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Syrian civil war |
Part of the
Arab Spring |
For a war map of the current situation, see
here. |
Date |
15 March 2011 – ongoing
(2 years, 6 months and 2 weeks) |
Location |
Syria, with minor spillovers in neighboring
countries |
Status |
Conflict ongoing |
|
Belligerents |
Syrian government
Allied armed groups:
Iran[1]
Foreign militants:
|
Rebels
Note: Occasional conflict between various rebel
groups. |
Democratic Union Party (PYD)
(For more on Kurdish involvement, see
here) |
Commanders and leaders |
Bashar al-Assad
Maher al-Assad (WIA)
Fahd Jassem al-Freij
Ali Abdullah Ayyoub
Issam Hallaq
Ghassan Ismail
Mohammad al-Shaar (WIA)
Wael Nader Al-Halqi
Abu Ajeeb
Abu Hajar
Muhammad Nasif
Mihrac Ural
Qasem Soleimani
Hassan Nasrallah
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
|
Salim Idris
Mustafa al-Sheikh
Riad al-Asaad (WIA)[17]
Ahmed Eissa al-Sheikh
Ziad Haj Obaid[18]
Hassan Aboud[19]
Abu Musab[20]
Abu Mohammad al-Golani (WIA)[21]
|
Salih Muslim Muhammad |
Strength |
Syrian Armed Forces: 178,000 (by Aug 2013)[22]
General Security Directorate: 8,000[22]
Shabiha militiamen: 10,000 fighters[23]
National Defense Force: 80,000 soldiers[24]
al-Abbas brigade: 10,000 fighters[25]
Jaysh al-Sha'bi: 50,000 fighters[26]
Hezbollah: 1,500[27]–5,000[28]
fighters
Iran:
150 military advisers[29]
and possibly larger military Iranian presence
[30][31][32] |
Free Syrian Army: 50,000[4]
- 80,000[33]
Ahfad al-Rasul Brigade: 10,000 - 15,000[4]
Syrian Islamic Liberation Front: 37,000[4]
(by May 2013)
Syrian Islamic Front: 13,000[4]
(by May 2013)
Al-Nusra Front: 6,000[4]
(by June 2013)
|
15,000 fighters[34] |
Casualties and losses |
Syrian
government
27,654[35]
soldiers and policemen killed
17,824 militiamen killed[35]
1,000 government officials killed (government claim)[36]
3,500 soldiers captured[37]
Hezbollah
171[35]–201[38]
killed
Iranian IRGC
13 killed[39][40][41][42] |
21,850[35]–45,650[43]
fighters killed*
979 protesters killed(opposition claim)[44]
9,000[37]–41,508[45]
opposition fighters and supporters captured |
161+ fighters killed[46][47] |
*Number possibly higher due to the opposition counting rebels
that were not defectors as civilians.[61]
**Number includes foreign fighters from both sides, as well as
foreign civilians
|
The Syrian civil war, also known as the Syrian uprising[62]
or Syrian crisis (Arabic:
الأزمة السورية),[63]
is an ongoing armed conflict in
Syria
between forces loyal to the
Ba'ath government and those seeking to oust it. The conflict began
on 15 March 2011, with popular demonstrations that grew nationwide by
April 2011. These demonstrations were part of the wider Middle Eastern
protest movement known as the
Arab Spring. Protesters demanded the resignation of
President
Bashar al-Assad, whose family has held the presidency in Syria since
1971, as well as the end of
Ba'ath Party rule, which began in 1963.
In April 2011, the
Syrian Army was deployed to quell the uprising, and soldiers fired
on demonstrators across the country.[64]
After months of military sieges,[65]
the protests evolved into an armed rebellion. Opposition forces, mainly
composed of defected soldiers and civilian volunteers, resisted without
central leadership.[66]
The conflict is
asymmetrical, with clashes taking place in many towns and cities
across the country.[67]
Late 2011 marked growing influence of the Islamist group
al-Nusra Front within the opposition forces. In 2013
Hezbollah entered the war in support of the Syrian army.[68][69]
The Syrian government is further upheld by military support from
Russia
and Iran,
while Qatar
and
Saudi Arabia transfer weapons to the rebels.[70]
By July 2013, the Syrian government controls approximately 30–40 percent
of the country's territory and 60 percent of the Syrian population.[71]
In late 2012 UN report described the conflict as "overtly sectarian in
nature"[72]
between Alawite shabiha militias and other
Shia groups fighting largely against
Sunni-dominated rebel groups,[73]
though both opposition and government forces denied that.[74][75]
In June 2013, the death toll surpassed 100,000 according to the
United Nations,[48]
and reached 120,000 by September 2013.[76]
In addition, tens of thousands of protesters have been imprisoned and
there are reports of widespread
torture and terror in state prisons.[77]
International organizations have accused both government and opposition
forces of severe human rights violations.[78]
UN inspections and probes in Syria have determined that the Syrian
government's abuses are highest in frequency and largest in scale.[79][80][81]
Chemical weapons have been used in Syria on more than one occasion,
triggering strong international reactions.[82]
Background
Assad government
Syria became an independent republic in 1946, though Democratic rule
was ended by a CIA-supported coup in March 1949, followed by two more
coups that year.[83][84][85][86]
A popular uprising against military rule in 1954 saw the army transfer
power to civilians; from 1958 to 1961 a
brief union with Egypt replaced Syria's parliamentary system with a
highly centralized presidential regime.[87]
The
Ba'ath Syrian Regional Branch government came to power in 1964 after
a successful coup d'état. In 1966,
another coup overthrew the traditional leaders of the party,
Michel Aflaq and
Salah al-Din al-Bitar.[88]
General
Hafez al-Assad, the
Minister of Defense, seized power in a "corrective
revolution" in November 1970, becoming
prime minister. In March 1971, Assad declared himself
