Abstract
Nowadays, Syria is experiencing conditions which have the susceptibility to become a routine reality in region`s other countries. Undeniable facts regarding situation in Syria are: the central government`s inability to provide border security, presence of nonnative armed rebels throughout the country fight of the various and different groups with each other's and central government, direct and indirect interference by the regional powers based on different reasons in Syria and total interference of great powers in order to shape the outcomes of the civil war. The article`s question is what are the
Elements which have shaped the crisis? The essential components of the present situation are as follow: the collapse of bureaucratic-military capacities of Syrian government, the active presence of the regional powers especially the Saudi Arabia in the position of proxy wars against each other's by giving equipments and financial support to opposing groups, America`s strategic ambiguity and opportunism by the Russians.