From 1918 to 1920 Russia was torn by a Civil War, which cost millions of lives and untold destruction.
A country that had been torn by a political coup found a reason, at least for the moment, to coalesce.
AS I sit in the lobby of the Chicago Hyatt, waiting for a 6 00 reception, I am torn by a dilemma.
From the 1380s to the 1450s Italy was torn by a long series of large-scale wars.
GALLE, SRI LANKA For over 25 years — until 2009 — Sri Lanka, a beautiful island nation in the Indian Ocean, was torn by a brutal and bloody civil war.
Algeria, a North African country with abundant oil and gas, has been torn by a decade-long insurgency by Islamic militants that has left tens of thousands dead.
But that December, while he was working with oil-drilling equipment in Seminole, Okla., his left hand was torn by a piece of machinery.
A columnist in a Saudi daily, al-Sharq al-Awsat, Mashari Zaydi, suggests that Arabs have been torn by a struggle between two world-views, one hard, absolutist and aspirational, the other realist, compromising and practical.
Gunmen kidnapped at least 26 people on Monday from two passenger buses in Mach, a small town in the Bolan district of Baluchistan Province, which has been torn by a separatist insurgency.
The fatal injury took place, Dr. Kessler said, when an artery to the brain that is protected by a layer of ligaments was torn by a force equal to 2,000 pounds of pressure.
