self-rule

Mr. Harris was nodding to the Republic of Ireland’s quest for self-rule in the early part of the 20th century after hundreds of years of British rule.

In 2007, the militant group Hamas drove the Palestinian Authority, which President Mahmoud Abbas leads and which exercises limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank, from power in the Gaza Strip.

The Karen National Union has been fighting for self-rule for the ethnic Karen people since Myanmar's independence in 1948.

On Monday, it took a first step that could usher in U.S.-backed reforms by disbanding the self-rule government.

Under interim peace deals from a generation ago, the self-rule government was meant to expand and eventually run a future Palestinian state.