that Iranian Shi'ite militia fighting in Syria have stoked wider sectarian conflict in which mainly Sunni Muslims have been driven out of former opposition strongholds.
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Why it matters: State and local governments are one of the few remaining strongholds of union power, and those unions are a key piece of the Democratic party's base.
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Saudi-backed fighters claim to have lifted the Houthis' siege of Taiz, but coalition ground-forces seem loth to advance on the capital or the Houthi strongholds further north.
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Fighting has escalated in Afghanistan as the Taliban insurgency spreads from its traditional strongholds in the south and east of the country to once peaceful regions in the north.
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Abadi, who'd been at the helm of the battle that routed ISIS from its strongholds in Iraq, may now have to negotiate with his chief rivals to retain power.
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But it was a very different party — with rural strongholds in south and southwestern Virginia — and a very different majority, with moderates, conservatives and just a smattering of liberals.
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But Trump has often skimmed over the fact that the ISIS campaign began under former President Barack Obama -- including operations to retake both ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
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Democrats should be realistic about Republican strongholds and see that putting their human and financial resources into fighting for purple states like Nevada and Colorado is the best investment.
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KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan government controls less than 60 percent of the country, a U.S. watchdog agency reported on Wednesday, after security forces retreated from many strongholds last year.
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The humanitarian evac became necessary because the lives of the White Helmet volunteers were in danger as Syrian forces tightened their grip on one of the last rebel strongholds.
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However, many of the party's traditional strongholds are in working-class areas outside the capital where voters backed leaving the EU. Reporting by William James; editing by Stephen Addison
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Turkey says its aim is to 'rescue Kurds' The Kurds enjoy strongholds in northeastern Syria and southern Turkey and have been integral to US ground-fighting efforts in Syria.
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On April 4, the day that final election results were released, shooting broke out in the southern districts of the capital, Brazzaville, which are considered to be opposition strongholds.
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How has this elderly curiosity come so far — over 21950 victories in an impressive checkerboard that stretches from New Hampshire to Colorado, with strongholds in Michigan and West Virginia?
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Clinton won by a greater margin than Mr. Obama among affluent whites, particularly those living in the Democratic Party's prosperous coastal strongholds: Washington and Boston, Seattle and New York.
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Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children, since August by Iraqi forces as Islamic State strongholds crumbled.
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With Islamic State's self-declared "caliphate" crumbling in its last remaining Syrian strongholds, Assad's Russian allies said on Thursday the fight with the jihadist group would soon be over.
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Today, with Dalston and East London being swallowed up by the "G word"—yep, "gentrification"—Ridley Road is one of the last remaining strongholds of multicultural, working class London.
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In 2016, Oregon was the first state to adopt automatic voter registration, and the idea has now spread to places like Alaska, Georgia and West Virginia -- hardly Democratic strongholds.
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Among their greatest beneficiaries are the windswept, sun-soaked districts in Republican strongholds like Kansas, Texas and Arizona, and Rust Belt districts that manufacture wind turbines and solar panels.
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And in big cities like Houston and Austin which had the biggest problems on Tuesday, those officials are Democrats with scant reason to depress turnout in Democratic urban strongholds.
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It could use the same reclamation technology that it is currently developing in the South China Sea to build military strongholds on what were once sunken reefs, he said.
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France is among several countries whose jets are bombing the strongholds of the Islamist State, which has declared a caliphate and vowed to carry out more attacks on France.
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An estimated 1 million voters were blocked from voting, he said, referring to claims the election board skewed results by relocating hundreds of polling places away from opposition strongholds.
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But he has no doubt about what will be at stake next week at the Supreme Court: the financial and political clout of one of organized labor's last strongholds.
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As educators head back to school, there are signs that the militancy of the teacher movement is spreading from red states to more traditional union strongholds on the coasts.
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The move follows plans that the extremist network drew up in the months before its main strongholds in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria, fell to coalition forces last year.
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There are four elections to watch in the next several months in Republican strongholds: a special North Carolina house race, and three gubernatorial races in Mississippi, Kentucky and Louisiana.
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But, in a further tweak to Mr. Trump, the campaign is also running ads in his strongholds, such as $14 million worth of ads attacking the president in Texas.
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A wall constructed over stretches of the border and a military operation against IS strongholds in northern Syria have helped, making it harder for bombers to slip into Turkey.
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In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defeated President Donald Trump by nearly 3 million votes in the popular vote by running up big leads in Democratic strongholds.
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Many of them are ideological adherents of ISIS whose main connection is via propaganda downloaded from the internet, not training in ISIS strongholds in Iraq, Syria, or anywhere else.
