From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwar-tornˈwar-torn adjective [only before noun] PMWARa war-torn country, city etc is being destroyed by war
Examples from the Corpus
war-torn• With sirens blaring and amber lights flashing, the squad cars slewed to a halt at the rear of a war-torn Cadillac.• After all, nothing could be worse than the war-torn, economically deprived, famine stricken homelands which they left behind.• The plan offered long-term aid to war-torn Europe.• In 1941, Margaret E. Ray escaped war-torn France and landed in New York.• He says the West has failed the war-torn republics, and must now intervene.• Meanwhile, Liddell had been working as a field missionary in war-torn Siaochang.• Outside in the war-torn street, Special Forces vehicles drew up in an uncompromising line.• Resources that might have been used to reconstruct a war-torn world went instead into new armaments. 