Deraa in a sentence

In the Syrian city of Deraa, she lost her grandfather - "a second father figure" - along with her home amidst the siege on the city, which would come to be known as the birthplace of the uprising against Assad.

They told Reuters the aerial interceptions shot down dozens of missiles and drones fired by Iran that flew above southern Syria in the Deraa province, the Syrian Golan Heights and several locations in eastern Syria along the border with Iraq.

According to reports, at least twenty Russian air strikes were conducted on the town of Busra al Harir, located northeast of Deraa.

Al-Manar TV, run by Assad’s Lebanese ally Hezbollah, said government forces had captured a hill overlooking a road linking eastern and western parts of Deraa province – an advance that would mean rebels could no longer safely use it.

Another 45,000 have fled the recent fighting in Deraa.

A pro-Syrian government newspaper, Al-Watan, said “the coming hours will be decisive on the level of ending the chapter of terrorism in Deraa city”.

A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the army had bombarded the remaining Islamic State territory in Deraa province.

Government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Deraa city for the first time in nearly a year on Monday, a rebel and a war monitor said, extending an assault in southwest Syria which has driven thousands from their homes.

The Netanyahu-Putin phone call came amid reports that Assad’s army, along with its allies, had started bombarding rebels in southwestern Deraa.

The reconciliation deal for Deraa city is the latest in a string of such agreements that have seen the Russia-backed regime retake large parts of the country since 2015.

Lawrence almost certainly engaged in flagellation and similar activities after the Deraa incident, but there is no biographical evidence that he was a masochist before then.

One scene is an extended version of the Deraa rape sequence, which makes Lawrence's punishment more overt in that scene.

Two whole scenes were completely excised—Brighton's briefing of Allenby in Jerusalem before the Deraa scene and the British staff meeting in the field tent—and the Allenby-briefing scene has still not been entirely restored.