Aslan Maskhadov Quotes

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

Russia has the right to deliver preventive strikes against bases of bandits, wherever they are located, including the territory of Chechnya.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

Libya is a huge disaster.

Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.

Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I'm not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.

Iraq is not about oil.

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Iraq is falling apart.

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.