Sentence examples for harsh wars from inspiring English sources

A continuum of harsh wars has wrought a more dogged and complex insurgent in Afghanistan and Iraq who is unlikely to follow the path of aged veterans into retirement in the short term.

Shabiu is a refugee, the house a temporary refuge from the harsh winter of Kosovo and from the harsh war that preceded it.

Shaul Mofaz, Israel's defense minister, expressed condolences to the families and said a "harsh war" had been raging in Gaza for two years.

Entitled "Harsh War, Harsh Peace," the report details human-rights violations by all of Somalia's armed parties: the Shabbab; the weak central government headed by the Western-backed, Islamist-firebrand-turned-moderate President, Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Sharif; and even the several thousand Ugandan and Burundian troops of AMISOM, the U.N.-backed African Union peacekeeping force.

That think-tank pundits with this track record would try to pass themselves off as harsh war critics in 2007 shows how desperate they are to preserve their status as Beltway "experts" now that the political winds have shifted.

The death row affair has sparked a global condemnation of Indonesia's harsh war on drugs; Australia, who had two citizens among the executed, withdrew its ambassador just hours after the execution.

Egypt has bombed ISIS, Jordan's King Abdullah has vowed a "harsh war" with his own boots on the ground against ISIS, Iraqi Kurds and Iraqi military units have fought ISIS, and even Iran has bombed ISIS.

Unless a credible election legitimizes a successor to Mr. Karzai, Afghanistan's fragile political order will most likely implode, followed by the disintegration of its security forces, a renewal of harsh civil war and the resurgence of Taliban forces.

The description of the simulation indicates how the government expects the harsh information war to play out: "As the events were taking place, the media — with emphasis on the Internet, Facebook and Twitter — were flooded with mendacious reports (by private users, Hamas and others among Israel's enemies)." Mendacity has already reared its head.

When the killing stops, some of the stronger men from the village who have survived are rounded up to work as slaves in the rebel-controlled diamond mines in the east of the country and their sons are taken away in trucks, destined to become boy soldiers in one of Africa's harshest civil wars.

Mali has come to the world's attention in the last few months as a sad and frustrating basket case that is suffering a harsh civil war.