Some of Syria's fiercest and best organised rebel groups, including the jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra, have held enclaves in the area.
I doubt if much will change soon between EU partners Spain and Britain Spainn's southern flank is messy, since it too holds enclaves, in north Africa.
Thousands of soldiers in the government-held enclave have been surrounded on three sides by separatist forces for weeks.
President Franjo Tudjman has been warned in two meetings with American diplomats in the last week that because his Government has not honored the commitments it made in Dayton, he will not be allowed take control of the Serb-held enclave of Eastern Slavonia, now administered by the United Nations, in July as scheduled.
Syrian regime and Russian airstrikes in a rebel-held enclave near Damascus have killed at least 17 civilians, a war monitor has said.
More than 500 people have died in the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta in the past week, including 24 in the 24 hours since the cease-fire resolution was passed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in Britain, and hospitals remain a target.
About 19,000 people went to Syrian government-controlled areas, around 10,000 to an enclave held by Kurdish troops, and 5,000 moved deeper into opposition-held areas.
The photos that have eked out of the rebel-held enclave are horrific dead children, their skin burned by poison, foaming at the mouth.
The enclave held periodic elections thereafter, the results of which were soundly rejected by Azerbaijan as illegal under international law.
It is an ethnic enclave, held by those who occupied the ground when the cease-fire was reached in 1993.
It has so far held onto its enclave in Ramadi, capital of the overwhelmingly Sunni Anbar province, which once had a population of 600,000.
