But in an environment rife with the fallout from ongoing civil wars in the Middle East, threats of global terrorism, civil unrest and territorial disputes in Asian waters, many cities have seen their livability scores decline. (cnbc.com)
This state of ongoing civil war makes it effectively impossible to repatriate refugees to Syria. (politics.stackexchange.com)
They never did, most historians agree, but the threat remains real today, as chemical attacks in Syria's ongoing civil war make clear. (science.sciencemag.org)