Syria: A Nation Torn with No End in Sight
What started out as a popular uprising twelve years ago has become a full-blown proxy/civil war in Syria. The uprising that was meant to topple the dictatorship and one-party state of President Bashir al-Assad has become a full-blown civil war with regional and world powers supporting different sides. Iran and Russia support the Assad Regime while the United States, Türkiye and their North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) support the “rebels”. On the ground the civil war has become even more complex with splintering disagreements between Ankara and Washington over military and financial aid to the Kurdish militant groups the PKK and the YPG.1The armed groups based in Syria and fighting the regime in Damascus is accused by Türkiye, of being terrorists and having separati...