President, a position he would hold until his death in 2000. Since
then, the secular Syrian Regional Branch has remained the dominant
political authority in a virtual
single-party state in Syria, and Syrian citizens may only approve
the President by
referendum and – until the government-controlled multi-party
2012 parliamentary election – could not vote in multi-party
elections for the legislature.[89]
Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria and
Asma al-Assad, his wife - who is a British-born and British-educated
Sunni Muslim,[90]
initially inspired hopes for democratic and state reforms; a "Damascus
Spring" of intense social and political debate took place from July
2000 to August 2001.[91]
The period was characterized by the emergence of numerous political
forums or
salons, where groups of like-minded people met in private houses to
debate political and social issues. Political activists such as
Riad
Seif,
Haitham al-Maleh,
Kamal al-Labwani,
Riyad al-Turk and
Aref Dalila were important in mobilizing the movement.[92]
The most famous of the forums were the
Riad Seif Forum and the
Jamal al-Atassi Forum. The Damascus Spring ended in August 2001 with
the arrest and imprisonment of ten leading activists who had called for
democratic elections and for a campaign of civil disobedience.[93]
Demographics
Ethno-religious composition of Syria [94]
The
Assad family comes from the minority
Alawite religious group, an offshoot of
Shi'ite Islam that comprises an estimated 12 percent of the total
Syrian population.[95]
It has maintained tight control on Syria's security services, generating
resentment among some Sunni Muslims,[96]
a sect that makes up about three-quarters of Syria's population. Ethnic
minority
Syrian Kurds have also protested and complained over ethnic
discrimination and denial of their cultural and language rights.[97][98]
The Syrian government allegedly has relied mostly on Alawite-dominated
units of the security services to fight the uprising.[citation
needed] Assad's younger brother
Maher al-Assad commands the
army's elite
Fourth Armored Division, and his brother-in-law,
Assef Shawkat, was the deputy minister of defense until the latter's
assassination in the
18 July 2012 Damascus bombing.
Socioeconomics
Discontent against the government was strongest in Syria's poorer
areas, predominantly among conservative Sunnis.[99]
These included cities with high poverty rates, such as
Daraa and
Homs, rural
areas hit hard by a drought in early 2011, and the poorer districts of
large cities. Socioeconomic inequality increased significantly after
free market policies were initiated by Hafez al-Assad in his later
years, and accelerated after Bashar al-Assad came to power. With an
emphasis on the
service sector, these policies benefited a minority of the nation's
population, mostly people who had connections with the government, and
members of the Sunni merchant class of Damascus and Aleppo.[99]
By 2011, Syria was facing a deterioration in the national standard of
living and steep rises in the prices of commodities.[100]
The country also faced particularly high youth unemployment rates.[101]
Human rights
The state of human rights in Syria has long been the subject of harsh
criticism from global organizations.[102]
The country was under
emergency rule from 1963 until 2011, effectively granting security
forces sweeping powers of arrest and detention.[103]
Bashar al-Assad is widely regarded to have been unsuccessful in
implementing democratic change, with a 2010 report from
Human Rights Watch stating that he had failed to substantially
improve the state of human rights since taking power, although some
minor aspects had seen improvement.[104]
All political parties other than the Ba'ath Syrian Regional Branch have
remained banned, thereby leaving Syria a one-party state without free
elections.[103]
Rights of
free expression,
association and
assembly were strictly controlled in Syria even before the uprising.[105]
The authorities harass and imprison
human rights activists and other critics of the government, who are
oftentimes indefinitely detained and
tortured
in poor prison conditions.[105]
Women and
ethnic minorities have faced discrimination in the public sector.[105]
Thousands of
Syrian Kurds were denied citizenship in 1962 and their descendants
continued to be labeled as "foreigners".[106]
Several riots prompted increased tension in Syria's Kurdish areas since
2004.[107][108]
Occasional clashes between Kurdish protesters and security forces have
since continued.
Arab Spring
Main article:
Arab Spring
In December 2010, mass anti-government protests began in Tunisia and
later spread across the Arab world, including Syria. By February 2011,
revolutions occurred in Tunisia and Egypt, while Libya began to
experience
its own civil war. Numerous other Arab countries also faced
protests, with some attempting to calm the masses by making concessions
and governmental changes.
Uprising and
civil war
Civil uprising (March–July 2011)
The conflict initially began as a
civil uprising, evolved from initially minor protests, beginning as
early as January 2011, as a response to the regional
Arab Spring, government corruption, and human rights abuses.
Large-scale unrest began on 15 March in the southern city of Daraa,
sometimes called the "Cradle of the Revolution", and later spread
nation-wide.[109]
The government responded to the protests with large arrests, torture of
prisoners, police brutality, censorship of events, and some concessions.
