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|conflict=Syrian Civil War
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|image=[[File:Syrian civil war.png|border|410px]]
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|caption='''Current military situation:''' <span style="color:#fc0000;">''Red''</span>: [[Syrian Arab Republic|government]], <span style="color:#00fc00;">''Green''</span>: [[Syrian Opposition|opposition]], <span style="color:#fcec00;">''Yellow''</span>: [[Syrian Kurdistan|Kurds or Rojava]], <span style="color:000000;">''Black''</span>: [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]], <span style="color:#d4ba79;">''Brown''</span>: Disputed areas
|caption='''Current military situation:''' <span style="color:#fc0000;">''Red''</span>: [[Syrian Arab Republic|government]], <span style="color:#00fc00;">''Green''</span>: [[Syrian Opposition|opposition]], <span style="color:#fcec00;">''Yellow''</span>: [[Syrian Kurdistan|Kurds or Rojava]], <span style="color:000000;">''Black''</span>: [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]], <span style="color:#d4ba79;">''Striped Brown''</span>:: [[Golan Heights]] (under Israeli occupation)
<small>(For a more detailed map, see [[Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War|here]])</small>
<small>(For a more detailed map, see [[Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War|here]])</small>
|partof=the [[Arab Spring]]<br>Spillover of the [[Iraqi insurgency (2011–present)|Iraq Crisis]]
|partof=the [[Arab Spring]]<br>Spillover of the [[Iraqi insurgency (2011–present)|Iraq Crisis]]

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Syrian Civil War
Part of the Arab Spring
Spillover of the Iraq Crisis

Current military situation: Red: government, Green: opposition, Yellow: Kurds or Rojava, Black: Islamic State, Striped Brown:: Golan Heights (under Israeli occupation) (For a more detailed map, see here)
Date15 March 2011 (2011-03-15) – present
(13 years, 5 months and 6 days)
Location
Syria (with spillovers in neighboring countries)
Status Ongoing
Belligerents

Government

Iran Quds Force
Hezbollah
Others

Armed by:

Opposition

 ISIL

See: ISIL campaign

Syrian Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region Peshmerga
See: Kurdish conflict


 USA
 KSA
 Qatar
 Jordan
 Bahrain
 UAE
See: Intervention
Commanders and leaders


Strength

Syrian Armed Forces: 178,000[23]–250,000[24]

General Security Directorate: 8,000[25]

National Defence Force: 80,000[26]

Hezbollah: 8,000–10,000[27]

Ba'ath Brigades: 7,000[28][29]

al-Abbas brigade: 10,000[30] (8,000 Iraqis)[31]

Iran: 500–1,000[27]

Free Syrian Army: 40,000–50,000[32]

Islamic Front: 40,000–70,000[33]

Ahfad al-Rasul Brigade: 7,000–9,000

Authenticity and Development Front: 13,000[34]

Army of Mujahedeen: 5,000[35]–12,000[36]

Al-Nusra Front: 5,000–6,000[37]
Islamic State: 31,000[38]–50,000[39][40]

Popular Protection Units (YPG): 10,000–35,000[34][41]

Jabhat al-Akrad: 7,000[42]
Casualties and losses

Syrian government 40,438[43]–75,000[44] servicemen killed
25,927[43]–40,000[44] militiamen killed
1,000 government officials killed[45]
7,000 soldiers and militiamen and 2,000 supporters captured[43]
Hezbollah
561 killed[43]

Other non-Syrian fighters
1,854 killed[43]

49,699[43]–115,000[46] fighters killed*
979 protesters killed[47]

25,500 fighters and supporters captured or missing[43]
Unknown, at least 2,200 killed in conflict with the opposition as of June 2014[48] 921+ fighters killed (see here)

58,805[43]–74,143[49] (2,680 foreign) civilian deaths documented by opposition
57 other foreign soldiers killed


180,215[43] deaths overall documented by SOHR**
260,215 killed overall (SOHR estimate)**[43]
191,369 killed overall (end of April 2014 UN estimate)*[50]
130,000 captured or missing overall[51]


4.5 million (UN, Sep 2013) – 5.1 million (iDMC, Sep 2013) internally displaced[52][53][54]

3,000,000 refugees (by November 2013)[55]


*Number includes Kurdish and ISIS fighters whose deaths are also listed in their separate columns[43]
**Numbers include foreign fighters from both sides, as well as foreign civilians

