User: Write down some important aspects regarding civil war from the given text
Assistant: 1. An intrastate or civil war is a conflict between organised parties fighting within a single state. (or country).
2. One side may want to overthrow the government, seize control of an area, secure the independence of a region, or alter public policy.
3. The phrase is a calque of the Latin phrase bellum civile, which was used to describe the numerous civil wars that raged throughout the Roman Republic in the first century BC.