Arriving in the war zone, he starts a desperate chase to find medicines for Vittoria.
Independent reporters are not allowed in the war zone and information from either side cannot be verified.
In the war zone, the Russian army blithely shells civilian targets, yet makes it all but impossible for non-combatants to flee.
Nonetheless, to those stuck in the war zone, caught between two clumsy foes, the prosperity of the south is yet another reason for grievance.
In 2012, for the first time in at least a generation, the number of active-duty soldiers who killed themselves, 177, exceeded the 176 who were killed while in the war zone.
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One of the things they hated most was the persistent drumbeat of news stories about well-connected contractors who seemed to be profiting handsomely from supporting U.S. and allied forces in the war zone.
Generals and other top officers are now expected to be city managers, cultural ambassadors, public relations whizzes and politicians as they deal with multiple missions and constituencies in the war zone, in allied capitals and at home.
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When I go over to Afghanistan, for example, and you're out there in the war zone and you bring those people together and you play for them, it's a great feeling to see them having a great time.
Britain, France and Sweden are sending their foreign ministers to Colombo this week to put pressure on Sri Lanka's government to ensure that the remaining non-combatants are not treated with the cruel disregard they were shown while trapped in the war zone.
On Monday, CNN learned that U.S. commanders in Iraq have asked the Pentagon to extend tours of duty for about 15, 000 troops in the war zone by up to four months as part of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq that began in January.
UN's slowness to assemble a police force has left the Atlantic alliance with its hands full as the sole keeper of order in the former war zone.
Meanwhile, the Army had suffered an embarrassing setback in the 1999 Balkan air war, encountering major problems in deploying its helicopters to the war zone.
"The U.S. reconstruction management structure was overwhelmed by the challenges of building in a war zone, " the report said.
"It would be irresponsible to keep the mission in a war zone without seeing any political or military progress, " the official added.
It questions decisions such as the withdrawal of UN staff from the war zone in September 2008 after the Sri Lankan government warned it could no longer guarantee their safety.
The U.S. force numbered more than 170, 000 at the height of the surge a mobilization that required grueling 15-month tours for many in the Army and constant trips to the war zone for a generation of Marines.
Born in Long Island, New York, in the mid 1950s, Colvin was famous among her peers for her determination to try to cover every war zone in the world, and to be the first person there if possible.
Neither did Ms. Williams evince much concern about the possibility that the elimination of the U.S. mine fields presently in the Demilitarized Zone could give rise to war on the Korean Peninsula -and the attendant loss of perhaps hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocents.
In Vavuniya, where most of the 170, 000 Tamil fugitives from the war-zone have been interned in government-run camps, field-hospitals are swamped with the wounded.
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Some of them were people who'd fled from the war zone in Lebanon south to these streets, a Shiite neighborhood, but not one controlled by Hezbollah.
It's harder, he said, to handle explosions on the home front than in a war zone.
Across the former war zone in northern and eastern Sri Lanka there is a higher military presence than usual.
Add to this the challenges that exist in a war zone.
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After the 1991 Gulf War, the United States put in place a "no-fly" zone in Northern Iraq, covering much of Iraqi Kurdistan.
He had been captured in the British zone of occupied Germany after the war but was allowed to go free.
Though winning their right to self-rule in the zone set up after the Gulf war of 1991, the Kurds had to compromise too.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Stillwater has spent her first week in Iraq in the heavily protected Green Zone, the complicated war outside its gates still beyond her grasp.
But officials are wary of reading too much into the mini-boom in tourism, noting that to the outside world eastern DR Congo remains "a war zone" and that although there are some signs of positive change, the country is a long way from emulating neighbouring Rwanda's dramatic transformation.
The establishment of a "no-fly zone" over northern Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991 also allowed Turkish troops to conduct frequent raids on PKK strongholds across the border.
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