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Informed about a conflict beginning to escalate (5)

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I believe the answer is:

aware

'informed' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'a conflict beginning to escalate' is the wordplay.
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
'beginning to' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'escalate' is 'e'.
'a'+'war'+'e'='AWARE'

'about' is the link.

(Other definitions for aware that I've seen before include "fly" , "Conscious, knowing about" , "Having knowledge (of fact)" , "Conscious, sentient" , "Cognisant, mindful" .)

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