However, the protests continued to grow. In late-April, Assad began
launching large-scale military operations against restive towns and
cities. The operations involved the use of tanks, infantry carriers, and
artillery, leading to a large number of civilian deaths.[110]
Insurgency
and civil war
Following military crackdowns, many soldiers defected to protect
protestors. Many protestors also began to take up arms. The conflict has
escalated into a civil war.
Advanced weaponry and tactics
Chemical weapons
Unverfied image of people in Ghouta killed by a chemical
attack in August 2013
Map of the August 2013 Ghouta chemical attacks.
The Syrian government has been accused of conducting several chemical
attacks, the most serious of them being the
2013 Ghouta attacks.
The rebels have also been accused of conducting several chemical
attacks, the most serious of which was the
Khan al-Assal chemical attack. The Khan al-Assal attack took place
On 19 March 2013, and was initially reported on Syrian state news
agency, SANA. That missiles containing "chemical materials" may have
been fired into the Khan al-Assal district in Aleppo and the Al Atebeh
suburbs of Damascus, resulting in 25 dead. Both sides immediately
accused each other of carrying out the attack, but neither side
presented clear documentation.[111][112]
Russian experts later visited the site, found samples of sarin, and
assigned responsibility for the attack to the rebels.[113]
UN weapons inspectors are also scheduled to visit the site in 2013.
On 29 April, another chemical attack was reported, this time in
Saraqib, in which 2 died and 13 were injured. On 5 May, Turkish doctors
said initial test show no traces of sarin had been found in the blood
samples of victims.[114]
French intelligence acquired blood, urine, earth and munitions samples
from victims or sites of attacks on Saraqeb, on 29 April 2013, and
Jobar, in mid April 2013. The analysis carried out confirms the use of
sarin.[115]
On 13 June, the United States announced that there is definitive
proof that the Assad government has used limited amounts of chemical
weapons on multiple occasions on rebel forces, killing 100 to 150
people.[116]
On 5 August, another chemical attack by the Syrian army was reported
by the opposition, who documented the injured with video footage. The
activists claim up to 400 people were effected by the attack in Adra and
Houma of the Damascus suburbs. The content of the chemicals used has not
been identified yet.[117]
On 21 August, Syrian activists reported that Assad regime forces
struck Jobar, Zamalka, 'Ain Tirma, and Hazzah in the Eastern Ghouta
region with chemical weapons. At least 635 people were killed in
a nerve gas attack. The Ghouta chemical attacks were confirmed after
a three week investigation conducted by the UN, who also confirmed the
main agent used in the chemical attacks was sarin gas.[118]
The Mission “collected clear and convincing evidence that
surface-to-surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used in
the Ein Tarma, Moadamiyah and Zalmalka in the Ghouta area of Damascus.”
Third party analysis of the evidence reported by the UN showed that the
sarin gas was military grade, and the rockets that delivered the sarin
were likely launched from Syrian army controlled territory.[119][120]
On September 9 Russia urged Syria to put its' chemical weapons
stockpile under international control. The initiative was expressed in
the wake of American threat of attacking Syria after the chemical attack
of August 21.[121][122]
On September 14, US and Russia announced in Geneva that they reached a
deal on how Assad should give up his chemical weapons.[123]
Cluster bombs
The Syrian army began using
cluster bombs in September 2012. Steve Goose, director of the Arms
division at Human Rights Watch said “Syria is expanding its relentless
use of cluster munitions, a banned weapon, and civilians are paying the
price with their lives and limbs,” “The initial toll is only the
beginning because cluster munitions often leave unexploded bomblets that
kill and maim long afterward.”[124]
Scud missile
attacks
In December 2012, the Syrian government began using
Scud
missiles on rebel-held towns, primarily targeting Aleppo.[125]
On 19 February, four Scud missiles were fired, three landed in Aleppo
city and one on
Tell Rifaat town, Aleppo governorate. Between December and February,
at least 40 Scud missile landings were reported.[126]
Altogether, Scud missiles killed 141 people in the month of February.[127]
The United States condemned the Scud missile attacks.[128]
On 1 March, a Scud missile landed in Iraq. It is believed that the
intention was to hit the Deir Ezzor governate.[129]
On 29 March, a Scud missile landed on
Hretan,
Aleppo, killing 20 and injuring 50.[130]
On 28 April, a Scud missile landed on Tell Rifaat, killing four, two of
them women and two of them children, SOHR reported.[131]
On 3 June a surface to surface missile, not confirmed as a Scud, hit the
village of
Kafr Hamrah around midnight killing 26 people including six women
and eight children according to
SOHR.[132]
Suicide bombings
Suicide bombings
began in December 2011; Al-Nusra Front has claimed responsibility
for 57 out of 70 similar attacks through April 2013.[68][133]
Targeting government officials, the bombings have claimed numerous
civilian casualties.[134]
The Syrian army has itself claimed to have prepared 8,000 soldiers
for suicide bombings in the event of NATO military intervention,
including 13 kamikaze pilots.[135]
Thermobaric
weapons
Thermobaric weapons, also known as "fuel-air bombs," have been used
by the government side during the Syrian civil war. Since 2012, rebels
have claimed that the Syrian Air Force (government forces) is using
thermobaric weapons against residential areas occupied by the rebel
fighters, such as during the
Battle of Aleppo and also in
Kafr Batna.[136][137]
A panel of United Nations human rights investigators reported that the
Syrian government used thermobaric bombs against the rebellious town of
Qusayr in March 2013.[138]
In August 2013 the BBC reported on the use of napalm bombs on a school
