Sentence examples for conflicts close to from inspiring English sources

But at UCLA, he started learning about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and seeing parallels with conflicts close to home.

But this is pure fantasy: European forces were built for conflicts closer to home.

And conflicts closer to hand repeatedly make themselves felt in his work.

The television cameras, for the most part, have left, drawn to newer conflicts closer to home – to Syria, to Iraq, to Ukraine. .

They were fighting in wars far from their borders but sitting on their hands when it came to conflicts closer to home.

There are veterans from almost every war since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and veterans of conflicts closer to home, football hooligans from the west of Ukraine and homeless men from the war-torn east.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A surprise assault by Syrian insurgents on a Republican Guard base in Damascus, just a few miles from the presidential palace, elicited a furious military response on Tuesday, with government forces shelling surrounding neighborhoods in an escalation that brought combat in the Syrian conflict close to the heart of the capital.

Most of the refugees came from provinces of intense conflict close to the Syrian-Turkish border.

The conflict close to Turkey's own border at Kobane illustrates the Turkish government's ambivalence.

The price increase followed news of rising conflict close to major crude oil pipelines in northern Iraq, where Turkey has been combating Kurdish rebels.

With Ukraine's conflict, close to a million people have been forced from their homes.