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There is deep infighting among Sunni tribes that united to help subdue the insurgency over the last two years.

Debate has raged since the start of the insurgency over whether Western and Arab nations should provide Syria's rebels with portable antiaircraft missiles, often called Manpads.

The event will be a way to mobilise people in this post-conflict region, which has suffered civil war and insurgency over the past 20 years.

The Soroti region of Uganda, once a prosperous area, has been hit by war, cattle raids and insurgency over the past two decades.

And even as many Afghans acknowledge improvements in those areas, there is still widespread skepticism about the Afghan forces' ability to secure the country on their own after the exit of Western troops — who have themselves failed to pacify the insurgency over the past decade.

What started as a local insurgency over autonomy has escalated into a challenge to the Egyptian state and its leader, with implications for neighboring Israel and the Palestinian Authority, to the east; chaotic Libya, to the west; and Europe, to the north.

During the first summer of the civil war, its members defeated the Nationalist insurgency, took over the city's factories and turned the Ritz hotel into a workers' canteen.

They said, as The Times's John Burns wrote, that "the worst of the 'Saddamist' insurgency was over, its power blunted by a wide American offensive that followed the former dictator's capture".

In the grips of a militant Sunni insurgency, ruled over by an intransigent Shiite government, intractably enmeshed in Syria's sprawling civil war, Iraq sits in sectarian tatters.

Both were a bit like the Vietnam war, but the army had been so keen to forget Indochina that it had to learn the art of counter-insurgency all over again.

And they know the difficulty of crushing guerrilla forces after weathering various separatist insurgencies over the last two decades.