Sentences with phrase «brutal civil war»

After seven years of brutal civil war between government forces and various insurgent groups, the general consensus is that Assad has won the fight to stay in power.

Colombia's forests have become ground zero in one of the world's most brutal civil wars.

January 26, 2016 • Following 11 years of brutal civil war, perpetrators and victims are forging peace around bonfires across Sierra Leone.

Syria has been mired in a brutal civil war since March 2011.

For more than two decades, Sudan has been ruled by the Islamist government of Omar Hassan Ahmad al - Bashir, who spent decades locked in a brutal civil war with Christian separatists in the south.

In Nigeria, Muslims are fomenting a brutal civil war in order to establish Sharia as the law of the land, and similar movements are to be found as far away as East Timor and parts of the Philippines.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees have escaped to Europe, fleeing a brutal civil war in Syria.

French Foreign Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault, who called for the meeting yesterday, told Reuters that Syria's brutal civil war would not be resolved with one of the «biggest massacres on a civilian population since World War Two.»

Christian missionaries had been in Japan for nearly a century prior to the action Endō describes, but tensions among Japanese daimyo, or local lords, European traders, and European missionaries had led to the persecution of Christians by the end of the sixteenth century and the dawn of a new one, which itself ushered in the Tokugawa Shogunate on the heels of a brutal civil war.

PJ Cole spent his childhood fleeing danger and sharing his parents with hundreds of former child soldiers caught up in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.

They post videos partying in hotels, driving around in luxury cars while the rest of the people in their country suffer consequences of a brutal civil war and in many places experience near famine conditions.

A «desperate» Syrian man — faced with the prospect of a brutal civil war back home — has been stranded at a Malaysian airport for more than a month, according...

But any attempt to backslide would rightly enrage Tory Eurosceptics, swiftly plunge the party into a brutal civil war, and leave Jeremy Corbyn within touching distance of 10 Downing Street.

A decade ago, before the onset of Syria's brutal civil war, he was part of a team that gathered samples from an unusual kitchen in a palace in the northwestern Syrian city of Ebla, which flourished 4 millennia ago on the outskirts of the Sumerian and Akkadian empires.

In the aftermath of a brutal civil war, a majestic natural landscape teeming with exotic wildlife is being threatened by a British company that wants to drill into its heart — with the blessing of a compliant government that has granted the company permission to explore.

Associated with brutal civil war and human rights violations, these illicitly traded rough diamonds became known as conflict diamonds, or blood diamonds.

Caught in the middle of a brutal civil war, six Liberian missionaries in Monrovia flee the widespread violence of their native country.

President Nixon resigns amid Watergate, while a brutal civil war continues in Vietnam.

After a brief review of the military coup of 1966 and the brutal civil war and increased corruption that followed, it slows down to cover the 1993 election of Hafsat's father, M.K.O. Abiola, as president of Nigeria and his arrest by the military, which reinstalled itself as the nation's leader immediately after his win.

January 9, 2015 • Mahinda Rajapaksa, who presided over the end of the island nation's long and brutal civil war, lost to a former ally and Cabinet minister, Maithripala Sirisena.

Orphaned by the brutal Civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety.

The facts are these: in 1934, in the midst of a brutal civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his Nationalist troops.

Marra's accomplished debut is set in war - torn Chechnya, and, like Obreht's, manages to tell a compelling story while exploring the effects of a brutal civil war.

In this grand saga of a Beirut family with Armenian, English, and Druze roots, Alameddine, the author of three previous works of fiction, constructs stories within stories that encompass the world of the jinni, the tales of Abraham and Hagar, the legendary pigeon wars of Urfa, Lebanon's brutal civil war, and post-9 / 11 Beirut and L.A..

Set four years after Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots in a non-canon story - arc, Raiden is now a cyborg under the employ of PMC Maverick Incorporated dispatched to an African nation slowly recovering after a brutal civil war.

If the rebels are not stopped and the President dies, they will plunge the region into a brutal civil war.

A decade of tremendous change in the art world and beyond, the 1990s saw dramatic upheavals across all spheres, from the rising cultural dominance of grunge to the technological revolution introduced by the Internet — never mind the shifting of geopolitical borders following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavian Federation, and the brutal civil wars raging across Africa.

They wanted to better understand what life was like in contemporary Guatemala's countryside, where, during the country's brutal civil war, an estimated 200,000 people, mainly indigenous Mayas, were disappeared.

One of the world's leading international timber and wood product wholesalers, the company previously bought conflict timber financing the government of recently convicted war criminal Charles Taylor during the country's brutal civil war.

«A new study finds that human - caused climate change was a major trigger of Syria's brutal civil war.

This case follows a history of wrongdoing in Liberia, where DLH purchased timber from a company that helped finance (now convicted war criminal) Charles Taylor's regime during the country's brutal civil war.

The conflict in Kosovo, less than four years after the brutal civil war in Bosnia, was a wake - up call to the international community.

Siakor was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2006 for taking great personal risks to release evidence that former Liberian President Charles Taylor used profits from illegal logging to pay for a brutal civil war.

While the country's brutal civil war is often presented as the cause of this mass migration, a study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may be rooted in an earlier environmental crisis, one linked to land degradation and long - term drought in the Fertile Crescent.

«I was born and raised in Sri Lanka, which went through a brutal civil war.