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Syrian crisis, which began in March 2011, has acquired a global character. Now days it’s a global conflict, in which both the interests of the regional states and of the great powers clash.The assistance which the external forces rendered to the armed Syrian opposition, represented mainly by Islamist groups, and the presence in their ranks of thousands of jihadists from all over the world stimulated the emergence in Syria of a center of radical Islamism. This, in turn, contributed to the formation of so-called here «Islamic state» (IG) and its expansion in the region.Syrian crisis can be viewed as a specific, a special part of the Arab Spring Social protest, which characterized the initial phase of the Arab Spring in such countries as Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain, was caused by internal factors. Namely, it was provoked by the socio-economic crisis, corruption, police arbitrariness, nepotism of the ruling elite, the absence of real democratic freedoms in the flashy «facade democracy».In the article the character of the Syrian crisis is revealed as the global conflict and the particular part of the Arab Spring. The author show, on the experience of his visits to Syria, that the main causes of the Syrian crisis are the outside factors and namely the support of the outside forces to the Islamist radical opposition, which is represented basically by the mercenaries-jihadists from the Arab and Moslem countries, EU, USA, Russia. The appearance of the Islamic State (IS) on the part of the territory of Syria and Iraq, as the fire-place of the radical Islamism, is analyzed, and the causes of the influence of the Islamist ideology on the part of the Moslems are revealed. The attempts of the West, Turkey, monarchies of the Persian Golf to use the radical Islamism in their global goals in the Middle East are revealed. The role of Russia in the solution of the Syrian crisis and the struggle against the radical Islamism is showed.

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