Russia, the United States, Denmark, Greenland, Canada and Norway, which border the Arctic, and China are also scrambling to control the region and access to the commercial ventures there.
Ethiopia, for its part has fought a brutal counter-insurgency to restore its control over the region.
But the Islamists soon took control of the region's major towns, sidelining the Tuaregs.
But the Islamists soon took control of the region's major towns, including Gao and Timbuktu, sidelining the Tuaregs.
Serbs and Albanians vied for control in the region throughout the 20th century.
That cost the guerrillas their lucrative control of the region's rich banana plantations.
Neely said this was the first evidence he had seen to confirm those accusations as British forces have established control of the region.
Since then, though Russian forces have remained in nominal control of the region, they have continued to suffer heavy losses from rebel attacks.
Sudan troops are now in control of the region, but if they continue with attacks, South Sudan will retake it, said Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, the South Sudanese vice president.
Mali's March 22 coup precipitated the fall of the country's north to a mix of secular and Islamist rebels, who now control a desert region the size of France at the heart of the Sahara.
They now only control one council in the region - Eastbourne - after losing control of Lewes which they held for more than 20 years.
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The region had control over all its affairs with the exception of finance, defence and communications.
Such accounts remain unverified given Syrian government control of access to the region by foreign reporters and independent aid workers.
But it would take considerable airpower and the use of facilities across the region to gain control of the Syrian sky.
The government of Sudan has reached a peace agreement with the main rebel group fighting for control of the troubled Darfur region.
Richardson said the emergency stockpile would be used only if there was a disruption in heating fuel supplies and not to control energy prices in the region.
Ms Yousafzai attracted public attention in 2009 when she published a blog describing her life in Swat when the Taleban gained control of much of the region in 2009.
In the 19th century the battle over influence of Central Asia was described as the "Great Game" as the British and Russian empires vied for control and influence in the region.
The first anti-narcotics battalion, now operational, has been dispatched to the southern province of Putomayo, a region under the control of the biggest rebel group, the 15, 000-strong Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Thus, he opposes allowing the United States to use the military base at Manta, an agreement between the US and Ecuador that was negotiated in order to control drug trafficking in the region.
The bigger the prizes get, the more strategic control of resources tightens across the region.
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Outside Jalalabad, the troika is thought to control only pockets of the eastern region.
In particular, the Kurds want control of the oil-producing region of Kirkuk.
The result is that the major engine of economic growth in the region with heavy demands on the water resources is subject to many factors outside the direct control of the governments of the countries of the region.
The Highways Agency said control centres had been opened in every region in England.
If it is not brought under control, it could destabilize the entire region.
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If that's the case, the region would be under Russian control.
This would put pressure on the more reasonable elements in the Iraqi government and its Sunni and Shia communities, as well as on other countries in the region, to try to control sectarian violence and press for compromise.
Troops were deployed to Suez after the region was "declared out of control" by the head of provincial security, EGYNews reported.
On March 25th Mr Rajoy's centre-right People's Party (PP) confounded the opinion polls by failing to wrest control of Andalusia, Spain's biggest region, from the Socialists.
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