If we dont end war,war will end us.

SYRIA WAR PROFILE

Syrian civil war, also referred to as the Syrian uprising, is an ongoing armed conflict in Syria, being fought between forces loyal to the Ba'ath Party government and those seeking to oust it. The conflict began on 15 March 2011 with public demonstrations as part of the wider Arab Spring Protesters demanded the end to nearly five decades of Ba'ath Party rule, as well as the resignation of President Bashar Al-Assad..

In April 2011, the Syrian government deployed the Syrian army to quell the uprising and soldiers were ordered to open fire on civilians. After months of military sieges, the protests evolved into an armed rebellion as opposition forces became increasingly armed and organized as they unified into larger groups, as well as receiving military aid from several foreign countries. However, the armed opposition remained fractured, without organized leadership. The Syrian government characterizes the insurgency as "armed terrorist groups."

The Arab League,United States, European Union states and other countries have condemned the use of violence against the protesters. China and Russia have opposed attempts to agree to a UN resolution condemning Assad's actions, and advised against sanction, saying that such methods could escalate into foreign intervention.The Arab League suspended Syria's membership over the government's response to the crisis,but sent an observer mission in December 2011, as part of its proposal for peaceful resolution of the crisis. A further attempt to resolve the crisis has been made through the appointment of Kofi Annan as a Special envoy. U.N Secretary General  Ban-ki-Moon had repeatedly stated that the Syrian conflict could emerge into an "all-out civil war".

On 15 July 2012, the International Committee of the Red Cross assessed the Syrian conflict as a "non-international armed conflict" (the ICRC's legal term for civil war), thus applying International Humanitarian Law under the Geneva Convention  to Syria.

According to various sources, including the United Nations, between 23,000 and 38,000 people have been killed, of which about half were civilians, but also including 13,600 armed combatants consisting of both the Syrian army and rebel forces and up to 2,000 opposition protesters. According to the UN, about 1.5 million Syrians have been displaced within the country.To escape the violence, tens of thousands of Syrian refugee have fled the country to neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan,Jordan,Lebanon and Turkey. Iraq has closed its border to Syrian refugees, while no Syrian refugees have yet arrived at the Israeli border.In addition, tens of thousands of protesters have been imprisoned, and there have been reports of widespread torture in the government's prisons.

International organizations have also accused the government and Shahiba of using civilians as human sheilds,of intentionally targeting civilians and of adopting a scorched earth policy.Anti-government rebels have been accused of human rights abuses as well, including torture, kidnapping, unlawful detention and execution of civilians, Shabiha, and soldiers. HRW also expressed concern at the kidnapping of Iranian nationals. The UN Commission of Inquiry has also documented abuses of this nature, and also has documentation that indicates rebel forces have been responsible for displacement of civilians.