Syrian Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War


00:03:30 1 Background
00:03:39 1.1 Assad government
00:05:35 1.2 Demographics
00:06:29 1.3 Socioeconomic background
00:07:48 1.4 Drought
00:08:35 1.5 Human rights
00:09:35 2 Timeline
00:11:25 3 Belligerents and foreign involvement
00:12:43 4 Advanced weaponry and tactics
00:12:54 4.1 Chemical weapons
00:14:24 4.2 Cluster bombs
00:15:12 4.3 Thermobaric weapons
00:16:41 4.4 Anti-tank missiles
00:17:32 4.5 Ballistic missiles
00:18:05 5 Media coverage
00:18:25 6 International reactions
00:19:27 6.1 Humanitarian aid
00:23:50 7 Impact
00:23:59 7.1 Deaths
00:26:58 7.2 Disease
00:28:00 7.3 Displacement and refugee migration
00:29:53 7.4 Human rights violations
00:34:30 7.5 ISIL and al-Qaeda executions
00:35:39 7.6 Sectarian threats
00:38:03 7.7 Crime wave
00:40:26 7.8 Cultural heritage
00:43:06 8 Destruction
00:43:25 8.1 Spillover
00:44:27 9 Peace efforts
00:46:22 10 Reconstruction
00:48:31 11 Depictions
00:48:40 11.1 Films
00:49:11 11.1.1 Documentaries
00:50:31 11.2 Video games



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The Syrian Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية السورية‎, al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah as-sūrīyah) is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by President Bashar al-Assad, along with domestic and foreign allies, and various domestic and foreign forces opposing both the Syrian government and each other in varying combinations.The unrest in Syria, part of a wider wave of the 2011 Arab Spring protests, grew out of discontent with the Syrian government and escalated to an armed conflict after protests calling for Assad's removal were violently suppressed. The war, which began on 15 March with major unrest in Damascus and Aleppo, is being fought by several factions: The Syrian government's Armed Forces and its international allies, a loose alliance of majorly Sunni opposition rebel groups (including the Free Syrian Army), Salafi jihadist groups (including al-Nusra Front), the mixed Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), with a number of countries in the region and beyond being either directly involved or providing support to one or another faction (Iran, Russia, Turkey, the United States, as well as others).
Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah support the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian Armed Forces militarily, with Russia conducting airstrikes and other military operations since September 2015. The U.S.-led international coalition, established in 2014 with the declared purpose of countering ISIL, has conducted airstrikes primarily against ISIL as well as some against government and pro-government targets. They have also deployed special forces and artillery units to engage ISIL on the ground. Since 2015, the U.S. has  supported the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria and its armed wing, the SDF, materially, financially, and logistically. Turkey, on the other hand, has become deeply involved against the Syrian government since 2016, not only participating in airstrikes against ISIL alongside the U.S.-led coalition, but also actively supporting the Syrian opposition and occupying large swaths of northwestern Syria while engaging in significant ground combat with ISIL, the SDF, and the Syrian government. Between 2011 and 2017, fighting from the Syrian Civil War spilled over into Lebanon as opponents and supporters of the Syrian government traveled to Lebanon to fight and attack each other on Lebanese soil, with ISIL and Al-Nusra also engaging the Lebanese Army. Furthermore, while officially neutral, Israel has conducted airstrikes against Hezbollah and Iranian forces, whose presence in southwestern Syria it views as a threat.International organizations have accused virtually all  ...