The Soviet Union opposed the United States in a number of proxy conflicts all over the world, including Korean War and Vietnam War.

I was fascinated by the Cold War, by the INF negotiations over intermediate range nuclear missiles, the proxy war between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

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Pakistan might find it extremely difficult to reconcile the security of its Chinese ally with its de facto proxy war with India.

This position was accompanied by Iran s harder line on military involvement in the Syrian civil war, echoed by its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah.

Iran and Saudi Arabia have long challenged each other for geopolitical influence in the region, most recently during the 'proxy war' in Yemen.

Following the Soviet Union, the US withdrew from the conflict, too, and at that moment, the second Afghan war started a proxy war between regional neighbors over power in the Hindu Kush, disguised as a civil war.

This is when the two superpowers were fighting a war by proxy, along the periphery of the sphere of influence, fully funding arms organizations.

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PRINCETON What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a proxy conflict.

This Abyssinian Adal War was also one of the first proxy wars in the region, as the Ottoman Empire and Portugal took sides in the conflict.

The US led effort in Syria is thus best understood as a proxy war with Iran a cynical strategy that has contributed to the massive rise in violence.

Those who foresee war argue that Israel is unwilling to tolerate a heavily armed Iranian proxy on its border while tensions with Iran over the nuclear issue remain unresolved.

But, proxy war or not, this almost unprecedented redrawing of Africa s colonial borders (Eritrea two decades ago was the last example) could have profound consequences for the continent s future.

Behind the all too foreseeable end of the American stabilizing mission lurks a civil war in Iraq, which threatens to turn into an Arab Iranian proxy war for dominance in Iraq, the Gulf, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and beyond.

Syria s civil war is therefore increasingly a proxy fight between Iran and the US (and other anti Iranian countries), with Syrians dying in massive numbers as victims of somebody else s conflict.

The two sides fought proxy wars in Africa and Asia.

In computer programming, the proxy pattern is a software design pattern.

Moreover, the Syrian civil war has become a proxy in an openly declared battle for regional hegemony between Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and the US on the other.

To use a proxy server for downloading software, you need to authenticate.

When the regime cracks down on the Internet, people use proxy servers.

Indeed, Samak s People Power Party (PPP) is widely considered a proxy for Thaksin.

Both wars are not only civil wars, but also proxy wars about regional power.

Renewed conflict could also drag in the United States (supporting the South) and China (Bashir s key international backer) into a dangerous and potentially escalating proxy conflict of the kind that was common in Africa throughout the Cold War.

Thaksin s detractors call his rural strategy (which his proxy successors have followed) cynical vote buying.

In international politics, as in education, there is no such thing as care by proxy.

A court challenge resulted in the reinstatement of the proxy method. Funding however, was capped.

Indeed, Lebanon, following the collapse of Najib Mikati s government, is already on the brink of civil war, as direct intervention in Syria by Hezbollah, Iran s Lebanese proxy, to prevent Assad s overthrow has exacerbated the country s own longstanding sectarian tensions.

It is the prospect of a proxy war that makes all the unsettled issues the division of oil revenue, the demarcation of the border, and the fate of the adjoining Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile region so potentially explosive.

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In the twentieth century, the superpowers supported insurgency and counterinsurgency as a type of proxy conflict.

That means that buying the Australian dollar is seen as a proxy for investing in China.

On 16 September 1714 she was married by proxy at Parma to Philip V of Spain.

A proxy, in its most general form, is a class functioning as an interface to something else.

Once all instances of the proxy are out of scope, the complex object's memory may be deallocated.

However, it was still possible for Canadians to visit the website at that time using proxy servers.

What was supposed to be a coordinated effort to protect civilians from ruthless repression and advance a peaceful transition the plan developed by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has now degenerated into a proxy war between the United States and Russia.

And perhaps it would do no good it might save a few lives, they argue, but, with so many different countries fighting a proxy war via so many different groups of opposition fighters, it would not change the overall dynamic of the conflict.

The project represents a story of poetry in space, removing the horror from viral blood stained pictures. It had been conceived between 2011 and 2013, during the first couple years of Syria s revolution, before the conflict became an all out proxy war.

Moreover, men, owing to their dominant situation, often influence women by making them sign over their proxy votes.

Iraq refers in particular to potential errors resulting from the use of large numbers of proxy respondents possible confounding factors due to differences in pre war health status between the exposed and control groups and potential errors in the diagnoses of diseases by doctors.

Second, we must encourage a true regional dialogue that prevents Afghanistan from becoming a battleground for devastating proxy wars.