In Anbar, for example, a western province, there is no police forces to speak of.
The incident happened in early July near the small town of Baljurashi in the south-western province.
It was Western Province's third Currie Cup win in five years and their second in succession.
He is 58 and comes from Afyon, a western province noted for its opium poppies.
The perception was that Western Province were a bit soft in the forwards, but we fronted up well.
At least 300 foreign fighters are thought to have trickled into the largely liberated north-western province of Idleb.
In 2008, he was convicted by a court in the western province of Gansu, where the sarcophagus was from.
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The Solomon Islands' Western Province, unsurprisingly, wants more power for its local assembly.
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The 23-year-old flanker follows Saracens number eight Ben Skirving and Western Province back-rower Luke Watson in moving to the Rec.
He will play his final first-class game in his native country when Western Province face KwaZulu-Natal in the Supersport Series final.
Cuba's western province of Pinar del Rio, currently under a hurricane warning, is the center of the nation's lucrative cigar industry.
As players we have no idea if Wednesday's line-up is the Test team or the one that plays against Western Province.
The western province of Darfur is also riven by a war between the government and rebel forces that erupted in 2003.
Mr Rajapaksa's ruling coalition has won a series of regional elections, most recently in Western Province, the country's richest, on April 25th.
Thursday's incident comes just one day after the Taliban attacked a courthouse in the western province of Farah, killing more than 50 people.
The Pakistan fatalities occurred in the remote areas of Mashkeel and Panjgur, in the western province of Baluchistan, close to the Iranian border.
Fletcher has previously worked as a coach for Western Province, where he helped launch the international careers of Jacques Kallis and Herschelle Gibbs.
His confidence is so low that he requested Peter Kirsten, coach of the Western Province Boland franchise, to leave him out of their team.
Abdul Khaliq, also known as Abdul Haq Baluch, was shot by unidentified gunmen on 29 September in Khuzdar, in the south-western province of Balochistan.
South Africa won their first eight Tests under Simons, who learned his trade from Duncan Fletcher when the England coach was in charge of Western Province.
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Western Province centre Braam van Straaten scored 24 points to lead his side to a 29-24 win over the Natal Sharks in Saturday's Currie Cup final.
He was shot dead on 16 September by unidentified gunmen as he was leaving the mosque after evening prayers in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The coaches have stated they wouldn't look at the Test team until probably next Monday, after the Western Province game, and that keeps everyone on their toes.
The opposition forces further claim to have seized the strategic town of Pul-e-Khumri, north of Kabul, and the town of Qala-e-Nau in the western province of Badghis.
The next two games, against the Sharks on Wednesday, and Western Province on Saturday, are going to be massive for all the players in terms of Test selection.
Warlords such as Ismail Khan, operating out of the western province of Herat, siphon off customs revenue at source, sending only a fraction of the receipts to Kabul.
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After a U.S. airstrike in August that killed dozens of civilians in the western province of Herat, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates traveled to Kabul to apologize to Karzai.
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One roadside bombing killed a U.S. soldier north of Baghdad, and a Marine died in another bombing in the western province of Anbar, the U.S. military headquarters there reported.
It won 15 seats on five provincial assemblies, including eight seats in the important Western Province (which includes Colombo), where it holds the balance of power in the assembly.
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