The Syrian Revolution Five Years On
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At the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, the Middle East saw what would become known as the ‘Arab Spring’. Beginning in Tunisia and spreading to Yemen, Libya and Egypt mass protests broke out in the streets against the regimes and the Presidents who had ruled them for decades. First Ben Ali fled, then the Egyptian army staged a coup against Mubarak whilst Gadhafi was killed when the people caught up with him.