Could anyone summarize for me the syrian conflict?

Russians, Americans, Assad and ISIS a shit.

Tyre wouldn't join Alexander, so he made an example of them.

#justislamthings

it started with the arab spring
americans thought they could use it as a springboard to dispose dictakers not to their liking

they succeeded mostly such as egypt libya, one dude left

Your average, normal authoritarian Arab dictator vs. some more moderate Democratic forces vs. other "moderate" Islamists vs. communist Kurds vs. full-blown beheading Islamofacists + countless meddling from outside foreign powers and bordering states.

>>77578948
it's a shitfest

oil pipe that means Saudis can sell oil to Europe is in Syria

oil is biggest export of Russia to Europe

America supports Saudi Arabia

>>77578948
We won )

>>77579233
bravo

It started in 2011 with protests and barely any armed revolt with the Arab spring in full swing. But, the protests grew worse and worse and of course others saw this, placed their bets and armed people. It looked quite dire for Assad, as he didn't have much allies then. Over time the rebels began taking ground, and new groups saw opportunity. Islamic groups. Slowly but surely Saudi funded so many pro Sharia groups that would obbay only Saudi once they established rule in Syria. Then, a group which already had power in Iraq was also drawn to the conflict, that is ISIL or ISIS. It felt like Assad was sure to crumble. But to who. The Saudi funded groups had a lot of power at this point, especially Al Queada wings, such as the HTS . Meanwhile the Kurds also rose up, forming a new coalition which despite what Turks say, has a lot of Arabs in it. The Kurds formed the SDF are mostly led by the YPG militia, a secular, somewhat communist militia. They mostly got in conflict with ISIS, and less so with Assad. The picture you have there is kobane, which was where the Kurds got pushed to while isis was winning, literally on the border of Turkey. But they managed to defend it with outside help. Meanwhile, Assad got allies, Iranian allies. A large portion of Assads army began relying on those, the commander's especially as Hezbollah for example, a Lebanese Iranian shia militia was experienced in conflict. Then Russia came, the war truly turned, the rebels lost Aleppo and the a lot of land elsewhere, most of rebel territories are now in control of Saudi backed islamists such as al Nursa, especially the HTS, who by the way do not enjoy presence of other group's and just a week ago they lost a lot of men not fighting Assad but other islamists who are also backed by Saudi, Iraq almost kicked ISIS out, ISIS Lost a large part of the Syrian desert to the government , got pushed from kobane all the way to raqqa, their de facto Syrian capital, now encircled by Kurds

>>77579604
So now Assad holds a lot of power but while the Kurds aren't currently at war with Assad what happenes after ISIS and the"moderate" islamists are gone is a mystery. Oh also Turkish backed forces who are anti Assad control one area in the north which comes in conflict with the Kurds, it is likely that the government will not attack the Kurds till they are done with them

>>77579233
Clusterbombing civilians just because one of them is in ISIS isnt winning Vladislav.
Anyone can do that.

>>77578948
Lots of facions pew pew each other.
Assad has killed the most poeple by far.
isis comes in second.
Rebels third and SDF last.
http://syria.liveuamap.com/ check everyday :)

>>77578948
Its quite fucked up so let me summarize: Evil whities

>>77578948
They couldn't get Fallout 4 on steam while it was on sale

Russia supports a dictator that supports their needs whilst fighting ISIS, and rebels. Whilst America supports the rebels as well as openly fighting ISIS.
It's just cold war-era proxy war

sandniggers gonna sandnig

>>77580689
Finland had a civil war at one point of history too, quite barbaric, didn't they execute 80% of the prisoners?

Anglo-American empire want more oil.

>>77578948
Its airways is safer than going through Ukrainian skies :(

>syrian civil war
>everyone fighting is a non-syrian

America bombd Afghanistan and Iraq.
The terrorists flee to Syria.
They bomb some groups in society until a war starts.
They claim some piece of land.

Then there is a block with Syria, Iran and Russia vs rebels, nato and Saudi Arabia vs IS and Saudi Arabia.

>>77580848
>Finland had a civil war at one point of history too
99 years ago.

