That was something of an understatement in a week when the underlying conflict between the West and Communism erupted on three fronts.

* 587, in the 5th month: Armed conflict over the succession erupted.

As the country attempted to move from occupation by western forces to a new entity within the Middle East, a new phase of conflict seemed to have erupted within Iraq.

The conflict erupted further south with the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo seeking to switch allegiance to the adjoining state of Albania.

A transition to a professional force of 12, 000 to 15, 000 volunteers was planned at first, but when fighting erupted in 1991 between supporters of the central government in Chişinău and supporters of separatist regions, males between eighteen and forty years of age were mobilized, and the size of Moldova's military was temporarily expanded to meet the demands of the Transnistrian conflict.

Direct conflict between the East and West erupted in the Korean War, when the United Nations Security Council, with the absence of the Soviet Union at the time of the vote, voted for international intervention in Korea to stop the civil war.

Another major conflict erupted between the East and West in the Cold War in Asia during the Vietnam War.

They were less dangerous and less widespread, however, than the conflict that erupted in Kashmir in the Indo-Pakistani War of August 1965 started with this decisive core of issues.

The Somali National Army ( SNA ) was battle-tested in 1964 when the conflict with Ethiopia over the Somali-inhabited Ogaden erupted into warfare.

It was not, until after Methodius ' death, which is placed, though not with certainty, on 8 April 885, that the animosity erupted into an open conflict.

The disputes erupted again in 1282 ; this time, the conflict was for the lands and properties seized by the church in a difficult period that followed after the Battle of Legnica, and for the violation of the immunity of the Church hierarchy in trials.

In this transition zone between the agricultural regions to the south and the rangeland to the north, conflict erupted, with vigilantes joining the scene causing chaos and even death.

Religious conflict erupted across the islands in January 1999.

Levenson goes on to note that Ahinoam is always mentioned before Abigail and that she bears David a son before Abigail does, and concludes from this that " she was already married to David when the conflict with Nabal erupted.

In 1758, a conflict erupted between British forces and the Cherokee Indians, their former allies in the French and Indian War.

After armed conflict erupted on September 1, 1939, statements that persecutions of ethnic Germans had occurred in Poland, especially in Bydgoszcz, continued to appear in the Nazi press.

In 1893, a conflict erupted between the French and the Italians who worked in the salt evaporation ponds of Peccais.

The conflict erupted at the Fourteenth Party Congress held in December 1925 with Zinoviev and Kamenev now protesting against the dictatorial policies of Stalin and trying to revive the issue of Lenin's Testament which they had previously buried.

In August 1970, further conflict erupted when a black woman was killed by police as she tried to prevent the arrest of a juvenile.

In 1239 the conflict between the two erupted into open warfare when Skule had himself proclaimed king.

His intention was to seize control of the city, but fierce conflict erupted.

A conflict known today as the Lincoln County War had erupted between the established town merchants, Lawrence Murphy and James Dolan, and competing business interests headed by Tunstall and McSween.

Invariably, when colonial rule was first felt in the Kalimantan Kingdoms, conflict over the subjugation of territory erupted several times between the Dayaks and the respective authorities.

A loyalist feud refers to any of the sporadic feuds which have erupted almost routinely between Northern Ireland's various loyalist paramilitary groups since they were founded shortly before and after the religious / political conflict known as The Troubles broke out in the late 1960s.

In 1643 the Iroquois discovered the settlement and a long conflict erupted between the French and the Natives that saw the colony severely threatened.

The conflict ended with yet another dynastic marriage, between Michael IX's daughter Theodora and the Bulgarian emperor.

The whole conflict ended when Anacletus died on January 25, 1138.

Co-emperor alongside his brothers, his short reign saw the beginnings of conflict emerge between the sons of Constantine the Great, and his attempt to exert his perceived rights of primogeniture ended up causing his death in a failed invasion of Italy in 340.

The longest-running source of armed international conflict in the Western Hemisphere had ended.

The Man ' yōshū includes a poem written after the Jinshin conflict ended:

There was also a conflict with Indonesia, which ended with the Dutch withdrawing completely from their former colonies there in 1961.

After three weeks, the Communists were defeated: the Varkiza agreement ended the conflict and disarmed ELAS, and an unstable coalition government was formed.

This conflict ended in the Siege of La Rochelle ( 1627 – 1628 ), in which Protestants and their English supporters were defeated.

Since the Korean Armistice Agreement ended the armed conflict that existed during the active part of the Korean War in 1953, leaving a de-facto truce in place ever since, the North Korean government has been largely isolationist, becoming one of the world's most authoritarian societies.

The Ottomans attempted to create peace by dividing Mt Lebanon into a Christian district and a Druze district, but this would merely create geographic powerbases for the warring parties, and it plunged the region back into civil conflict which included not only the sectarian warfare but a Maronite revolt against the Feudal class, which ended in 1858 with the overthrow of the old feudal system of taxes and levies.

The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon, leaving more than 1500 dead civilians and still the Israeli army couldn't penetrate the Lebanese land borders and was driven back by Hezbollah suffering heavy casualties and defeated.

The Chadian – Libyan conflict ( 1978 – 1987 ) ended in disaster for Libya in 1987 with the Toyota War.

They can remain dangerous many years after a conflict has ended, harming the economy and citizens of many developing nations.

They remain dangerous after the conflict in which they were deployed has ended, killing and injuring civilians and rendering land impassable and unusable for decades.

Labour briefly regained their lead of most opinion polls in early 1982, but when the Falklands conflict ended on 14 June 1982 with a British victory over Argentina, opinion polls showed the Tories firmly in the lead.

The rise of Caesar and the subsequent civil war between his two most powerful adherents effectively ended the credibility of the Roman oligarchy as a governing power and ensured that all future power struggles would centre upon which of two ( or more ) individuals would achieve supreme control of the government, rather than upon an individual in conflict with the Senate.

A single attempt to colonise Mars ended disastrously, due to the combination of violent conflict between the would-be colonists and a confrontation with the native Martians — a shadowy race spending most of their time swimming under the surface of the Martian dust, and to whom water is a deadly poison.

The conflict between mayors was ended when the Austrasians under Pepin the Middle triumphed in 687 in the Battle of Tertry.

The Man ' yōshū includes a poem written after the Jinshin conflict of 672 had ended:

The conflict between the Quraysh and the Muslims, however, continued: the two fought in the Battle of Badr, where the Muslims defeated the Quraysh army outside Medina ; while the Battle of Uhud ended indecisively.

This led to a conflict in his party which ended in bloodshed.

Huntington believed that while the age of ideology had ended, the world had reverted only to a normal state of affairs characterized by cultural conflict.

However, immediately afterward Roman-Persian conflict led to the persecution of the church by the Sassanid King Khosrau I ; this ended in 545.

By the time the civil conflict ended and the government of New Granada and the government of the Isthmus had negotiated the Isthmus's reincorporation to the union, Panama's First Republic had been free for 13 months.

By the end of his pontificate, Honorius had ended the conflict between Louis and his bishops.