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But he took a tough line on the worsening Islamist insurgency in the north Caucasus, promising to "exterminate the bandits" .

Anbar had been the bloodiest zone in the first years of the insurgency, but is now pretty calm.

The American commander in Kabul said he will need the troops for the long term to fight the growing insurgency.

The recent joint army and marines counter-insurgency manual says the central aim is not to destroy the enemy but to protect civilians.

There was a time when most violence in Iraq was the result of a Sunni insurgency against the foreign occupiers.

Pulling up a farmer's opium crop could generate ill will, perhaps enough to produce a new recruit for the insurgency.

Western policymakers recoil at the thought of getting bogged down in another bloody counter-insurgency operation in Somalia.

"We have never been better at taking bad people off the battlefield, " says John Nagl, an American counter-insurgency expert.

Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times, says years of a communist insurgency and instability undermined the economy.

But he said his coalition government will continue to pursue its own strategy in countering the Taliban insurgency.

Protecting and influencing civilians is all the rage in counter-insurgency circles.

All this still seems well short of what many generals think is needed for an effective counter-insurgency campaign.

Somali expert Ken Menkhaus believes retreat was the best of a range of bad options for the insurgency.

Years after apparent victory, America is still bogged down by an apparently endless insurgency in Afghanistan.

The illegal narcotics trade is said to be a major cause of instability in Afghanistan and is believed to be funding Taliban insurgency.

You and the rest of the royal family are Sunnis, and you're scared to death of Shiite extremism and an Iranian-backed Shiite insurgency.

The law was introduced in 1960 to help combat an insurgency by communist rebels, a period known as the "emergency" .

Now in Afghanistan, the general has fully embraced counter-insurgency and has sharply reduced the number of air strikes.

In Nepal, a worsening situation due to the country's nine-year insurgency has led to its first consolidated appeal.

It is a political process, and I think you also have to approach the more political structures of the insurgency movement.

Just take these past weeks. The insurgency has revived, culminating in a series of audacious and bloody attacks in the heart of Baghdad.

The insurgency in Kashmir, likewise, is seen as a means of bogging down the old enemy, India.

The U. S. president pledged to also use diplomacy and development to help end the Taliban insurgency.

The US military is handing over security control of Anbar province, once the heart of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq.

As the largest ethnic minority in the Middle East without a state, Kurds at one time depended on an armed insurgency to press their cause.

Whereas the American army and marines drew up a new manual on counter-insurgency in 2006, the British have yet to revise their doctrine.

The insurgency will help Gaddafi inconsistent with American values, self-destructive strategy of the U. S. Greater Middle East.

General McChrystal sees counter-insurgency as an "argument" between the Taliban and the Afghan government, backed by the West.

These days, the Pashtun form the core of the insurgency fighting against the Afghan government and its international supporters.

CNOOC is braving insecurity and political uncertainty as an insurgency against the interim government continues in Mogadishu, the capital.

Much of the Iraqi insurgency is based in the center and west of the country known as the Sunni triangle.

The attack on such a powerful and high-profile official shows just how strong the Taliban insurgency is becoming.

Counter-insurgency is about engaging local populations, and that cannot be done from the air or from inside a Mastiff armoured vehicle.

Army officers claimed that the Rohingya were a security threat and had links to a Muslim-led insurgency in the south.

The rest of the country is home to a radical Islamist insurgency, as well as to pirate fleets that prey on international shipping.

The Taliban insurgency in the south is not about to go away, but Afghanistan's army can probably keep it at bay.

That is not the case in Thailand, a country that has to deal with a southern insurgency as well as mayhem in its capital.

Why have you not been able to peel off elements of the insurgency in Afghanistan as you did in Iraq?

THE army is battling a Taliban insurgency in the tribal areas of the Afghan border, in which hundreds have been killed in recent weeks.

Following the Japanese occupation, the popular support for independence grew, coupled with a communist insurgency.

It was also revealed that the Indian military, the Taj Mahal hotel in the armed insurgency also has entered the stage of finishing.

Much depends, too, on how the coalition does against the Taliban-led insurgency as the clock runs down.

In the coming month Western forces may well be beefed up to contain the worsening insurgency.

Obama is expected to discuss his plans for disrupting the terrorist group al-Qaida and for blunting the insurgency of the Taliban.

The Taliban are a Pushtun faction, not a national movement; their insurgency is largely limited to the southern half of the country.

The Sikh insurgency ended in the mid-1990s, but Indian authorities have remained reluctant to let visitors back to the Taj after sunset.

