Synonyms for civil war
civ·il war

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1. civil warnoun

   Synonyms:
   intestine war

2. civil warnoun

   A war fought between factions of the inhabitants of a single country, or the citizens of a single republic.

   Synonyms:
   intestine war

Princeton's WordNet

1. civil warnoun

   a war between factions in the same country

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1. President Barack Obama:

   Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world, yet what we also know is that severe drought helped to create the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group Boko Haram, it's now believed that drought, crop failures, and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East.

2. Danielle Atkinson:

   If we teach a generation of young people that, after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and all of the events of the 1860s, attempts to integrate free people failed and there were repressive laws enacted that weren't repealed for almost a century, then we're going to have different conversations, we're going to have historical context for why the country is the way it is, instead of thinking that the fact that Black people are at the bottom of every metric is indicative of our deficit or our inferiority.

3. Nadwa Dawsari:

   Traditional Yemeni political actors used to find middle ground and didn't let their clashes lead to a full-blown civil war. The Houthis don't seem to be interested in compromising, they mix a lack of experience in politics with, as their own leader has said, limitless ambitions. The fact that Iran is involved aggravates things and brings in a regional dimension that makes a conflict harder to avoid.

4. Kirill Martynov:

   I feel like all the situation has us on the edge of civil war, basically because hate is rising in Russia, propaganda feeds this hate, and we have more and more hate and distrust in Russia.

5. Gareth Price:

   When they arrived last time around, it was after a civil war. There was nothing. Now they're inheriting a system of government that, however imperfect, does exist, the question that no one knows the answer to is how The Taliban conceive of government.