The civil war has been ongoing for some time now. I believe I've been told that there are political reasons for failing to call a spade a spade, but really.

War: at least 1000 battle-related deaths per year.

Iraq Body Count reports a minimum of 33,000 civilians killed over the past three years due to the military intervention (the majority of those have not been killed by the US military). IBC is clear that the motivation of the killers can be difficult to determine, but when 10,000 people in the last year were killed by non-US fighters, it is very clear to me that "civil war" is the only word that covers the carnage.