Kashmir is considered to be a potential flashpoint for a nuclear dispute between the two often belligerent neighbors by much of the western and international community.

Pakistan fired a surface-to-air missile at Indian aircraft today, keeping tensions between the belligerent neighbors at a high boil.

At the time, Jordan was held in about as much opprobrium as its belligerent neighbor, Iraq.

He combines comic comebacks with earnest delivery; at times he seems like a belligerent neighbor, at others a concerned, benevolent uncle.

Other local leaders, however, thought that the Europeans could solve economic problems or become allies in the event of a dispute with belligerent neighbors.

I certainly feel much better about things,' the fox replied, as though they were two belligerent neighbours who'd just had a heart to heart.

Arends go to war with each other on the slightest pretext, and an ordinary farmer needs someone around to protect him from belligerent neighbors.

The vizier seems to have adopted a sharply antagonistic position towards the Hittites, favoring the appeasement of their belligerent Assyrian northerly neighbor.

Xunantunich's position as a second-level city perhaps enabled it to keep out of the escalating warfare, as a kind of neutral Switzerland amid belligerent neighbors.

Kuwait is a small, relatively powerless nation with larger, more belligerent neighbors - "like a Finland with two Russias," a diplomat said.