The slaughter and blood cuddling rampage.

The battle was fierce and unbelievably bloody.

The battle quickly became fierce and bloody.

BERLIN For four years, a bloody war has raged in Syria.

We know that war, if it comes to it, will be bloody.

One newspaper speaks of a bloody ideology that is now resurfacing.

Recalling that two centuries ago, Leipzig was the scene of a bloody battle.

Maybe this will make their struggle bloodier than before.

Their clan was in a bloody feud with Hunding and his many sons.

Is this a revival of the bloody ideology? was the headline of the internet edition of the Turkish newspaper Haberturk.

It wasn't long, for example, before ethnic nationalism reared its bloody head in Yugoslavia.

There Sharon was to stop but did not, instead fighting a bloody battle to conquer the pass.

In Syria, a bloody civil war is laying waste to some of the world s most magnificent ancient cities.

Soon after the bloody crackdown on Tiananmen, a new orthodoxy replaced Chinese Marxism Chinese nationalism.

But, without Mandela s towering moral and political leadership, the transition would have been long, ugly, and bloody beyond measure.

Fueled by religious rhetoric and a bloody history, the conflict engenders a degree of passion and irrationality that is difficult to moderate.

Rajapaksa oversaw the end of a bloody civil war in 2009 that had raged for 26 years between government forces and a militant organisation seeking an independent Tamil state.

This is a shame, particularly because the cinematography is superb, but also because at times there is a stirring work of cinema behind the pretentious, at times bloody façade and that work of cinema deserves some attention.

In the 17th century an important scientist such as Dr. Tulp would not be involved in menial and bloody work like dissection, and such tasks would be left to others.

Recently, it conducted what Amnesty International described as the group s deadliest massacre in recent history in Baga, a town in the north eastern state of Borno.

Europe s bloodstained history also provides a useful warning for China and the rest of Asia, and can serve as an example for overcoming the region s long standing animosities.

Short of unleashing massive and bloody ethnic cleansing Bosnia, on a continental scale Americans and others have no choice but to get used to living in increasingly diverse societies.

What Sigmund Freud defined as the narcissism of minor differences caused Yugoslavia to split into seven small states (including Kosovo), following the bloodiest fighting in Europe since World War II.

The emergence, after a prolonged and bloody civil war, of an independent South Sudan in 2011, freed the local Christian and animist population from the Arab Muslim yoke. But Darfur is still bleeding, and South Sudan is far from being a stable polity.

Given growing support for ending the senseless and bloody decades long war on drugs, these signs of progress toward decriminalization and legalization should not pass unremarked.

After the Italian unification, Melfi was involved in a bloody civil war labeled as brigandage and was occupied by the peasant army of Carmine Crocco on April 15, 1861 in order to restore the Bourbon government of Francis II in the Vulture area.

The balance of opinion among international scholars is that a small group around PKI leader Aidit was involved, but not in a way that even remotely implicated the entire party, or that could even begin to justify the bloody nationwide purge which followed.

THE HAGUE The war in Afghanistan, now approaching its tenth year, may seem to many to have no end in sight, but Latin America has endured an even longer fight, one that has recently become much more bloody the war against drug trafficking.

We should be interested not for prosecutorial purposes, but in order to gain a more profound understanding of a bloody, demagogical, and tyrannical Utopia and of human weakness and vulnerability. We may even consider it a rewarding testament to an artist s ability to overcome his past mistakes and still produce priceless work.

Throughout the long years of this bloody tragedy, we have tried to inch our way to a settlement through confidence building measures or, in the case of the long dead Road Map, through pushing both parties to take parallel steps towards an agreement.

Israel s defenders are right to point out that public opinion in Europe, and to a much lesser extent in the United States, tends to be much more critical of Israeli atrocities in Gaza than about bloodier violence committed by Muslims against Muslims in other parts of the Middle East.

Large parts of the northern hemisphere continue to struggle with the legacies of the great European empires Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman that collapsed in WWI s wake, or whose decline, like that of the British Empire, was initiated by the war and sealed by its even bloodier sequel a generation later.

A revolution not only overthrows a repressive regime it also destroys the old order, paving the way for a mostly brutal, if not bloody, fight for power to establish a new one a process that affects foreign and domestic policy alike.

They take us back to our bloody, violent and racist history they lay bare the smokescreens of popular culture showing us the oppressive reality of this purported democracy and they create echoes of indignation at injustice while also reflecting on our own role in maintaining such cruelty.

If reports that the town was largely razed to the ground and that hundreds or even as many as two thousand civilians were killed are true, this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram s ongoing onslaught against the civilian population, said Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International.

DESYLLAS (CG). (GR) The Dictator Saddam Hussein was armed like a lobster, almost to the point of nuclear weaponry, by the USA, the EEC, and the Soviet Union, who wanted to use him in a prolonged and bloody war against Iran.

A captured Viking warrior with only one eye (Mads Mikkelsen) escapes his tormentors and knocks down his opponents with almost superhuman powers which sounds ideal for young male viewers on the search for gore and action, particularly as our hero has a preference for brutal killing methods and is not averse to tearing out the entrails from the living bodies of his enemies when he is in a bad mood.

Given Syria s bloody civil war, the rise to power of Islamist forces through free elections, the ever deepening political and economic crises in Egypt and Tunisia, increasing instability in Iraq, uncertainty about the future of Jordan and Lebanon, and the threat of war over Iran s nuclear program, the bright hope of a new Middle East has vanished.

Then, this child of fourteen years learned, as in a homework, that which we hide to maidens until their wedding night. She flipped through the drawings of the anatomy book, those superb drawings of a bloody reality. She paused upon each organ, understanding the most secret of them, those upon which is built the shame of men and women.