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By Mason Hasenfus

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The civil war started on March 15, 2011 and is still going on to this day

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The use suspected use of chemical weapons in Damascus in the year of 2013 have brought international attention

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Both sides have committed war crimes such as using chemical weapons, killing civilians, and torturing people and POWs.

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The Syrian civil war is a conflict in the nation of Syria that is fought between, rebels, the government, and some other peoples.

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The people of Syria wanted freedom from the tyranny ruled by Bashar al-Assad. But Assad put down the protest with force and brutality which led the rebels to take up arms and fight back starting the civil war.

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The U.S.A., Russia, Turkey, Iran, ISIS, and Isreal.

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The Kurdish people are a small ethnic minority. “Kurds have fought to consolidate a de facto autonomous territory in northern Syria, which have made the, alternatively friends and foes of Arab opposition groups” (CFR 22)

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