Arab commentators have taken to calling the often violent rallies and demonstrations by Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza the "Second Intifada" -- an even more ferocious popular uprising than the first stone-throwing rebellion against Israel in the late 1980's.
Insurgents are kidnapping and killing Iraqi soldiers and national guardsmen with shocking regularity in Mosul, the third largest city in Iraq and the scene of a ferocious insurgent uprising two weeks ago that followed the American invasion of Falluja.
KHIRBIT EL JOUS, Syria — Hundreds of Syrians displaced by a ferocious crackdown on the uprising here fled to the Turkish border by tractor, truck and foot on Tuesday, some huddling in muddy olive groves without shelter and food, residents said.
The ferocious crackdown on the uprising, which began in March, has recently escalated, as the government braces for the possibility of another round of protests on Friday, a day that has emerged as the weekly climax in a broad challenge to the 11-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
Violence erupted only when the government, fearing the momentum the city might provide the uprising, began its ferocious assault on Sunday.
Five months after the start of a ferocious crackdown against a popular uprising — so sweeping it smacks of apartheidlike repression of Bahrain's religious majority — many fear that no one can win.
Poorly equipped and neglected, Syria remains utterly incapable of waging war, with its military deployed across the country in a ferocious crackdown on the two-month uprising.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hundreds of Syrians fled into Lebanon on Saturday after Syrian Army troops assaulted a border town, killing at least three people and arresting hundreds in the latest phase of a ferocious crackdown on the two-month uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two leading international human rights organizations are calling on the Arab League to back the referral of Syria to the International Criminal Court for committing crimes against humanity in its ferocious campaign to crush an eight-month uprising.
Back in Bahrain, a government crackdown on the massive prodemocracy uprising was proceeding at a ferocious pace.
