"This is ground zero for the nation." Democrats in the state Senate fled to the neighboring Midwestern state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

It is about a man who lives alone in a village from which everyone fled during Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

During the Union occupation of Fredericksburg, thousands of escaped slaves fled through Virginia on their way North.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

He and his crews were called in to help put out fires set by the Iraqi army as it fled from coalition forces.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

The others fled. Now there was nothing to stop Lee from marching into Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

He fled to New York's Kennedy Airport and bought a ticket to Dubai.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

More than 100,000 people have fled their homes because of the insects.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Many people who fled chose to build new lives in other cities.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

It was covered with writing. Many people thought it was a message from Eleanor Dare to her father, telling him the colonists fled the island after an Indian attack.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Her parents had each fled China in the late nineteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

He looked behind me for moment and then fled.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

After committing the crime, Eisemann-Schier fled the area.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Thousands fled. The sun went down.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

They all turned and fled.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Residents in the villages closest to the attacks have fled their homes to stay with relatives and friends nearby.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

They will join an estimated half million people who fled their homes in the past year and still have not returned.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

The United Nations refugee agency says that as many as 60,000 Somalis, who fled during Ethiopia's occupation, have moved back to Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Manuel Bessler, head of the U.N.'s Office for Coordinating Humanitarian Affairs in Pakistan, tells VOA that many civilians have fled the area.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

U.N.officials estimated up to 200,000 people may have already fled the fighting and perhaps 300,000 more could leave in the coming days.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

Speaking from a parliament building, Otunbayeva demanded the resignation of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who has fled the capital.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

More than 1,000 residents have fled their homes in Southern Senegal after an ambush that left six Senegalese soldiers dead last Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

This includes emergency relief to as many as two-million Pakistani civilians who fled conflict in the Swat Valley region earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

State officials say the leader of the militants, Mohammed Yusuf, may have escaped the military onslaught and fled with hundreds of his supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

"Our staff found many families fled, abandoning homes or previous displacement areas, to join refugees further south,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

The UNHCR says they fled as a result of threats and conflict between two illegal armed groups.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

They fled this year's fighting between government troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

When he was nine, Majak Daw and his family fled civil war in Sudan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17