The Nusra Front's ally, Al Qaeda in Iraq, is the Sunni insurgent group that killed numerous American troops in Iraq and sowed widespread sectarian strife with suicide bombings against Shiites and other religious and ideological opponents.
The country was plagued by lawlessness, ethnic strife, widespread corruption, and political instability.
Economic depression, widespread unemployment, and political strife that verged on civil war followed, leading to the collapse of the progressive Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler.
Most foreign investors have yet to follow, mistrustful of continued political strife and the widespread corruption – Madagascar ranks 123rd in Transparency International's corruption perceptions index.
Ohio reflected the racial strife that was widespread in the United States in the 1960s, when disturbances in the predominantly black Hough and Glenville districts of Cleveland took a number of lives.
During the long reign of al-Malik al-Nāṣir (reigned 1293 1341), the Mamlūks concluded a truce with the Mongols (1323) after several major battles and, despite widespread famine, outbreaks of religious strife, and Bedouin uprisings, maintained economic prosperity in Egypt and peaceful relations with foreign powers both Muslim and Christian.
The blame for last week's Brexit vote rests with David Cameron – both for calling a referendum for which there was no widespread public demand, purely to manage internal strife within the Conservative party, and for the way he timed and framed that vote.
If you believe in the principle of autonomous regions and if you think the fact of Catalonia's being a people tallies with it having a state of its own, separation from Spain follows naturally – although, if it is to be a democratic process, it should consider whether it meets with a widespread consensus and does not cause civil strife.
The war began as a political conflict between the young nation's leaders in 2013, but it soon grew to include ethnic strife and bloodshed, marked by reports of widespread sexual violence, child abductions and entire communities razed to the ground.
The pushback will be equally fierce, casting shadows of widespread destruction and violence, mass migrations, virulent ideologies, and ethnic strife.
