What is a civil war?
Civil war
a war between organized groups within the same state or country
A civil war, also known as an intrastate war in polemology,[1] is a war between organized groups within the same state or country.
The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region or to change government policies.[2]
The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.