References

  1. ^ Richard Galpin (10 January 2012). "Russian arms shipments bolster Syria's embattled Assad". BBC News. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Russian military presence in Syria poses challenge to US-led intervention". The Guardian, 23 December 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  3. ^ Roula Khalaf and Abigail Fielding-Smith (17 May 2013). "How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution". Financial Times. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  4. ^ El Deeb, Sarah (20 June 2013). "Rivalries complicate arms pipeline to Syria rebels". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  5. ^ Hassan (1 October 2013). "The Army of Islam Is Winning in Syria". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  6. ^ Vatan, 8 September 2013, 'Türkiye El Nusra'ya ağır silahlar gönderdi'
  7. ^ "U.S. weapons reaching Syrian rebels". Washington Post. September 11, 2013.
  8. ^ Sherlock, Ruth. "Libya's new rulers offer weapons to Syrian rebels". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  9. ^ "Free Syrian Army fires military chief". Al Jazeera English. 16 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  10. ^ "U.N. withdraws staffers as violence rages in Syria". Edition.cnn.com. 25 May 2013.
  11. ^ Mroue, Bassem; Suzan Fraser (2012-12-08). "Syria Rebels Create New Unified Military Command". Huffington Post. AP. Archived from the original on 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2012-12-08. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "FSA alliance pushes back against Islamic Front". The Daily Star. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  13. ^ a b c d "Leading Syrian rebel groups form new Islamic Front". BBC. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  14. ^ "Missile blast wounds Syrian rebel commander: activists". Reuters. 20 February 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
  15. ^ Reports: Bombing Kills Head of Syrian Rebel Group
  16. ^ Top Syrian rebel commander dies from wounds (Reuters), 18 November 2013
  17. ^ "Al-Nusra leader injured by regime bombardment". Facebook.com. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
  18. ^ "U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq and Pledges to Help Combat al Qaeda". United States Department of State. 10 August 2013.
  19. ^ "Kadyrov Claims Red-Bearded Chechen Militant al-Shishani Dead". ElBalad. 14 November 2014.
  20. ^ "Kadyrov Says Islamic State's Leader From Georgia Killed". Radio Free Europe. 14 November 2014.
  21. ^ "Top ISIS Leaders are Revealed". Alarabiya. 13 February 2014.
  22. ^ http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/kurdish-arab-rebel-alliance-may-be-key-to-obama-s-syrian-strategy
  23. ^ "Syria military strength detail". Global Fire Power. 27 March 2014.
  24. ^ "As Syria war enters fourth year, regime eyes victory". Times. 11 March 2014.
  25. ^ "Syria's diminished security forces". AFP. 28 August 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  26. ^ ISIS’ Iraq offensive could trigger Hezbollah to fill gap left in Syria Daily Star, 16 June 2014
  27. ^ a b From Qusair to Yabrud: Shiite foreign fighters in Syria
  28. ^ "«كتائب البعث» إلى شوارع دمشق". Al Akhbar. 14 January 2014.
  29. ^ Aron Lund (13 January 2014). "The Baath Battalions Move Into Damascus". Carnegie Endowment.
  30. ^ Syrian war widens Sunni-Shia schism as foreign jihadis join fight for shrines retrieved 5 June 2013
  31. ^ Shiite Militias Decamping From Syria to Fight in Iraq
  32. ^ Cockburn, Patrick (11 December 2013). "West suspends aid for Islamist rebels in Syria, underlining their disillusionment with those forces opposed to President Bashar al-Assad". The Independent.
  33. ^ Front to Back
  34. ^ a b "Syria crisis: Guide to armed and political opposition". BBC. 13 December 2013.
  35. ^ "Factbox: Syria's rebel groups". Reuters. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  36. ^ "Al Qaida rebels leave mass grave behind as they desert base in Syria". McClatchy. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  37. ^ "Why Is Jabhat al-Nusra No Longer Useful to Turkey?". U.S News. 11 June 2014.
  38. ^ "Islamic State fighter estimate triples - CIA". BBC. 12 September 2014.
  39. ^ "NGO: Islamic State has 50,000 members in Syria". NOW News. 19 August 2014. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 23 (help)
  40. ^ "Islamic State 'has 50,000 fighters in Syria'". Al Jazeera. 19 August 2014.
  41. ^ "Kurdish militia has 35,000 fighters: spokesman". The Daily Star. 27 December 2013.
  42. ^ Mutlu Civiroglu (11 August 2013). "Kurdish Commander: Jihadi Groups in Syria Have Hijacked FSA". Rudaw.
  43. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "More than 260 thousand killed and killed and been killed since the start of the revolution". Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  44. ^ a b More than 110 dead, thousands of regime forces during the 41 months
  45. ^ "David Cameron Offers 'Safe Passage' For Syria's Bashar Al-Assad, But Not To Britain (PICTURES)". Huffington Post. 6 November 2012.
  46. ^ With SOHR already stating that the number of government and rebel fatalities is evenly divided[1] and an upper estimate of pro-government fatalities to be 115,000,[2] a higher figure of rebels killed can be estimated to be 115,000 as well. This would be in line with SOHR's estimate that the number of combatant dead being double the documented number
  47. ^ "Syria: Opposition, almost 11,500 civilians killed". Ansamed.ansa.it. 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2013-08-27.
  48. ^ "Thousands were killed during clashes with the Islamic State". Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  49. ^ "Violations Documenting Center". Violations Documenting Center. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  50. ^ "With more than 191,000 dead in Syria, U.N. rights chief slams global 'paralysis'".
  51. ^ "Syria's Meltdown Requires a U.S.-Led Response". Washington Institute for Near East Policy. 22 March 2013.
  52. ^ "Syrian Refugees in Lebanon," The New York Times, September 5, 2013: UN says: 6.5 million displaced, of whom 2 million fled out of the country
  53. ^ "Syria: A full-scale displacement and humanitarian crisis with no solutions in sight"., iDMC, Sep 2013: 5.1 million internally displaced ("forced to flee their homes because their lives were at danger, but did not cross international borders")
  54. ^ "Dispatch: Syria's Internally Displaced Depend on Handouts"., UN, Feb 2013: 2.5 million internally displaced
  55. ^ "Syrian refugees top three million mark: UN". SBS News. AAP. 2013-11-29. Retrieved 2014-01-03.

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