Residents claim clashes between state forces and rebels are the heaviest to have reached Damascus since the start of the uprising in Syria.<br /><br />It is the spread of the fighting which has led the International Committee of the Red Cross to say the conflict is now in effect a civil war. The Red Cross had previously regarded only the areas around Idlib, Homs and Hama as war zones.<br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/
