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human
ELI5: What is going on in Syria?

From the different factions to what the US is doing shipping weapons around what's going on?
gpt
Syria has been in civil war since 2011.  Remember, the US had one of those about 150 years ago too.

The reason for the fighting centers around the President.  His family has provided that country with all of its' presidents for the past 40 years.  Some of the Syrian people don't think that's quite fair and they want a chance to have their wants and needs represented by someone who they have some hand in choosing.

Why didn't it happen earlier?  40 years is a long time to accept single-family rule.  Syria isn't alone in their outcries against their ruling class. Since 2010 rulers have been ~~deposed~~ removed from office in Tunisia, Egypt (twice), Libya and Yemen.  Additionally, serious protests have occurred in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Sudan, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti and Western Sahara.