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The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state and non-state actors. The Syrian Revolution began in March 2011 when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in ...
The British Royal Air Force began operating over Syria in a surveillance role on the same date, making the UK the first Western country other than the U.S. to operate in both Iraq and Syria simultaneously. [66] On 22 October, the U.S. carried out a 27th round of airstrikes with six airstrikes against ISIL targets in and around Kobanî.
The rebels have pressed their advance in areas to the south and southwest of Aleppo, capturing territory in Hama province. The rebels launched their surprise offensive on Nov. 26, attacking from ...
This meeting, Nour said, would be aimed at finding a longer-term solution to Syria's 13-year-old simmering civil war – in particular its underpinning by non-state actors such as Hezbollah at a ...
The uprising against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad gradually turned into a full-scale civil war, [1] with two significant milestones being the initial March 2011 Arab Spring protests and the 15 July 2012 declaration by the International Committee of the Red Cross that the fighting had gradually become so widespread that the situation should ...
He banked on the misconception that he “won” the Syrian Civil War and was welcomed back by his Arab counterparts after 12 years as a regional pariah in 2023.
Protests began in Syria as early as 26 January 2011, and erupted on 15 March 2011 with a "Day of Rage" protest generally considered to mark the start of a nationwide uprising. [1] The Syrian government's reaction to the protests became violent on 16 March, and deadly on 18 March, when four unarmed protesters were killed in Daraa.
In 2011, a civil war broke out in Syria. Leaked diplomatic cables reported that the US government had been covertly funding Syrian opposition groups since 2006, mainly the London-based Movement for Justice and Development in Syria and an associated satellite TV channel Barada TV . [ 42 ]