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Sep 4, 2015 · Syria is a relatively new country: Its borders were constructed by European powers in the 1920s, mashing together several ethnic and religious groups. Since late 1970, a family from one of...
- Syrian Refugee Crisis
4 million people have fled Syria, and 7 million remain...
- Syria
Syria’s civil war began in 2012. After several years...
- Syrian Refugee Crisis
- Two Wars
- Who’s Who in Syria’s Civil War?
- Who’s Who in The Islamic State Fight?
- What Happens to Assad?
- Shiite vs. Sunni
- Turkey vs. Russia
- Turkey vs. Kurds
There are actually two wars going on in Syria. First came the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Assad succeeded his father as authoritarian leader of Syria in 2000. He responded to peaceful Arab Spring protesters in 2011 with a crackdown so brutal that it sparked an armed revolt that still rages. Then came an invasion by the Islamic ...
With Assad: The Syrian army and pro-government militias. Russia. Longtime allies of Assad, the Russians set up a base in Syria this fall that launches airstrikes and added cruise missiles fired from the sea. Russia says its campaign is meant to weaken Islamic State and other fighters it considers “terrorists”; Western officials say most of the stri...
The Islamic State: The CIA estimates that IS has 20,000 to 30,000 fighters spread between Syria and Iraq. Its skillful use of social media lures young recruits from around the world to the territory where the group says it’s building its “caliphate,” or state ruled by a supreme religious leader. It’s also encouraged followers abroad to attack where...
Must Assad go? The U.S. has been saying so for years, while Russia insists that’s up to the Syrian people. Since the Syrian war began, President Barack Obama and his secretaries of state and defense have declared more than a dozen times that Assad must step down. The U.S. argues that Assad — accused of human rights abuses, such as dropping barrels ...
Like so much in the Middle East, the Syrian war is shaped by centuries-old conflicts between Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims. Who’s who? Shiite: Assad is Shiite (the Alawite branch), a minority in Syria. Iran is overwhelmingly Shiite and supports Assad. Sunni: The majority of Syria’s population, including most of those fighting to overthrow Assad....
The conflict between Turkey and Russia goes deeper than being on opposite sides of the Assad question. Turkey wants to protect the Turkmen population battling Assad. Russian warplanes have targeted those Turkmen fighters. Turkey shot down a Russian warplane recently, saying the jet was flying in Turkish airspace, which has ratcheted up tensions bet...
Turkey publicly opposes the Islamic State. This year it began allowing the U.S. to fly its warplanes as well as drones out of Incirlik Air Base to strike IS. But the U.S. is pressing for Turkey to do more — especially to block the flow of people and money crossing its border to bolster the IS militants. But Turkey’s role in the anti-Islamic State c...
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Feb 13, 2024 · Estimates in May 2023 put the death toll at almost 60,000, with 50,700 casualties in Turkey and 8,400 in Syria. Syria’s twelve years of conflict have severely hindered its relief efforts—the ...
May 2, 2023 · A peaceful uprising against the president of Syria 12 years ago turned into a full-scale civil war. The conflict has left half a million people dead, devastated cities and drawn in...
Mar 15, 2021 · 15 Mar 2021. Save articles to read later and create your own reading list. It has been 10 years since the start of the Syrian uprisings and the country is still mired in a war that has displaced...
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Online Analysis. 14th December 2021. IISS Conflict Briefing. The civil war in Syria: an intractable conflict with geopolitical implications. The armed conflict in Syria has now lasted for more than ten years. What started as an uprising during the 2011 Arab Spring soon turned into one of the most deadly and destructive civil wars of the modern era.
Feb 6, 2023 · Protracted displacement, the war in Ukraine, global inflation and the earthquakes that struck south-eastern Türkiye and northern Syria are some of the biggest challenges Syrians currently face. Poverty and unemployment are widespread within Syria, with over 90 percent of the population in Syria living below the poverty line.
