Russian troops entered Chechnya in autumn 1999 after a series of bombings in three Russian cities that killed about 300 people, and after Chechnya-based rebels invaded a neighbouring Russian region.
The monarchy denies this and blames unrest on the influence of neighbouring Iran, the region's biggest Shia Muslim state.
It is also supplying up to 240 troops to train soldiers in Mali and neighbouring countries in the region.
Chad, which is rich in oil, has been hit by the conflict in the neighbouring Sudanese western Darfur region, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing across the border.
From 2003 unrest in neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region spilled across the border, along with hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees.
The Shiv Sena continued to operate in the Mumbai region, including neighbouring towns, but had no reach in the rest of the state.
Like many others in the region, the neighbouring spa town of Ilkley is highly dependent on tourism following a general decline in West Yorkshire s textile industry.
Before the carretera (highway), the only road access to this remote part of Patagonia involved travelling through neighbouring Argentina, meaning that the region retains a spectacularly rugged, unspoiled environment and a strong identity.
There had been a hope that a Brazilian pope would help to stem that challenge, and it is likely that expectation will extend to a pope from neighbouring Argentina, a Church leader who clearly understands the region well.
One NorthEast said the Route Development Project was available to help Durham Tees Valley and neighbouring Newcastle airports to attract new routes and carriers to the region.
And in the south-east Ogaden region are Muslim Somalis, who have more in common with neighbouring Somalia than with the remote Tigrayans.
Aid workers are needed in the region to provide medical help to tent camps across Dagestan and neighbouring Ingushetia, where some 150, 000 refugees are sheltering from the Chechen war.
For example, the conflict in neighbouring Somalia means that armed nomads often cross the border and move into the region to graze their cattle.
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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Ethiopia seizes this opportunity to underscore that there is no other sound alternative to good neighbourliness and peaceful co-existence and calls upon all neighbouring countries to stand united in promoting peace and development in our sub-region.
Sunnis worry that a Shia super-region in the south of the country could come under the influence of neighbouring Iran.
Rwanda and neighbouring Uganda are accused of continuing to fuel unrest by smuggling in arms and plundering the region's resources.
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Egyptian security forces do operate in this region but only in limited numbers following a long-standing peace agreement with neighbouring Israel.
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