1.   Chaudary Umadali stood in the blackened ruins of his movie theater Monday afternoon, a dignified man trying to make sense of the rage that led to its destruction.

2.   It was now a blackened ruin, and torn pages of Hebrew religious books were strewn on the ground.

3.   The shells from a mobile artillery unit arrive thunderously at their target, transforming durable enemy outposts into blackened ruins with tilted defense turrets.

4.   Monday, the mosque where the conflict was said to have started lay a blackened ruin.

5.   The buildings on one side of a street in this working-class neighborhood are blackened ruins.

6.   A young child rode through the blackened ruins on a donkey, leading a herd of goats.