War in Syria: Many Overlapping Conflicts

by Ron Spriestersbach About four years ago, an uprising broke out against the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. Today the war there consists of several intertwining conflicts, especially with the addition of the tremendous thrust of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or "Daesh" as it is nicknamed in Arabic, which took over large areas of both countries. According to Wikipedia, ISIS is a Wahhabi/Salafi extremist militant group which is [...]