the cities in the east, like Benghazi, had unofficial registrations to join the resistance army. Like, even independantly of the army that was defecting to the resistance, they were organizing a formal army.
I suppose, there might be a difference between "civil war" and "armed resistance" though, and at this poing, I'm not sure the resistance is organized enough to be considered a formal army with large scale tactics/organization. But like, to agree with both KK and Bic, its becomming/is