A vital border crossing here has been shut for days at a time, stranding long lines of trucks.
This is being described as his "reclaiming an internet meme", as though the meme were an oil refinery or strategically vital border town.
US aircraft have bombed IS positions as Kurdish fighters cling on to the town's vital border crossing with Turkey.
Within weeks of the referendum, Baghdad, which had declared the vote illegal, took control of disputed oil fields, Kurdish airspace and vital border crossings.
Since breast tumors are strongly vascularized and display neo-angiogenesis in the vital border, it is hypothesized that CEUS of the breast may also be a more accurate modality than gray-scale ultrasound for delineation of breast tumor boundaries and tumor size assessment [18].
It is a natural ally for the increasingly vital cross-border agenda of crime, disease and climate change.
To confront this troublemaker, who claims control over three provinces in a vital southeastern border region where Western forces are pursuing remnants of Al Qaeda, Afghanistan's interim government has chosen an unlikely champion -- Hakim Taniwal, a slightly built, bespectacled sociology professor.
Although sawgrass and sloughs are the enduring geographical icons of the Everglades, other ecosystems are just as vital, and the borders marking them are subtle or nonexistent.
There has been no official Pakistani comment on the latest clashes, but a Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman insisted that the Durand Line was the settled frontier, and that Pakistani checkpoints were vital for good border management.
Instead, the capture of the vital Tal Abyad border crossing between Turkey and Syria earlier in June, by an alliance of Kurdish YPG and moderate Free Syrian Army FSAA) rebels, supported by US airstrikes, has thrown IS onto the defensive in its own stronghold of Raqqa province.
