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The war has set off a humanitarian crisis that has worsened in recent months.

Mexico's war has set new standards in difficulty and danger for journalists and film-makers.

Ms. Wright's last chapter is about how the Iraq war has set back reform across the region, the opposite of its stated purpose.

Although a relative lull in the Chechnya war has set in during recent days, the ongoing conflict is still putting heavy pressure on the military to conscript new soldiers.

The shooting down of the Russian fighter jet by NATO-member Turkey, the first known incident of its kind since the Cold War, has set back efforts to forge a united front against the Islamic State (IS) in the weeks since militant group claimed responsibility for mass killings in Paris and blowing up a Russian airliner.

If the Crimean War had set the stage for the wars of unification in Germany and Italy, and the Mexican War did so for the war of unification in the United States, then it's worth asking: if there had been no Crimean War, might there still have been an American Civil War? Probably so; civil wars by definition happen largely for internal reasons.

"Taliban restrictions on women, coupled with 20 years of war, have set back women's health status immeasurably.

But following a peak around the millennium (when drinking hit levels not reached since before the first world war) sobriety has set in.

Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, the allied land war commander, has set up a command post here to supervise the reconstruction of Iraq.

President Obama has not made a compelling case for the war and has set a deadline for the start of withdrawal that seems curiously close to the anticipated start of his 2012 campaign for a second term.

_____ 3. Our best-read article today looks at the civil war Mr. Trump has set off within the right-wing media, replete with talk-radio feuds, hate mail and awkward dinner parties.