Confronting a war in Congo and the failure of a cease-fire last year, the council has decided to send 500 cease-fire monitors, backed by about 3,400 troops and a support staff of about 1,500 people.
As the U.S. deploys its colossal firepower overseas, a jittery America is also confronting a war at home.
Both cases require the Supreme Court to confront a World War II-era precedent on the availability of habeas corpus, the age-old legal method of challenging one's confinement.
13 Quarrels as Austria Faces Past Austria's moves to confront a complicated World War II-era legacy that includes both Nazi victimhood and complicity have created a series of unexpected negative side effects.
When the administration claims that they're seeing "progress" in pockets of southern Helmand and Kandahar (a claim open to serious dispute, by the way, and strangely contradicted by some of Petraeus' own spin), they're displaying a familiar kind of confusion between the tactical and the strategic, one that seems to always pop up when we're confronting a failed war.
PAGE 22 Burden of Peace in Angola A cease-fire in the 30-year shooting war has left Angolans to confront an equally debilitating war against poverty and disease.
"We have had to confront a really miserable media war over the president's life, his health," Mr. Maduro said in an interview with the Spanish news agency EFE.
But the deal highlights the harsh choices confronting a once war-torn country eager for foreign investment.
The brave soldier doing a thankless job, the young protester confronting an unjust war, the civil rights activist facing daily terror -- these are the roles we remember most fondly today, the roles that some people played for real in the 60's and that others now play in their heads.
To be a writer, especially a famous poet, in this war zone was to confront a challenge that was political, artistic and tribal.
