The Battle of Damascus (2011-18): Every Day [Syrian Civil War]

Beginning in late 2010, the so-called 'Arab Spring' shook the Arab World. By the end of 2011, the unrest had spread to Syria, including its capital, Damascus.
Syria's stretched security forces failed to crack down on the unrest, allowing it to morph into a full civil war in the first months of 2012.
Damascus quickly became a hotbed of insurgent activity, for both moderate rebels and Islamist groups.
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[@OllieBye]

I'm up to 800 CE with Asia now. I appreciate it's taking a very long time, so I'll try and post some preview snapshots soon. Thanks for watching!

[@eyuin5716]

Great video, but it's still such an awful thing to see people's lives being destroyed by civil war.

[@eyuin5716]

Are you going to be including events like these on your history of Asia video?

[@basitaman435]

i am also waiting for this video

[@DarrylGonzales]

Thank you so much for your work and for the update as well. And this is indeed awful civil war of the 21st century.

[@DavidRSAT]

Ollie Bye Will you eventually be combining all of the parts to make a super accurate “history of the world” video (vr3)?

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

Syrian here I reaaally appreciate the effort you put into this really well done Btw you and EmperorTigerstar were kind of the inspiration for what I do on my YT channel

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

@@isuckateuclideangeometry9539 Thank youuu ❤

[@retvrntotradition4454]

@@totalwartimelapses6359 Are you an Assadist?

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

@@retvrntotradition4454 I reaaally rather not answer that, for safety purposes

[@falconofbalasagun4163]

انت عنجد سوري؟

[@takshashila2995]

@@totalwartimelapses6359 Are you living in the US?

[@smunpologrungengis8197]

Wow, the research it must have taken to do a single city. Nice job.

[@tommy-er6hh]

yeah, Kudos.

[@ultragamer4960]

Actually it isn’t hard to find information about it syria.liveuamap.com/

[@Communist-Doge]

@@ultragamer4960 But you can't go back further than 1 year with liveuamap, or you have to pay. Information isn't too hard to find, but it's still an impressive amount of research required.

[@Communist-Doge]

@@ultragamer4960 Again: you can't go back in time. How difficult is this for you to understand? Just admit this took a fair amount of effort. I'm not saying this is a work of art, but it was by no means easy to compile, either.

[@ultragamer4960]

CommunistDoge I’m not saying that this was easy to make the video but it *was* pretty easy to find info. I never said that this wasn’t hard. Stop assuming. The option to pay wasn’t there until very recently since I go on this side very often since 2016.

[@EmperorTigerstar]

More like Daaaaamn-ascus. Ok wow I should try harder for a better joke than that.

[@shaqcepticeye6520]

Fucking leave. Your puns gave me cancer.

[@limechecksout]

@Mr Seboss There's the door

[@мувн-ш4ы]

Damn I feel sorry for you. You got destroyed in the reply section lmaoooo But it's all cool bro I still love your videos.

[@riof.7947]

Jeez guys, you just executed him for existing.

[@goatmapper]

yes

[@NY_Mapper]

Ollie, this is amazing! I’m glad more mappers are doing videos on Syria.

[@thelastsecerts]

It is funny how it turn just to a video of 2 minutes When you spent 10 years inside it and it felt like 100 years

[@Tamouz96]

Fax man

[@cetologist]

Amazing to think how this one battle lasted longer than WW1 and WW2.

[@jordanhe7509]

Sporadic attacks before 2018 Then in Eastern Ghouta 2018 *Airstrikes* *Airstrikes* *Airstrikes*

[@-SUM1-]

Bit biased to call it the Ba'athist "regime" and the "moderate rebels". The Free Syrian Army was no longer a structured organisation by 2015, and Islamist groups were using the label, and the current Ba'athist government is the legitimate government of Syria.

[@OllieBye]

Sorry you feel that way - this video doesn't intend to express an opinion on any of those points.

[@matchstickgameplay]

Agreed, biased may not have been the intention of the video, but it sure ended up that way. If anything, it's reflective of the vocabulary of the reporting of the war.

[@TheBigSmokeRyder]

Abu Troll al cockroachistan my friend I am a Sunni as well but don’t you think that maybe he is targeting those “Sunnis” because they are trying to create a separate country, puppeted by the US, with the help of armies such as ISIS? I don’t believe it has anything to do with religion, more with politics and people who want to overthrow the current government, so the government retaliates.

[@خالدالاحمد-ش2ك]

@Abu Troll al cockroachistan Unfortunately, I am not an expert in Syria ... We are the people of Syria and I know what is happening. As a result of media wars and international interests, the regime in Syria is acceptable to all and from all communities. Thank you and respect your opinion,

[@FF-ob7wl]

Ollie Bye it’s not just a “feeling”, different sides call the other derogatory names during conflicts and cast themselves as more legitimate than others. Using the terminology favorable to the Free Syrian Army, allied to the West, is problematic.

[@Turnet47]

Can't mossad the Assad.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

@@vulkanofnocturne LMAO

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

Baathists and Communists are friends

[@KyrgyzstanYT]

@العباس the fact that marx was a jew doesnt mean its a jewish ideology, stupid

[@emperorpirk2003]

@العباس Communists are not Jews.

[@yeaboi3617]

The only way for stability in Syria is to support bashar

[@soyderiverdeliverybeaver8941]

1:23 "Moderate rebels" *All of their territory and 3 cities become islamist in 1 day*

[@DominikJuric]

If the Sowjetunion still existed and delivered weapons, resources and money they would have become communists within three days.

[@anamorfoplasis]

All rebels in Syria are islamists except Kurds.

[@DominikJuric]

@@anamorfoplasis That's too simplistic

[@anamorfoplasis]

@@DominikJuric So name please at least one secular rebel group.

[@DominikJuric]

@@anamorfoplasis There is no such thing as "secularism" in the Middle East. The only country where religious law plays no role in the judicial system is Turkey and even they voted for and Islamist president.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

I keep saying that Syria is like a game of StarCraft, but damn I didn't realize that many different rebel groups existed at the same time in ONE metropolitan area.

[@JustaSimpleComplexSyrian]

i lived in yarmouk through all that < we then left to midan , and we're there since then and im there now and let me tell you , isis was included in yarmouk not only FSA now i can literally see from my window , al yarmouk and the destruction

[@hoangkimviet8545]

Peace for Syrians :-0

[@shaqcepticeye6520]

A piece here and a piece there. lol

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

@Child of God Romans 8:27-28 Bashar is a muslim you Junkass Christian

[@мувн-ш4ы]

Inshallah

[@diabmhimid310]

@@murtadhaalkenani3876 on what drug are you? he is not

[@ALIKN1-1]

@@diabmhimid310 well his faith is Muslim

[@sinanroyal5359]

Long live FSA! Long live the Syrian Reistance! Freedom for Syria!

[@Python_Blox]

FSA rats got fucked good

[@AbuBased731]

FSA are abostates lol

[@bar_syr]

@الأزدي الاجانب اغلبية ساحقة كاشفين فورة الارهاب 🤣

[@太守苏定交趾]

this video wasn’t expected

[@taicanium]

Nobody expects the Syrian Inquisition! I'll show myself out.

[@sparrow69420]

I love ur channel I have gained here a lot of information 1st

[@sequana5063]

Yet we still don't know what a leppo is.

[@Kurtownia]

Not sure what I'm gonna enjoy more - the video or the comment section.

[@liberatey0urmind]

*Awesome idea, you've outdone yourself again 👏👏👏*

[@quangutusuranu]

2:27 Peace finally returns to the capital

[@hassooonnn6504]

Thank god the western backed terrorists where defeated.

[@quangutusuranu]

@البتّار الازدي say hi to Israel for me

[@quangutusuranu]

@البتّار الازدي pity you didn't have that attitude when Syria was invaded from all sides

[@LyriaMapping]

WOOOOOW, Amazing work!

