Now Syria really doesn't exist; it's a broken, broken country, the death and crippled families are pervasive, political and social fabrics shattered, and some have become terrorists, to use the common nomenclature now.
They add a wistful quality to this story of misplaced desires in a broken city and a broken country.
Hortense, one of the novel's four central characters, is running away from a broken heart to a broken country.
A magnificent bird dog for broken country such as this, no two ways about it.
Peter Akinti's first novel, "Forest Gate," is about broken bodies and a broken country.
Regardless of party or politics, there's a sense a broken country can't be fixed.
He has left Egypt a broken country economically, politically and socially.
Mr Karzai came to Istanbul to beg NATO to keep its word to his broken country.
Britain is a broken country badly in need of a plan to piece it back together.
This city is still corrupt, and our broken country earns its gold hauling dirty oil.
He does see himself as a kind of saviour of the nation, someone who can mend the broken country.