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Unlike in strongholds for labor, like New York or California, teachers' unions in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona are barred by law from compelling workers to pay dues.
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Iran's leaders and media gleefully anticipate the destruction of the Islamic State in its strongholds of Iraq and Syria, as if this will end the problem of jihadi violence.
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The train blockades arrive during a wave of labor strikes that has spread across the country, which some experts argue originated out of the former union strongholds of Appalachia.
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They note that, while the old ethnic strongholds of Irish and Italian voters have dissipated, there is another key group of Catholic voters that is expanding all the time.
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Within a matter of days, the jihadist menace that shocked the world for years with its pathological sadism will lose its final strongholds within the Syrian city of Raqqa.
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In swing states with red pockets like Florida and Ohio, or in Republican gun strongholds like Texas, candidates in both parties now face more pressure over their gun stances.
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Thousands of people in the opposition strongholds of Kisumu, Mombasa and parts of Nairobi streamed into the streets and whooped with joy after the news was announced on Friday.
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Mexico's two major criminal organizations, New Generation Jalisco Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel (with strongholds in each of those states respectively), are though to have control of sea ports.
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In the months leading to the election, opposition parties were allowed to campaign in ZANU-PF's rural strongholds and other areas where they had previously faced harassment and violence.
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Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson picked up a haul of seats across Labour strongholds and won the support of the opposition party's traditional base -- blue collar, unionized industrial workers.
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Theirs is a national divided, ideologically, politically and physically, with the elected government ruling from Kabul and the Taliban maintaining strongholds in much of the south, east and west.
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She conceded defeat in several traditionally CDU strongholds in the state elections earlier this year, and acknowledged that her position on refugees had contributed to her decrease in support.
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What's more, the electoral college system incentivizes presidential candidates to focus on a few swing states at the expense of huge population strongholds like California, New York, and Texas.
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In Britain, their strongholds are Sussex, Kent and the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, an ancient hunting preserve that doubled as an alien planet in the latest ''Star Wars'' movie.
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Concerted push towards ISIS strongholds The Mosul front is the latest to be opened up in an all-out push on key cities held by ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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While African Union and Somali troops have driven Islamist militant group al Shabaab from major urban strongholds and ports, they have struggled to defend smaller, more remote areas from attacks.
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The group has also claimed attacks in Cairo and urged its supporters to launch attacks around the world as it goes on the defensive in its Iraqi and Syrian strongholds.
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Washington (CNN)Some coastal cities and liberal strongholds that have declared themselves safe places for undocumented immigrants -- "sanctuary cities" -- have been bracing for the fallout from the new Trump administration.
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While some Kisumu residents said they were headed to villages west of the city to vote, members of Kenyatta's Kikuyu ethnic group headed the other direction, away from Odinga's strongholds.
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Separately, US-backed Syrian forces made new territorial gains against Islamic State on Saturday, moving closer to another of its major strongholds in northern Syria, according to the monitoring group.
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As ISIS has lost its grip on its last remaining strongholds in eastern Syria, the families of fighters have fled and been placed into refugee camps by Kurdish-led forces.
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Turkey has seized the chance to push IS back from its last border strongholds and stem the advance of American-allied Kurdish insurgents, known as the People's Protection Units (YPG).
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But the presence of these Special Forces teams in the strongholds of the other two groups claiming to be the country's legitimate government shows that America retains wider private contacts.
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The data shows that ISIS routinely launches attacks around its former strongholds in northern Iraq — and it aligns with an increase in attacks that analysts have tracked across the country.
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Syrian's government and allied forces backed by Russia and Iran have swiftly recaptured other rebel strongholds in the southwest and vowed to push on and recover all of the country.
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Falluja was the first Iraqi city to fall to ISIS fighters in 2014 and remains one of two strongholds for the extremists (the other is the northern city of Mosul).
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Aleppo, where Russia has continuously carried out airstrikes for over a year, represents one of the last strongholds of Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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In some European countries, social democratic parties have practically disappeared from the political scene, and even in former strongholds like Germany and Scandinavia their vote shares are at historic lows.
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With the FARC moving away from their former strongholds, it is now safer for government military demining teams, along with local and international demining groups, to work in new areas.
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Separately, U.S.-backed Syrian forces made new territorial gains against Islamic State on Saturday, moving closer to another of its major strongholds in northern Syria, according to the monitoring group.
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In two of Kenya's 47 counties—both strongholds of Mr Odinga in western Kenya—voting did not happen at all, as Mr Odinga's supporters prevented officials from opening polling stations.
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Iran's intelligence ministry said on Thursday that five of the gunmen and bombers were Iranian members of Islamic State who had fought in the militants' strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
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It raised 3.6 million pounds ($4.7 million) from this year's London stock listing, and is betting that halal cosmetics will gain traction beyond their current strongholds of Indonesia and Malaysia.