[@Themovieloverboy]

Do the battle of Aleppo!!!! (2012-2016) it would be great

[@hassooonnn6504]

You can watch NY mapped he has done it

[@hassooonnn6504]

NY mapper*

[@epw6679]

The U.S. Should pull out of Syria.

[@brj6053]

They did like 3 weeks ago

[@thenewparallel]

@@brj6053 r u sure?/// what about Kurdistan? Easterb desert?

[@Debre.]

@@brj6053 No they didn't. Trump just announced that they're GOING to pull out of Syria, but so far not much has been done. And it's starting to look like Trump doesn't even really want to end the wars, but instead, privatize them.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Agreed. but i'd go a step further, the US should pull out of the Middle East, period.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

@@thenewparallel That's literally the only place they have presence in, do you think they were present in Damascus or Lattakia?

[@XP13131313]

Really awesome video. The music made me feel like I was there. Sad that beautiful city got distroyed.

[@hassooonnn6504]

It wasn’t destroyed.

[@ahmetben8812]

"Moderate Opposition"

[@louplibre9734]

"Syrian Arab Army"

[@Rodfaj90]

Moderate beheaders

[@aliawied2713]

" أختي كانت تطلع الساعة ٣ بالليل "

[@DominikJuric]

"Delicious arab food."

[@statue1128]

Siege of Deir-ez-zor... Conflict in Hasakah or Battles of Aleppo...

[@karam4762]

"Ba'aths regime" and "Moderate opposition" really? They never were moderate

[@commandofact7636]

Maybe in RT , Al-manar and mayadeen, they weren’t. However, a person with a brain would know that university students thy protested in 2011 wanted a secular democracy from the get-go.

[@momino9024]

Are you doing Aleppo?

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

@CTK01 Aleppo the second largest syrian city

[@duduchannel6729]

@@murtadhaalkenani3876 That's a reference

[@capitaoaereo]

Aleppo is Stalingrad arab.

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

I agree . aleppo is stalingrad , mosul is Leningrad , Fallujah Is Berlin etc ...

[@СахерСалама]

@@murtadhaalkenani3876 actully Aleppo it bigest syrian city but its location not far from turkey its make it not faviored for syria

[@TheSyrianFighter]

2018 was the most crazy year but the Syrian army delivered justice for Damascus 💪🇸🇾. We were going to Damascus 2018 my family but because of the war there we went 2019. I love s9uria though 🇸🇾 I also have been to the old city it was very beautiful

[@TheGilliams]

You should definitely do more modern wars. Keep up the good work!

[@JustaSimpleComplexSyrian]

I was in yarmok in 2010 to 2012 then we fled to al midan in 2013 And ill tell you know Its a nightmare , my uncles were at hajar al aswad Literally if i tell you what i saw you will not believe me

[@anisdaoud9447]

enormous efforts to do such a video like this

[@FromNothing]

Great video! Would be cooler if you could add little micro sound fx to the battles and stuff.

[@JuliaDM]

Great job !

[@babylonking6104]

Long live Assad

[@hoi-waichiu3364]

You really couldn't mossad assad

[@michahunicz1741]

Long Live The Syrian Arab Army!

[@jaydenabouakbar892]

Michał Hunicz they were only able to win after Russia and isis was involved

[@deproco]

The struggle for the freedom of Syria has failed ...

[@SkiddyGaming]

*has succeeded The so called "rebels" are led by hardline sectarian terror groups such as Al-Nusra (or whatever it's calling itself these days), the Syrian branch of Al-qaeda, which is by far the largest "rebel" group, among others. Almost all of them push a Sunni Sectarian agenda, have borderline if not totally genocidal policies towards Christians, Shias, and others, and enforce their own extreme preversions of Islam that strip women of most all rights and allow for the brutalization of those in areas they occupy. They engaged in the public beheadings of teenagers in Aleppo, gunning down civilians trying to flee war zones through government sponsored humanitarian corridors, and using children as propaganda prices among other things. Say what you will about Assad or his government, but at the very least they are secular, have minority protections in place for persecuted religious and ethnic groups, and grant a large degree of social and religious freedoms to their populace relative to the so called "opposition" groups and their regional sponsors (ie. Saudi Arabia). If you're having a freedom contest between the Syrian Government and the Al-qaeda led "opposition", the government wins hands down. Was fairly easy for me to come to that conclusion after following the events of the war day by day for over half a decade.

