Meanwhile, the noise and color of combat had begun to attract spectators, and they hurled random slurs at combatants from both sides.
Unrealized Potential As the Big East evolved, so did its combatants from the 1986 final.
But that has not stopped combatants from invoking religion and challenging the devotion of their rivals.
Otherwise, Criscuolo Park's baseball field pulses with uniformed combatants from the local leagues.
Distinguishing combatants from noncombatants has become impossible with fighters and civilians packed so closely together.
After all, small arms are already flowing to combatants from other sources in the region at an alarming rate.
Ms. Wedgwood said the Geneva Convention allowed for such "detentive prevention" to keep combatants from returning to a fight.
Such questions demonstrate the difficulty that any urban conflict poses in separating actual combatants from innocent civilians.
The 150-page report said at least one in four combatants from the country's insurgent groups was under 18.
Despite the bluster in Congress, the government does not consider most Taliban to be terrorists, but rather enemy combatants from the war in Afghanistan.
"We were running a hospital treating patients, including wounded combatants from both sides," said the report by the Geneva-based group.
