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The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria battled between the Syrian Arab Republic ruled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and different domestic and foreign forces.
Turmoil in Syria began on 15 March 2011 as part of the broader 2011 Arab Spring demonstrations out of dissatisfaction with the Syrian government and Bashar al-Assad.
Several coalitions are presently fighting the war. The Syrian Armed Forces represent the Syrian Arab Republic and the Assad government. Opposed to it is the Syrian Interim Government, a big-tent coalition of pro-democratic, nationalist opposition groups whose defense forces comprise the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian National Army. Another block of Sunni Islamist rebel group headed by Tahrir Al-Sham called the Syrian Salvation Government. Separated from them is the de facto independent territory of Rojava, whose armed wing is the mixed Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces. Other competing coalitions include Salafi Jihadist organizations, such as the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nasra Front and the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL).
The height of the war was during 2012–2017; violence in Syria has since declined, but the situation stays a crisis.
Several foreign countries, such as Iran, Russia, Turkey, and the United States, have either directly involved themselves in the conflict or provided support to one or another fraction.
Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah support the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian Armed Forces militarily.
The U.S.-led international coalition mainly fought against ISIS and some against the government and pro-government targets.
Turkish forces have combated the SDF, ISIS, and the Syrian government since 2016. Still, they have actively supported the Syrian opposition and occupied large swaths of northwestern Syria while committing considerable ground fighting.
The Syrian war has resulted in about 470-610 thousand deaths, making the war the second deadliest war conflict of the 21st century after the Second Congo War.
The maps below were created by Reddit user The_Mathematician_UK show what happened to ISIS/ISIL territory in Syria.
Facts that explain war conflict in Syria
According to estimates have killed over half a million people
I dont understand why people make ISIS such a big deal, they are the least important faction in this war considering no one wants them and no one likes them, and considering them weren’t responsible for 92% of the deaths of civilians in the war, they were not responsible for the destruction of the infrastructure in most syria and especially in the cities that they didn’t even enter, and especially since they very conveniently rose to power after seceding from the FSA just after the government declared a general amnesty for all prisoners including terrorists and islamists and drug dealers and human traffickers.
as a syrian please put more emphasis on the real evil in this war, isis did not have planes to carpet bomb 80% of Homs and Aleppo, Russia and the regime did and its still happening everyday.
The situation in Syria
I dont understand why people make ISIS such a big deal, they are the least important faction in this war considering no one wants them and no one likes them, and considering them weren’t responsible for 92% of the deaths of civilians in the war, they were not responsible for the destruction of the infrastructure in most syria and especially in the cities that they didn’t even enter, and especially since they very conveniently rose to power after seceding from the FSA just after the government declared a general amnesty for all prisoners including terrorists and islamists and drug dealers and human traffickers.
as a syrian please put more emphasis on the real evil in this war, isis did not have planes to carpet bomb 80% of Homs and Aleppo, Russia and the regime did and its still happening everyday.