Word: regionality
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...Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, has been watching developments warily. One senior UNIFIL officer said that neither side probably wants to go to war at the moment and that Hizballah's alert in the south was "defensive." But the officer said the "situation in the region is so dangerous that the tiniest spark can start...
...this straight: Serbia and Montenegro were all that remained of Yugoslovia after Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina seceded during the Balkan Wars of the '90s. Then Montenegro declared independence in 2006. Kosovo seceded from Serbia last Sunday, and now the northern region of Kosovo wants to secede and rejoin Serbia. I don't have a dog in this latest fight - or even understand it much - but if someone wants to quit the firm, it seems to me you ought to let him go. The tension arises, of course, because the ones eyeing the door usually want to take...
February is not a great month to invade northern Iraq. The mountains of the Kurdish autonomous region are foreboding year around, which is precisely why they teem with guerilla bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK, a militant group at war with neighboring Turkey. But in winter, the mountains become an easy place for a foreign army to get stuck in the snow and die in the cold...
...Iraq's Kurds suspect that the real aim of the Turkish military incursion is not so much to wipe out the PKK, as it is to harass the Kurdish region that is increasingly behaving as a state in the making. Turkey has long been hostile to the very idea of an autonomous - let alone independent - Kurdistan, which they fear would incite secessionist feelings among Turkey's own Kurdish minority. At the same time, Iraq's Kurdish leaders have been unwilling to move against the PKK, having tried and failed to defeat them during the 1990s. Instead, they have urged Turkey...
...Iran's recent actions have played right into the hands of the hawks in Washington looking to underscore Iran's malevolent intentions in the region. The conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute released a report Tuesday detailing Iran's increasing influence in the Middle East and Central Asia. Iran, the report read, "is almost certainly providing some military support for the Taliban in Afghanistan...