Civil War

Example Sentences

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The son of parents who fled Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s, Tiafoe used to sleep on the floor at a plush Maryland tennis centre where his father was a janitor.

From BBC

It once displayed large portraits of mujahideen commanders, who later fought against each other in a civil war that resulted in the Taliban taking power in 1996.

From Barron's

How there hadn’t been any government to help them after the civil war, so they’d banded together.

From Literature

Back in 2022, the PGA Tour had called LIV "an existential threat" after its offers of lucrative contracts threatened a civil war between the two organisations.

From BBC

The SDF had seized swathes of the provinces as they expelled the jihadists during Syria's civil war with the support of an international coalition led by the United States.

From Barron's