Thus, for example, Iraq would remain a federal republic, but its revenues from oil, which is concentrated in the north and south, would be shared among the provinces according to population size.The Kurds would remain autonomous in their northern redoubt, retaining control over their peshmerga militias.
Abyei town may not look like much - a few low brick buildings scattered amongst thatched huts and dusty tracks - but this normally sleepy place is raising fears of a new Sudanese war after northern forces seized control over the weekend.
Mr. Muhammad, who is from Kajaki, wants to establish full control over northern Helmand.
Prosecutors have accused Mr. Krajisnik, an extreme nationalist politician, of helping draw up and direct the strategy to establish Serbian control over northern Bosnia.
But in June, Ansar Dine declared that it had driven out another rebel group and had assumed control over northern Mali.
Just days after its victory in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan's Northern Alliance has swiftly expanded its control over northern Afghanistan and has now sent Taliban forces fleeing from Kabul.
As part of the ongoing operations to secure the country, military officials said today that the Fourth Infantry Division, which has the Army's most advanced Abrams tanks, would be assigned control over northern Iraq.
Serbia's effort to assert control over northern Kosovo has contributed to violent confrontations in recent weeks, including a clash on March 17 in which peacekeepers seized a courthouse in the northern city of Mitrovica that was being occupied by Serbian protesters.
A single-engine plane on its way to Atlanta spun out of control over northern New Jersey and crashed onto a busy highway on Tuesday, killing all five people aboard — two investment bankers, and the wife and two children of one of the bankers.
Kidnapping is such a lucrative industry for extremists in western Africa, netting them tens of millions of dollars in recent years, that it has reinforced their control over northern Mali and greatly complicated plans for an African-led military campaign to take back Islamist-held territory.
