The Syrian uprising is basically a huge conflict demanding Bashar al-Assad to resign from his presidency. The first public protest happened on January 26, 2011. Marches, hunger strikes, rioting, and vandalism are a few of the tactics the people are using in an attempt to make the government give in. Witnesses say soldiers that refuse to open fire on the protestors are being executed by the Syrian army. The army even set up snipers and tanks to keep people from protesting.
Since the summer of 2011, mutineers and army defectors formed fighting units. They began to perform operations to eliminate the Syrian army. As a result of the operations, there were clashes, which led to the Free Syrian army taking control of some of the cities. Ever since, there have been fights over some of the cities throughout the country. The United States has not intervened in this crisis.
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