in northern Syria.[139]
Syrian government affiliated parties
Syrian Army
Main article:
Syrian Army
Shabiha
The Shabiha are unofficial pro-government militias drawn
largely from Assad's
Alawite minority group. Since the uprising, the Syrian government
has frequently used shabiha to break up protests and enforce laws
in restive neighborhoods.[140]
As the protests escalated into an armed conflict, the opposition started
using the term shabiha to describe any civilian Assad supporter
taking part in the government's crackdown on the uprising.[141]
The opposition blames the shabiha for the many violent excesses
committed against anti-government protesters and opposition
sympathizers,[141]
as well as looting and destruction.[142][143]
In December 2012, the shabiha were designated a terrorist
organization by the United States.[144]
Bassel al-Assad is reported to have created the shabiha in
the 1980s for the government use in times of crisis.[145]
Shabiha have been described as "a notorious Alawite paramilitary,
who are accused of acting as unofficial enforcers for Assad's regime";[146]
"gunmen loyal to Assad",[147]
and "semi-criminal gangs comprised of thugs close to the regime".[147]
Despite the group's image as an Alawite militia, some shabiha
operating in Aleppo have been reported to be Sunnis.[148]
In 2012, the Assad government created a more organized official
militia known as the
Jaysh al-Sha'bi, allegedly with help from Iran and Hezbollah. As
with the shabiha, the vast majority of Jaysh al-Sha'bi members
are Alawite and Shi'ite volunteers.[149][150]
Hezbollah
General Secretary Nasrallah denied Hezbollah had been fighting on
behalf of the Syrian government, stating in a 12 October 2012 speech
that "right from the start the Syrian opposition has been telling the
media that Hezbollah sent 3,000 fighters to Syria, which we have
denied".[151]
However, according to the Lebanese
Daily Star newspaper, Nasrallah said in the same speech that
Hezbollah fighters helped the Syrian government "retain control of some
23 strategically located villages [in Syria] inhabited by Shiites of
Lebanese citizenship". Nasrallah said that Hezbollah fighters have died
in Syria doing their "jihadist duties".[152]
In 2012, Hezbollah fighters crossed the border from Lebanon and took
over eight villages in the
Al-Qusayr District of Syria.[153]
Former secretary general of Hezbollah, Sheikh Sobhi Tfaili, confirmed
in February 2013 that Hezbollah was fighting for the Syrian army.[154]
On 12 May, Hezbollah, with the Syrian army, attempted to retake part
of Qusayr.[155]
By the end of the day, 60 percent of the city, including the municipal
office building, were under pro-Assad forces.[155]
In Lebanon, there have been "a recent increase in the funerals of
Hezbollah fighters" and "Syrian rebels have shelled Hezbollah-controlled
areas."[155]
As of 14 May, Hezbollah fighters were reported to be fighting
alongside the Syrian army, particularly the
Homs Governorate.[156]
and Hassan Nasrallah has called on Shiites and Hezbollah to protect the
shrine of Sayida Zeinab.[156]
President Bashar al-Assad denied in May 2013 that there were foreign
fighters, Arab or otherwise, to be fighting for the government in Syria.[157]
On 25 May, Nasrallah announced that Hezbollah is fighting in the
Syrian civil war against
Islamic extremists and "pledged that his group will not allow Syrian
militants to control areas that border Lebanon".[158]
He confirmed that Hezbollah was fighting in the strategic Syrian town of
Qusayr on the same side as
Assad's forces.[158]
In the televised address, he said, "If Syria falls in the hands of
America, Israel and the
takfiris, the people of our region will go into a dark period."[158]
Opposition affiliated parties
Syrian
National Council
Formed on 23 August 2011, the National Council is a coalition of
anti-government groups, based in Turkey. The National Council seeks the
end of Bashar al-Assad's rule and the establishment of a modern, civil,
democratic state. SNC has links with the
Free Syrian Army.
In November 2012, the council agreed to unify with several other
opposition groups to form the
Syrian National Coalition. The SNC has 22 out of 60 seats of the
Syrian National Coalition.[159]
Syrian
National Coalition
On 11 November 2012 in Doha, the National Council and other
opposition forces united as the
National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces.[160]
The following day, it was recognized as the legitimate government of
Syria by numerous Persian Gulf states. Delegates to the Coalition's
leadership council are to include women and representatives of religious
and ethnic minorities, including Alawites. The military council will
reportedly include the Free Syrian Army.[161]
The main aims of the National Coalition are replacing the
Bashar al-Assad government and "its symbols and pillars of support",
"dismantling the security services", unifying and supporting the
Free Syrian Army, refusing dialogue and negotiation with the
al-Assad government, and "holding accountable those responsible for
killing Syrians, destroying [Syria], and displacing [Syrians]".[162]
Free Syrian Army
Free Syrian Army fighters being transported by pick up truck
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is the main armed opposition in Syria. Its
formation was announced in late July 2011 by a group of defecting
Syrian Army officers. In a video, the men called upon Syrian
soldiers and officers to defect to their ranks, and said the purpose of
the Free Syrian Army was to defend civilian protesters from violence by
the state.[163]
Many Syrian soldiers subsequently deserted to join the FSA.[164]
The actual number of soldiers who defected to the FSA is uncertain, with
estimates ranging from 1,000 to over 25,000 by December 2011.[165]
The FSA functions more as an umbrella organization than a traditional
military chain of command, and is "headquartered" in Turkey. As such, it
cannot issue direct orders to its various bands of fighters, but many of
the most effective armed groups are fighting under the FSA's banner.
