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Introduction
This war details during its great period of existence several fundamental characters that participate in it. Armed groups rebelled against the regime of Bashar-al-Assad, president of the government of Syria. However, there is a Kurdish militia, armed groups that defend the autonomy of the Kurdish people. In addition to the fact that in the Islamic State there is a terrorist group that defends the imposition of an Islamic caliphate. -
THE REVOLUTION
In the beginning, normally the Syrians used to demonstrate peacefully; You didn't get it, the detention and torture of several adolescents in DERAA triggered the revolution in the entire country. This harsh repression against the protests causes the Free Syrian Army to be born. Western countries, Persian Gulf monarchies and Turkey support this opposition. -
THE FIGHT IN ALEPO
The revolution became an open war in 2012. The United Nations Organization is preparing the first peace negotiations, but it does not have the expected results and it fails. The Free Syrian Army takes over Aleppo, which is a commercial capital of Syria. This battle lasted for a little over 4 years, being a symbol of rebel resistance. -
RADICAL ISLAMISTS
The Syrian regime has launched a chemical weapons attack on a Damascus neighborhood controlled by so-called rebels. The pressure of the international community on the government of Bashar-al-Assad increased. While among the rebels the influence of radical Islamist groups grew, who confronted both the regime and the Kurds and the rebels themselves. -
THE CALIPHATE IS PROCLAIMED BY THE ISLAMIC STATE
The Islamic State was able to conquer the city of Al Raqa, which at that time had been controlled by the rebels, and it was proclaimed as a capital of their caliphate. The United States led an international coalition with the support of the Kurdish militias; for which it bombed the territory controlled by IS, which extended into the territories of Iraq. -
THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION
The rebels besieged the city of Idlib and the province of Lakatia, one of the strongholds of the government, got a big threat from them. Russia decided to intervene and supported the Syrian regime by bombing rebel and terrorist groups, since two Russian military bases were in Lakatia. -
THE INTERVENTION OF TURKEY
The Syrian regime launched an offensive on Aleppo until it completely expelled and banished the rebels in December, after 4 years of war. At the same time, a coalition of Kurdish and rebel forces managed to expel the Islamic State from the city of Manbij, a city near Turkey. Therefore, Turkey launched its first operation on Syrian territory. -
WEAKENING OF THE ISLAMIC STATE
The main allies of the Syrian regime, Russia and Iran, held talks with Turkey with the purpose of finding a solution to the conflict, outside the UN peace negotiations. The Kurdish militias recovered Al Raqa, reducing the territory controlled by the Islamic State. -
IDLIB ACTION
Turkey launched its second operation to expel Kurdish militias from the Afrin border region. The Deraa rebels surrendered after an offensive by the regime with the support of the Russian air force. Idlib became the last province fully controlled by the rebel groups, with fewer and fewer forces to continue the conflict. -
CEASEFIRE
Russia and Turkey, as allies of the Al-Assad regime and the rebels, agreed to a ceasefire in Idlib after weeks of tension in the area. This agreement put an end to the regime's great offensive to recover the rebel stronghold, causing the displacement of millions of people for a period of 3 to 4 months. This ceasefire represented a tense peace in which it was not known when the conflict would begin again.