Civil War

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Lebanese of all religions have emigrated in recent decades because of civil war, economic crises and periodic conflicts with Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal

People escaping the civil war in Sudan now need visas to enter Egypt, or run the risk of deportation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Myanmar's military ousted the Nobel laureate's elected government and seized power in a 2021 coup, sparking a civil war.

From Barron's

The east African nation saw civil war in the 1990s mutate in the 2000s into an Islamist insurgency that still threatens much of the country.

From Barron's

Around 436 B.C., a “quarrel in a faraway county” of which neither Athenians nor Spartans knew much broke out into civil war in the colony of Epidamnus.

From The Wall Street Journal