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Issues

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The whole article needs a rewrite, it for example lists allied forces as bellingerents. And it's locked so that nobody can actually do anything to deal with its problems.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.78.207.102 (talk) 07:02, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose that just as consensus can change, so can allies change. Feel free to use {{Edit semi-protected}} here to suggest specific edits. – wbm1058 (talk) 01:13, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, needs to be re-written. Starting with the title that reads "CIVIL" war. When foreign forces unlawfully invade and annihilate your country, it is not a civil war. It is a hostile and aggressive attack we call today terror. Calling it a "civil" war is a misleading political statement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.70.29.185 (talk) 09:22, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It's quite common for foreign forces to intervene in a civil war. That doesn't (necessarily) change the internal aspect of the war. — kwami (talk) 08:19, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I would support the notion that this was not a civil war but a proxy war. Mercenaries, foreign or national, fighting a proxy war for foreign powers, paid, armed and guided by those foreign powers, among which the CIA, do not qualify as a local uprising and part of a civil war. Mregelsberger (talk) 17:04, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
For the people who are defending USA and NATO, USA with the help of turkey, they posioned syrian civillians by dropping posion gas from airplanes. If that is not a war crime then I do not know what is. 155.4.141.62 (talk) 21:09, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think that even the title - Syrian Civil War - is misleading and should be changed. This is corroborated by people here and by information, that is increasingly available, not least the continuation of the proxy war between the USA and Russia in Ukraine. A proxy war opposing armed gangs managed by foreign powers and a national army is not a civil war, even though it apparently is among national parties. The "conflict in Ukraine" as it is called by the OHCHR[1] is quite similar and is named on Wikipedia as "War in Donbas" described, without further proof as follows: "The war in Donbas, or Donbas war was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Donbas region of Ukraine." This could also be said of the war in Syria, which could be named the "War in Syria", a "phase of the proxy war of the USA and Russia, opposing US mercenary groups assisted by US and US ally troupes and the Syrian army with Syrian allies (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah)". The war in Syria actually is not over, with the USA illegally occupying the north-eastern part of the country, i.e. the oil fields of Syria, producing oil on its own account without permission from the national government. Nothing is "civil" there. Wikipedia shouldn't get involved in politics and have only one standard, in this case applied to all conflicts alike, without distinction of who is waging them. Mregelsberger (talk) 10:08, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. There is a sentence in there saying that the Syrian Civil War "...started nine years ago..." This page needs work. Livepsycle (talk) 04:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well said. Spiralwhats in your boxCox (talk) 11:27, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not well versed in this article, but is there supposed to still be a bit of red control near Tartus and Jablah on the main image map? Uhhhjackiguess (talk) 22:37, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, I just saw the article about pro-Assad holdouts in the area. Uhhhjackiguess (talk) 22:43, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Conflict-related civilian casualties in Ukraine" (PDF). Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 27 January 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

The armed groups allied/connected with the STG should be merged into one color.

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Currently, the map is not only ugly, but it is inaccurate and confusing for readers as it gives the impression that these rebel groups are independent and separately govern their respective areas (despite them being under one banner of the STG). Even if they have some autonomy in their own areas, they are still under the command of the STG ever since their merging into the new Syrian Defense Ministry, and as such, they should be merged into one color (and to list out the individual rebel groups in case the readers still want to know, we can name the merged color "Syrian Transitional Government and allies," similar to the colors used in the Myanmar civil war (2021–present) article). LordOfWalruses (talk) 02:03, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My proposal would be to use different shades of green to denote the different groups, and as for the de facto situation, the groups are too far autonomous to be simply grouped together, for southern operations room ISW repotted today that they have resisted HTS forces from entering suweida and negotiations are ongoing, SFA is participating in discussions regrading it's status and the situation around SNA is highly murky regarding their very recent announcement of merger Waleed (talk) 17:03, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I feel like different shades of green is a fair compromise, though we should evaluate the potential options before we add them onto this article: it's hard for me to tell (right now) what color and level of difference would work best. LordOfWalruses (talk) 00:39, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I like the colour scheme of this map (although it has to be updated a lot), I also think that SNA should be made some bluish-green color (it wasn't integrated at the time this map was made) Waleed (talk) 01:11, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I completely agree with you: we should get this map on the article as soon as possible. LordOfWalruses (talk) 04:19, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've asked @Ecrusized to do so, but he hasn't responded to my latest request, at my previous request he said that it perhaps would create difficulty for the color blind which is understandable but most color blind would still be able to visualize the difference in hue Waleed (talk) 07:38, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I agree: even if you are colorblind, you are still able to distinguish hues/shades. Hopefully he or someone else gets around to your request soon. LordOfWalruses (talk) 13:58, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@ZLEA, can you help in this regard? Waleed (talk) 01:43, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure what help I can be here since I'm not colorblind, so I can't really judge whether the color contrast is acceptable. You might ask someone at WP:WPMAPS, since they probably have a lot more experience with stuff like this. - ZLEA T\C 02:02, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I was talking about updating the svg Waleed (talk) 02:48, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not at all an experienced svg editor but I've updated the map. Chessrat (talk, contributions) 00:49, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Appreciate it, man Waleed (talk) 01:15, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You did? Because on my end, it's still showing the previous map. LordOfWalruses (talk) 02:11, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, the map is updated on commons Waleed (talk) 02:59, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Chessrat, can you give the color codes for HTS and SOR regions? Waleed (talk) 11:46, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Cities 009900 for both, countryside a0dda0 for HTS and 90ffb0 for SOR Chessrat (talk, contributions) 14:30, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I've changed the infobox map WP:BOLDly and also wrote in edit summary for discussion in case of any disagreement Waleed (talk) 15:07, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
there's talks from yesterday that SOR accepted merger into the ministry of defense, only the SDF is left. 185.147.100.31 (talk) 03:38, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ISW report from today said that SOR "has agreed to" transfer it's personnel and equipment, the negotiations for FSA are not known that they're at which stage, SNA is de facto operational so we can't show all as one unless there's sufficient attestation of such reports (as per ISW) Waleed (talk) 05:55, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
SDF has also accepted merger, as sources a few minutes ago cited. 185.147.100.31 (talk) 09:46, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
De jure and de facto situations are different, we go by de facto rather than de jure Waleed (talk) 12:29, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
since all forces are under STG does that technically mean that the civil war is over? 188.133.45.215 (talk) 18:44, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not exactly since there are still clashes between former-SNA factions and the SDF. LordOfWalruses (talk) 19:26, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Chessrat, can you update the map to show advances in Suweida and Jablus (see ISW map) Waleed (talk) 03:19, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also @Chessrat, some formerly HTS areas still do not have cities in green dots instead retaining the former color Waleed (talk) 11:25, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd have to leave that to someone more experienced like @Ecrusized:. I only really have experience recolouring SVGs rather than anything more complicated. Chessrat (talk, contributions) 14:08, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Can you then just colour the cities under STG which still retain the previous color Waleed (talk) 17:59, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also, please just give me the place from where the SVG map is edited, I'd try to learn and do it myself (if it is Android supported) Waleed (talk) 09:04, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I edit it in a text editor (notepad) myself but I believe major edits require dedicated software like Inkscape. Chessrat (talk, contributions) 12:12, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Chessrat, this map has been updated , can you update your Map with regards to updates in this map Waleed (talk) 11:55, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is the Syrian Civil War over now?

