There is still military tension in Syria
Nearly half a million dead and some 12 million displaced, not counting the massive destruction of infrastructure, housing and artistic heritage, are the legacy of seven years of war in Syria. It is still difficult to understand how this conflict has swallowed up a country that was a model of coexistence and the cradle of great religions. Today it lies beneath the hatred and noise that warring factions fail to turn into dialogue.
Tagged very early on by the media as a “civil war” and included in the context of the so-called “Arab Spring”, what has happened in Syria is something “more complex”, explains to RTVE. es Pablo Sapag, a Spanish journalist and writer of Syrian origin. In his book Syria in perspective, this university professor criticizes these “simplistic” labels and opts for the adjective “new war”, more “academic and nuanced”. A conflict that Sapag describes as a “perfect storm,”the result of an accumulation of simultaneous external and internal circumstances, which the spark of “Arab springtime” caused to “explode,”he explains.