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Syrian Civil War
Part of the Arab Spring and spillover of the Iraqi insurgency
Clockwise from top left: Destroyed vehicles in Aleppo; refugee camp on the Turkish border; artillery firing on Homs; victims of the Ghouta chemical attack. (For a war map of the current situation, see here)
Date 15 March 2011 (2011-03-15) – present (13 years, 9 months, 1 week and 3 days) Location Syria (with spillovers in neighboring countries) Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Government Armed Forces NDF Ba'ath Brigades PLA  Iran Quds Force Basij Pro-government Hezbollah Al-Abbas brigade Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq PFLP–GC Others Armament Support:  Russia  Iraq	Opposition Islamic Front Free Syrian Army SRF Al-Nusra Front Islamic State of Iraq (until 2014) Others Armament Support:  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Turkey  United States  Libya Intervention (against Islamic State)  United States  Saudi Arabia  Qatar  Jordan  Bahrain  UAE	2013–14:  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant See: IS campaign
Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) YPG Jabhat al-Akrad Others Armament Support:  Iraqi Kurdistan See: Kurdistan conflict		2014–present:  Islamic State
Commanders and leaders
Bashar al-Assad(President of Syria, Commander-in-Chief) Maher al-Assad(Commander of the 4th Armoured Division) Fahd Jassem al-Freij(Minister of Defense) Dawoud Rajiha †(Former Minister of Defense) Assef Shawkat †(Deputy Minister of Defense) Ali Abdullah Ayyoub(Chief of Staff of the SAA) Issam Hallaq(Chief of Staff of the Air Force) Ghassan Ismail(General of the Air Force Intelligence Unit) Mohammad al-Shaar (WIA)(Minister of Interior) Hassan Nasrallah(Secretary General of Hezbollah) Qasem Soleimani(Commander of Quds Force) Ahmed Jibril(Secretary General of PFLP-GC) Salih Muslim Muhammad(Leader of the Democratic Union Party) Sipan Hemo(Commander of the People's Protection Units)	Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir(Chief of Staff of the FSA) Salim Idris(Former Chief of Staff of the FSA; dismissed) Riad al-Asaad (WIA)(Former Chief of Staff of the FSA; dismissed) Mustafa Al-Sheikh(Former head of the FSA's Military Council; dismissed) Jamal Maarouf(Leader of Syria Revolutionaries Front) Ahmed Issa al-Sheikh(Leader of the Islamic Front) Abu Omar Hureitan(Deputy Leader of the Islamic Front) Zahran Alloush (WIA)(Head of military operations of the Islamic Front) Hassan Aboud †(Head of the political bureau of the Islamic Front) Abdul Qader Saleh †(Former top Commander of Al-Tawhid Brigade) Abu Mohammad al-Golani (WIA)(Leader of Al-Nusra Front)	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi(Caliph of the Islamic State) Abu Omar al-Shishani(Field Commander) Abu Mohammad al-Adnani(Spokesperson) Abu Muslim al-Turkmani(Deputy, Iraq) Abu Ali al-Anbari(Deputy, Syria) Abu Bakr al-Iraqi ("Haji Bakr") †(Commander) Abu Ayman al-Iraqi(Commander)
Strength
Syrian Armed Forces: 178,000–250,000 General Security Directorate: 8,000 National Defence Force: 80,000 Hezbollah: 8,000–10,000 Ba'ath Brigades: 7,000 al-Abbas brigade: 10,000 (8,000 Iraqis) Iran: 500–1,000 Popular Protection Units (YPG): 10,000–35,000 Jabhat al-Akrad: 7,000	Free Syrian Army: 40,000–50,000 Islamic Front: 40,000–70,000 Ahfad al-Rasul Brigade: 7,000–9,000 Asala wa al-Tanmiya Front: 13,000 Army of Mujahedeen: 5,000–12,000 Al-Nusra Front: 5,000–6,000	Islamic State: 31,000-50,000
Casualties and losses
Syrian government 40,438–75,000 soldiers and policemen killed 25,927–40,000 militiamen killed 1,000 government officials killed 7,000 soldiers and militiamen and 2,000 supporters captured Hezbollah 561 killed Other non-Syrian fighters 1,854 killed	Syrian rebels: 49,699–115,000 At least 3,000 rebels killed fighting the Islamic State (as of June 2014) 979 protesters killed 25,500 opposition fighters and supporters captured or missing	Islamic State: Unknown, at least 2,200 killed in battles against the opposition as of June 2014
Kurds: At least 597 fighters killed (see here) 58,805–74,143 (2,680 foreign) civilian deaths documented by opposition 52 other foreign soldiers killed 180,215 deaths overall documented by SOHR* 260,215 killed overall (SOHR estimate)* 191,369 killed overall (end of April 2014 UN estimate)* 130,000 captured or missing overall 4.5 million (UN, Sep 2013) – 5.1 million (iDMC, Sep 2013) internally displaced 3,000,000 refugees (by November 2013) *Numbers include foreign fighters from both sides, as well as foreign civilians

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