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  1. Syria’s war has been the most complex conflict to emerge from the 2011 Arab uprisings. At least twice—in the spring of 2013 and in mid-2015—the Assad regime almost collapsed. Its comeback is attributable largely to outside players. The war has evolved through five phases that, along the way, have embroiled foreign figures and militias ...

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    • More than 250,000 people have been killed, according to the UN. War crimes and crimes against humanity are rife.
    • Since then, more than 11 million people have been forced from their homes, including around 7 million people within Syria and more than 4 million who are now refugees abroad, mostly in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
    • Government forces have repeatedly shelled and bombed civilian areas using indiscriminate weapons, including barrel bombs. They’ve also bombed hospitals, targeted medical workers and mounted long-running sieges of opposition-held areas, depriving people of food, medicines and other necessities.
    • According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, approximately 65,000 people have been arrested by government security forces and are now missing in a network of unofficial detention centres.
  2. Jan 14, 2021 · Timeline: How the Arab Spring unfolded. Ten years ago, protests swept across Arab nations that changed the course of history. On January 14, 2011, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ...

  3. Mar 15, 2021 · Syria marks 10 years since uprising began. Since the 2011 uprising turned into war, more than half a million people have been killed and millions more forced to flee their homes. Nearly half a ...

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  5. Arab Spring: 10 moments, 10 years on. The hard men struck back. Hundreds of thousands have died and millions have lost their homes. Jihadist extremists prospered, providing their own version of ...

  6. Dec 3, 2020 · Ten years on, the lives of people in Arab Spring countries have improved in certain aspects but worsened in others. CFR.org visualizes the changes in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen.

  7. Jan 24, 2021 · The population of the region has grown by 70 million since the Arab Spring, and it is expected to increase by an additional 120 million by 2030, before stabilizing in the decades after that ...