And while major telecommunications players already have footholds in Middle Eastern countries -- even neighboring war-torn Iraq -- Iran, the Mideast's second-largest country after Egypt, is up for grabs.
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At a time of great economic hardship in Lebanon due to countless domestic and foreign political setbacks, rising unemployment, competition from regional media, insecurity in a highly volatile region, and pressures from hosting upwards of 1.5 million refugees from neighboring war-torn Syria, the media layoffs couldn't come at a worse time.
As an island of relative calm among neighboring nations who have undergone disastrous civil wars over the last decades, Tanzania is both politically and geographically vulnerable to the influx of victims of neighboring wars.
The escapes of Al Qaeda operatives is expected to intensify fears among Iraqis that their government has shown itself to be incapable of protecting them since U.S. forces withdrew two years ago, the Gulf News agency said in a report about Al Qaeda's ascendancy in Iraq and neighboring, civil-war-torn Syria.
Last month, Saudi Arabia mobilized a ten-nation coalition to intervene in neighboring Yemen's war, to the south.
In the run-up to last week's referendum — in which Kurds voted overwhelmingly to break free from Iraq — neighboring Iran launched war games on the border and Turkey's president openly raised the possibility of an invasion.
Tensions have worsened as the civil war in neighboring Syria has turned into a sectarian, regional proxy war.
Native Americans were also often at war with neighboring tribes and allied with Europeans in their colonial wars.
"Combined with the civil war in neighboring Liberia between 1989 and 2003," Mr. Dowden said, "Sierra Leone's war competes with the Rwandan genocide as the world's last, and most appalling, conflict of the 20th Century".
