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The Five Conflicts Driving the Bulk of the World’s Refugee Crisis

FILE -- Syrian asylum-seekers at a makeshift camp near the military-run Moria camp in Lesbos, Greece, March 1, 2018. An annual report from the United Nations refugee agency, noting that the vast majority of the world’s refugees are largely living in neighboring countries, said 68.5 million people worldwide were classified in 2017 as having been forcibly displaced because of conflict and persecution, the highest number since the end of World War II. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)