[@hassooonnn6504]

SkiddyGaming God bless syria 🇸🇾 it will be liberated by the Syrian army and allies soon, they have successfully defeated the western backed terrorists proxy’s.

[@commandofact7636]

@@SkiddyGaming How can a supporter of a murderous butcher of a tyrant accuse others of war crimes ???? Geee I wonder…. You see, there are sea-level loads of evidence that support the notion that the Assaad Regime is a sectarian pro-minority government that cracks down with Stalin-era tactics of extreme torture, rape and mutiliation. Videos of torture and killings by the Abbas brigade, hezbollah, basij , Russian Wagner group and Syrian Air Force intelligence are all over the internet. I’m sure you’re gonna larp at me with questions such as “where is your evidence?” And as soon as I present one drop of evidence, you will retort with:” this is fake evidence”…. I am not gonna argue with you on that. I just wanted to say that you are a monster that supports monsters and I hope you go to hell.

[@alikareem3393]

I was a militry advicer from Iraq in dariya tanks battle2015-2016

[@jensjensen9035]

“Moderate”

[@Karlthegreat84]

They chop off heads moderately, while the regime moderately executes them with a bullet in one of its many prisons.

[@unicornzyay4884]

2:14 HOLY KRUMP!!! I'd hate to be located at Eastern Damascus during that time.

[@dragonrykr]

Such an unnecessary conflict... Thankfully peace is coming soon, I hope

[@audiofunkdialect]

Nice job. FSA were salafists And there were really no moderate rebels fighting against the government maybe at first but not later on.

[@dalethacker1379]

The Syrian war will be over when Idlib, Jisr Al-Shagur, Saraqib, Marrat Al-Numan, Al-Bab, Afrin, Azaz, Jarabulus, and Al-Tanf have been liberated by the Syrian Army.

[@Klote3241]

wel ur wrong... its a even bigger shit storm now thanks to trump.

[@quangutusuranu]

There is real hope for that, as long as Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and FUKUS don't do anything stupid.

[@hassooonnn6504]

God bless Syria 🇸🇾 hopefully it will be fully liberated from western backed terrorists by the Syrian army.

[@emreyalcnhzlsokan8013]

That's looks like "Gang Territory Area" Map in GTA SA

[@alin_ilies]

The worst kind of warfare, urban warfare, house to house combat

[@Charles-472]

The Syrian Civil War is the greatest tragedy of modern times.

[@tepesobrejac4360]

The Christians of Damascus have finally celebrated Christmas in peace.

[@Jhawar97]

I don’t know if I would identify the Free Syrian Army moderate anymore considering some of the groups they have been working with.

[@obamajoker7166]

FSA is a loose term. There has never been a proper FSA. Today, the FSA is non existent. The rebels are jihadists, plain and simple

[@quangutusuranu]

The music fits perfectly.

[@sowhat249]

"Moderate rebels" equipped with heavy duty weaponry.

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

Ollie Bye, please make a video on the Malaysia-Indonesia confrontation of 1963. Please accept my request.

[@OllieBye]

I feel like we've been through this before...

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

Ollie Bye Yeah but you haven't yet made a video on the topic that I've requested.

[@shaqcepticeye6520]

@@ekmalsukarno2302 He's rejected your request already and won't change his position anytime soon. Get a fucking clue dude. lol

[@pavelavietor1]

Hello nice video looking for the next saludos

[@Brunozamp]

Rebel unknowns battlegrounds

[@العربيالجديد-ن3ذ]

I was student in Damascus University in those years,,, time of horror

[@bier00t]

again colors are not colorblind friendly at all. what about red blue and yellow for example?

