The Syrian unrest began on 15 March 2011, with popular protests that grew nationwide by April 2011.
According to the United Nations, the death toll surpassed 100,000 in June 2013, and reached 120,000 by September 2013.
The UN and Amnesty International's inspections and probes in Syria determined both in 2012 and 2013 that the vast majority of abuses are done by the Syrian government, whose are also largest in scale.
More than four million Syrians have been displaced, more than two million Syrians fled the country and became refugees, and millions more were left in poor living conditions with shortage of food and drinking water.
The situation is especially bad in the town of Muadamiyat al-Sham, where 12,000 residents are predicted to die of starvation by the winter of 2013 from a Syrian army enforced blockade.
