Within its walls a few hundred fighters and a few hundred thousand civilians are now not only under siege but under threat of starvation.

Hundreds of millions will face the threat of starvation.

We spent the morning wandering empty alleys and climbing whitewashed steps, torn between the threat of starvation and the fear of barging into someone's living room, demanding tinned tuna.

There was, for the most part, an orderly return of soldiers back into civilian life, while the threat of starvation was combated.

Subsistence farmers balance the threat of starvation with that of floods.