As deserting soldiers abandoned their armored vehicles and brought
only light weaponry and munitions, FSA adopted
guerilla-style tactics against government security forces in urban
areas. Initially, its primary target has been the
Shabiha
militias; most FSA attacks are directed against trucks and buses that
are believed to carry security reinforcements. Sometimes, the occupants
of government vehicles are taken as
hostages,
while in other cases the vehicles are attacked either with
roadside bombs or with hit-and-run attacks. To encourage defection,
the FSA began attacking army patrols, shooting the commanders and trying
to convince the soldiers to switch sides. FSA units have also acted as
defense forces by guarding neighborhoods with strong opposition
presences, patrolling streets while protests take place, and attacking
Shabiha members. As the insurgency grew, the FSA began engaging in urban
battles against the Syrian Army.
In May 2013,
Salim Idriss, one of the FSA leaders, acknowledged that rebels were
badly fragmented and lacked the military skill needed to topple the
government of President Bashar al-Assad. He said it was difficult to
unify rebels because many of them were civilians and only a few of them
had military service. Idriss said he was working on a countrywide
command structure, but that a lack of material support was hurting that
effort. He pointed out shortage of ammunition and weapons, fuel for the
cars and money for logistics and salaries. “The battles are not so
simple now,” Idriss said. “At the beginning of the revolution, they had
to fight against a checkpoint. They had to fight against a small group
of the army. Now they have to liberate an air base. Now they have to
liberate a military school. Small units can’t do that alone, and now it
is very important for them to be unified. But unifying them in a manner
to work like a regular army is still difficult." He denied any
cooperation with Al-Nusra Front but acknowledged common operations with
another Islamist group
Ahrar ash-Sham. In April the US announced it would transfer $123
million of aid through his group.[166]
Mujahideen
In September 2013, US Secretary of State John Kerry stated that
extremist groups make up 15–25 percent of rebel forces.[167]
Foreign fighters have joined the conflict in opposition to Assad.
While most of them are jihadists, some individuals, such as
Mahdi al-Harati, have joined to support the Syrian opposition.[168]
The
ICSR estimates that 2,000–5,500 foreign fighters have gone to Syria
since the beginning of the protests, about 7–11 percent of whom came
from Europe. It is also estimated that the number of foreign fighters
does not exceed 10 percent of the opposition armed forces.[169]
The European Commission expressed concerns that some of the fighters
might use their skills obtained in Syria to commit acts of terrorism
back in Europe in the future.[170]
The most significant group is
Al-Nusra Front, headed by Abu Mohammed al-Golani, which probably
accounts for up to a quarter of opposition fighters in Syria. It
includes some of the rebellion's most battle-hardened and effective
fighters, coming from Bosnia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan,
Tunisia, Palestine, Lebanon, Australia,
Chechnya, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, France,
Iraq, Spain, Denmark and Tajikistan.[171]
After the
civil war in Libya had finished, fighters from there began moving to
Syria through Turkey. It was reported by Syrian opposition that
foreigners brought heavy weapons with them, including
surface-to-air missiles. However, Libyans denied that claim.[172]
Abdulhakim Belhadj, head of the Tripoli Military Council, met with
FSA leaders near the border with Turkey. The meetings were a sign of
growing ties between new Libyan government and Syrian opposition. The
arrangements included transfers of money and weapons, as well as
training of the rebels by skilled fighters from Libya.[173]
One of the Libya's most known rebel commanders,
Mahdi al-Harati, traveled to Syria in a group of 30 fighters, to
form
Liwaa al-Umma there.[174]
In October 2012, various Iraqi religious sects join the conflict in
Syria on both sides. Radical Sunnis from Iraq, have traveled to Syria to
fight against President
Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government.[175]
Also, Shiites from Iraq, in
Babil Province and
Diyala Province, have traveled to
Damascus from
Tehran,
or from the Shiite Islamic holy city of
Najaf,
Iraq to protect
Sayyida Zeinab, an important mosque and shrine of
Shia Islam in Damascus.[175]
Hundreds of young Saudis were reported to travel through Turkey or
Jordan in order to fight against Assad in Syria. In one documented case
a judge encouraged a group of convicted young men to "fight against the
real enemy, the Shia". Most of them joined Syrian rebels. Since
convicted criminals cannot leave Saudi Arabia without Interior Ministry
permission, it is suspected that officials silently allow them to travel
to fight.[176]
Government of
Tunisia
estimated that about 800 of its citizens were fighting alongside
Islamist forces in Syria. However, unofficial sources at Interior
Ministry put the number as high as 2,000.[177]
Hundreds of Egyptian fighters are suspected to be involved in Syrian
conflict. Some of them traveled there and back several times. The
government officially confirmed 10 "martyrs".[178]
8 Spanish citizens have been arrested in
Ceuta.
