If we had not intervened in Libya, Qaddafi forces would have reached Benghazi and there might have been thousands of Eman al-Obeidys.
Ever since late 1950, when the Chinese Communists intervened in Korea, Nationalist forces supplied from Korea and operating from small islands in the Formosa Strait have been making passes at the mainland, and a few strikes have been launched from Formosa itself.
In Mali a brawl involving a mutinous army, ethnic rebels and Islamic extremists ended after less than a year thanks to French soldiers, who intervened in January and forced a partial reconciliation.Ever fewer powers, though, have the stomach for an overt armed intervention.
The Economic Community of West African States, whose force intervened in the 1990's in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars, has approved a 1,700-member 1,700-memberrol the borders between Guinea and its two southern neighbors.
President Karzai, who came to power after American forces intervened in Afghanistan and overthrew the Taliban government in 2001, has often been criticized by his rivals as an American puppet.
The airstrikes occurred before foreign forces intervened in the conflict, effectively grounding Libya's attack-aircraft fleet.
Since Saudi-led forces intervened in the conflict between President Hadi and Houthi rebels last March, around 6,000 Yemenis have been killed, perhaps half of them civilians.
In April 1898, American forces intervened in Cuba's three-year-old struggle for independence when it was all but won, thus transforming the Cuban War of Independence into what Americans are still wont to call the Spanish-American War.
It is the first time that Malian troops on their own have fought the Tuareg since French forces intervened in January.Demonstrators took to the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, demanding among other things the release of political prisoners.
After his forces intervened in CAR, Mr Bemba became a vice-president in DR Congo as part of a 2003 power-sharing deal between the government and various rebel groups to end years of conflict.
