Question: What was the name of the conflict that arose between rebel groups such as the Free Syrian Army and the government of President Bashar al-Assad?
Context: The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is a group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  Using spamming, website defacement, malware, phishing, and denial-of-service attacks, it has targeted political opposition groups, western news organizations, human rights groups and websites that are seemingly neutral to the Syrian conflict.  It has also hacked government websites in the Middle East and Europe, as well as US defense contractors.  s of 2011 the SEA has been "the first Arab country to have a public Internet Army hosted on its national networks to openly launch cyber attacks on its enemies". Harakat Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya (), commonly referred to as Ahrar al-Sham, is a coalition of multiple Islamist and Salafist units that coalesced into a single brigade and later a division in order to fight against the Syrian Government led by Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War.  Ahrar al-Sham was led by Hassan Aboud until his death in 2014.  In July 2013, Ahrar al-Sham had 10,000 to 20,000 fighters, which at the time made it the second single most powerful unit fighting against al-Assad, after the Free Syrian Army.  It was the principal organization operating under the umbrella of the Syrian Islamic Front and was a major component of the Islamic Front. The Free Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي الحر‎ ‎ , "Al-Jayš Al-‘Irāqī Al-Ḥurr", "FIA") was a Sunni rebel group formed in the western Sunni-majority provinces of Iraq from Iraqi supporters of the Free Syrian Army rebels fighting in the Syrian Civil War.  The group aimed to overthrow the Shia-dominated government of Iraq, believing that they would gain support in this from Syria should the rebels be successful in overthrowing Bashar al-Assad.  An Iraqi counterterror spokesman denied this, saying that the name is merely being used by al-Qaeda in Iraq to "attract the support of the Iraqi Sunnis by making use of the strife going on in Syria." The 18 March Division is a rebel group part of the Free Syrian Army that is active during the Syrian Civil War.  It was named after the 18 March 2011 protests in Daraa.  It was created on 11 April 2013 by colonel Mohammed Khaled al-Duhni out of three units.  On 18 July 2013, the Southern Tawhid Brigade, one of the affiliated groups, left the 18 March Division following internal disputes.  It joined the Southern Front on 14 February 2014. Turkey that had had a relatively friendly relationship with Syria over a decade prior to the start of the civil unrest in Syria in the spring of 2011, condemned the Syrian president Bashar Assad over the violent crackdown on protests in 2011 and later that year joined a number of other countries′ demand that he resign.  In the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, Turkey trained defectors of the Syrian Army on its territory, and in July 2011, a group of them announced the birth of the Free Syrian Army, under the supervision of Turkish intelligence.  In October 2011, Turkey began sheltering the Free Syrian Army, offering the group a safe zone and a base of operations.  Together with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey has also provided the rebels with arms and other military equipment.  Tensions between Syria and Turkey significantly worsened after Syrian forces shot down a Turkish fighter jet in June 2012, and border clashes erupted in October 2012.  On 24 August 2016, the Turkish armed forces began a declared direct military intervention into Syria pursuing as targets both ISIL and the Kurdish-aligned forces in Syria. The Battle of Aleppo (Arabic: معركة حلب‎ ‎ ) was a major military confrontation in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, between the Syrian opposition (including the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other Sunni groups, such as the Levant Front and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front), against the government of Bashar al-Assad, supported by Hezbollah, Shia militias and Russia, and against the Kurdish People's Protection Units.  The battle began on 19 July 2012 and was part of the ongoing Syrian Civil War.  A stalemate that had been in place for four years finally ended in July 2016, when Syrian government troops closed the rebels' last supply line into Aleppo with the support of Russian airstrikes.  In response, rebel forces launched unsuccessful counteroffensives in September and October that failed to break the siege; in November, government forces embarked on a decisive campaign that resulted in the recapture of all of Aleppo by December 2016.  The Syrian government victory was widely seen as a potential turning point in Syria's civil war. Early insurgency phase of the Syrian Civil War lasted from late July 2011 to April 2012, and was associated with the rise of armed oppositional militias across Syria and the beginning of armed rebellion against the authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic.  Though armed insurrection incidents began as early as June 2011 when rebels killed 120-140 Syrian security personnel, the beginning of organized insurgency is typically marked by the formation of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on 29 July 2011, when a group of defected officers declared the establishment of the first organized oppositional military force.  Composed of defected Syrian Armed Forces personnel, the rebel army aimed to remove Bashar al-Assad and his government from power. The Syrian Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية السورية‎ ‎ , "Al-ḥarb al-ʼahliyyah as-sūriyyah") is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought primarily between the government of President Bashar al-Assad, along with its allies, and various forces opposing the government. The Battle of al-Bab was a battle for the city of al-Bab in the Aleppo Governorate that included a military offensive launched by Syrian rebel groups (including groups affiliated with the Free Syrian Army) and the Turkish Armed Forces north of al-Bab, a separate Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) offensive east and west of the city, and another Syrian Army offensive from the south of the city.  The northern Turkish-led forces intended to capture al-Bab from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as part of the Turkish military intervention in Syria.  By the end of the battle, the Turkish-led forces had captured al-Bab, Qabasin, and Bizaah, while the Syrian Army captured Tadef and other areas further south, with the SDF making gains further to the east and the west. The Free Syrian Army (Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر‎ ‎ , "al-Jaysh as-Sūrī al-Ḥurr "; abbreviated FSA) is a faction in the Syrian Civil War.  It was founded on 29 July 2011 by officers who defected from the Syrian Armed Forces who said their goal was to bring down the government of Bashar al-Assad.
Answer: Syrian Civil War