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

The reason for all the green is that they're typically using official colors used by the factions (and muslims love green for some reason)

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

@@KaiserMattTygore927 Muslims love Black and gray Green is the colour of Post-colonialism Syrian flag

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

@@totalwartimelapses6359 Green is used in more than just Syria.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

@@KaiserMattTygore927 Yes I'm just explaining that Green is not related to Islam, Islam's usual colors are Black gray and White not Green And in Syria in particular Green is used because that's the FSA color

[@bier00t]

ok but still - this makes map completely unreadable for me...

[@paulmayson3129]

May I ask, what program do you use for animating? It look too complex for the Microsoft Movie Maker

[@polarisgemini52]

The Syrian civil war-ISIS insurgency has probably been the most complicated situation people into geopolitics have ever encountered. As a believer of democracy, I found myself supporting the FSA to oust Assad but next thing you know, ISIS is the biggest problem and Assad is bombing FSA&ISIS& Kurds but then the FSA&Kurds is fighting ISIS&Assad. The US is bombing Assad and ISIS and supporting FSA&Kurds but needs Assad to clean the ISIS. Russia is bombing ISIS,SDF,FSA but needs Kurds to fight ISIS because their role has been critical. Turkey has been fighting Kurds&Assad&ISIS. In the end,it was the Syrian people who suffered the most who got hammered by 3 sides only to end up where they started at,under Assad's regime and not to mention the Kurds who did a commendable job and was looking as if they might finally get their own country only to have been better by Syria and USA as soon as the bulk of ISIS was done with. Unfortunate series of events.

[@OriginalHesabim]

If Russia supported the FSA over Assad to fight DAESH, the problem would've been solved years ago. But to set feet in the Middle-East, they supported a side which is not supported by any other group (USA, Europa or Turkey).

[@Tamouz96]

al tal was under the rule of FSA in 2013 bro , thanks for the effort tho

[@宝祥-t1i]

Can you make video with Cambodia?

[@historycenter4011]

That was great.

[@thesskep689]

You are calling “moderate opposition” groups armes with mortars and mashine guns?! Seriously!?!

[@TrafficPartyHatTest]

Moderate as in ideology

[@BinaryTechnique]

Long Live Assad and the Ba'ath Socialist Party 🇸🇾🇸🇾🇸🇾

[@alejndraalmirowitsch4897]

Allah Souria Bashar

[@Ghada-zz6yc]

and death to pisslam

[@alejndraalmirowitsch4897]

@Tanrı'ın Peygamber really? :)

[@shaqcepticeye6520]

Syrians aren't doing a very good job "living" given the clusterfuck Assad created over there. lol

[@statue1128]

@Tanrı'ın Peygamber Assad is enemy of West, so What is a Turkey?

[@russianmapper3702]

Ollie bye. I really like your videos, but it generally exceeded all my expectations! If you could put 1000k likes, then I would do it. Hello from Russia! Sorry if you wrote a wry comment, you have to use Google translator (

[@revivarase3201]

Can you Do Daraa Governorate 2012-2018

[@ivan55599]

Which one is darker green, free syrian army or jaysh al-islam? Not good color choises.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

The jungle green color is Jaysh Al Islam, the softer green was FSA

[@hassooonnn6504]

Both are terrorists.

[@vtron9832]

To think this happened only a couple of years ago, and is still happening in some places around the world

[@konplayz]

oh yeah yeah

[@lupettoversilia]

🇸🇾💪🇸🇾💪🇸🇾 💪 #Assad 💪 🇸🇾💪🇸🇾💪🇸🇾

[@DonMadruga72]

Peace in the Middle East died with the end of the Ottoman Empire.

[@ilovecookies2532]

Kaiser Wilhelm II The world would be better if you won ;(

[@tafarixx6512]

Wow look at all those moderate rebels !

[@rincewindthewizhard2363]

Hello! Can youmake history of finno-ugric peoples? But it will be necessary to take into account not only Finland and Hungary, but also such medieval principalities and tribal unions as Korela, Ves`, Merya, Perm, Yugra and so on.

