1.   As the conflict worsens, more questions have arisen on the future of UN peacekeeping operations.

2.   Every country bordering Colombia fears that as the conflict there worsens and United States involvement grows, violence and coca cultivation will spill across the frontier into their territory.

3.   The ethnic conflict worsened this year when NATO began bombing Yugoslavia.

4.   The report predicted that the conflict would worsen if left to fester.

5.   After the conference, Wiranto warned that special measures could be imposed if the decade-long conflict worsens.

6.   The conflict also has worsened relations with Pakistan, which India accuses of backing the rebels.

7.   Yet the Bosnian conflict has worsened.

8.   The Bosnian conflict will worsen unless the international community takes action, former UN human rights rapporteur Tadeusz Mazowiecki warned in an interview published Tuesday.

9.   The conflict has worsened since the start of the year, leading to fears of widescale armed confrontation between the two states.