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This article discusses the background and reasons that contributed to the outbreak of the Syrian revolution.What began as large-scale peaceful protests in March 2011 as part of the 2010–11 Arab Spring protests that reverberated across the Arab World, eventually escalated into a civil war following the brutal crackdown by Assad regime's security apparatus.
The Syrian Revolution, [29] [30] also known as the Syrian Revolution of Dignity [b] was a series of mass protests and civilian uprisings throughout Syria – with a subsequent violent reaction by the Ba'athist regime – lasting from February 2011 to December 2024 as part of the greater Arab Spring in the Arab world.
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 ...
Syria: President Bashar al-Assad faced the Syrian Revolution against his rule which turned into a full-scale civil war which led to his downfall in December 2024. Bahrain: Civil uprising against the government crushed by authorities and Saudi-led intervention. Kuwait, Lebanon and Oman: Government changes implemented in response to protests.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry stated that Syria was monitoring with high concern "the tragic developments in the brotherly country of Libya". [42] Syrian newspaper Al-Watan said that the Syrian government welcomed the fall of Mubarak's regime, and was looking forward to a new leadership that does not "cover for Israeli violations". [43]
In 2011, the United States, European Union, and most Arab League countries called for Assad to resign following the crackdown on Arab Spring protesters during the events of the Syrian Revolution, which led to the Syrian civil war. [20] As of 2022 the civil war had killed around 580,000 people, of whom at least 306,000 were non-combatants.
The constant airstrikes broke the Syrian force, and on the late afternoon of 22 September, the 5th Division began to retreat. [8] The swift Syrian withdrawal was a severe blow to Palestinian guerillas. Jordanian armored forces steadily pounded their headquarters in Amman, and threatened to break them in other regions of the Kingdom as well.
The US missile strike on Shayrat Airbase on 7 April 2017 was the first time the US deliberately attacked Syrian government forces during the war, [168] and marked the start of a series of direct military actions by US forces against the Syrian government and its allies via airstrikes and aircraft shoot-downs, mainly in defense of either the ...