In Aleppo, a key battleground in the conflict, opposition-held districts and the city's outskirts were pummelled by bombardments into Wednesday morning.
But after 17 months of conflict, the opposition is becoming more and more creative.
Inside Bangladesh the war remains a live political issue as alleged collaborators in the conflict (all opposition leaders) are being tried by a flawed, local war-crimes tribunal.
In this smoldering political conflict, the opposition and the government have both tried to claim the mantle of the true heir to the revolution.
There is bound to be conflict and opposition when minorities pursue their rights, whether legislatively, in the voting booth or in the courts.
In his last years Richelieu found himself involved in religious conflict, in opposition to the pope, and in a struggle with the French church over the allocation of revenues to the financing of the war.
Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that a month of airstrikes had destroyed 30 percent to 40 percent of the capabilities of the military forces loyal to Col. Qaddafi, but had not yet drastically tilted the conflict with opposition militias one way or another.
The officer, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that a month of airstrikes had destroyed 30 percent to 40 percent of the capabilities of the military forces loyal to Libya's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, but had not yet drastically tilted the conflict with opposition militias one way or another.
In this developing conflict, the opposition has made some costly errors, particularly allowing attention to focus on the Pussy Riot protest, in which an all-female, anti-Kremlin punk rock group staged a prank concert in an important cathedral, drawing prison sentences for three band members.
ANTAKYA, Turkey — The lethal attack on Wednesday on President Bashar al-Assad's senior security chiefs aligned neatly with a tactical shift that had changed the direction of Syria's long conflict: the opposition fighters' swift and successful adoption of makeshift bombs.
Ethics is especially concerned to bring out the facts of conflict, the opposition of different strains in things in general, but in human and mental life most particularly.
