Qardaha happens to be the home town of President Bashar Assad's clan and the site of the grandiose mausoleum of his father Hafez, who preceded him as president.At least 70,000 have died in the two-year-long strife and nearly a quarter of the country's 23m people have been displaced.
By dusk, a car bomb tore through Kut, an eastern town long spared strife.
Assam grows about 60percentt of India's tea and produces much of its oil, but has long been strife-ridden.
The return of the fugitive had brought long-buried strife to the surface, however briefly, reminding Americans that the wounds of Vietnam remain unhealed.
Short in stature, Rafael carries himself like a giant with scattered gang tattoos all over his body and the piercing eyes of someone who has endured long-term strife.
A humble soldier, Ya'qub, surnamed al-Saffar ("the Coppersmith"), had exploited the decade-long Samarra strife to first gain control over his native Sistan, and by 873 he had gained control over almost all of the eastern lands of the Caliphate, ousting the hitherto dominant Tahirids from power, a move denounced by al-Muwaffaq.
The Second Boer War (October 1899 May 190202) was fought between the British and two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State; partly the result of long-simmering strife between them, it was directly caused by each side's desire to control the lucrative Witwatersrand gold mines in the Transvaal.
We've seen fierce enemies let go of long histories of strife and anger.
"But I don't like to admit that," Manuel Katsanevas said, referring to a long history of strife between Turks and Greeks.
The art works — mainly paintings of Emperor Yongzheng, an 18th century ruler of China, and his concubines — are part of China's immense imperial art collection, long divided by strife.
Its theatre of operations – the Sahel – features a perfect storm of sovereignty: deficient states, a young, economically frustrated population mired in poverty, nations with long histories of strife and the collapse of agrarian economies due to climate change.
