DAMASCUS Cheap Custom NCAA Jerseys , March 15 (Xinhua) -- Five years have passed ever since the Syrians suffered bloody conflicts, the worst humanitarian crisis and various hardships amid echoing blasts and sectarian rivalries.
It was in March 2011 when protests and conflicts broke out in Syria and since then the country has been plunged into bloody hell which claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Five years ago, the protests started in Daraa in southern Syria, later spread to Damascus and spread other Syrian cities, prompting the government to crackdown on opposition activists.
The first rebel group was formed in this year under the name of Free Syrian Army (FSA), which was said to have been formed of military defectors. In the same year Cheap NCAA Jerseys , the United States and European Union imposed sanctions on the government.
In 2012, the rebels' ranks became more radicalized with the Nusra Front group announcing its formation as the al-Qaida wing in Syria, ushering in a further militarization of the conflict and mounting international and regional calls on President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
In that year, Syrians had voted on a new constitution, which included new amendments to quell the growing insurgency, mainly bringing in multi-party system.
Still Cheap Custom College Jerseys , the move failed to quell the growing insurgency and much of the Arab and foreign embassies in Syria were closed against the backdrop of the violence.
In June 2012, world powers, who met in Geneva, said they had agreed on peace plan to the country, including the formation of a transitional government that could include members of the Syrian government and the opposition.
That plan was never materialized, but remained a base for further understandings.
In 2013 Cheap College Jerseys , the conflict grew more radicalized with the emergence of the Islamic State (IS) group, which was the most powerful among other rebel groups.
At that time, the Syrian opposition felt that their "revolution" was highjacked by the extremist groups. Also, foreign fighters started pouring into the country more obvious than before, joining the ranks of both party of the conflict.
The rebels and the Islamic State received their supplies of arms and fighters largely through the Turkish borders, and the leader of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group Cheap Jerseys China Free Shipping , Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, said his group was supporting Assad.
In the early hours of August 21, 2013, several opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus were struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin, killing as many as 1,400 people. Both the opposition and the government traded accusations.
In October 2013 Cheap Jerseys China Wholesale , the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) officials arrived in Syria to monitor the dismantlement of the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal, after Damascus officially joined the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Convention.
The OPCW later said that the government has made its chemical weapon production facilities inoperable