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The second aircraft reached nearby Burkina Faso, another country ravaged by Islamist extremists, said Romero, the former intelligence officer, who was briefed on the flights.

Since 2019, Lebanon has been ravaged by crises, including an economic collapse, a devastating port blast in Beirut in 2020 and the recent war with Israel.

Athens beat Sparta at sea, Sparta ravaged Athenian land; then each was forced to fight on the other’s turf.

Countries once regularly ravaged by famine, such as Russia, China and India, are no longer plagued as they had been.

The country has been ravaged by civil war since the February 2021 coup.