2010s in Syria

The Syrian Civil War was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, which led to a series of defections, the emergence of armed opposition groups, and the civilian uprising descending into a civil war. The war lasted almost 14 years and culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Many sources regard this as the end of the civil war even though clashes have continued into 2026.

Syrian state from 1963 to 2024

2014–present military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

international embargo imposed by the United Nations during the Syrian Civil War

armed proxy conflict in Western Asia since 2013

incidents at the Israel–Syria border since 2011

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migration crisis