Small disputes are magnified by this underlying conflict.

For more than a thousand years, the Islamic world has been riven by the Sunni Shia conflict.

The neighboring countries have no formal relations since 1994, due to the longest running conflict in the former Soviet Union, the Nagorno Karabakh war.

What happens abroad, far away from the conflict zone?

The divide devastated both countries, and their relationship to date is often strained, marred by wars, border disputes, military stand offs and a continuing conflict over Kashmir.

By contrast, in crises fueled by ethnic conflict, lawyers interests are not so clear.

Because of the still unresolved conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, some Armenians were also upset by the win

The repercussions of a genuine end to the Colombian armed conflict would be felt far beyond the country s borders.

Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations (UN) because of China's opposition given its territorial claim over Taiwan.

Voices from the conflict

European unity arose from a desire to see conflict on the continent end.

In the war zones, how many people who have helped me have been killed?

This doesn't only take into account the refugees of the current conflict in Syria, but the generations of families of Syrian descent whose grandparents left Syria decades ago.

This situation, Ukrainian users say, invites manipulation and censorship, since the managing party might have conflicting political interests.

A deepening religious conflict across all of South Asia would inevitably follow.

State failure in the wake of colonialism is another source of conflict.

The expectation of conflict can itself become a cause of conflict.

The conditions for serious negotiations in the Israeli Palestinian conflict, however, are anything but good, owing to a lack of partners on both sides.

A live map of the conflict

In Poland, once the battle against Communism was won, the Solidarity movement was soon sundered by conflicts between secular democrats and believers who looked to the Church for guidance.

We don t want to be associated with any particular party to the conflict in Libya

The lack of a defined enemy makes reporting on and understanding the conflict difficult for journalists, diplomats, and government officials.

His political base has faded, owing to Iran s deepening economic crisis, which has been intensified by the conflict with the West over the nuclear issue.

It was not fought over the future status of Georgia s Russian backed breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia (though that source of conflict was a real one).

Also, more than 270,000 Syrians have been killed in Syria's five years of conflict.

When peace appears to be close at hand, radicals on one side of the conflict or the other provoke an explosion to derail it.

A history of recent tensions

I tried to avoid conflict.

It will merely make life riskier and more expensive for them, pushing them even further to the margins of society.

There is no conflict here, except when people mistakenly think that questions from one domain demand answers from the other.

In the end, she will probably give in to Sarkozy s wishes in order to avoid endangering her chances of re election in September because of a conflict with the French.

The conflict between his parents about religion meant that, unlike most Italians, Mussolini was not baptized at birth and would not be until much later in life.

But soon a number of online media outlets stepped in and explained the context of the dispute.

The region is accessible by desert vehicle from the conflict zones of Darfur and eastern Chad.

People are in despair they are angry at Russia for its aggression and at their own government for provoking this uneven conflict.

Well, a poor understanding.

Naturally nobody wants a conflict.

Contemporary Colombian history and continued conflict

We missed due to our mistakes, due to non execution of the game plan.

It is unclear whether it was due to an attack or expired server quotas due to too many visits.

None of Iraq s neighbors, including Iran, would benefit from sectarian conflict that grows into a regional war.

This change will shift the foreign policy parameters of the Middle East conflict (understood as both an Israeli Palestinian conflict and as a conflict between Israelis and Arabs more generally).

The photographer Caio had been strangled by a police officer moments before his detainment (see video of the start of the conflict).

Yet the undoubted origin of the conflict is the region s extreme poverty, which was made disastrously worse in the 1980 s by a drought that has essentially lasted until today.

The US failed to unleash some new form of Cold War after the South Ossetian episode, not least because of the global financial and economic crisis.