These individuals have been accused of training and organising the
movement of Spaniards to fight in Syria, with the group having links to
Al-Qaeda. Some 500 European citizens, according to EU counter-terrorism
head
Gilles de Kerchove, are fighting in Syria, two British citizens and
an American woman have been killed in Syria so far.[179]
In September 2013 leaders of 13 powerful rebel brigades rejected
Syrian National Coalition and called Sharia law "the sole source of
legislation". In a statement they declared that "the coalition and the
putative government headed by Ahmad Tomeh does not represent or
recognize us". Among the signatory rebel groups were
Al-Nusra Front,
Ahrar ash-Sham and
Al-Tawheed.[180]
Al-Nusra Front
Main article:
Al-Nusra Front
The al-Nusra Front, being the biggest
jihadist group in Syria, is often considered to be the most
aggressive and violent part of the opposition.[181]
Being responsible for over 50
suicide bombings, including several deadly explosions in Damascus in
2011 and
2012, it is recognized as a terrorist organization by Syrian
government and was designated as such by United States in December 2012.[68]
In April 2013, the leader of the
Islamic state of Iraq released an audio statement announcing that
al-Nusra Front is its branch in Syria.[182]
The leader of Al Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Golani, said that the group will
not merge with the Islamic state of Iraq, but still maintain allegiance
to
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of
al-Qaeda.[183]
The relationship between the Front and the indigenous Syrian
opposition is tense, even though al-Nusra Front has fought alongside the
FSA in several battles. The Mujahideen's strict religious views and
willingness to impose
sharia law
disturbed many Syrians.[184]
Some rebel commanders have accused foreign jihadists of "stealing the
revolution", robbing Syrian factories and displaying religious
intolerance.[185]
Al-Nusra Front has been accused of mistreating religious and ethnic
minorities since their formation.[186]
The estimated manpower of al-Nusra Front is approximately
6,000–10,000 people, including many foreign fighters.[171]
Sectarianism and minorities
Map of Syria's ethno-religious composition in 1976
Both the opposition and government have accused each other of
employing sectarian agitation. The successive governments of Hafez and
Bashar al-Assad have been closely associated with the country's minority
Alawite sect of Islam, whereas the majority of the population, and
thus most of the opposition, is
Sunni, lending plausibility to such charges, even though both
leaderships claim to be secular.
Kurds
Towns under Kurdish PYD/YPG control (mouse over mark for
name)
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Kurds – mostly
Sunni Muslims, with a small minority of
Yezidis – represented 10% of Syria's population at the start of the
uprising in 2011. They had suffered from decades of discrimination and
neglect, being deprived of basic civil, cultural, economic, and social
rights.[187]:7
When protests began, Assad's government finally granted citizenship to
an estimated 200,000 stateless Kurds, in an effort to try and neutralize
potential Kurdish opposition.[188]
This concession, combined with Turkish endorsement of the opposition and
Kurdish under-representation in the Syrian National Council, has
resulted in Kurds participating in the civil war in smaller numbers than
their Syrian Arab Sunni counterparts.[188]
Consequently, violence and state repression in Kurdish areas has been
less severe.[188]
In terms of a post-Assad Syria, Kurds reportedly desire a degree of
autonomy within a decentralized state.[189]
Kurds showing their support for the PYD in Afrin during the
conflict
Since the outset of the civil war, numerous Kurdish political parties
have organised themselves into an umbrella organisation, the
Kurdish National Council. Until October 2011, most of these parties
were members of the NCC. After October 2011, only the PYD remained in
the NCC, holding a more moderate stance regarding the Assad government.
The conflict between the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and
Islamists groups such as al-Nusra Front have escalated since a group of
Kurds expelled Islamists from the border town of Ras al-Ain.[190]
Palestinians
The reaction of the approximately 500,000
Palestinians living in Syria to the conflict has been mixed.[191]
Syria's Palestinian community largely remained neutral in the early days
of the uprising.[192]
Ongoing government attacks and shelling have caused any pro-government
sympathies among the Palestinians in Syria to dwindle severely.[191]
According to the UN, 75% of the Palestinians in Syria have been affected
by the uprising, and more than 600 of them have been killed.[193]
Although many Palestinians are appreciative of the civil rights given to
them by the Syrian government, in comparison to other Arab states, these
same rights have allowed the younger generation of Palestinians to be
"raised essentially as Syrians" who "find it hard not to be swept up in
the fervor on the streets", according to the New York Times.[194]
While major Palestinian factions such as
Hamas
have turned against the Syrian government, other groups, particularly
the
PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC), have remained supportive. The
PFLP-GC has been accused by pro-rebel Palestinians of actively
participating in the conflict as secret police in the refugee camps.[194]
In late October 2012, pro-rebel Palestinians formed the so-called Storm
Brigade with the task of wresting control of the Yarmouk Camp in
Damascus from pro-government groups.[195]
Christians
Prior to the eruption of the Syrian civil war, Christian
denominations used to compose about 1.7 million people within the Syrian
population of about 22 million (roughly 9%), if including the Christian
Refugees of Iraq. The Christians of Syria are mainly composed of
Arab Christians belonging to the
Greek Orthodox Church and
Greek Catholic Church and ethnic
Assyro-Chaldeans, belonging to
Syriac Orthodox,
Assyrian Church of the East and
Chaldean Catholic Churches. Christians are generally considered to
have a favorable situation under the Assad regime, considered to be
"protector" of minorities. Numerous abuses were recorded by the
opposition forces against Christians as a result, most notably by
Mujahedeen units. Unknown, but significant numbers of Christians, have
fled the country since 2011, relocating to
Lebanon
and Europe.
