What war did the Popular Committees emerge during in Syria?
Syrian Civil War
Popular Committees (Syria)
The Popular Committees (also called Lijan militias; Arabic: اللجان الشعبية‎ ‎ "al-Lijan al-Sha'biyah", meaning "people's committees") were militias that emerged in Syria during the Syrian Civil War.
 They originated as neighborhood vigilante groups in the Christian, Druze and Alawi and Shia Muslim quarters of Damascus and elsewhere to prevent the infiltration of Sunni-dominated rebel groups.
 However, the Popular Committees included a significant number of Sunni Muslims as well.
Syrian Civil War
The Syrian Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية السورية‎ ‎ , "Al-ḥarb al-ʼahliyyah as-sūriyyah") is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought primarily between the government of President Bashar al-Assad, along with its allies, and various forces opposing the government.
Popular Resistance (Yemen)
The Popular Resistance (Arabic: المقاومة الشعبية‎ ‎ ), also known as "popular resistance committees", are armed groups that have been established in several Yemeni provinces during the Yemeni Civil War, after the Houthi's coup.
 They fight alongside the Yemeni army loyal to president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, and the Popular committees.
 They are currently fighting against the Houthi fighters, and forces loyal to former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
 In some provinces, they have united with the People's Committees to fight against AQAP. Local Coordination Committees of Syria
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria (Arabic: لجان التنسيق المحلية في سوريا‎ ‎ : "LCCSyria" or "LCCs") are a network of local groups that organise and report on protests as part of the Syrian uprising.
 In June 2011, the network was described by "The New York Times" as beginning to "emerge as a pivotal force" in Syria.
 s of 2011 , the network supported civil disobedience and opposed local armed resistance and international military intervention as methods of opposing the Syrian government. Popular Committees (Yemen)
In Yemen, popular committees are armed groups of members of Yemeni tribes which assisted the Yemeni army during the 2011–12 Yemeni uprising and the later Yemeni civil war.
 The groups were established in 2010 in the province of Shabwa, and their popularity has increased.
 During the Yemeni Revolution in 2012, committees were also created in the Abyan Governorate to support the army in the face of AQAP militants in South Yemen.
 By 2015, popular resistance committees had spread to other provinces of Yemen. Syria chemical weapons program
Syria's chemical weapons program began in the 1970s with weapons and training from Egypt and the Soviet Union, with production of chemical weapons in Syria beginning in the mid-1980s.
 Prior to September 2013 Syria had not publicly admitted to possessing chemical weapons, although Western intelligence services believed it to hold one of the world's largest stockpiles.
 In September 2013, French intelligence put the Syrian stockpile at 1,000 tonnes, including Yperite, VX and "several hundred tonnes of sarin".
 At the time, Syria was one of a handful of states which had not ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention.
 In September 2013, Syria joined the CWC (formally acceding on 14 October), and agreed to the destruction of its weapons, to be supervised by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), as required by the Convention.
 A joint OPCW-United Nations mission was established to oversee the destruction process.
 Syria joined OPCW after international condemnation of the August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack, for which Western states held the Syrian government responsible (whilst Syria and Russia held the Syrian rebels of the Syrian civil war responsible) and agreed to the prompt destruction of its chemical weapons, resulting in U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declaring on 20 July 2014: "we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out."
 The destruction of Syria's chemical weapons that the Assad government had declared was completed by August 2014, yet further disclosures, incomplete documentation, and allegations of withholding part of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile since mean that serious concerns regarding chemical weapons and related sites in Syria remain.
 On 5 April 2017, the government of Syria allegedly unleashed a chemical attack that killed 70 children and adults. Syria (region)
The historic region of Syria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: "Sura/i"; ; in modern literature called Greater Syria, Syria-Palestine, or the Levant) is an area located east of the Mediterranean sea.
 The oldest attestation of the name Syria is from the 8th century BC in a bilingual inscription in Hieroglyphic Luwian and Phoenician.
 In this inscription the Luwian word "Sura/i" was translated to Phoenician "ʔšr" "Assyria."
 For Herodotus in the 5th century BC, Syria extended as far north as the Halys river and as far south as Arabia and Egypt.
 For Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela, Syria covered the entire Fertile Crescent.
 In Late Antiquity Syria meant a region located to the East of the Mediterranean Sea, West of the Euphrates River, North of the Arabian Desert and South of the Taurus Mountains, thereby including modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the State of Palestine and parts of Southern Turkey namely the Hatay Province and the Western half of the Southeastern Anatolia Region.
 This late definition is equivalent to the region known in Classical Arabic by the name "ash-Shām " الشام /ʔaʃ-ʃaːm/ , which means "the north [country]" (from the root "šʔm " شأم "left, north").
 After the Islamic conquest of Byzantine Syria in the 7th century AD, the name "Syria" fell out of primary use in the region itself, being superseded by the Arabic equivalent "Shām", but survived in its original sense in Byzantine and Western European usage, and in Syriac Christian literature.
 In the 19th century the name Syria was revived in its modem Arabic form to denote the whole of Bilad al-Sham, either as "Suriyah" or the modern form "Suriyya", which eventually replaced the Arabic name of Bilad al-Sham.
 After World War I, the name Syria was applied to the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon and the contemporaneous but short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria. Iran–Syria relations
Syria and Iran are strategic allies.
 Syria is usually called Iran's "closest ally", with ideological conflict between the Arab nationalism ideology of Syria's secular ruling Ba'ath Party and the Islamic Republic of Iran's pan-Islamist policy notwithstanding.
 Iran and Syria have had a strategic alliance ever since the Iran–Iraq War, when Syria sided with non-Arab Iran against its fellow Baath-ruled neighbor but enemy Iraq was isolated by some Arab countries.
 The two countries shared a common animosity towards the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and coordination against the United States and Israel.
 Syria cooperates with Iran in smuggling arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon, since Israel has attacked Syria.
 During the Syrian Civil War Iran has conducted "an extensive, expensive, and integrated effort to keep Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power."
 The United States has designated both nations of Iran and Syria as State Sponsors of Terrorism and listed under axis of evil, due to their alleged terrorist activities. Palestinian Popular Committees
The Palestinian Popular Committees (Arabic: اللجان الشعبية الفلسطينية‎ ‎ ) was a Palestinian movement, founded in 1983.
 The movement emerged mainly amongst youths in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, after a split away from the Palestine Liberation Organization.
 The Palestinian Popular Committees were supported by the Communist Labour Party of Syria.
 The movement backed the Abdel-Fattah Ghanem-led splinter group of the Palestine Liberation Front.
 The organization was disbanded in 1985, as a campaign of arrests was launched against the Communist Party of Labour in Syria. Popular Committees
Popular Committees may refer to any of the following organizations: