Le conflit syrien pour les nuls
- Brief reminder: Syria before 2011
- How did it all start? How did this come to happen?
- Why did the Syrian people protest?
- What has ignited the fire?
- The protestors took up arms. Wasn’t that a crazy decision?
- Then was it more of a civil war than a revolution?
- Isn’t there also a confessional dimension to the conflict?
- How did the government lose control of parts of the territory?
- We’re a long way from the movement of 2011!
- On the ground: Who’s fighting who? Who controls what?
- The 4 principal forces on the ground
- On the political chessboard: understanding who is disputing Syria
- 1. The regime in Damascus
- 2. The political opposition
- 3. The emergence and development of Daech
- 4. The Syrian Kurds
- The victims of the conflict : who’s killing who?
- The destruction of the health system
- A diminishing population, displaced persons
- A lost generation?
- The cost of destruction
- A devastated economy
- A ransacked cultural heritage
- The civilian population: How do the Syrian people carry on during the crisis?