Syrian Crisis

The Arab Spring in the March of 2011 ushered in a new age of open resistance to the Syrian regime. At the beginning the protester were calling for a political reforms but in the course of time it turned in the face of a aggressive crackdown into the entire nationwide uprising calling for the oust and to put an end to Bashar al-Assad presidency and his regime. Thus, according to estimation in two year of fighting around 126,000 people, with roughly 4.25 million Syrian people internally displaced and over two million Syrian had seek refugees in neighboring country like turkey, Lebanon Iraq, Jordon and Egypt to escape the war. Also some of the neighboring countries which is bordered to Syria have experienced various amount of spillover skirmishing and conflicts so it seems that these clashes threatens and undermine the region. The severe mutability of events and the complexity in astute propaganda from factual events on the ground have turned the conflict tremendously challenging for outside observers to track. Therefore, this essay will try to better explain the crisis by providing a brief explanation of how this uprising has outspread over the course of the struggle, main regional groups, and the international community involvement to put an end to this bloodiest conflict.

Introduction

Bashar al-Assad the current president of Syria came to power after his father Hafez al-Assad passed away in 2000 who ruled Syria for thirty years. When Bashar al-Assad came to power there were high expectation and hopes for reform, but he enervated political constraints and permitted some political activities. This era was called the spring of Damascus, but it did not lived long, since Assad soon turn back to authoritarian and oppressive way of rul...

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...strong supporter of Assad, and the role of Iran” as contributing factors to the intensification of the Syrian crisis(Davison). He illustrates more on the many different factors that contribute to the intensification of the Syrian War. Countries like Iran, Russia, Qatar, Suadi Arabia, Qatar, the United States, and Turkey are trying to pursue their own self interest from this war, and the United Nation Security Council, which is made of these countries due to Russia and China fails to make a resolution and intervene in Syria to end the war. President Obama has also not been able to provide a strong proof of the use of Chemical weapons by Assad’s regime, to have a legitimate reason for intervening in Syria. On the other hand the opposition groups do not want to attend the U.S. and Russian suggested conference for negotiation between the opposition and Bashar al-Assad.