article_snippet: the country unleashed airstrikes.
article_snippet: Earth-shattering from all military capabilities is not something that happens overnight," Zakaria answered, saying that airstrikes have continued.
article_snippet: There are continued operations going on in Syria.
article_snippet: our are coordinating with our friends in Iraq.
article_snippet: its ongoing civil war is the result of unrest in Syria that originally started in 2011 within the context of the Arab Spring, protests for democracy or changes in government that raged in parts of the Middle East and North Africa in 2010 and 2011.
article_snippet: Syrian protesters, in 2011, wanted to bring change to the government which Syrian protesters said stifled expression in the harshest ways.
article_snippet: The al-Assad regime violently cracked down on the demonstrators, chaos erupted throughout Syria, and eventually many on the international stage came to believe al-Assad should go.
article_snippet: We believe there has to be a political solution" in Syria, and that has "not been clarified at the moment.