However, we believe that the public prosecutor, and armed police force has enough counter-insurgency, all random deterrent.

Much of the story is depressingly familiar: how Indian misrule and a rigged election provoked protests and then, from 1989, insurgency.

It was also blamed, perhaps harshly, for failing to curb worsening insecurity in NWFP, including a Taliban insurgency.

Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed during the insurgency.

Gen McChrystal's counter-insurgency strategy no doubt reaped dividends such as reducing casualties and winning hearts and minds.

Within weeks of being driven out, the Islamists launched an insurgency that has killed thousands of civilians.

The Nigerian government has been unable to quell the insurgency in the Niger delta, making it difficult for oil firms to operate there.

Vice- President Joe Biden rejects the call for an enlarged counter-insurgency campaign against the Taliban.

S. and NATO forces face a strengthened insurgency and a rising casualty count, July being the deadliest month ever for U.

British forces described Mullah Mansur as a prominent local leader of the Taliban insurgency in Helmand province.

The only thing that could alter the withdrawal timetable is a new outbreak of violence from the insurgency.

Secretary Gates said in the past, counter-insurgency capabilities have been gained and lost, but this time they must be maintained.

He has funds, forces and a strategy: to combine rigorous counter-insurgency with efforts to promote development and good governance.

The emergency PR campaign was treated as a major counter-insurgency operation, which, of course, it was.

But none of the banned candidates has any known link to the bombers or any current insurgency.

Instead, he accused the opposition of betrayal, collaboration with foreign powers and carrying armed insurgency against the state.

But a greater distraction from the campaign in Mindanao is the persistence of another, far broader insurgency.

His counter-insurgency plan seeks to protect the Afghan population and win its allegiance to a legitimate Afghan government.

They have grown up knowing nothing but insurgency.

McKiernan says NATO forces are in a very tough fight against an insurgency that could get worse before it gets better.

Today's escape is a further setback for security in the area and for the fight against the insurgency.

They are the country's largest ethnic group, whose resentment of the post-2001 political order has done much to fuel the insurgency.

Despite tens of thousands of foreign troops, and billions of dollars in aid, the country remains stricken by poverty and insurgency.

It would seem that unless Gadhafi and his sons are captured or killed, a pro-regime insurgency may well take root quickly.

He saw political reconciliation and regional diplomacy as the only way to end the insurgency.

Increasingly, the insurgency is hampering efforts to open up east India's mineral-rich forests to business.

More plausibly, Pakistani intelligence officials accuse India of fanning a burgeoning nationalist insurgency in Baluchistan.

The king seized power one year ago, blaming the previous government for failing to stop a nearly decade-long Maoist insurgency.

Meanwhile, an insurgency initially made up mainly of Sunni fighters grew in strength, taking a heavy toll on U.

Thailand's southernmost provinces have been under emergency rule for five years as troops battle a shadowy Muslim-led insurgency.

Nobody expects that Afghanistan will be wholly at peace by then, nor that the Taliban insurgency will have been routed.

The economy faces meltdown. Baluchistan is racked with a separatist insurgency.

Meanwhile the much larger, bloodier problems of the Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand and the Philippines continue.

They no longer have time to rehearse major assault operations, and their training for counter-insurgency is hampered by equipment shortages.

This Orwellianism made it much harder for army officers to rely on the appropriate doctrine: a counter-insurgency strategy.

Kashmir has been riven by insurgency for more than two decades; parts of the north-east for even longer.

Army officers said the special forces of both the countries will take part in simulated insurgency and terror strike scenario.

Hundreds of thousands of troops are stationed in Kashmir, which has suffered two decades of insurgency.

Iraq's nationalist insurgency has faded, but al-Qaeda is still wreaking carnage every month or so.

The big idea that bubbled up through the chain of command was a long-haul counter-insurgency campaign.

The operation has been hailed as a significant blow against the Taliban which uses the drugs trade to fund its insurgency.

The invasion stoked up a powerful local insurgency, and America's travails in Iraq have emboldened the Iranians.

What counts is a background of support for the idea of insurgency: a sense among self-annihilators that their peers will see them as heroes.

Admiral Mullen acknowledges that it may take years to fully defeat the Afghan insurgency.

There has been massive internal displacement, especially in the south as a result of the insurgency - which has intensified since 2006.

This will help sap the insurgency of fighters and of income from poppy cultivation.

Fighting al-Qaeda was America's priority, but defeating it required a counter-insurgency campaign to hold the Taliban at bay.

