It's the context in which US and potentially British female soldiers will be fighting in which is dubious.
This was followed by almost a decade of fighting, in which Silla expelled the T'ang forces and established a unified kingdom in the Korean peninsula.
In 1999, Pakistani incursions in the Kargil area, planned by General Musharraf before he seized power in a coup, led to fighting in which at least 1,000 soldiers died.
Why would a journalist be involved with a terrorist organisation and enter the country with a terrorist organisation, escorted by armed terrorists, participating in fighting in which a terrorist organisation was involved?
The incidents happened last summer, during an intensive period of fighting in which the Ukrainian army began to gain the upper hand against separatists and Russia began to supply more overt aid to ensure the rebels were not defeated.
In 1981, after a protracted political crisis, a leftist guerrilla army attacked El Salvador's military, setting off eleven years of fighting, in which seventy-five thousand people were killed.
The confrontation with a pocket of Taliban forces some 20 miles from the capital is still not over after a week of negotiating and a day of fighting in which Commander Alam's troops were forced to retreat.
After three years of fighting, in which as many as four million people died, the two sides agreed on 27 July 1953 to a shaky truce, though no treaty was ever signed.
After eight weeks of fighting in which Indian troops ascended glaciers, snowfields and rocky crags to attack Pakistani bunkers under heavy fire, the Pakistanis were driven out, but not before more than 850 Indian soldiers and at least 700 Pakistanis had lost their lives.
The change was to a block system of fighting, in which infantry soldiers equipped with heavy armour, or hopla (including helmet, breastplate, greaves, sword, spear, and a round shield attached to the left arm by a strap), fought, at least during part of an engagement, in something like coherent formation, each man's sword arm being guarded by the shield of the man on his right.
After months of fighting, in which about 1,600 people died, US Central Command announced in January 2015 that anti-IS forces controlled 90% of the town.
