"The presence of outside forces in our region is there under the pretext of establishing security.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

which he argued has been "imposed . by outside parties" and has destabilized the region.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

Khabure said that her best sense of the situation is that the LRA's original objectives were long ago hijacked by the numerous outside groups who benefited from the region's instability and began supporting Kony's rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"We should take the Pakistani Taliban, and specifically the so-called TTP, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, at their word, "Their leaders have been saying for some time that they want to strike targets outside their own region, and they've talked about the United States, they've talked about the U.K.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05