The Syrian civil war is an ongoing armed conflict in Syria between forces loyal to the Syrian Baath party government and those seeking to oust it. The conflict began on 15 March 2011, with popular demonstrations that grew nationwide by April 2011. The protesters demanded the resignation of President Assad whose family has held the presidency in Syria since 1971, as well as the end to over four decades of Ba'ath Party rule.The Baath party, which are socialists, are currently in control of syrian govenment. President Assad, who is a dictator, has lots of enemies that think he is the problem. One of Assad's enemies is the U.S. govenment. The U.S. thinks Assad is responsible for all that is happening right now and they only way to cure it is get rid of him. At least 60,00 people have been killed, and many more will probably be. Syrian government were accused of crime against humanity. shooting into crowds, tourture, bombing cities. 4,000,000 people displaced from their homes, and rising. Including lots of children without parents. Alot of people have also fled the country to neighboring countries to be safe.tens of thousands of protesters have been imprisoned and there were reports of widespread tourture and psychological terror in state prisons.International organizations have accused both government and opposition forces of severe human rights violations.However, human rights groups report that the majority of abuses have been committed by the Syrian government's forces, and UN investigations have concluded that the government's abuses are the greatest in both gravity and scale.
Obama has long sought to keep the United States out of what would likely be an attention-consuming, domestically unpopular, and ultimately inconclusive US intervention in Syria's civil war. But with the war reaching new levels of violence and now seriously threatening to spill over into a regional conflict, the president may have little choice but to reverse course and intervene in some way.
Obama has long sought to keep the United States out of what would likely be an attention-consuming, domestically unpopular, and ultimately inconclusive US intervention in Syria's civil war. But with the war reaching new levels of violence and now seriously threatening to spill over into a regional conflict, the president may have little choice but to reverse course and intervene in some way.