Syria: A burning maze.

In international politics, the Syrian civil war has been an enigma of sorts. This sanguinary bloodbath which began in the year 2011 during the much hallowed “Arab spring”, as a protest movement against the Syrian Ba’athist regime led by President Bashar al Assad, transmogrified into a brutal civil war claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and plunging the nation into a conflict which engulfed the country and its diverse populace.