There is always a possibility of insurrection in Liberia itself.

The strategic context of the Iraq insurgency is also new.

Originally an anti insurgency effort, the campaign quickly mutated into a killing and expulsion operation.

In this way, Holland, now a sovereign state in a larger Dutch confederation, became the centre of the rebellion.

In the case of Nepal, the insurgency by so called Maoists had seriously affected the well being of the people.

The jihadists appear to want a Taliban style Iraq that could serve as a bastion for the wider global Islamist insurgency.

Disagreement between Turkey and Iran initially centered on their conflicting approaches to the internal rebellion against Assad s dictatorship.

The period from 1850 to 1873 saw, as a result of the Taiping Rebellion, drought, and famine, the population of China drop by over 60 million people.

More than 60 people, including two foreign reporters and a few soldiers, died in the Thai army s suppression of the urban rebellion.

Today s upsurge of micro nationalism is not just a consequence of the revolt against empires it is also a revolt against globalization.

The armed rebellion has ended but it has had after effects, including armed banditry, bringing about lasting vulnerability.

Indeed, this local act of rebellion appears to have been part of the larger political struggle between the two Maya superpowers , the great cities of Tikal and Calakmul.

But it is Uribe s resolve not to negotiate with the FARC over kidnappings, and instead to pursue relentlessly the armed insurgency that murdered his father that has defined Uribe s presidency.

The US government s misguided move from potential mediator and problem solver to active backer of the Syrian insurrection was, predictably, a terrible mistake.

One component is the jihadists, some of them foreign and some local, with direct ties to al Qaeda or, at least, sympathy with its worldview.

Because when people talk about intervention, they imagine that some scientific theory the Rand Corporation goes around counting 43 previous insurgencies producing mathematical formula saying you need one trained counter insurgent for every 20 members of the population.

As a rebel leader, he waged an eight year uprising against Samuel Doe in Liberia a conflict that left 300,000 people dead and displaced more than a million others in a population of just 3.3 million.

Withdrawal of US financial and logistical support for the rebellion, and calling on others to do the same, would not address Syria s authoritarianism or resolve America s issues with Iran, but it would stop or greatly reduce the large scale killing and destruction in Syria itself.

BANGKOK The two month siege of downtown Bangkok by the so called Red Shirts has ended in bloodshed. More than 60 people, including two foreign reporters and a few soldiers, died in the Thai army s suppression of the urban rebellion.