Not 'just' a civil war

What's going on in Syria is not 'just' a civil war. It's also the revival of an ancient ethnic conflict between the Sunni and Shia schools of Islam. And it is spreading far beyond Syria.

Renewed sectarian killing has brought the highest death toll in Iraq in
five years. Young Iraqi scholars at a Shiite Muslim seminary volunteer
to fight Sunnis in Syria. Far to the west, in Lebanon, clashes