He led the 1st Armoured Division in Iraq into what was then a rapidly spreading anti-coalition insurgency and sectarian war.

That matters beyond Yemen: It could prompt an exodus of desperate people and help feed an insurgency that thrives in a vacuum.

Meanwhile, the PKK is threatening to end its truce and to carry its insurgency to the cities unless the BDP deputies are freed.

Investors have been spooked by the country's political volatility and by the Islamist insurgency.

Everybody agrees, having read their counter-insurgency manuals, on the importance of a legitimate government.

He refused to give further details about the detainees saying it may undermine the anti-insurgency offensive in Swat.

Drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.

But it is also because helicopters are useful in fighting both an insurgency and a conventional war.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan says it takes the drug and insurgency connection very seriously.

Some authorities have revived the darkest counter-insurgency tactics, rounding up undesirables and executing them.

large ink exaggerate the innovative, alternative, completely abandoned, subversion and insurgency of all traditional arts and culture.

Allegedly flush with Iranian money, Mr Abdullah has held rallies across Afghanistan, including the insurgency-ridden south.

America and its allies face a complicated insurgency in Afghanistan, driven by many factors.

In an escalating war, with insurgency-related violence up by 87% in the six months to March, NATO's losses are also climbing.

The DEA and military understand this and try to selectively disrupt the traffickers who are linked most closely to the insurgency.

Counter-insurgency requires large numbers of troops and policemen (the latter are too often weak, notoriously corrupt or drug-addled).

The violence is some of worst seen in the north-east since the Islamist sect launched an insurgency against the government in 2009.

Islamist terrorists, fighting an insurgency in north-western Pakistan, had previously threatened to kill Miss Bhutto.

NATO officials worry that antagonising farmers with forced eradication will only strengthen the insurgency.

In February 2007, a group of armed Tuaregs mounted an audacious attack on a military base in the Air Mountains. A new insurgency was born.

A series of short-lived and unstable governments followed, proving no more effective against the insurgency.

Pakistan then simultaneously embarked on destabilization of India by fomenting insurgency there.

The Americans are providing aerial intelligence, counter-insurgency training and weaponry.

They said extrajudicial killings, torture and kidnappings by local authorities have fueled the insurgency.

The two-decade-long insurgency, backed by Pakistan, which has never renounced its claim to all of Kashmir, is almost defeated.

It will continue to be plagued by violence and insurgency, and civil war is a possibility.

If anything, the Taliban have become bolder, staging more ambitious attacks and extending the insurgency to the gates of Kabul.

He has promised to clean up Nigeria's elections, improve its woeful electricity supply and deal with the unresolved insurgency in the Delta.

Neither the drugs trade nor the insurgency can be controlled so long as the border remains uncontrolled.

Regional commanders, the illegal drugs trade and the continuing Taleban insurgency hamper the rule of law, development and aid efforts.

In Nigeria, its most populous country, the insurgency in the oil-producing Delta region grows fiercer by the day.

Delivering development and economic growth in the middle of an insurgency is difficult.

He has even suggested that America's involvement in Iraq will be "over soon" and that the insurgency will be handled by Iraqis.

If not tackled urgently, the insurgency could stunt the prospects for millions of people for a generation.

When he was here putting down an insurgency, he was framed and killed by insurgents.

Almost half the patients are foreigners, including international soldiers based in the country to fight the Taliban insurgency.

Swaths of India are in the grip of armed Maoist insurgency; Kashmir has long been under a bloody security lockdown.

But in Afghanistan NATO found that might alone cannot crush an insurgency; development and state-building are as important.

His top general there has warned that the eight-year effort to defeat the insurgency could fail without more troops.

The $61 billion annual market for Afghan opiates is funding insurgency, international terrorism and wider destabilization.

Quid was developed by Sean Gourley, who originally invented the technology to predict insurgency in war-prone nations.

For three years it did a surprisingly good job of containing the mujahideen, an insurgency far more powerful than today's Taliban.

If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al-Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans.

Pakistan strongly denied suggestions that its military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency.

Counter-insurgency experts are urging them to be less bellicose.

America's new counter-insurgency doctrine espouses similar ideas about the need for "unity of effort" in military and civilian activity.

The end of Nepal's Maoist insurgency in 2006 allowed army guard posts back into Chitwan National Park, where most of the rhinos live.

The report noted that 165 Iraqis were killed during May from insurgency-related violence, less than half the April casualty figure of 355.

