(CNN) -- Syria's government on Thursday dismissed a U.N. official's claim that its conflict has turned into a full-scale civil war, saying the description contradicts the nature of the fight. "Any talk about civil war in Syria doesn't reflect the reality," the government said in a statement released through the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency. "Syria is not witnessing a 'civil war' but rather a struggle to uproot the plague of terrorism.
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