The transitional government is more fractionalized, less cooperative, and more ethnically divided than the Taliban.

Ivory Coast, ethnically divided and prone to wars, may be next.

First, the northern city of Kirkuk, which is central to Iraq's oil industry, is ethnically divided.

The country is not "ethnically divided."

In many countries where the population is ethnically divided, such a conclusion would be self-evident.

Thoroughly destroyed by war , it is economically devastated and ethnically divided.

At this point, it is not even certain that the ethnically divided, politically demoralized country can remain united.

The headquarters project, in the ethnically divided and volatile northern city of Mosul, is the second police-related contract to face harsh criticism recently.

Allerton Avenue was ethnically divided in the 1950s through the 1980s by a distinct separation of Jewish and Italian residents.

Principal among them is control over the ethnically divided northern city of Kirkuk.