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In December 2010, a 26-year-old Tunisian neighborhood vendor's self-immolation triggered protests that pass on from his hometown in Sidi Bouzid to locations in the united states. Another month, on January 14, the country's autocratic chief executive, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, fled the united states. This would be the start of what became known as the "Arab Spring", which in the end noticed anti-government protests responded to with assault, reform, or both in countries across the Midsection East. In Syria, the protests that started out as soon as January 2011 and increased in strength the next March devolved into a complicated armed conflict which involves multiple armed organizations and continues to this day. Just like the other dictators, Bashar al-Assad experienced popular presentations against his program at the level of the Arab Spring, but he steadfastly refused to step down from electric power, and the protests against him and his administration quickly turned violent, which eventually enveloped Syria in a civil warfare that has already killed over 400,000, created over four million refugees, and shows no signs of ending anytime soon. Furthermore, on August 21, 2013, a chemical weapon attack outside of the capital city Damascus kept around 1,500 civilians useless, and anti-Assad factions in Syria, as well as foes of the Assad program far away, have blamed the Syrian program for the strike, while Assad promises his foes are responsible. Although seeing and experiencing about events far away afflicted by the Arab Spring most definitely helped encourage Syrian demonstrators, there are a number of other factors that contributed to the warfare, from international jihadist organizations to the elements (from 2006-2011, a severe drought helped result in increased urbanization, with a substantial activity of the country's populace moving from rural into urban areas and a matching worsening of socio-economic conditions). There was also a decrease in oil creation from 548,000 barrels each day (bpd) in 2000 to 380,000 bpd in '09 2009. At that time, the failure to find new deposits recommended an expected extended decrease. Opposition to Assad's rule also already been around; there have been people disappointed with extended limitations on freedoms and his failing to implement promised reform. This included the release of the "Damascus Spring" in the beginning of Assad's tenure, which engaged state-sanctioned cultural and political argument but was in the end suppressed. There was also significant opposition among Sunni Islamists who hadn't forgotten the dangerous 1982 crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in Hama by Hafez al-Assad. Over five years later, Syria remains a flashpoint and an international turmoil. The major questions that matter the continuing future of Syria are whether Assad will virtually and politically make it through the civil warfare, and what Syria's future will be in the wake of the civil warfare. Answering these questions requires a knowledge of Assad's religious sect, the Alawites, the regional strife among Sunni and Shiite countries, Arab nationalism, and the Assad family all together. The Syrian Civil Warfare: The History of the 21st Century's Deadliest Discord talks about the still-raging warfare and how it's been fought.
