The Syrian soldiers were elated, but admitted that they shared immense sadness for the history of a city whose very fabric was being torn apart, a world heritage site being smashed by rockets and high-velocity rounds.
Like Cobain, Vedder was being torn into two directions.
But it looked more as if the baton was being torn from the runner's hand.
Seventy years ago, Europe was being torn apart by its second catastrophic conflict in a generation.
When she gave birth, "It was horrible – I felt like I was being torn apart".
Within a year, it was being torn apart by the strains of the cold war.
My old studio block, now under the Olympic park, was being torn down.
The tenants at the Aragon apartment house were told it was being torn down and they'd have to move.
I arrived in the village of Dachang last year just as the first row of houses was being torn down.
"The dealer's aged aunt had seen these plates in a building that was being torn down," Svenson recounts.
History, "their" history, was being torn down, and the media was distorting what people like him were trying to do.