International
reaction
The conflict in Syria has received significant international
attention. The
Arab League,
European Union, the United Nations,[196]
and many Western governments condemned the Syrian government's violent
response to the protests, and many expressed support for the protesters'
right to exercise
free speech.[197]
Initially, many Middle Eastern governments expressed support for Assad,
but they switched sides as the death toll mounted. Both the Arab League
and the
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation suspended Syria's membership. On
4 October 2011,
Russia
and China
vetoed a Western-drafted resolution which would have threatened the
Syrian government with targeted sanctions if it continued military
actions against protestors.[198]
Humanitarian help
The international humanitarian response to the conflict in Syria is
coordinated by the
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(UNOCHA) in accordance with
General Assembly Resolution 46/182.[199]
The primary framework for this coordination is the Syria Humanitarian
Assistance Response Plan (SHARP) which appealed for USD 1.41 billion to
meet the humanitarian needs of Syrians affected by the conflict.
[200] Official United Nations data on the humanitarian
situation and response is available at
http://syria.unocha.org/; an official website managed by UNOCHA
Syria (Amman).
US non-lethal aid to Syrian opposition forces, May 2013
Financial information on the response to the SHARP, as well as
assistance to refugees and for cross-border operations, can be found on
UNOCHA's Financial Tracking Service. As at 18 September 2013 the top ten
donors to Syria were: United States, European Commission, Kuwait, United
Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Denmark.
[201]
USAID and other government agencies in US delivered nearly $385
million of aid items to Syria in 2012 and 2013. The United States is
providing food aid, medical supplies, emergency and basic health care,
shelter materials, clean water, hygiene education and supplies, and
other relief supplies.[202]
Islamic Relief has stocked 30 hospitals and sent hundreds of
thousands of medical and food parcels.[203]
Other countries in the region have also contributed various levels of
aid. Iran has been exporting between 500 and 800 tonnes of flour daily
to Syria.[204]
Israel has granted special entry permits for over 100 wounded Syrians to
be treated at Israeli medical facilities, and has set up a field
hospital on the Syrian border.[205][206][207]
On 26 April 2013 a humanitarian convoy, inspired by
Gaza Flotilla, departed from Turkey to Syria. Called Hayat
("Life"), it is set to deliver aid items to
IDPs inside Syria and refugees in neighboring countries: Turkey,
Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.[208]
The
World Health Organization has reported that 35% of the country's
hospitals are out of service and, depending upon the region, up to 70%
of the health care professionals have fled. Cases of diarrhoea and
hepatitis-A have increased by more than twofold since the beginning of
the year. Due to the fighting the normal vaccination programs cannot be
undertaken. The displaced refugees also may pose a risk to the countries
to which they have fled.[209]
Foreign
involvement
Map of countries surrounding Syria (red) with military
involvement.
Countries that have given support to the rebels
Countries that support the Syrian government
Countries that have groups that support the
rebels and other groups that support the Syrian
government
Countries that have groups that support the
Syrian Government
The Syrian civil war has received significant international
attention, and both the Syrian government and the opposition have
received support, militarily and diplomatically, from foreign countries.
The main Syrian opposition body - the Syrian coalition receives logistic
and political support from major Sunni states in the Middle East, most
notably Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia; all the three major supporting
states however have not contribute any troops for direct involvement in
the war, though Turkey was involved in a number of border incidents with
Syrian Army; limited political support has also been provided by France,
Britain and US. The major Syrian Kurdish opposition group, the PYD, was
reported to get logistic and training support from Iraqi Kurdistan.
Islamist militants in Syria were reported to receive support from
private funders, mainly in the Persian Gulf area, as well as from
Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The major parties supporting the Syrian Government are
Iran and Hezbollah. Both of these are involved in the war politically
and logistically by providing military equipment, training and battle
troops. The Syrian government has also received arms and political
support from Russia.
Between January 2012 and September 2013, over a million videos
documenting the war have been uploaded, and they have received hundreds
of millions of views.[210]
The Wall Street Journal states that the "unprecedented confluence
of two technologies—cellphone cams and social media—has produced, via
the instant upload, a new phenomenon: the YouTube war." The New York
Times states that online videos have "allowed a widening war to be
documented like no other."[211]
Impact
Deaths
Total deaths over the course of the conflict in Syria (18
March 2011 – 1 March 2013)
Estimates of deaths in the conflict vary widely, with figures, per
opposition activist groups, ranging from 83,260 and 110,370.[35][45][49][212]
On 2 January 2013, the United Nations stated that 60,000 had been killed
since the civil war began, with UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Navi Pillay saying "The number of casualties is much higher than we
expected, and is truly shocking."[213]
Four months later, the UN's updated figure for the death toll had
reached 80,000.[214]
On 13 June the UN released an updated figure of people killed since
fighting began, the figure being exactly 92,901, for up to the end of
April 2013.