Though many fled to Afghanistan after Colonel Qaddafi's counter-insurgency, most kept their distance from al-Qaeda.

We cannot kill our way out of an insurgency.

Tocombat giap's guerrilla insurgency, Westmoreland launches search and destroy missions throughout South Vietnam.

He told 3, 500 soldiers that they will overcome persistent violence in Iraq and insurgency in Afghanistan because the enemy is vulnerable.

Barack Obama backed Mr Karzai's efforts to reconcile some elements of the Taliban insurgency.

The Awakening is largely credited with quelling the insurgency and bringing stability to Anbar and Baghdad.

The hoarding of power and riches in the capital, Kathmandu, causes huge resentment, which fed the Maoist insurgency.

It conjures nightmares of failed states and offers remedies of nation-building and counter insurgency.

The massive use of rape as a weapon in the army's counter-insurgency war is a critical part of the ICC case.

The peace talks, hoping to end the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, launched more than a decade of insurgency.

The insurgency was rarely discussed as a campaign issue before Thailand's December 23 general elections.

Anti-terrorism gave way to its much more potent cousin, anti-insurgency.

S. to stop night raids that he says aggravate Afghans and could incite some people to join the Taliban insurgency.

The insurgency grew from a separatist movement in Chechnya that led to two civil wars over the past 17 years.

Army officials claim, without any evidence, that Rohingyas are joining the insurgency.

In mainly Shia Basra, most of the insurgency is aimed at British soldiers rather than Iraqis.

But observers say the ambush shows that the insurgency is not going away.

Extra troops have been sent to combat the insurgency in the north of the country.

FOR those who consider India's Maoist insurgency a grave and urgent threat, the evidence keeps mounting.

Hand in hand with the insurgency, the militias have dragged the region into ever more deadly conflict.

General Atkeson says the Iraqi security forces are not yet fully capable of providing the type of security needed against the insurgency.

Seven years after western troops arrived, the Taliban insurgency is gaining strength.

An insurgency will almost certainly be met in kind by intermediaries financed by the CIA.

Sri Lanka's military victory over a 26-year long insurgency has come at a high cost to the nation's economy.

Our policies have given the insurgency the ability to tax virtually the entire world supply of illicit opium.

It will pay for equipment and training needed for counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations.

In the minds of some Libya watches, Gaddafi's hard core could well be planning a longer-term insurgency from a safe distance from Tripoli.

Southern Afghanistan is the center of the Taliban-led insurgency.

Turmoil was not avoided: the insurgency of 1972-79 was proof of that.

Otherwise the simmering Sunni insurgency will regain the momentum it has lost in the past few years.

I do not believe the argument that setting a date somehow would help the insurgency.

Papua has been the scene of low-level separatist insurgency for decades, and the area is heavily militarised.

We round up the leaders of the insurgency.

In Pakistan, drone strikes are conducted to support a counter-insurgency operation.

Hehaspromisedtoclean up Nigeria 's elections, improve its woeful electricity supplyanddeal with the unresolved insurgency in the Delta.

As one US military officer told me: "You don't fight an insurgency by the clock. "

An exception has been Aceh, where a separatist insurgency ended with an agreement on local autonomy in 2005.

The New York Times focuses on what the documents reveal about the role of Pakistan's security service in directing the Afghan insurgency.

Another entry describes Ali Ahmeti, the leader of the ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001, as a war-crimes suspect.

Even Mr Abdullah probably knows that his election could worsen the insurgency in the Pushtun south.

The Indian Army team also inspected Army Staff College at Tokha, anti-insurgency training centre and forest warfare institute.

Pakistani forces are increasingly fighting their own insurgency in the frontier areas.

In the Middle East, a defiant Iran is stoking the insurgency in Iraq (and possibly also in Afghanistan).

Presumably, he meant the communist insurgency still simmering in the border area.

The repetition of the unrest in other towns is fomenting the insurgency.

A decades-old Maoist insurgency seeks the overthrow of the Indian state.

He likes to talk about the oddness of "counter-insurgency maths" .

British forces are overstretched and have struggled to adapt to modern counter-insurgency campaigns.

Conventional wisdom holds that the "surge" broke Iraq's insurgency the following year.

That suggests that government incompetence or the presence of foreign troops is driving the insurgency.

For Baida, as for many Iraqi suicide bombers, violent insurgency was the family business.

An insurgency can survive and thrive if Kabul is in disarray.

If a more harshly sectarian Shia-led government emerges, a wider Sunni insurgency could yet be rekindled.

