Syrian Civil War

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Date	February 2011 - present
Location	Syria
Participants	Free Syrian Army • Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
Context	Arab Spring

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When the Syrian Civil War began, the four main warring factions were ISIS, Kurdish forces, the Assad government, and other opposition groups.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have returned to their homes, often only to be displaced a second or third time.

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