conflagration

Experts said he will be reluctant to enter an all-out conflagration in the region.

But the risks of a conflagration are high.

Both Israel and Iran say they want to avoid conflagration, but both continue to threaten each other.

Wars like Ukraine pull in multiple powers, and conflagrations such as Sudan pit regional players with competing interests against each other, and some more invested in war than in peace.

Without mitigation, she added, major fires will be a foregone conclusion in a place where aggressive suppression has created a large accumulation of fuel and conflagrations that are hotter and more difficult to suppress.