It sits in the far northwest of the Northern Province near the town of Chipembe.
Concerns centered on an attack Tuesday in Khan al-Asal, in the northern province of Aleppo.
In January, German forces handed over security of the northern province of Badakhshan to Afghan control.
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In 1997, Vietnam experienced widespread peasant unrest in the northern province of Thai Binh.
But the rebels in question, who hail from Tigray, a northern province, have run Ethiopia since 1991.
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Meanwhile, reports of a deadly government strike near a village in the northern province of Raqqa have emerged.
In a separate development on Saturday, there have been reports of fierce fighting in the northern province of Faryab.
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Syria claimed rebels used chemical weapons in an attack Tuesday in Khan al-Asal in the northern province of Aleppo.
Greece believes that the very name Macedonia implies a territorial claim to its own northern province of the same name.
Syrian rebels have captured the governor of the northern province of Raqqa after over-running most its capital city, activists say.
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In the northern province of Kirkuk, the object of a highly charged ethnic conflict, security forces went on maximum alert.
The last time, in April, we visited five towns that had just been attacked in the northern province of Idlib.
White South African farmers have been granted long leases on wide tracts of the sparsely populated northern province of Niassa.
Meanwhile, Iraq's autonomous northern province of Kurdistan has signed dozens of oil contracts with foreign companies, outside central government control.
Among them, five factory workers were killed when their bus was hit by a bomb in the northern province of Idlib.
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If all that history gets to be a bit much, there is also plenty of water-based fun to be had in the Northern Province.
And in the northern province of Aleppo, al-Assad's forces shelled the town of Maarei from its outskirts, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Another two Marines and three civilians also were wounded in the attack, which occurred in Baaj, in the northern province of Nineveh, the military said.
Southern Weekend had already taken up the cause in March, describing the hitherto little publicised case of Yicheng county in the northern province of Shanxi.
In the troubled security and political landscape of Iraq, the autonomous northern province of Kurdistan has emerged in the past 10 years as an inspiring success story.
Sri Lanka's northern province is currently ruled directly from Colombo.
Argentina's northern province of Misiones, named for the settlements established during Spanish colonial times by the Catholic Church's Jesuit order, juts like a finger far into Brazil and Paraguay.
And in the northern province of Mazandarin, Berman said, authorities reported that the number of votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters on the rolls by about 4, 500.
Thus the Dy family, which dominates the northern province of Isabela, has members in the camps both of Mr Estrada and of Mrs Arroyo, despite their bitter political rivalry.
The government found this out six months ago, when discontent over corruption, punitive taxes and land shortages set off uprisings in the rice-growing northern province of Thai Binh, near Hanoi.
On Sunday, rebel operations against Syrian forces killed 28 soldiers, most of them in the restive northern province of Idlib, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based opposition group.
Last year he came to prominence again when he wrote a series of open letters to the government after an outbreak of rural unrest in the northern province of Thai Binh.
In more violence on Wednesday, opposition activists said five members of one family were killed when a missile hit the village of Albu Taltal in Syria's northern province of Aleppo before dawn.
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Regime forces killed at least 46 people Tuesday, including at least 18 people in towns in the northern province of Idlib, said the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a network of opposition activists.
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