Syrian Civil War (2011-2015), and the positions of Russia and Iran

Currently, the situation in the Middle East greatly exacerbated by the situation surrounding the Syrian Republic. Fights demonstrators dissatisfied with the government of President B. Assad, a few years after its inception, have turned into a bloody civil war. All sectors of Syrian society have been included in this military conflict, not only social, but also ethnic. For example, the active role played in the war, Syrian Kurds, who were even able to declare an independent Kurdistan in the north of Syria. An important part of this article was the role of a terrorist organization ISIL in the Syrian war and ways of confronting it, which have a friendly country to Syria - Russia and Iran. For Syria, the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran are longtime partners, who support each other for the past 25 years. Cooperation between the two began when the father of the current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Hafez al-Assad and dynamically developed before the conflict between the government and the opposition. Given the fact that the current position of Assad on the world stage is not strong enough, Russia and Iran as the main partners of the Syrian Republic, are trying to provide adequate assistance to the policy pursued by President Assad, considering that the legitimate elected president has the legitimate right to security citizens in their country, including the conduct of combat operations on the territory of the state. Thus, the main purpose of this article is to examine the causes of the conflict in Syria, as well as the analysis of Russia and Iran as a major strategic partner of the Syrian Republic. Relations between Russia, Syria and Iran, also have a special place in the article, as these countries have the most support of Syria and President B. Assad. Of course, to describe all the military conflict in Syria in one article is not possible, however, the author tried to present in detail the most basic aspects of the Syrian civil war.