[@rincewindthewizhard2363]

Also in the history of Asia will the tribes of Siberia? I know a book by a Soviet historian who wrote a lot about their history. irkipedia.ru/node/3644/talk (use google translator)

[@HurricaneHunter03]

Damn, pretty good

[@deltharion]

Poor city

[@furkansahin5061]

better than Kabul

[@hassooonnn6504]

Things are back to normal now

[@davidpattemore9254]

SAA are heroes

[@tyrant_hermit]

So the government won. Good. May peace prevail. Aleppo and damishq were economic epicentres before war. The world should help in rebuilding them and stop fuelling unrest.

[@yankj7647]

Assad seem to have forgotten Damascus' lesson that he actually supported Russia's invasion of Kyiv.

[@goganii]

Everything to please daddy Putin...

[@AbuBased731]

Why Not?+does it matter really?Assad is heavily sanctioned and that will never change anytime soon

[@super.somarion]

U seem to have learned no lesson dat mainstream media is western

[@quangutusuranu]

Battle of Deir Ezzor next

[@insurgentspi0]

Damn that music got intense

[@supremelordoftheauspicious2928]

Moderate my ass

[@dimasstudiochannel882]

if "Map war Everyday" is more True than Media i watch in KZbin this is so Accurate and like to watch

[@DaisyGeekyTransGirl]

Wait so is it over (the battle)?

[@KaZeMaRu_]

Allah, Surya, Basha ru ba!

[@takshashila2995]

According to me,Democracy is not a thing for each and every Region.Some places are better off with Kingship. This new Map and animations look so good.

[@historyrhymes1701]

Indeed

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

It can be but it CANNOT be FORCED upon by a foreign entity (that means you USA)

[@takshashila2995]

@@Valk369 Yes but some places like the Middle East can take hundreds of years to fully digest the concept of Democracy and it takes thousand of Lives before Peace ensues,Which is not very Profitable,It is sort of a Pax Mongolica.

[@supremelordoftheauspicious2928]

Culpable Injustice "democracy is the product of growth and development; not war and aggression. Democracy is not an export product that can be commercially imported from the West to the East. In an underdeveloped society, imported democracy leads only to a weak and vulnerable government." Hasan Rouhani, Iran's president. These are words of wisdom that are unfortunately not appreciated much in the west. Instead we keep seeing fake titles and fake news claiming Iranian president or leader has vowed to wipe Israel off the map.

[@SinjoroMoseo]

not trying to take sides but the rebels (or any other rebels in the Arab world) must learn from this civil war the FSA,split into many groups each has there own ideology,plan on how to reform syria the supporters of the rebels also split(Qatar,Saudi Arabia,Turkey,USA) the rebels fought each other,were fighting on who gets the cake before they got it

[@Kh0r0n]

"""""Moderate"""""" rebels.

[@Drakyry]

This is nice. Nice to see something useful on KZbin among the loads of useless bloggers and dumb political propaganda

[@louriminidhal8580]

THERE IS NO MODERATE GROUPE THE MODERATE ALREADY WITH THE SYRIAN GOVERMENT

[@xinkyroblox5927]

Impressive. Oh and Ollie, it's me your friend on hangouts. I dare u to guess meeee

[@6lock973]

syrian here

[@peeper2070]

Such a historic city... thousands of years of history and culture destroyed in only a few years

[@BucanoMC]

So after shelling old city SAA response for rage fast fight :D

[@ikhsannulamal4915]

The different between regime and rebels are warplane

[@mcj2219]

Almost 10 years, and Assad is still walking..

[@syriano7118]

It's because the stupid people like you support the dictators in Arab countries.

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

ALLAH VULT !

[@raphaelmunzar7073]

What's the music called?

[@tyrant_hermit]

Whoa, what happened around 2:15.

[@zeroyuki92]

Intensive bombing before E Ghouta operation

[@viktor8316]

the video went by to fast, rewatched it in 0.25 speed

[@Groglor]

a video on isis or the iraq syria conflicts would be cool to see.

[@TheBearWhisperer2]

"""""Moderate Rebels"""""