Navi Pillay, UN high commissioner for human rights, stated that:
"This is most likely a minimum casualty figure." The real toll was
guessed to be over 100,000.[48][215]
Some areas of the country have been affected disproportionately by the
war; by some estimates, as many as a third of all deaths have occurred
in the city of
Homs.[216]
One problem has been determining the number of "armed combatants" who
have died, due to some sources counting rebel fighters who were not
government defectors as civilians.[217]
At least half of those killed have been estimated to be combatants from
both sides, including more than 15,300 government soldiers. In addition,
UNICEF
reported that over 500 children had been killed by early February 2012,[218]
and another 400 children have been reportedly arrested and tortured in
Syrian prisons;[219]
both of these claims have been contested by the Syrian government.
Additionally, over 600 detainees and political prisoners are known to
have died under torture.[220]
In mid-October 2012, the opposition activist group
SOHR reported the number of children killed in the conflict had
risen to 2,300,[221]
and in March 2013, opposition sources stated that over 5,000 children
had been killed.[45]
SOHR's methodology for counting civilian victims has been questioned, as
the organisation includes opposition combatants among the number of
civilian casualties, as long as these are not former members of the
military.[222]
Refugees
Syrian refugees in Lebanon living in cramped quarters (6
August 2012).
The violence in Syria has caused millions to flee their homes. In
August 2012, the United Nations said more than one million people were
internally displaced,[223]
and in September 2013, the UN reported that more than 6.5 million
Syrians had been displaced, with 2 million fleeing to neighboring
countries and 1 in 3 refugees seeking safety in Lebanon.[224]
Others have fled to Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq. Turkey has accepted
400,000 Syrian refugees, half of whom are spread around a dozen camps
placed under the direct authority of the Turkish Government. Satellite
images confirmed that the first Syrian camps appeared in Turkey in July
2011, shortly after the towns of Deraa, Homs and Hama were besieged.[225]
On 9 October 2012, the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that
the number of external Syrian refugees stood at between 355,000 to
500,000.[226]
In September 2013, the UN stated that the number of Syrian refugees had
exceeded 2 million.[227]
Human rights
violations
Human rights violations have been committed by both the government
and the rebels. UN investigations have concluded that the government's
abuses are the greatest in both gravity and scale. U.N.
commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria. Confirms at
least 9 intentional mass killing, 2012 to mid-July 2013, identifying the
perpetrator as Syrian government and its supporters in eight cases, and
the opposition in one.[228]
Economy
By July 2013, the Syrian economy has shrunk 45 percent since the
start of the conflict. Unemployment increased fivefold, the value of the
Syrian currency decreased to one-sixth its pre-war value, and the public
sector lost 15 billion US dollars.[229][230]
Crime wave
Doctors and medical staff treating injured rebel fighters
and civilians in Aleppo
As the conflict has expanded across Syria, many cities have been
engulfed in a wave of crime as fighting caused the disintegration of
much of the civilian state, and many police stations stopped
functioning. Rates of thievery increased, with criminals looting houses
and stores. Rates of kidnappings increased as well. Rebel fighters were
sighted stealing cars and destroying an Aleppo restaurant in which
Syrian soldiers had eaten.[231]
By July 2012, the human rights group
Women Under Siege had documented over 100 cases of rape and
sexual assault during the conflict, with many of these crimes
believed to be perpetrated by the Shabiha and other pro-government
militias. Victims included men, women, and children, with about 80% of
the known victims being women and girls.[232]
Criminal networks have been used by both the government and the
opposition during the conflict. Facing international sanctions, the
Syrian government relied on criminal organizations to smuggle goods and
money in and out of the country. The economic downturn caused by the
conflict and sanctions also led to lower wages for Shabiha members. In
response, some Shabiha members began stealing civilian properties, and
engaging in kidnappings.[140]
Rebel forces sometimes relied on criminal networks to obtain weapons
and supplies. Black market weapon prices in Syria's neighboring
countries have significantly increased since the start of the conflict.
To generate funds to purchase arms, some rebel groups have turned
towards extortion, stealing, and kidnapping.[140]
Cultural heritage
The civil war has caused significant damage to Syria's cultural
heritage, including
World Heritage Sites. Destruction of antiquities has been caused by
shelling, army entrenchment and
looting
at various
tells, museums, and monuments.[233]
A group called
Syrian Archaeological Heritage Under Threat is monitoring and
recording the destruction in an attempt to create a list of heritage
sites damaged during the war and gain global support for the protection
and preservation of
Syrian archaeology and architecture.[234]
An air raid on
Syria's
famed
Krak des Chevaliers castle, a
UNESCO
World Heritage Site, has damaged one of the fortress's towers. The
footage shows a huge blast as a tower of the
Crusader castle appears to take a direct hit, throwing up large
clouds of smoke and scattering debris in the air. The
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights could not confirm direct hits on
the castle, but said there were reports of three air strikes in the area
on Friday, 11 July 2013.[citation
needed]
Art
The war has produced its own particular artwork. A late-Summer 2013
exhibition in London at the
P21 Gallery was able to show some of this work.[235]
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