Question

I need to know how the Arab spring affected syria

Answer 1

Answer + Explanation:

Arab Spring, wave of pro-democracy protests and uprisings that took place in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in 2010 and 2011, challenging some of the region’s entrenched authoritarian regimes. The wave began when protests in Tunisia and Egypt and it spread trough North Africa and Some Middle Eastern countries like Egypt, Iraq, Libya, etc.

The dream of democracy also proved fleeting in Syria, where the peaceful pro-democracy protesters were met with government opposition. After the Syrian government killed and imprisoned Arab Spring protesters, the country split into factions and sectarian violence broke out. Civil war soon followed. Foreign intervention has failed to stop the war, which has displaced more than half of all Syrians and killed up to half a million people.

And it causes the Resignations of the Government and Parliament, Dismissal of Provincial Governors, Formation of the Free Syrian Army and deterioration into full-scale civil war and Large defections from the Syrian army and clashes between soldiers and defectors.