The phrase "armed strife" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe conflict or struggle that involves weapons or military action.
Example: "The region has been plagued by armed strife for decades, leading to significant loss of life and displacement of communities."
Alternatives: "armed conflict" or "military struggle".
Armed strife and violent conflict between and among people are as old as human experience itself, older perhaps than singing, and certainly predating the writing of verse.
A Croatian government representative in Vukovar told the Zagreb authorities that "the city is again [the] victim of terror, armed strife and provocative shoot-outs with potentially unfathomable consequences.
He detailed the armed strife bedeviling Congo, traveling down the Congo River for 250 miles in a canoe made from a hollowed-out tree.
The African Union's top diplomat, Jean Ping, said Thursday the United Nations should send peacekeepers to Somalia urgently to stop the armed strife in the nation that is fuelling the piracy.
This, I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us, bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in times of armed strife.
They are unacceptable not only because they are preventable through immunisation, but because the children of the world - including the hundreds of millions trapped in grinding poverty and economic crisis and armed strife - have a right to a better future, beginning with the right to survive, and to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health.
Multiple killings that were a result of domestic strife, armed robbery or apparent political terrorism were excluded, as were serial killings.
The four men put the blame for Afghanistan's internal strife on outside countries that have backed and armed different factions, rather than on Afghans themselves.
This has been the cause of some strife: I'll travel home for the weekend armed with a critical darling like Bioshock Infinite - think Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York meets David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas - only to discover him tucking into his battered old copy of Quantum of Solace, a middling adaptation of the Daniel Craig film.
But the government disputes this account and says that it is facing a foreign conspiracy aimed at creating strife in the country, and that it is fighting armed Muslim extremists.
Now Egypt has huge economic problems, sectarian strife that could turn into a civil war, people are walking around armed, and everyone knows the security situation has got worse and something bad could happen at any time … this is the result of freedom, the result of 'revolution'revolution
