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Lebanon has long been seen as a proxy battlefield for regional and global interests, and so foreign powers from Washington to Tehran have paid close attention.

At one time, the chessboard was a proxy battlefield for the cold war; as recently as 1993, Channel 4 broadcast live coverage of Nigel Short versus Kasparov.

The Lebanese have long complained that their land was a proxy battlefield for meddling foreigners, to the degree that some even dubbed their fifteen-year civil conflict "the war of the others".

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet For some two and a half years now, the sounds of war have become frighteningly humdrum in Syria, the overplayed soundtrack to the story of an ancient country that is coming apart, with at least a hundred thousand dead and its territory now a proxy battlefield for international rivalries.

For some two and a half years now, the sounds of war have become frighteningly humdrum in Syria, the overplayed soundtrack to the story of an ancient country that is coming apart, with at least a hundred thousand dead and its territory now a proxy battlefield for international rivalries.

The Lebanese have long complained that their land was a proxy battlefield for meddling foreigners, to the degree that some even dubbed their fifteen-year civil conflict "the war of the others". Now they are the foreign parties intervening in somebody else's civil war, some sending men, money, and munitions to Assad's opponents, and others chiefly Hezbollah sending the same to the Syrian President.

The era of Portuguese colonialism was ending, the fight for independence that would become one of the many proxy battlefields of the cold war was intensifying and, after three months spent on dangerous roads and in a capital city growing more paranoid and hallucinatory by the day, the Polish Press Agency reporter was spent.

The incident dramatically illustrated how foreign states are increasingly using Syrian territory as a proxy battlefield.

Syria has effectively become their proxy battlefield, with each country arming the opposing side.

Others have argued that some women in the industry are not "real gamers", but rather "social justice warriors" using gaming as a proxy battlefield.

For NATO to succeed, it has to come up with a new strategy where the regional powers stop using Afghanistan as their proxy battlefield and agree on a treaty of non-interference in Afghan affairs.