Georgia lost control of two separatist regions after fighting two disastrous wars in the 1990s.
Separatist conflicts, mutinies, and warlords have bedeviled Georgia since the breakup of the USSR.
Much of Angola's oil wealth lies in Cabinda province, where a decades-long separatist conflict simmers.
Georgia last week launched a military incursion into South Ossetia to rout separatist rebels.
The separatist Northern League has made electoral inroads in Italy's north, but may now have peaked.
Even Quebec's separatist government accepts that the time is not right for another referendum.
Although France's various separatist groups will doubt Parisian sincerity, the government says it does.
Separatist Tamil Tiger rebels had audaciously attacked the airport and the neighbouring air-force base.
The Yemeni government said its forces had also inflicted losses on separatist and al-Qaeda-linked rebels elsewhere.
The aim is to contain the growing conflict in Kosovo , Serbia's separatist province.
Mr Charest staunchly supports staying in Canada, and warns that a separatist resurgence might harm the economy.
Mali's military now faces a different challenge from the separatist revolt, analysts say.
Indian police said the incident resulted from a feud between rival separatist groups.
Spain's prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, met Juan Jose Ibarretxe, would-be separatist premier of the country's Basque region .
It seems fairly clear that Ethiopia's hands are not clean in its handling of the separatist war in Ogaden.
Police in India's north-eastern state of Tripura say at least 14 people have been killed in a separatist attack.
Like an increasing number of Quebeckers, Mr Dumont refuses to define himself as either a federalist or a separatist.
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Yugoslavia's Serb president, Slobodan Milosevic, justifies all his actions as the only way to counter the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army.
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Southern Yemen, a separate country before unification with the more populous north in 1991, has been increasingly racked by separatist unrest.
But Mr Ramazanzadeh's tenure has coincided with an end to the practice of arresting Sunni Kurdish clerics suspected of separatist tendencies.
Everywhere from Colombia to Kurdistan to the Caucasus, armies have dealt with separatist insurgencies by uprooting the communities that succour them.
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Most of these were attributed to separatists groups in France and Spain, such as ETA, which is the Basque national separatist organization.
Russian troops launched an offensive against separatist rebels in Chechnya last October, in the name of the unity of the Russian state.
As political tensions mount in Bangkok, the new government is neglecting one of Thailand's biggest problems: the separatist insurgency in the south.
As a Quebecker herself since emigrating from Haiti, she knows better than most that separatist sentiment is burning brightly in the province.
Mr Putin has refused to negotiate even with relatively moderate separatist leaders such as Aslan Maskhadov, an exiled former president of Chechnya.
Russia argues that it is acting in response to a Georgian attack on the territory, whose separatist government is backed by Moscow.
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Many Muslim Filipinos sought sanctuary in Sabah in the 1970s and '80s while fighting a separatist war against late dictator Ferdinand Marcos's government.
An alleged member of the Basque separatist group Eta can be sent to Spain to face terrorism charges, a UK court has ruled.
The British ambassador to Indonesia has been summoned to explain why a separatist group was allowed to set up an office in Oxford.
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