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So far, at least, the group has concentrated on skirmishing with the Syrian army and with rival rebel groups, and on securing its strongholds on the slopes of the Golan.
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But U.S. officials emphasize that ISIS is still capable, for now, of maintaining its strongholds in the Iraqi coty of Mosul and the Syrian city of Raqqa, despite the decline.
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To focus on quelling the Pakistani Taliban, in its strongholds in Pakistan's western, Afghan borderlands, the army, too, has an interest in peace with India and a stable eastern front.
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Russia has been working to establish de-escalation zones in the major rebel strongholds of western Syria, notably Idlib province in the northwest and the eastern Ghouta area near Damascus.
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In an analysis published on Thursday, Human Rights Watch also questioned whether Shi'ite militias should be involved in the assault because of abuses in previous operations against Sunni militant strongholds.
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However, as ISIS' last remaining strongholds in Iraq and Syria come under growing pressure, the group may look to Libya as a base to plan and direct terror in Europe.
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The court will likely roll back one of the few remaining strongholds of union power — and with it, the political clout of an important part of the Democratic base. 2.
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Seeking to recapture the Islamic State strongholds of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, Washington wants a bigger European response to the chaos and failing states near Europe's borders.
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With his core national security team now in place, President Trump is poised to quickly respond to the Pentagon's recent recommendations to hasten a rollback of the remaining ISIS strongholds.
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Alaska is betting that Virgin America, with bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco, will complement its strongholds in Seattle, Portland and Anchorage, solidifying its presence on the west coast.
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The GOP nominee is likely to win in both Arizona and Texas, but by smaller margins than are usually enjoyed by Republicans in states that are usually strongholds for them.
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They are believed to be among the wives and children of former IS fighters killed or detained after the jihadist group was expelled from its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
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Prosecutors identified Mr. Nizami as the leader of Al Badr, a force that used torture and committed extrajudicial killings of civilians to crush pro-independence strongholds in the 1971 war.
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Georgia Democrats believe there's a pathway to victory statewide, but acknowledge the challenges the party faces in making inroads in more rural parts of the state that are GOP strongholds.
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The U.S. is nearing the end of an operation to clear the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from one of its main strongholds in Afghanistan, according to Reuters.
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More than one million Congolese were unable to cast ballots due to the cancellation of voting, which hit opposition strongholds and for which the electoral commission also cited ethnic violence.
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More than 1.2 million Congolese were also unable to vote in three opposition strongholds, where the CENI cancelled the poll last week, citing an ongoing Ebola outbreak and ethnic violence.
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To combat the deluge of blue spending, the House GOP's campaign arm has made a last-minute push to protect a number of Republican strongholds that were previously considered safe.
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There were also no signs of tension in Kenyatta's ethnic strongholds, while supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga celebrated peacefully in the streets in areas that had voted for him.
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The tide has turned more strongly against ISIS this year, however, with the group losing Raqqa (in Syria), Mosul (in Iraq) and numerous other strongholds to such an extent that .
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However, after defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in several of its more urban strongholds, Iraqi lawmakers and militia leaders have called on the U.S. to leave.
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The Syrian leader appeared more threatened last summer than he had been in years, as American-backed and Islamist insurgents coordinated more effectively and began to threaten his coastal strongholds.
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However, Baghdadi's whereabouts have been unknown since the cross-border "caliphate" he declared in 2014 disintegrated with the fall of Mosul and Raqqa, its strongholds in Iraq and Syria respectively.
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A movement gaining steam Unions, which have been in decline across the country as their traditional strongholds in manufacturing have hemorrhaged jobs, have been having a moment among young people.
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More than 75 percent of the votes cast in April came from those two counties, so if Handel can turn out in her strongholds, it could be an early night.
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The practical impact would be to reduce the number of congressional districts, and therefore Electoral College votes, in states with large numbers of noncitizens — often, though not always, Democratic strongholds.
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At least some of the Turkish support has been sent to extremists around Idlib, one of the last opposition strongholds that is now coming under fire from the Syrian government.
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A Russian warship and submarine fired cruise missiles near the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, reportedly targeting strongholds of the Islamic State group, the Russian defense ministry said Wednesday.
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McCready ran as a moderate Democrat, not afraid to buck the party when he disagreed on policy, a familiar playbook for Democratic candidates in 20163 running in historically Republican strongholds.
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His challenge, like that of all Democratic contenders, would come in second-tier cities like Davenport and Marshalltown, blue-collar strongholds that fell fully under Mr. Trump's sway in 2016.
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