ABSTRACT
The civil war in Syria, which has lasted for three years, has caused the devastation of the country, the death of more than two hundred thousand people and a refugee crisis involving half of the population. The conflict, still ongoing at the time of writing, caused the division of the country into three entities: a Syrian regime territory in the west, a concentration of several Sunni opposition groups in the north and a small Kurdish territory in the northeast. Several territories such as the Aleppo suburbs in the north and Quneitra in the south are still contested. The wave of uprisings that swept the Arab world at the beginning of 2011 arrived in Syria in March, through the domino effect of the “Arab Spring.”
