Sentence examples for most devastating conflicts from inspiring English sources
An aggressive Russian military intervention in Syria has placed Barack Obama's policy for one of the world's most devastating conflicts at a crossroads.
Many people have told me that things are worse than they were during the long civil war South Sudan fought against its northern neighbours in Sudan – one of Africa's longest and most devastating conflicts.
Also on Tuesday — the fifth anniversary of a peaceful uprising that soured into one of the most devastating conflicts of the 21st century — Syrian civilians told VICE News they were not daring to hope.
The civil war in Angola was one of Africa's longest and most devastating conflicts.
Of the nations caught in the hell of World War II, history's most devastating conflict, Poland became the biggest pawn.
After 1945 Europe rejected balance-of-power politics and instead embraced reconciliation, multilateral cooperation and integration as the principal means to safeguard peace that followed the world's most devastating conflict.
In two of the Mideast's most devastating urban conflicts – Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq – civilians who were already facing deprivation and danger are confronting harsh new threats brought about by recent battlefield events, humanitarian groups and international organizations say.
The most devastating military conflict in modern independent Africa has been the Second Congo War, which by 2008 has claimed the lives of an estimated 5.4 million people.
The following is an edited version of my interview with Noor about why she thinks it's so important to get the word out about one of the planet's most underreported and devastating conflicts.
The human costs ― including an estimated 370,000 deaths, more than half of them civilians, and the millions who have been uprooted from their homes and sent into flight, often across national borders ― are surely the most devastating consequences of these conflicts.
One of the most devastating impacts of the conflict has been on children who have been left homeless, alone and begging on the street in order to survive.
