• After the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a brutal war in which both sides suffered enormously, with up to 30, 000 people killed and a million forced to flee their homes.

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  • The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was formed in 1858 and first fought in a major conflict in the Boer War in 1899, as well as action in the First World War, although traces its origins to an Irish dragoons regiment dating back to 1689.

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  • Iraq and Iran fought a war in the 1980s that spanned eight years and killed at least a half-million people, by some estimates.

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  • In 1993, one month after he moved into the simple home he'd built in Veteran's Village, a longtime squatter zone in Quezon City set aside for families of those who fought in World War II, a woman showed up claiming she owned his lot.

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  • In 1993, one month after Estillore moved in to the simple home he'd built in Veteran's Village, a longtime squatter zone in Quezon City set aside for families of those who fought in World War II, a woman showed up claiming she owned his lot.

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  • In the late 1980s it fought a price war with Japanese enginemakers while investing heavily in new product.

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  • Mr Villegas warned Venezuelans not to be taken in by a "psychological war" being fought in the media which had the "ultimate aim of destabilising the Bolivarian republic".

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  • The British also fought a seemingly unending war in Northern Ireland, which brought them hundreds of Irish Republican Army prisoners committed to violent resistance.

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  • Azerbaijan fought a war with neighbouring Armenia in the 1990s, in which it lost the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the two sides may yet fight another.

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  • He compared its threats to those of the Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, which fought a genocidal war against Paraguay in the 1860s.

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  • Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia -- the first time Russia sent troops abroad to fight since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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  • Serbia and Bulgaria, which fought a nasty war against each other in 1885, have in recent years had little chance to get along well.

    ECONOMIST: Fresh hope for Bulgaria

  • Having fought a war to secure British sovereignty of the islands a plan to defend them in the future now had to be implemented.

    BBC: Fight for the Falklands: Twenty years on

  • Excerpt: In my youth, we had fought a war to put the world back the way it was before the war started, only to find that the fighting itself had changed it radically and forever.

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  • Norman Schwarzkopf, a West Point graduate who fought in World War I, became head of New Jersey State Police, helping to build the fledgling force and eventually leading the investigation of the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping.

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  • Indeed one might even be forgiven for thinking a truly radical thought: that Barack Obama, a president who, recall, fought a non-war-war in Libya without Congressional authorization, is vulnerable to criticism because his foreign policies have been too aggressive.

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  • Greenberg fought in the Army in World War II, got a law degree at New York Law School (not to be confused with New York University School of Law) in 1950 and served in the Army again in the Korean War.

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  • Zeevi was a retired army general who fought in Israel's 1948 war of independence, the 1956 Sinai campaign, and the 1967 Mideast war.

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  • The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese.

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  • The neighbors have fought two wars over the territory and narrowly avoided a third war in 1999.

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  • The Winograd commission, which probed the army's performance in painstaking detail, concluded that it fought most of the war as a series of routine anti-terrorist operations.

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  • However, the strategies of the Cold War were largely no longer relevant for the type of war being fought in Iraq: it was different enemies, a different physical environment, dramatically better technology and different era troops.

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  • When I think about America, I think about my family, and I think about my grandfather who fought in World War II, and my grandmother, who, even with a baby, was working on a bomber assembly line.

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  • This in turn is part of a bigger question: why has Iraq fought the war so ineffectively?

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  • The foes fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953 and left the Korean Peninsula divided at the 38th parallel.

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  • Recently he has referred often to his white grandfather, who fought in the second world war, and to his white mother, who for a while scraped by on food stamps.

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  • The United Kingdom fought a short, sharp war against Argentina over the Falklands Islands under Thatcher in 1982, responding with force when Buenos Aires laid claim to the islands.

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  • The British officer created the "Chindits" a special force who fought guerrilla-style behind Japanese lines during the Burma campaign in World War II.

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  • At the end of the second world war in 1945 Ho Chi Minh, a Vietnamese guerrilla leader who had fought the Japanese, believed that Vietnam would be recognised as an independent country, especially by the United States, which had supplied the guerrillas with arms and money.

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  • Mr Rumsfeld insists the reason for a smaller force is that since the last Gulf war there has been a huge change in the way ground campaigns can be fought, especially with weapons getting smarter and more precise.

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