Al-Anbar Governorate was divided into areas of operations : II Marine Expeditionary Force ( codenamed Operation Atlanta ) included Cause_to_be_included Area of Operations Denver ( western region ) , Area of Operations Topeka ( Ramadi and surrounding area ) , Area of Operations Raleigh ( Fallujah and surrounding area ) and Area of Operations Oshkosh ( al-Taqaddum ) .

at the time , anti-coalition militia activity in the region was carried out Action most notably by a small group , led by a local man from nangarhar province , ahmad shah , who had aspirations of regional islamic fundamentalist prominence .

Proceeds from the event benefit ArtsQuest ventures such as the Banana Factory community arts center in South Bethlehem , as well as other nonprofit groups throughout the region .

The Assyrian civilian population of upper Mesopotamia ( the Tur Abdin region , the Hakkâri , Van , and Siirt provinces of present-day southeastern Turkey , and the Urmia region of northwestern Iran ) was forcibly relocated Departing and massacred Killing by the Ottoman army , together with other armed and allied Collaboration Muslim peoples , including Kurds , Chechens and Circassians , between 1914 and 1920 , with further attacks Attack on unarmed Bearing_arms fleeing Escaping civilians conducted Action by local Arab militias .

The Assyrian civilian population of upper Mesopotamia ( the Tur Abdin region , the Hakkâri , Van , and Siirt provinces of present-day southeastern Turkey , and the Urmia region of northwestern Iran ) was forcibly relocated Departing and massacred Killing by the Ottoman army , together with other armed and allied Collaboration Muslim peoples , including Kurds , Chechens and Circassians , between 1914 and 1920 , with further attacks Attack on unarmed Bearing_arms fleeing Escaping civilians conducted Action by local Arab militias .

The insurgency has spread Dispersal to some degree over the Durand Line border to neighboring Pakistan , in particular the Waziristan region and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .

Thus , when the armies of Bulgarians and the Vlachs returned Arriving , reinforced Cause_change_of_strength with their Cuman allies , they found Know the region undefended and regained Getting not only their old territory but the whole of Moesia , a considerable step towards the establishment of a new Bulgarian state .

The commune later became Becoming a hotbed for partisan activity , remaining Presence resistant to Korean forces in the region until they were relegated to guarding Patrolling bases later that year and until their departure Departing in 1973 .

Following a second breakout of fighting within Juba , the SPLM-IO fled Escaping to the surrounding and previously peaceful Equatoria region .

Strong winds and heavy rainfall Motion inundated Filling streets , residences , and fields , and also toppled Destroying chimneys , fences , and cracked Destroying windows across the region .

`` Africaine '' was the first ship to reinforce Cause_change_of_strength Rowley 's squadron , but within three days of her arrival in the region was engaged Hostile_encounter by two French ships while attempting to drive Motion them away from Saint Denis on Île Bourbon .

Yeo 's orders did not include Cause_to_be_included Borgella 's ships and Yeo reasoned Protest that the Haitian flagship , the large frigate `` Heureuse Réunion '' ( recently renamed Name_conferral from `` Améthyste '' and often reported Reporting under its former name ) , presented Presence a serious threat to international trade in the region .

Several related attacks Attack followed in the Île-de-France region on 7–9 January 2015 , including the Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege where a terrorist held 19 hostages , of whom he murdered Killing 4 Jews .

Demonstrations Social_event were also reported Reporting in 18 locations across Cairo and in other different locations across the country including Alexandria , El-Mahalla and cities in the Suez Canal region .

Conference of Western Balkan States was a 28 August 2014 conference Social_event of heads of states and governments of Western Balkans region initiated Creating by German chancellor Angela Merkel .

During the Foreign Ministers ’ segment Communication , Albanian Foreign Minister Bushati underlined Statement the importance of making this initiative periodical , as well as finding Know the right instruments to enable , in future years , the drafting and implementation of concrete joint Collaboration projects in the region .

In this regard Albanian delegation presented Presence a document under the title `` Albanian Working Paper for the Western Balkans Conference in Berlin '' , which is based Causation in the vision of `` a region in peace and well prepared GetReady to join Becoming_a_member the European Union , by guarantying a dignified living for all its citizens . ''

Franz Lothar Altmann , expert on the Balkans , stated Statement in his pre-conference interview Expressing_publicly for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that conference Social_event proves increasing Expansion importance of Balkan region , especially with respect to Ukraine crisis .

Early reports indicated Statement that the heaviest damage Damaging was sustained by the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) , a region already ravaged Destroying by extensive war and extreme poverty .

Wavell defined Statement Operation Brevity 's main objectives as the acquisition of territory from which to launch a further planned Arranging offensive toward Tobruk , and the depletion of German and Italian forces in the region .

Farmland 1000 km away from the Dar es Salaam , the largest and most commercial city in Tanzania , was also affected Influence , devastating Destroying the poor agriculturally-dependent people of the region .

It was also the largest recorded Recording in the Goldfields region in terms of magnitude and one of the largest in Australia in terms of resulting Causation damage Damaging .

