Sentence examples for remote border region from inspiring English sources

Jabbar Yawer, the deputy minister for the Kurdistan Regional Government's security forces, said that the aircraft hit a remote border region 50 miles north of Erbil but that there were no civilian casualties because the area was deserted.

What can we do?" The remote border region, formed where the eastern Afghan province of Khost meets Pakistan, has come under intense scrutiny after persistent reports that Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are regrouping and planning to mount guerrilla attacks from sanctuaries across the border.

Vaccination Week will launch in on 24 April the remote border region between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, home to some of the poorest, most isolated and most vulnerable children in the Americas.

Backed by Al Qaeda, pro-Taliban militants have expanded their influence from the remote border regions into the more populated parts of Pakistan this year and mounted a record number of suicide bombings in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Haqqani network is considered a part of the Afghan Taliban, and is a key ally and protector of Al Qaeda's top leadership, whose members are believed to be hiding in Pakistan's remote border regions.

It seems for many the cordon fences provide a welcome barrier preventing cattle from straying into remote border regions where the risk of theft remains high.

Over 139,000 people have left the remote, insecure border regions to date, about 57,600 of them in the past week, in the latest in a series of conflict-driven displacements in Pakistan since August 2008.

The first big puzzle concerns that band of Chechen fighters, who had apparently been sheltering in the Pankisi gorge, a remote and unpoliced border region.

Hundreds of thousands of families fleeing Boko Haram are now stranded in a remote and harsh border region, beyond the reach of humanitarian aid.

At first, Mr. Juma Khan, an illiterate trafficker in his mid-50s from Afghanistan's remote Nimroz Province, in the border region where southwestern Afghanistan meets both Iran and Pakistan, was a big winner from the American-led invasion.

But with the administration in Khartoum continuing to reject the deployment of a UN force in Darfur the prospects for restoring security to the CAR's unstable border region are remote, giving the country's many armed groups ample opportunity to reorganise in preparation for a fresh attempt at grabbing power in 2007.