Sentences with phrase «ongoing civil war»

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.

This state of ongoing civil war makes it effectively impossible to repatriate refugees to Syria.

They never did, most historians agree, but the threat remains real today, as chemical attacks in Syria's ongoing civil war make clear.

First, in Iraq, the decision to intervene came «out of nowhere», there was no large - scale ongoing civil war and the regime seemed as stable as it could have been at the time.

Synopsis: Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary Sunday, January 29, 1:00 p.m., Library Center Theatre, Park City Nowhere is the human toll of Syria's ongoing civil war more brutally manifest than in the lives of Aleppo's «White Helmets» — first responders to the devastating bombing and terrorist attacks that have pushed this city to the brink of collapse.

A clear and incisive writer, Galea seems ever to be connecting things: linking handwashing to courage; or the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 to the ongoing civil war in Syria.

China sent weapons to 9 sub-Saharan countries and was the only one in the top three to send arms to South Sudan, a country whose oil industry and international standing are both threatened by an ongoing civil war.

The ongoing civil war in Yemen is akin to a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran and their competing ideologies of Sunni and Shia Islam, respectively.

Kupchan said the Kremlin may once have held influence over Assad, when there was a chance he could lose the ongoing civil war.

Omran has become a symbol of the ongoing civil war in Syria, but he is just one of an estimated 75,000 children fighting to survive in eastern Aleppo, the divided and once - great city at the heart of the struggle between the regime of Bashar Assad and the rebels attempting to oust him.

Geopolitical tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been in focus amid an ongoing civil war in Yemen.

It's part of an ongoing civil war between forces local to the President and those loyal to an opposition group led by former Vice-President Riek Machar.

We tried to give Iraq the first free elections in their history, and our efforts overwhelmed by the ongoing civil war and distrust between tribes, including many of the newly established politicians.

As of this year, nearly 6 million Syrians have been forced to leave their homes because of a horrific and ongoing civil war.

According to a devastating new U.N. report, nearly half of all Syrians have been displaced by the violence of the country's ongoing civil war.

Safety issues also apply in any country where there is ongoing civil war.

It has cited the ongoing civil war, which has forced the national Olympic committee to flee the country.

Yemen is perfectly set to become a sectarian war that will see millions more in foreign funds transferred to various proxy forces in the country, as in the case of the ongoing civil war in Syria.

And perhaps most significantly, John's alienation of the city of London lost him a cornerstone of support that proved decisive in the ongoing civil war.

Nigel Farage today denied he is too divisive a political figure to lead the campaign to leave the EU, despite the ongoing civil war within his own party.

It also frees up Syrian resources to focus on its ongoing civil war, and frees up Iran's Hezbollah proxy army which is getting ready to harrass Israel in a mini conflict - perhaps with Hamas, which is also prepping for another Israel skirmish.

The ongoing civil war in Syria is dominating the discussion in Washington this week.

In a dramatic development in the party's ongoing civil war, the former shadow business secretary risks splitting Labour if Mr

In a dramatic development in the party's ongoing civil war, the former shadow business secretary risks splitting Labour if Mr Corbyn again wins the race for the top job.

At the time, the storm's unusual severity was attributed to the ongoing civil war in Syria by media outlets in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.

Conflict, such as Somalia's ongoing civil war, can lead to many more residents in need of mental health care.

International inspectors must cope with the chaos of Syria's ongoing civil war, with at least a third of the declared chemical weapons sites reportedly located in contested areas.

Immunization campaigns against polio and measles quickly mobilized but are hampered by the ongoing civil war and violence.

Among other choices in the early game will be the chance for players to choose an alliance, which will determine their allies and enemies in the game's ongoing civil war.

Recovery efforts in the country were complicated by an ongoing civil war and clashing interests from competing ethnic groups.

A four - sided vertical LED sign swinging from a robotic art suspended from the gallery ceiling, MOVE references the international refugee crisis and the devastating humanitarian consequences of Syria's ongoing civil war, displaying some 131 individual eyewitness accounts.

The current conflict in Colombia is an ongoing civil war that stretches for more than half a century into the past.

In Escape Routes and Waiting Rooms, Foundland investigates personal stories of mobility and migration around Syria, a place where freedom of movement is strictly restricted due to its ongoing civil war.

The Central African nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo has endured nearly two decades of political instability, rampant corruption and an ongoing civil war.

My urgency to create a safe place, a nurturing spirit guide that I believed would help and protect us during this ongoing civil war for equal human rights was real every minute of everyday.