Situazione della guerra civile in Siria ai primi di settembre 2016

 Red: Syrian Government, Yellow: Federation of North Syria(SDF), Grey: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, White: Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, Green:Syrian Opposition

Date 15 March 2011 – present (5 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Syria (with spillovers in neighboring countries) Status Ongoing Territorial changes As of February 2016: the government held 40% of Syria[16] (66% of the population);[17] ISIL-held territory constituted 20–40% of Syria;[16][18] 20% controlled by rebel groups (including the al-Nusra front);[16] 15–20% held by the Kurds[19][16]
Main belligerents
Syrian Government (NPF) Syrian Armed Forces National Defence Forces Ba'ath Brigades Allied groups al-Abbas Brigade Arab Nationalist Guard Army of Monotheists Fatemiyoun Brigade PFLP-GC Sootoro SSNP Syrian Resistance  Russia (from 2015)  Iran (from 2013)  Hezbollah (from 2013) Support:[show]	Opposition (SRCC) FSA Fatah Halab(since 2015)[a] Islamic Front(2013–2015)  Turkey[b] Support:[show]  Army of Conquest Al-Nusra Front(Jabhat Fateh al-Sham) Ahrar ash-Sham Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria Allied groups Jabhat Ansar al-Din Jund al-Aqsa Support:[show]	ISIL Military Khalid ibn al-Walid Army	Rojava (SDF) YPG YPJ Syrian Arab Coalition MFS Allied groups: IFB[6] PKK Support:[show]  CJTF–OIR  US  UK  France[9]  Canada[10]  Germany[11]  Netherlands  Belgium  Denmark  Australia  Saudi Arabia  Jordan  UAE  Qatar  Bahrain  Morocco
Commanders and leaders
Bashar al-Assad (President of Syria)  Fahd Jassem al-Freij (Minister of Defense)  Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (Chief of Staff of the Army)  Issam Hallaq (Chief of Staff of the Air Force)  Hassan Nasrallah (Secretary General ofHezbollah)  Qasem Soleimani (Commander of Quds Force)  Vladimir Putin (President of Russia)	Ahmad Tu'mah (Prime Minister of theSyrian Interim Government)  Ahmed Issa al-Sheikh[20] (Leader of the Islamic Front) KIA:[show]  Abu Mohammad al-Julani (Emir of the al-Nusra Front)[22] KIA:[show]	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi[26] (Caliph of ISIL) KIA:[show]	Salih Muhammad (Co-President of thePYD)  Asya Abdullah (Co-President of thePYD)  Sipan Hemo (Commander of theYPG)[32]  Sean MacFarland[33] (Commander of CJTF-OIR)  Barack Obama (President of the US)
Strength
Syrian Armed Forces: 178,000[34] General Security Directorate: 8,000[35] National Defense Force: 80,000[36] Hezbollah: 6,000–8,000[37][38] Ba'ath Brigades: 7,000[39][40] Russia: 4,000 troops[41]and 1,000 contractors[42] Iran: 3,000–5,000[38][43] Other allied groups: 15,500+[44][38][45]	FSA: 40,000–50,000[46] Islamic Front: 40,000–70,000[47] Fatah Halab:[a]~25,000–32,000[48][49][50][51] Other groups: 12,500[52] al-Nusra: 13,000[53][54] Allied groups: 8,500+	31,500[55]–100,000[56]	YPG and YPJ: 57,000-60,000[57][58] Syrian Arab Coalition: 4,000 (claimed) Syriac Military Council: 2,000[59] Army of Revolutionaries: 3,000[60]
Casualties and losses
Syrian Government: 56,609–91,609 soldiers killed[61][62] 39,221–53,221 militiamen killed[61][62] 6,000 soldiers and militiamen and 2,000 supporters captured[61]  Hezbollah: 1,247–1,400 killed[61][63]  Russia: 20 soldiers killed (August 2016)[64] and 9–15 contractors[65][42][66] killed Other non-Syrian fighters: 4,585 killed[61] (419)[67]	95,663–121,663 fighters killed[d][61][62] 979 protesters killed[68]	ISIL: 8,850+ killed(per SOHR)[69] 16,089+ killed(per SAA and YPG)[70][71][72][73]	Rojava: 3,182 killed[74][75] CJTF–OIR: 2 killed[76][77]
81,436[61]–94,884[78] (3,160 foreign; mostly Palestinian) civilian deaths documented by opposition 86 other foreign soldiers killed ( 48,  16,  18,  7) Total killed: 282,283–402,819 (May 2016 SOHR estimate)[61] 470,000 (February 2016 SCPR estimate)[79] Over 7,600,000 internally displaced (July 2015 UNHCR estimate) Over 4,800,000 refugees (August 2016 estimate NRC Handelsblad)[80]; over4,000,000 (July 2015 UNHCR estimate)[81][82][83] a Fatah Halab (English: Aleppo Conquest) also includes groups from the FSA. b Turkey is part of the CJTF–OIR against ISIL, but opposes Rojava and is in a border conflict with it. Turkey has also clashed with the Syrian government and Russia.[84][85] c Some of the rebels that have been armed by the United States have given vehicles and ammunition to the al-Nusra Front.[86] d Number includes Kurdish and ISIL fighters, whose deaths are also listed in their separate columns.[87][61][62]

Lo Stato Islamico ha perso tutto il suo territorio lungo il confine tra Siria e Turchia. Lo scrive l’agenzia turca Anadolu.  

Secondo l’agenzia, le truppe turche e i miliziani dell'opposizione siriana loro alleata hanno messo in fuga le truppe dell’Isis dalla zona, compresa tra le città siriane di Azaz e Jarablus, strategicamente importante perché qui transitavano rifornimenti, combattenti stranieri, armi e munizioni. Di fatto il “califfato” è ora isolato dal mondo. 

La manovra ha avuto però anche una valenza anti-curda, al fine di evitare l'unificazione delle zone curde al sud della Turchia. 

Ha inoltre fortificato le opposizioni ad Assad, nel momento cruciale della battaglia per il controllo di Aleppo.

Il vero vincitore appare il sempre più potente e spregiudicato "sultano" turco Erdogan, che ha ottenuto tutti i suoi obiettivi, mettendo in imbarazzo sia gli Stati Uniti, alleati dei curdi, sia la Russia, alleata del presidente siriano Assad.

Sia Obama che Putin hanno dovuto fare buon viso a cattivo gioco, per mantenere aperto il dialogo con una Turchia che, sfruttando la sua collocazione strategica e la forza del suo esercito, sta portando avanti la classica "politica dei due forni".