Spillover of the Syrian Civil War

Part of the Syrian Civil War, the Arab Spring and the Arab Winter

Syria and Iraq 2014-onward war map.
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Date	17 June 2011 – present (5 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Location	Syrian borders: Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Distant spillover locations (outside of Syria): Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Kuwait, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Algeria, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, Southern and Central Africa and Europe (see Wave of Terror in Europe)
Result	Ongoing

The spillover of the Syrian Civil War is the impact of the Syrian Civil War in the Arab world. Since the first protests during the Arab Spring, the increasingly violent Syrian Civil War has been both a proxy war for the major Arab powers, Turkey and Iran, and a potential launching point for a wider regional war. Fears of the latter were realized when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Salafi Jihadist militant group and alleged former al-Qaeda affiliate, established itself in Syria in 2013, and later combined with the Iraqi Civil War into a single conflict the following year. The spillover of the Syrian Civil War is often dubbed as the Arab Winter.

For much of 2012, the Iraqi government had turned a blind eye to the Sunni and Salafist militias crossing the border into Syria. This toleration ended when Salafist militias connected to al-Qaeda ambushed a convoy filled with unarmed Syrian soldiers at Akashat on the Syrian side of the border. This led to greater fighting throughout the country, Operation al-Shabah in May 2013 in which the Iraqi Army failed to wipe these militias out and the consolidation of several of them with ISIL. Anbar Province became a battle zone and an airstrike in April 2014 was of little use, because in June 2014 ISIL launched an offensive in northern Iraq, taking large swaths of the country and threatening Baghdad itself. In response, Iran reportedly deployed its Quds force in Iraq, thus turning the conflict into a full-scale war.

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