Dean was the second-most intense tropical cyclone Catastrophe worldwide of 2007 in terms of pressure , only behind Cyclone George in the Australian region , and tied Connect with Felix as the most intense worldwide in terms of 1-minute sustained winds .

The government confirmed Check that the accident was caused Causation by terrorists , making this attack Russia 's deadliest outside the North Caucasus region since the 2004 Russian aircraft bombings .

In 1972 his goals became Becoming , in the evaluation Research of historian Mario Azevedo , the creation Creating of a client state in Libya 's `` underbelly '' , an Islamic republic modelled after his jamahiriya , that would maintain Preserving close ties Connect with Libya , and secure Assistance his control Control over the Aouzou Strip ; expulsion Removing of the French from the region ; and use Using of Chad as a base to expand Expansion his influence in Central Africa .

Across South Florida , the storm produced Causation widespread rainfall up to and severe flooding , among the worst ever recorded in the area , that led to efforts by the United States Congress to improve Cause_to_make_progress drainage in the region .

Operation Whirlwind ( ) was a failed Croatian Army ( HV ) offensive in the Banovina region of Croatia , fought Hostile_encounter from 11–13 December 1991 , during the early stages of the Croatian War of Independence .

Four of the region 's known Know strike-slip faults and one additional newly discovered Know normal fault all broke Destroying the surface during the earthquake Catastrophe .

Despite their open display of cooperation Collaboration with the Vietnamese , the Khmer Rouge leadership feared that the Vietnamese communists were scheming Arranging to form Coming_to_be an Indochinese federation with Vietnam as the dominant force in the region .

Mobile had been the last important port on the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi River remaining in Confederate possession , so its closure Change was the final step in completing Process_end the blockade in that region .

The system was the second cyclone and first severe tropical cyclone of the active 1999–00 Australian region cyclone season .

Widespread power outages across the Pilbara region were caused Causation by John .

On January 24 , Gretelle made landfall near Farafangana , the first in the region in 41 years .

Inter-ethnic clashes Hostile_encounter between the two broke out Process_start shortly after the parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast ( NKAO ) in Azerbaijan voted Choosing to unify Cause_to_amalgamate the region with Armenia on 20 February 1988 .

In early 1993 , Armenian forces captured Conquering regions outside the enclave itself , threatening the involvement of other countries in the region .

Throughout the region , the snow and ice—in some cases further weighted by heavy rainfall—caused roofs to cave in .

It was launched Process_start through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium , northeast France , and Luxembourg , towards the end of the war Military_operation in Europe .

A British blockading force , which had been conducting Action patrols Patrolling in the region in the aftermath of the battle Hostile_encounter of St Marcou earlier in the month , encountered Hostile_encounter two French vessels attempting Hold to sail Self_motion unnoticed between Le Havre and Cherbourg .

From late April 1916 , after a German-led Ottoman force Military_operation attacked Attack British yeomanry at Katia , British Empire forces in the region at first doubled from one brigade to two and then grew as rapidly as the developing infrastructure could support Supporting them .

The leader of the Egyptian expedition , General Napoleon Bonaparte , had returned Arriving to France in 1799 and promised Commitment aid Assistance to the troops left behind , prompting Influence several expeditions to the region carrying Bringing reinforcements .

Combined Cause_to_amalgamate with limited Limiting British resources in the region , this allowed Preventing_or_letting the French frigates significant freedom Releasing to attack Attack British interests across the Ocean .

The region is physically diverse , featuring a number of highland areas , including the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and the Montañas Centrales ( Central Highlands ) , a southern littoral plain known as Soconusco and a central depression formed Coming_to_be by the drainage of the Grijalva River .

News of strangers first arrived in Arriving the region as the Spanish penetrated and overthrew Change_of_leadership the Aztec Empire .

Internal divisions among the Spanish led to Causation a general instability in the province ; eventually the Mazariegos faction gained Getting concessions from the Spanish Crown that allowed Preventing_or_letting for the elevation of Villa Real to the status of city , as Ciudad Real , and the establishment of new laws that promoted Cause_to_make_progress stability in the newly conquered region .

The government , claiming Statement that one of Volkner 's killers was being given Giving sanctuary Preserving by Māori in the remote Urewera region , confiscated Removing northern parts of the Urewera land in January 1866 in a bid to break down Destroying Māori resistance and confiscated Removing additional land in Hawke 's Bay a year later after a rout of a Māori party Participation it deemed Coming_to_believe to pose a threat Warning to the settlement of Napier .

By 1914 , the remaining core region of the Ottoman Empire had experienced a population increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale of around 2.5 million because of the flood of immigration from the Balkans .

Throughout the region , one person was killed Killing and damage Damaging costs Cost amounted to a record Recording C $ 200 million .

This allowed Preventing_or_letting a piece of the polar vortex to advance Motion southward into the Central and Eastern United States , bringing Causation record-cold temperatures to much of the region .

This was the worst cold wave Motion that the North American region had experienced since an earlier cold wave in early 2014 .

Despite the development of a second cold wave Motion , it ended Process_end on December 6 , when a ridge of high pressure brought Causation above-average temperatures to the region , especially in the Central United States .