#international coalition
The violent civil war in Syria, which began as part of the Arab Spring in 2011, has been constantly developing over the past four years. It began as a conflict between Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and a group of rebels hoping to overthrow the president and his government, but soon evolved to include a wide array of forces and alliances that sometimes overlap or conflict with one another. Assad initially began fighting back with assistance from his allies, Russia, Iran…
