Sentence examples for Syrian carnage from inspiring English sources

And if it opens the way for serious diplomacy aimed at ending the Syrian carnage, I will eat my hat – after tipping it in grateful salute to Kerry, Obama and Putin.

Newsreaders might expect the Syrian carnage to have undone the historic progress, but they fail to notice the many recent civil wars that ended without fanfare (in Chad, Peru, Iran, India, Sri Lanka, India and Angola), and have forgotten earlier ones (Greece, Tibet, Algeria, Sudan, Indonesia, Uganda, Ethiopia and Mozambique) that had massive death tolls.

The logical corollary of such a shift is for Erdoğan to halt his war of choice against the PKK, reinstitute last year's ceasefire, and accept that the price for a united front to defeat Isis terror and halt the Syrian carnage is a comprehensive settlement with the Kurds.

The failure of the Arab Spring -- and the Western inaction on Syrian carnage -- proved to be the iconic death knell.

Heightening fears of greater carnage, a Syrian official said the government was planning a major offensive against the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr.

Related: Horrific Videos Show Carnage Caused by Syrian Regime Attack Near Damascus.

That figure is surprisingly low, since Jordan houses half of the 400,000 Syrians who have fled the carnage, and Deraa is only five minutes' drive from the border.

Re "The Enablers" (editorial, Feb. 15): By nearly all accounts, the civilian carnage in Homs by Syrian forces is far worse than anything that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator, carried out against his people.

The Syrian government called reports of a massacre untrue, but the scale of the alleged carnage and the graphic videos of the dead and injured that surfaced Wednesday left many officials across the globe demanding action.

In one of the worst episodes of carnage since the uprising began 15 months ago, Syrian tanks and artillery pounded Houla, a rebel-controlled village near the restive city of Homs, during the day, opposition groups said, then soldiers and pro-government fighters stormed the village and killed families in their homes late at night.

Some of the carnage after an air strike on Syrian civilians.