The upshot is that knowing T1 should be enough to predict the future course of a local insurgency.

They say the devices will be used to control rioters and in counter-insurgency operations.

But efforts to fight drugs strengthen the insurgency rather than weaken it.

Presumably, he meant the communist insurgency still simmer in the border area.

Today over 100, 000 foreign troops remain in Afghanistan, which continues to be plagued by insurgency and other violence.

actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.

Now, however, his rumbling insurgency is threatening to provoke a wider war.

to find it, I simply search the database for "counter-insurgency" , which will tell me exactly where the documents I need are.

A survey in 120 districts racked by insurgency, a third of Afghanistan's total, found little popular support for Mr Karzai.

And, so long as it enjoys safe havens across the border, the insurgency will never be wholly defeated.

The tactics and the targets are both hallmarks of the Sunni insurgency.

Tadatoki helpless, please come to counter-insurgency Gaochang soldiers, surprise, surprise it is asking for trouble.

General Petraeus, who had just written a mould-breaking new manual on counter-insurgency, was put in charge.

The insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir had recently gone quiet.

These abductions occurred in Nepal's Bardiya District between 2001 and 2003 during the communist insurgency.

The bangs were an act of desperation by a fading insurgency.

It showed a feel for counter-insurgency that energised troops on the ground.

A separatist insurgency in Kashmir has killed tens of thousands of people since it began in 1989.

They have also ended an American military counter-insurgency training mission in the country.

Afghanistan is currently battling - with the help of 100, 000 foreign troops - an insurgency led by the Taliban.

Unemployment of around 20% poses a continued risk that jobless youth will be lured to the insurgency.

Yet the more they withdrew from towns, the more the insurgency intensified.

Some Maoists mutter grimly about ditching the peace deal that in 2006 ended their ten-year insurgency.

He also has to confront the threat of an Islamist militant insurgency.

The northern province of Sada, 26 occurred in the armed insurgency against the Shi'ite Jose's car bomb attack, killing 40 people.

An insurgency against Indian rule has dragged on for 17 years and still claims an average of three lives each day.

Let's not neglect the insurgency just to the south. Baluchistan.

That was before the start of a long and bloody insurgency against Indian rule.

He has been doing it since January Colonel Juan Ayala has drawn this conclusion about the prospects for ending the insurgency in that area.

Mr. Tikhanyana's wounds are similar to those he sees with soldiers injured by bomb blasts in Thailand's southern insurgency.

Rebels have been battling for more autonomy since 1984 in the south of Turkey - an insurgency which has claimed more than 40, 000 lives.

Thanks to our heroic troops and civilians, fewer Afghans are under the control of the insurgency.

The operation in Marja went badly, but putting down an insurgency needs time and lots of troops, preferably local ones.

Does this mean returning to the armed insurgency?

Dr Zyphur is part of an insurgency against this idea.

NATO defense ministers say progress is being made in Afghanistan despite tough resistance from the Taliban insurgency.

The Americans are sending 17, 000 more troops to bolster Nato's fight against the Taliban insurgency.

As insurgency engulfed the Americans, supply convoys became a favourite target.

Afghanistan, with help from 100, 000 foreign troops, is battling an insurgency led by the Taliban.

Critics say all these factors are feeding the growing Taliban insurgency.

Interrogators from Titan Corporation, all there, and they're getting no information about the insurgency.

Since the insurgency began in 1996, nearly 13, 000 Nepalis, most of them civilians, have died.

Under the controversial pact, the government agreed to the cleric's main demand of imposing Islamic law in the insurgency-hit districts.

A war to disarm a state became a fight against an insurgency.

After the US invasion in 2001, a faction of Hizb-e-Islami led by Hekmatyar joined the insurgency.

Instead, left out, they relaunched their insurgency in 2003.

With bin Laden gone, the US has a precious chance to separate the insurgency from the fight against al-Qaeda.

Zarqawi was called the "mastermind" of the insurgency in Iraq.

The government has also targeted the country's enormous poppy crop, which helps to fund the insurgency.

The insurgency in Saudi Arabia has been quashed.

The Sunni Arab insurgency is also running in high gear .

Counter-insurgency requires "vast resources" of manpower and much stamina in America, says the manual.

The insurgency is weakened but not defeated.

The insurgency in Afghanistan didn't just happen overnight and we won't defeat it overnight.

About 200 of India's 588 districts are affected by a Maoist insurgency called the Naxalite movement.

Ms. Gillard's insurgency was backed by the Labor Party's right wing but also by key unions on the left.