PRINCETON What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a proxy conflict.

The rapid Shiite rise has already turned into a sectarian civil war in Iraq and recently has threatened to generate the same outcome in Lebanon.

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Is it wise and advisable to wade into a sectarian civil war two thousand miles away? Just examine the trajectory of sectarian violence over the last decade.

To be sure, Bush s new strategy is highly unlikely to help Iraqis avert a slide into sectarian civil war. A temporary 16 boost in troops simply is not enough to get that job done.

Syria Somalia are in civil war.

If that happens, the insurgency will be superseded by a much more dangerous sectarian civil war.

This became the Castilian Civil War.

And some also predict ethnic clashes in the country.

Any attempt to evacuate them could escalate into a civil war.

The Palestinians are already in the midst of a civil war.

The situation became unsustainable and a civil war began.

The alliance was reconfirmed after the Portuguese Restoration War and the English Restoration.

Egypt also worries about a possible Hamas Fatah civil war.

What we see in Afghanistan isn t just a civil war.

Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Inca Empire was involved in a civil war.

Syria s internal conflict has now become a Sunni Shia sectarian war that is spreading across the region.

So will there be civil war? Thus far, one can say this.

Political commentators suggested that Ukraine was on the brink of a civil war.

It is more than a civil war between a Government and rebel movements.

A civil war was fought, albeit briefly. Revolution transmuted into a crypto coup d état.

That is not a bad formula for a state of permanent civil war.

Burma is suffering the impact of decades of civil war.

Tantalus comment reflects what most Lebanese fear a civil war

Violence across the country escalated, with many fearing civil war.

It was a tragedy that came as the country was beginning to heal the wounds of a long civil war.

In 796 Gaza was destroyed during a civil war between the Arab tribes of the area.

And caused the war that killed 20 million people still the deadliest civil war in the world to this day.

Many commentators on the Iraq War began, by the end of 2006, to refer to this violent escalation as a civil war.

Two weeks later talk of civil war was on everyone s mind.

The country became embroiled in a bitter civil war, which lasted until nearly 1995.

Honduras, the country with the most serious gang problem, never had a civil war.

Nigeria achieved independence in 1960, but plunged into a two year civil war several years later.

Recovering from more than 20 years of civil war will be a lengthy and a costly process.

These, however, were never allowed to degenerate into the outright communal slaughter that the war in Sri Lanka has often produced.

On the verge of civil war, Iraq just announced a restructuring of its foreign debt.

In the 15th century and again in the 17th, civil war erupted.

It probably would not tip the balance if the situation in Libya deteriorates into a full scale civil war.

East African Philosopher is anxious about the situation in Kenya turning into a civil war, he says

Syria remains mired in a bloody civil war that has already caused more than 100,000 deaths.

Despite the alarming escalation in violence, fears of civil war in Kenya are probably exaggerated.

We have the experience of 1992 .

During the 1380s a civil war in the Scandinavian part of Sweden brought unrest to Finland, too.

It was depopulated during the 1947 1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 under Operation Nachshon.

During the early years of his presidency, Rahmon faced a civil war in which up to 100,000 people died.