Get Option 1 Use The Might Of The US Military To End The Assad Regime

Though the Islamic State no longer retains control over any territory in Syria and lost its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as well as his successor, it has not been eradicated as a movement.

Support: Islamic State of Iraq (2012–2013)...Bottom: Military situation as of 9 September 2021: Date15 March 2011 – present (12 years and 3 weeks)LocationSyria (with spillovers in neighboring countries)StatusCeasefire since 6 March 2020, with sporadic clashes1 more row

Syria as a divided country: The war ended with the survival of the Assad regime and victory for the pro-Assad coalition with help from both Russia and Iran, but Assad has regained control of only 60 percent of Syrian territory and about half the population.

How did the Syrian war start? Even before the conflict began, many Syrians were complaining about high unemployment, corruption and a lack of political freedom under President Bashar al-Assad, who succeeded his father, Hafez, after he died in 2000.

In late February 2020 the conflict escalated briefly after dozens of Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike and Turkish forces retaliated directly against the Syrian army. The confrontation soon ended, however, after a general cease-fire was negotiated by Turkey and Russia a week later.

Hezbollah has long been an ally of the Ba'ath Party government of Syria, led by the Al-Assad family. Hezbollah has helped the Syrian government in its fight against the armed Syrian opposition.

Most U.S. forces are deployed in what military officials term the Eastern Syria Security Area, in support of the SDF. About 100 U.S. troops support the Syrian Free Army (formerly known as Jaysh Mughawir ath Thawra), an Arab force, at the At Tanf garrison.

Shortly after the civil war broke out in 2011, the U.S. initially supplied the rebels of the Free Syrian Army with non-lethal aid (e.g., food rations and pickup trucks), but quickly began providing training, money, and intelligence to selected Syrian rebel commanders.