>didn't they execute 80% of the prisoners?
No.

>>77581001
And now ISIS is losing. The terrorists have nowhere to go. So they are forced to flee to Europe as refugees.

Which will be lots of fun.

>>77581039
So what if it was 99 years ago. It was caused by political turmoil. Same with the middle East in 2011, not much to do with religion other than when the US stated sending weapons to Al Nursa wings

USA/Saudi/Israel/others want Assad bumped off
Russia and Iran don't want him bumped off

The worst groups get empowered and hundreds of thousands of people die

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>>77578948
>Secular nationalist Baath party rules Syria for 50 years
>Kurds, Sunni Islamists, and liberals want more power
>All 3 begin protesting at the start of the Arab Spring in 2011
>Islamists and liberal militias join together in the loose Free Syrian Army
>Many generals and soldiers defect, it's a civil war.
>Rebels, backed by US, Turkey, and Saudi, overwhelm the Baath government and seize majority of Syrian territory except Damascus (capital), Latakia (Russian naval base), and Kurdistan
>Syrian Arab Army abandons holdings in Kurdish territories to defend Damascus and Latakia, YPG is formed by Kurdish commies to defend their land
>Government takes back most territory but can't overcome the rebels. Stalemate.
>BOOM ISIS in 2014, black-clad demons from hell swarm through eastern Syria, cutting YPG territory in half and absorbing many other Islamist groups
>YPG successfully beat back ISIS, impressing the world and winning them an alliance with the USA
>Russia starts helping Syrian government big-time, breaking the stalemate and allowing the Syrian government to take all rebel territory except Aleppo and Idlib
>Russia leaves Syria. SAA tries to take Aleppo but fails.
>Turkey freaks out at YPG and sends Arab regiments from the old FSA to take Kurdish territory, but this just leads to a Turk/YPG stalemate
>Russia sends troops once again and lends heavy air support, allowing Syrian government to take back Aleppo despite Western and Saudi autistic screeching
>Despite fighting Turkey on the other side, YPG starts taking non-Kurdish territory held by ISIS and other Islamist rebels and forms the multi-ethnic Syrian Democratic Forces
>Syrian government unwisely uses poison gas in some conflicts, causing Trump to have an autistic fit and kill random SAA troops.
>SAA and YPG slowly mop up Islamist territory as US abandons support for Islamists and they begin to fight among themselves

It's mostly confusing because USA supports multiple sides of a 4-sided conflict

>>77581825
>good post
Why are Commie Kurds so based?

>>77578948
Syrian revolt for mixed reasons during 'arab spring'
Turkey supply turkmen rebels on border, attack kurdish forces attacking ISIS further along the border.Isis crops up and starts doing their thing. Assad fights back and people bitch about how the poor rebels are innocent victims. Americans invaded in all but name and start attacking anything near their totally legit and legal control zones. Russia help assad, get bitched at.

>>77580304
Damn that is quite the daily battle after years of conflict. How does the factions afford all those ATGMs that can blow up Leopard 2 and artillery anyway?
I thought those things cost hundreds of thousands and the munitions depot would be empty after years of war.

>>77582303
Why even wondering they are getting resupplied.
The battles aren't large scale mostly, it's just getting control of villages and the occasional government/Kurdish offensive like Hezbollah is doing right now

>>77582798
They need cash to afford those supplies from arms dealers, its not like they can just call Shell or Saudi Aramco to pick up crude oil from the wells captured.
Even African warlords need diamond mines and ivory to fund their fight.

>West wants pipeline
>Assad doesn't allow
>West funds terrorists to overthrow him
>the plan backfires and the terrorists attack the west
>fund moderate rebels to fight them
>turns out they're terrorists too
>bomb everything instead

>>77582958
They get donations basically in exchange they're fighting Assad. There's a reason Islamic groups survive longer than liberal ones in the"FSA" and its Saudi donations

>>77583307
Man I'm really glad China just buys everything instead of using entire nations like chess pawns and turning it upside down.

>>77579719
bad bait try harder erdogan
>the plan backfires and the terrorists attack the west
everything goes exactly like planned