2011-2014: Uprising against Assad, fighting between the Baathists and the Rebels. Initially libs, but increasingly just a bunch of warlords.

2014-2017: The Islamic State gets huge af, freaks a lot of people out and does war crimes. Also Rojava shows up and becomes a state in the north of the country. They get their ass kicked after pissing off 99% of the countries of the world.

2018-Now: The rebels are a shadow of their former self and a bunch of warlords and islamists. The fighting is minor nowadays, except for the area around Idlib and other small/scarcely populated areas. The IS is still around, but as a guerrilla and Rojava is mostly on “we tolerate each other” terms with the Syrian state, but occasionally gets trolled by Turkey, who instituted a puppet islamist government in the occupied areas.