DAMASCUS, Syria • Syria's 16-month bloodbath crossed an important symbolic threshold Sunday as the international Red Cross formally declared the conflict a civil war, a status with implications ...

The intensified clashes have prompted the International Committee of the Red Cross to join the United Nations in describing the conflict in Syria as a “civil war.” ...

Fighting has been so intense in parts of Syria that at times the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has qualified as a localized civil war, the head of the International Committee of the ...