The situation might be even worse if international forces, especially the Americans, were not operating in the area.

"Has anybody like that been operating in the area over the past few weeks?"

The question is: do all the forces operating in the area have a common strategy?

Cell phone services do not operate in the area, but land line service is available.

Only new and improved companies can operate in the area.

By the 1890s and early 1900s, seven or eight fishing companies operated in the area.

Close to 200 mining companies were operating in the area.

More than 40 mines operated in the area over the next 75 years.

Mines operated in the area from the 1880s to the 1950s.

Before the 1950s, a number of factories operated in the area.