Pakistan has pursued a strategy that can be described as nothing but a proxy war.
To many it is a proxy war between Hizbullah's main sponsor, Iran, and America.
It is assisting Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations waging a proxy war against Israel.
Eritrea also fights a proxy war against Ethiopia in Somalia and in Ethiopia's rebellious Ogaden region.
Uganda and Sudan agreed earlier this month to end a festering proxy war on their frontier.
New Delhi views the hijacking as a dangerous escalation in Pakistan's proxy war against India.
Miss Starlin is also caught up in the proxy war that Eritrea and Ethiopia are fighting in Somalia.
The diverse tactics demonstrate that this war is a combination of Iranian-proxy war and local terror pick-up cells.
But a proxy war between Rwanda and the Kinshasa government continued in the east until the end of 2008.
The two countries fought a proxy war in Kashmir during the summer when Pakistani-backed forces managed to infiltrate Indian-controlled territory.
It's a proxy war for settling old scores, dredging up past slights, supporting preferred teams and conferences and opposing despised ones.
Some Central Asian states, such as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, have joined Afghanistan's proxy war by backing the Uzbek and Tajik factions.
Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, an incendiary couple, risk a proxy war through the different ethnic groups they sponsor in the country.
Four years ago, Israel was taken in by Iran's Lebanese proxy war.
For ten years, from 1979 to 1988, the United States fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union, supplying the Afghan resistance with arms to fight the Soviet occupiers.
Gujarat, he points out, borders on Pakistan, and he alleges that it is Pakistan's next target after Kashmir, where India accuses it of waging a proxy war of terrorism.
As Thomas Joscelyn documents in his short book Iran's Proxy War Against America, Iran through Mughniyeh has been instrumental in training, arming and sheltering al-Qaida since the early 1990s.
"Based on our experience in Iraq, the option to arm either side of the conflict will lead to a regional and international proxy war in Syria, " Mr Maliki said.
The Bush administration has reason to hope though that as a protest movement speeded American withdrawal from Vietnam, pressure from Iranians may have a similar effect on Iran's proxy war in Iraq.
Times have changed since the late 1980s, when Libya, championing anti-imperialist causes around the globe, clashed with France in a proxy war in Chad, and with America over alleged support for terrorist groups.
Judging by the large sums of outside money that have poured in from political action committees, unions and big corporate donors, it is widely seen as a proxy war over the future of the unions.
"We are protesting against Pakistan, against its interference in Afghanistan, militarily, politically, its support for the Taliban, and 30 years of proxy war in Afghanistan by Pakistan, " said Zaland Faiz, head of a youth movement in Kabul.
Urging Security Council penalties on Syria, she sketched out an alternative situation in which violence escalates, spreads to other countries in the region and finally breaks into a sectarian proxy war with arms flowing in from all sides.
Recent activities by Iran's Hizbullah proxy in Lebanon indicate that if his visit goes through - and even if it doesn't - the announcement signals that Iran intends to fight another proxy war against Israel through Hizbullah.
For Iran, on the other hand, its proxy war in Lebanon must appear to be going well and will undoubtedly embolden the mullahs to take a defiant position in the Security Council debate on sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.
Around the same time, Pakistan was sucked into a shadowy proxy war for influence between two rival strains of radical Islam: the messianic Shia variety propagated by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, and Wahhabism, an austere back-to-basics form of Sunni Islam championed by Saudi Arabia.
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Security Council panel last month said that Rwanda and Congo are, in effect, fighting a brutal proxy war for territory and precious natural resources in eastern Congo, and all parties involved in the conflict are using execution, rape and child soldiers as tools of war.
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