It's a non-stop "Crossfire," and this means that the candidates themselves come wrapped in more extreme ideological coloring.
That was the main cause of the civilian slaughter, though the Tigers also killed refugees, both in crossfire and deliberately, to stop them escaping.
And while every once in a while a single photo makes the world stop and pay attention, many people in the crossfire of conflict will never have their stories told.
Al Jazeera practically put itself on the map by running non-stop footage of Palestinian children caught in the crossfire.
O'Brien said that those trying to flee the fighting faced new dangers, as rebel factions sought to stop them leaving, or they were caught in the crossfire and then faced being seized and "disappeared" at government checkpoints.
Rescued in June in southern Sudan after being wounded by crossfire in a battle, Peter's first stop on the way toward reintegration into family and community life is the high-walled, safe and orderly oasis of GUSCO (the Gulu Support the Children Organization).
The problem with letting various packs of bad guys slug it out — aside from effectively abandoning the civilians caught in the crossfire — is that sometimes they lose interest and stop killing each other.
Until western rulers realise that this kind of terrorism is the product of war and flourishes within it, and that ending the wars in the Middle East will be the only way to stop it, the people of Syria will continue to be caught in the crossfire.
The report on Kiwanja states that the victims "were not killed in crossfire, but were arbitrarily executed, often inside their houses, after fighting had stopped".
These businesses are caught in the crossfire of gentrification, and the cacophonous conversation about whether it's a tragedy that must be stopped or an inevitable, harmless economic phenomenon.
A deadly crossfire ensued.
