Syrian War
2011 - Revolt and Repression
18 March 2011: Security forces open fire on a protest in Daraa, killing four people in what activists say was the first deaths of the uprising. Demonstrations spread, as does the crackdown by Assad's forces.
June 2011: Police and soldiers in misr al-Shughour in northeastern Syria join protesters they were ordered to shoot, and the uprising claims control of a town for the first time. Elite government troops, tanks and helicopters retake the town within days.
August 2011: President Barack Obama calls on Assad to resign and orders Syrian government assets frozen.
2012: All-out war
Summer 2012: Fighting spreads to Aleppo, Syria's largest city and its former commercial capital. Over time, rebels seize control of about half of the city, but the battle there rages to this day, leaving much of Aleppo in ruins.
2013: Refugee Crisis
March 2013: That month, the number of UN-registered Syrian refugees tops 1 million, half of them children.
2013: Chemical weapons
June 5: The Syrian army recaptures the key border town of Qusayr, in an assault led by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah
August 21: the regime is accused of killing more than 1,400 people, according to the United States, with chemical weapons in two rebel-held zones near Damascus.
October 2013: Syria destroys its chemical weapons production equipment. The
number of Syrian refugees registered with the UN tops 2 million.
2014: The rise of 'Islamic State'
June 2014: So called Islamic State group, as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is now known, seizes large parts of northern and western Iraq. In control of around a third of Syria and Iraq, it declares a self-styled Islamic caliphate.
3 July 2014: Islamic State group takes control of Syria's largest oil field, al-Omar, after fierce battles with the Nusra Front, al-Qaida's branch in Syria.
19 August 2014: Islamic State militants release video of the beheading of American journalist James Foley, the first of five Westerners to be beheaded by the IS group.
24 August 2014: Islamic State fighters capture Tabqa military air base in northeastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in Raqqa province
23 September 2014: US-led coalition begins airstrikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria.
2015: Four Years On
January 2015: UN estimates Syria's conflict has killed at least 220,000 people and uprooted nearly a third of the prewar population of 23 million from their homes.
3 February 2015: IS releases a video of captured Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh being
burned to death in a cage, sparking outrage in Jordan, which launches new strikes targeting the militants.
6 February 2015: IS claims a Jordanian airstrike kills American hostage Kayla Jean Mueller. US officials later confirm her death, but say it wasn't caused by a Jordanian airstrike.
Causes and effects of the Syrian Civil War
Causes and Effects
Cause: Airstrikes and gas attacks on innocent civilians and villages.
Effect: refugees going into neighboring countries and now becoming an issue for those surrounding countries.
Cause: people protesting very friendly in front of the government because of issues with “ The president.
Effect: 5 people dead and kicks off what many people believe the war against the government and the people of Syria.
Cause: And over run country the is run by one family and is falling apart without the help of other countries.
Effect: A country that is corrupt and the government does anything they want and know one can stop them and in this case lead to alot of death
Cause: killing their own people because some don't believe the same as them
Effect : Other countries help out the civilians and bomb syria’s nuclear plants and destroy government property.
Cause; One of the fastest growing populations in the world and not enough food,water and space for all the youth the country was brining in.
Causes and Effects
Cause: Airstrikes and gas attacks on innocent civilians and villages.
Effect: refugees going into neighboring countries and now becoming an issue for those surrounding countries.
Cause: people protesting very friendly in front of the government because of issues with “ The president.
Effect: 5 people dead and kicks off what many people believe the war against the government and the people of Syria.
Cause: And over run country the is run by one family and is falling apart without the help of other countries.
Effect: A country that is corrupt and the government does anything they want and know one can stop them and in this case lead to alot of death
Cause: killing their own people because some don't believe the same as them
Effect : Other countries help out the civilians and bomb syria’s nuclear plants and destroy government property.
Cause; One of the fastest growing populations in the world and not enough food,water and space for all the youth the country was brining in.
Impact
Social
-Many injured people with not enough medical attention
-Lung problems because of the gas that was released
-A bed relationship between the people and the royal family
-people guessing on why this war inside the country started
-Lots of deaths of innocent civilians
Economic
-102 million dollars in damage so far
-Houses where destroyed and nowhere to live
-Towns that cant function anymore because of the gas
-Trade and travel routes are hard and more money lost
-All countrys money goes into the war
-The government has crashed and country is corrupt
Global
-People flee from Syria and go into neighboring countries
-This brings a big problem to neighboring counties
-Other counties spending money to help the civilians
-Like airstrikes and safe places
-The rise of Isis and helping gain power
-Many injured people with not enough medical attention
-Lung problems because of the gas that was released
-A bed relationship between the people and the royal family
-people guessing on why this war inside the country started
-Lots of deaths of innocent civilians
Economic
-102 million dollars in damage so far
-Houses where destroyed and nowhere to live
-Towns that cant function anymore because of the gas
-Trade and travel routes are hard and more money lost
-All countrys money goes into the war
-The government has crashed and country is corrupt
Global
-People flee from Syria and go into neighboring countries
-This brings a big problem to neighboring counties
-Other counties spending money to help the civilians
-Like airstrikes and safe places
-The rise of Isis and helping gain power