Syrian civil war. The Syrian Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية السورية), also known as the Syrian Uprising, is an ongoing armed conflict taking place in Syria. The unrest began in the early spring of 2011 within the context of Arab Spring protests, with nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government, whose forces responded with violent crackdowns. The conflict gradually morphed from popular protests to an armed rebellion after months of military sieges.[56] By July 2013, the Syrian government was in control of approximately 30–40% of the country's territory and 60% of the Syrian population.[60] A United Nations report in late 2012 described the conflict as being "overtly sectarian in nature", between mostly Alawite government forces, militias and other Shia groups[61] fighting largely against Sunni-dominated rebel groups,[62][63] although both opposition and government forces have denied it.[64][65] Due to foreign involvement this conflict has been called a proxy war.[66]
Western spies get discreetly involved in Syria | World | DW.DE | 13.10. Experts are convinced that intelligence services are active in Syria, although Western governments have denied taking any military action there. Discretion is the primary precaution to ensure intel operations are not too widely publicized in a country that has been torn apart by violence for 18 months. It's been clear for some time that CIA agents in Turkey have been monitoring weapons transfers to Syrian rebels. Experts said they suspect the British intelligence service is also involved, observing the situation in Syria from Cyprus and passing on strategically important information to rebels. CIA activity in Turkey Syrian rebels have received weapons from foreign supporters Reports of "discreet" action by Western intelligence agencies are not surprising, according to Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, head of the Peace Policy Research Institute.
"The US intelligence agency CIA has been active for months, mainly in Turkey," he told DW. French assistance for defectors Berlin's open secret. Syrian crisis 'could kill 100,000 in next year' | World news. Lakhdar Brahimi warned that peace and security in the world would be threatened directly from Syria if there was no solution within the next few months.
Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters The international envoy to Syria has warned that as many as 100,000 people could die in the next year if a way cannot be found quickly to end the country's civil war. Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League envoy for the Syrian crisis, told reporters in Cairo on Sunday that if the crisis continued Syria would not be divided into states "like what happened in Yugoslavia" but would face "Somalisation, which means warlords, and the Syrian people will be persecuted by those who control their fate". Syrian rebels have been fighting for 21 months against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Activists say more than 40,000 people have been killed in the crisis, which began with pro-democracy protests but has morphed into a civil war. "The situation in Syria is bad. But neither side within Syria appears interested. False Flags In Syria: An Operation 50 Years In the Making? Governments Routinely Conduct Fake Terror Don’t believe all of the mainstream reports (roundup here) that the U.S. is supporting false flag attacks carried out by Al Qaeda against Syria?
The BBC reports that the British and American leaders seriously considered false flag attacks in Syria in 1957: in 1957 Harold Macmillan and President Dwight Eisenhower approved a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by Syria’s pro-western neighbours, and then to “eliminate” the most influential triumvirate in Damascus….The report said that once the necessary degree of fear had been created, frontier incidents and border clashes would be staged to provide a pretext for Iraqi and Jordanian military intervention.
Syria had to be “made to appear as the sponsor of plots, sabotage and violence directed against neighbouring governments,” the report says. It’s not just Syria. Related. U.N. Arab League envoy warns of 'Somalization of Syria' Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): The UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said he fears the country could ‘turn into a new Somalia’ if the civil war is not ended soon Brahimi said that Syria could become like Somalia where Al-Qaeda-linked militants and warlords battled for decades after the ouster of a dictator. According to Fox News, Brahimi, who, like his predecessor Kofi Annan has been unable to put an end to the conflict, warned the civil war could spiral into new levels of chaos. “The situation in Syria is very dangerous,” Brahimi said in remarks published Tuesday in the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat. “I believe that if the crisis is not solved … there will be the danger of Somalization. It will mean the fall of the state, rise of warlords and militias,” he added.
According to the report, Somalia has been mired in conflict for over two decades after warlords overthrew the east African nation’s longtime dictator in 1991 and then turned on each other.