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With all major domestic factions having united under the Syrian Transitional Government, is the civil war period over? 128.187.116.26 (talk) 21:12, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wait for 1 March 2025 a new government will come in. Then it should be ended. 2409:40D0:15:8061:4111:B702:99B6:66B4 (talk) 15:43, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And even then it could easily restart for a bit, if large scale fighting with the Kurds happens 2001:56A:6FC1:3AC5:8069:BE1D:D370:99D6 (talk) 20:43, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's a new phase for now... RossoSPC (talk) 00:56, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
the war ends only when damascus new government authority is implemented on all syrian territories, like it used to be before the the start of the civil war, other than that, it would continue. 185.147.100.31 (talk) 11:21, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Seems oversimplified. If some areas become autonomous or integrated into a neighboring polity, but there is no armed conflict associated with that change in status, that wouldn't be a continuation of the civil war. SS451 (talk) 14:41, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That can be added in aftermath section 2409:40D0:3E:F429:9551:DCFA:77D3:9A3E (talk) 18:52, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The war is almost over BUT - No... Turkey/SNA is still attacking the AANES areas in the North, so there is still warfare. However, there is no fighting between SDF and HTS, so though they are still separate, those areas aren't fighting (and they have generally been on good terms).

"Part of" in infobox

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At present, this is an extensive list which represents excessive detail and reasonably contravenes MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. The infobox is to summarise key facts from the article - ie the inclusion of something into the infobox needs to be both "key" and supported by the body of the article. I see cases where the claim that the civil war is not supported by the body of the article at all or it is not reasonably apparent to the reader. There is also the semantics of whether the civil war is part of something that has been listed, such as the Syrian revolution where in fact, the revolution was part of the war. As a "key fact", was/is it part of a particular larger conflict in the way that the war in the Pacific was part of WW2? If not, it should be left blank. If there are not main article hat notes in the body of the article then some of these things could be moved to the "see also" section. As a side note, the "see also" section probably needs trimming to remove redundancy with mentions in the article per guidance on populating the section. Cinderella157 (talk) 04:35, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

map

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we need a map not a couple of photos, at least not yet since the war is still ongoing (has been edited), also it should be updated regularly, there's no way that the last time the map was updated was 20 days ago. 188.133.59.13 (talk) 09:59, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Map is outdated

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the current map was last updated on 7th feb and today is 1st March, many things happened such as syrian forces in affrin and azzaz but those locations are still not updated and whats the status of current isreal incursion etc. Bdmrayeen123 (talk) 08:29, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think there's reasonable cause to not call this ended yet

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  1. There's been a massive escalation with Israel and the Druze. Some Druze factions are declaring themselves apart from the slowly congealing central government, and Israel is upping their rhetoric. Meanwhile other Druze factions are aligning tightly with the government.
  2. The Assad Loyalist and Alawite Insurgency has escalated in severity the last week, they've attacked several towns to the degree that reinforcements needed to be shipped in and the head of the Tiger Force is still at large allegedly leading them.
  3. The SNA and Turks are still having some issues with the central government and haven't merged to the same degree something like the RCA has
  4. The Kurdish situation is volatile and USA withdrawing troops could leave an opening for a flareup around Kobani.


Way too many things are escalating or absurdly tense to call it done right now when things could collapse at any moment. TheBrodsterBoy (talk) 08:39, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This must be part of an aftermath section 2409:40D0:11E0:553E:8875:CE94:54E8:E388 (talk) 13:32, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 2 March 2025

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This must be corrected there was No Syrian civil War. it was a propaganda by the Assad regime 46.196.145.145 (talk) 12:32, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 15:43, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Were you living under a rock? 2409:40D0:11E0:553E:8875:CE94:54E8:E388 (talk) 13:31, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 3 March 2025

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Please update the map, all the territories except that controlled by the SDF should be under the new Syrian Government 2409:40D0:11E0:553E:8875:CE94:54E8:E388 (talk) 13:33, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: updating a map cannot be accomplished through edit requests. I suggest you start a discussion about it and see what others think. If there is an agreement to update it, then you can make a request on WP:GL/M. M.Bitton (talk) 15:27, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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