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Syrian Civil War

Syria is nowadays a mess. The whole war within Syria is now lasting for about 2 years and 9 months. The situation is terrible and especially for the civilians. Some villages or suburbs are already closed off from the outside world for a few months. Rumours say that people inside these closed of suburbs eat grass and their pets. It was shown on a documentary of the Dutch news program Nieuwsuur, in which a Syrian rebel showed the suburb in which he lived. It was terrible, there wasn't much food and people were starving.

An estimation of the United Nations says that there died approximately 120,000 - 130,000 people because of the Syrian war. This is an enormous number which shows the scale of the war and what it has done to the population. Furthermore, there has not been significant movement in the war. Maybe the frontiers have moved a little but there has not been one side (rebels or Assad's army) which have taken over the majority of the country.


The country is divided into parts which are occupied by rebels, the government or Kurds in the North of Syria. Today the war map look like this:
                                                           FSA = Free Syrian Army
                                                           ISIS = Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

As you can see, there is no significant part which belongs to one of the groups. It is also very hard to determine the situation since there are not that many journalists in Syria. There are some reporters from the rebels or from civilians with an internet connection. One of them Skyped with Nieuwsuur, creating his energy by inserting acetone in a generator combined with oil.

To cap it all, there were chemical weapons during the war. Assad claims that they weren't used. Under supervision of the United Nations Assad says he is willing to give these weapons away and the UN will destroy them. However that is the main concern, who will destroy these weapons? Do we thrust America destroying these chemical weapons? And do we thrust Russia destroying these weapons? Which country will want to destroy the chemical weapons? That are all questions which will be answered in the future. For now, the war will not be over yet. It is an enormous mess and the end isn't in the near future.
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