FALLUJA, Iraq — Not so long ago, Syrians worked to send weapons and fighters into Iraq to help Sunnis fighting a sectarian conflict; suddenly, it is the other way around.
Each Sputnik hub will employ between 30 and 80 staff members, and an expanded team of 100 will reportedly work in the office in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, where a new government that Russian state media decried as a "fascist junta" has adopted an association agreement with the European Union and is fighting a simmering conflict with Russia-backed rebels in the country's east.
When a UN Group of Experts report found that Rwanda was supporting rebels fighting a deadly conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a number of countries including the US and Britain cut or suspended foreign aid in protest.
The Syrians are scattered, fragmented, divided, polarized, and fighting a bloody conflict.
Tunisia's army is fighting a low-level conflict against a group of militants holed up in the Chaambi mountains bordering Algeria.
At the time, Saddam was a tacit ally of the West, fighting a gruesomely bloody conflict against neighboring Iran, in an earlier version of the lethal Sunni-Shiite split which has now made Syria its central battleground.
Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, has been fighting a low-intensity conflict with Hamas since it wrested control of the Gaza Strip.
He blamed Sunday's fighting on a conflict between members of the presidential guard.
During the budget presentations, representatives from the various services didn't devote a lot of time to IS, talking instead about fighting a "high-intensity, full-spectrum" conflict against a peer competitor.
The declarations by Hamas raise the prospect of a further bout of fighting in a conflict in which nearly 1,900 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have died along with 64 Israeli soldiers.
