Flashcards: Syrian Civil War

The Kuweires Military Airbase is an airbase in Aleppo Governorate, Syria.

Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari was a fictional character or hoax persona created and maintained by American Tom MacMaster.

Lt. General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (Arabic: علي عبد الله أيوب‎‎) is a senior Syrian military commander and current Chief of the General Staff of the Syrian Arab Army.

Deir ez-Zor Airport (Arabic: مطار دير الزور‎‎) (IATA: DEZ, ICAO: OSDZ) is an airport serving Deir ez-Zor, a city in northeastern Syria.

The European migrant crisis or European refugee crisis began in 2015, when a rising number of refugees and migrants made the journey to the European Union (EU) to seek asylum and for better living standards, travelling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southeast Europe.

International reactions to the Syrian Civil War ranged from support for the government to calls for the government to dissolve.

Palmyra Airport (Arabic: مطار تدمر‎‎) (IATA: PMS, ICAO: OSPR) is an airport serving Tadmur (ancient Palmyra), a city in Syria.

Aleppo International Airport (Arabic: مطار حلب الدولي‎‎) (IATA: ALP, ICAO: OSAP) is an international airport serving Aleppo, Syria.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (also known as SOHR; Arabic: المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان‎‎), founded in May 2006, is a UK-based information office that has been documenting human rights abuses in Syria which has focused since 2011 on the Syrian Civil War.

The Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War began in September 2015 after an official request by the Syrian government for military help against rebel and jihadist groups.

The Democratic Union Party (Kurdish: Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat‎, PYD; Arabic: حزب الاتحاد الديمقراطي‎‎, Ḥizb Al-Ittiḥad Al-Dimuqraṭiy) is a left-wing Kurdish political party established in 2003 by Kurdish activists in northern Syria.

The Syrian Republican Guard (Arabic: الحرس الجمهوري‎‎ al-Ḥaras al-Jamhūriyy), also known as the Presidential Guard, is an elite 25,000 man mechanized division.

Russia has supported the internationally recognized government of Syria since the beginning of the Syrian Crises in 2011 politically, with military aid, and through direct military involvement since 30 September 2015.

Turkmen Mountain (Arabic: جبل تركمان‎‎; Jabal Turkman, Turkish: Türkmen Dağı), is a mountain in the north of Latakia region of Syria, in the area called Bayırbucak locally in Turkish, neighboring the Turkish border.

The Ghouta chemical attack occurred in Ghouta, Syria, during the Syrian Civil War in the early hours of 21 August 2013.

Saddam al-Jamal is a Syrian man and Islamic State leader.

The Syrian Civil War has been described as an "intensely sectarian conflict".

The relationship between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) has been varied among groups.

While conflict between the Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) and Syrian government during the Syrian Civil War has not been as active as fighting against the armed militias, there have been several conflicts between the two forces.

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Estimates of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, per opposition activist groups, vary between 301,781 and 470,000.