By 1964, the intensity of the conflict was heightened with the insurgency attacking government stations and towns and also preying on local communities.
The Afghan government told us in 1981 that the Soviets would leave when the insurgency attacking from Pakistan and financed by the US and Saudis stopped.
FACT: Charlie Wilson prolonged Afghanistan's agony for another six years by getting congress to substantially increase funding to the insurgency attacking from Pakistan.
In late August, a Rohingya insurgency attacked a number of government security posts in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where Rohingyas have endured decades of discrimination and extremely limited rights.
We find short-run increases of insurgency-related violence, police-initiated attacks, and insurgent attacks on civilians.
The Pakistan Taliban took responsibility for the attack near Bannu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincloselose to the border with Afghanistan, a hotbed of insurgency where attacks on security forces are common.
Niger has been hit by several bombings blamed on Boko Haram, which is based in Nigeria but has widened its insurgency with attacks on neighbouring countries.
Stunned at first, protesters soon started shooting back with whatever came to hand, validating Mr Assad's claim to be battling not a popular revolt but an armed insurgency.Mysterious attacks against Christians and other minorities followed, prompting some to form pro-government vigilante gangs.
Professor Fearon, listing the ways that Syria's war cannot end, said that in the best case, one side would slowly grind out a far-off victory that would merely downgrade the war into "a somewhat lower-level insurgency, terrorist attacks and so on".
The country has been facing many domestic challenges, such as a period of Sunni Arab insurgency, bloody attacks by al-Qaeda, confrontations with al-Sadr militias, and the ongoing tensions between various political factions; however, it's Iraq's vulnerability to neighboring countries that Zebari was alluding to.
