With the additional American troops scheduled to depart, the Nidhal family said, Baghdad would be truly safe only when the Iraqi forces were mixed with Sunnis and Shiites operating checkpoints side by side — otherwise the city would remain a patchwork of Sunni and Shiite enclaves.
A high-tech remote camera, installed as part of a recent revamping of the checkpoint on the Angolan side of the border, monitors them on their way.
Crossing the Tenassarim range in a single afternoon, along the route the Japanese Imperial Army retreated in 1944, is a very new thing.At the checkpoint on the Thai side of the border, a man wearing a rain cape uses a raised orange umbrella to signal simply that we may pass.
The bomb exploded near the checkpoint on the Pakistani side, killing at least 55 people and injuring many more.
On the rebel side of the checkpoint, Mr. Barakat had coordinated with the Mujahedeen Army, a group that has received aid from the United States.
Wearing an oversized olive jacket provided by the military, Hussam was escorted by a soldier back to the Nablus side of the checkpoint.
It lies between Kirkuk and Sulaimaniya on the safer, Kurdish, side of the checkpoint marking the boundary between the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government and the rest of Iraq.
On the Palestinian side of the checkpoint, the police held me for two hours; Israeli tanks, parked about three hundred yards away, were firing into the fields of Beit Hanoun, more or less over our heads.
The owner of the laptop is delayed on the other side of the checkpoint long enough for the first thief to snatch the computer bag and disappear into the crowds.
Long lines formed on either side of the checkpoint in Nicosia, one of the world's last divided capitals, a day after restrictions on north-south crossings were lifted for the first time since the Mediterranean island was partitioned in 1974.
