Syria Timeline
- 1. SYRIA : THE TIME-LINE Crisis Management | Team: Agents 006 Lab Andromache Efstathiou Eleni Georgiou Maria Eleni Karakosta Lamprini Tsiligianni Maria Staikopoulou Amalia Stavropoulou
- 2. 29 April 2011 18 August 2011 August 2013 The rebels rebel against Assad. 里he operation is brutally stifled by the Assad government. Obama and Western allies urge Assad to resign. The Syrian government is accused of using chemical weapons, thus violating the terms set by the US for intervention in such a case.
- 3. 14 September 2013 23 September 2014 October 2016 US-Moscow agreement, where Russia is Assad's main financier, so as him to stop the purchase of chemical weapons. Arabs and US invade Syrian airspace against ISIS, and Americans send 2,000 troops to Syria. US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurds and Syrians, run by some Kurdish civil protection units, called People's Protection (YPG). Its an army of 50,000 men with US education, intelligence, air support and guns.
- 4. 7 April 2017 14 April 2018 The first direct US attack on Assad in Idlib, where Assad is alleged to have used chemicals. This is Trump's first major military decision since taking over his presidency. England, France and the US attack, as retaliation for Assad's alleged use of chemicals in the city of Douma. Trump announces he will withdraw 2,000 troops from Syria, claiming that ISIS has been defeated. This finds the English, Russian and Germans opposed and the Russians and Turks agree. 7 August 2019 Turks and US sign agreement on joint administration of the dead zone between the Turkish border and the areas controlled by the YPG, which the Turks consider a terrorist organization. 19 December 2018
- 5. The US and Turkey agreed to a 5-day (120-hour) ceasefire. Of particular interest is the fact that the United States has been labeled a "ceasefire" and the Turks a "pause". Germany's defense minister has suggested that the area of northern Syria should be under international control. At the same time, hundreds of trucks with US troops have crossed into Iraq, making the largest withdrawal of US forces from Syria. Iraq, for its part, says the Americans are not allowed to be in Iraqi territory. 6 October 2019 9 October 2019 Last Week Washington announces that US forces will withdraw from the border for a long-planned Turkish operation, a statement confirmed by Tayyip Erdogan the next day. The Pentagon is attempting to reintroduce Trump's statement by saying that the US does not support any Turkish attack on Syria. Turkey has launched the operation Peace Spring with Syrian rebel allies. It is an invasion of northeastern Syria with the aim of driving out the SDFs and creating a safe / empty 30km zone where they will place Syrian refugees. The Turks consider the YPG (the Kurdish administration of the SDFs) to be a terrorist organization motivated by the US and the European Union.