The Carafas ruled the city until 1799, when the French troops captured it after a long siege.

In 1917, the forces of the Triple Entente captured the city after a third battle against the Ottoman forces there.

The museum is under the management of the Israel Museum and houses the head office of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Sweden however gained the control of Western Karelia with the Third Finnish Crusade in 1293.

After Israel officially annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, the year Al Halabi was born, it began regarding Syrians of the Golan as residents of Israel but not citizens.

The pair was believed to be romantically involved, and their story has captured the popular imagination.

In 1420, it was conquered by the Republic of Venice.

The Russian government took over most of the Soviet Union government institutions on its territory.

By 1831 the liberals had taken over all the islands of the Azores.

Forty years ago, Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after a lightning six day war that repelled the armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

In 1690 it was captured by forces from the Province of Massachusetts Bay, although it was restored to France by the Treaty of Ryswick.

March 26, 2011 al Qaeda captured the town of Jaar in the southern part of Yemen.

In the wake of Mittal s takeover of Arcelor, governments must address this gap in the law, as no society can afford to permit the economic system to continue its march toward indifference to the welfare and security of workers.

As Asia s leading power, China has seized the mantle of hope from the US.

Most damaging was the May 6, 1527, Spanish and German troops' sacking Rome that for two decades all but ended the role of the Papacy as the largest patron of Renaissance art and architecture.

The melancholia that began to seize France many years ago was all but forgotten.

They captured Brussels by 20 August and soon had captured a large portion of northern France.

The remnants of the Palestine Potash Company were nationalised and Dead Sea Works Ltd. was established in 1952 in its stead as a state owned company to extract potash and other minerals from the Dead Sea.

While Fidel wrote doctrinaire articles in the official press, the armed forces took over politics and production.

This sounds like the actions of ISIS, the Al Qaeda offshoot that has brutally taken control of large parts of Iraq and Syria.

Captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab Israeli war, many of the villagers fled the fighting.

ISIS seized control of his town, Mahkmour, and the future looked bleak.

The band takes its name from a famous poem about a pretty young Palestinian girl named Jafraa (or Jafra) who captured a poet's heart.

The Israeli authorities had appropriated most of the Syrian Golan for military use or settlements.

In the words of President Obama, If the Taliban take over again, they will invite back Al Qaeda, who will try to kill as many of our people as they possibly can.

Japan was supposed to return its colonial possessions, but the United States took over the Senkaku Islands along with Okinawa, before returning both to Japan in 1972.

In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan.

It was occupied by anti Gaddafi forces on 7 August, just a few weeks before they entered Tripoli.

No professional solidarity was shown back in 2001, when Russia's private national television network NTV was taken over by the government.

In Mesopotamia, by contrast, after the disastrous Siege of Kut (1915 16), British Imperial forces reorganised and captured Baghdad in March 1917.

In 1914 at the outset of World War I Japan had seized the territory granted to Germany in 1897.

The Israeli capture of the city occurred in chaotic circumstances on 10 June 1967, the last day of the Six Day War.

As a result of the war, Israel took control of the Palestinian populated West Bank and Gaza Strip, which were previously annexed by Jordan and controlled by Egypt, respectively.

Instead of accepting the separation of powers, they appropriated the distribution of power, attempting to modify the powers of the President retroactively without consulting the Nicaraguan people.

The same lack of cohesion is found among journalists. No professional solidarity was shown back in 2001, when Russia's private national television network NTV was taken over by the government.

Organized crime is taking over all aspects of this illicit trade, from smuggling precursor chemicals to manufacturing and trafficking the drugs.

On 23 February 1981, rebel elements among the security forces seized the Cortes in an attempt to impose a military backed government.

Women fighting in the ranks of the armed Kurdish forces have come into the spotlight as ISIS has made large territorial gains in Mosul, one of the largest cities in Iraq, and battled to take control of the autonomous Kurdish canton of Kobane on the border of Turkey.

The growth slowdown is a much greater concern than the recent asset price volatility, even if the latter grabs more headlines.

In the French and Indian War, British forces seized Canada from the French, but the francophone population remained politically isolated from the southern colonies.

The Soviet Union officially ended on 25 December 1991, and the Russian Federation (formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) took power on 26 December.

Of course, Microsoft ran into its own legal troubles when it took over IBM s former dominant position, waging long drawn out court cases on both sides of the Atlantic.

Visiting the television station, seized by a new provisional government called the National Salvation Front, I found an odd mélange of revolutionary leaders.

But the totalitarian mindset has since resurfaced in leaders who, with their claim to represent the will of the majority, appropriate more and more power.

When it was only an aspiration, the European Union was an immensely attractive idea that fired many people s imagination, including mine.