The war in Syria seems as impenetrable as a black box – the conflict began almost ten years ago and even today many people in the West have the feeling that they do not even understand who exactly is fighting against whom. Black Box Syria highlights the regional and international levels of the conflict, as well as the core problem: the totalitarian dictatorship of a family clan.

Renowned international experts and actors such as the former U.S. ambassador to Damascus, Robert Ford, the Turkish government advisor İbrahim Kalın, the commander of the armed Syrian opposition Salim Idris, and Sam Dagher, author of the highly acclaimed “Assad or We Burn the Country”, vividly describe the stages of the conflict and make the motives behind this war clear.