Relations between the two countries have long been strained, beginning with a border dispute in which a Qatari soldier was killed a decade ago.
That isolation has been reinforced by strained politics, but in recent years, border tensions stemming from a 1979 Chinese invasion have thawed, the government has poured money into improving the province's roads and other infrastructure, and new, albeit modest, hotels have arrived.
The strained relations have made shelling in the border region increasingly sensitive and symbolic.
Relationships between Henry and the couple became strained, and fighting broke out along the border with Anjou.
Their relations, say diplomats on both sides of the border, have gone from stalled to strained.
In Washington, the State Department's spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, said the report reflected a limited assessment of detainees' attitudes and would not alter American efforts to repair the badly strained relationship with Pakistan, particularly after a mistaken border attack on Pakistani troops in November.
Named Arizona's chief federal judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll won wide acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court's strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases.
The killing of an agent from the Drug Enforcement Administration in Mexico in 1985 led to strained relations between officers on both sides of the border, and between the Mexican and American governments.
Such pleas are resented by other nations that say they have taken in the largest number of asylum seekers, and may meet resistance from countries like Britain, France and the Netherlands, whose welfare systems are strained and whose leaders are facing pressure to look tough on border control to counter the rise of anti-immigrant parties.
Far larger numbers of asylum seekers have been settled recently in the union's northern member states than in southern countries, where welfare systems are strained and leaders face acute pressure to take a tough stance on issues like border control to stem the growing appeal of anti-immigrant parties.
