Why the war in Syria is currently the most important international conflict.

Why the war in Syria is currently the most important international conflict.
Instructions: Explain and justify the social, political and political science relevance of this problem or conflict! What is so difficult to understand about your topic (puzzle) that we have to deal with it scientifically? How do you hope the subject can be analyzed using social science theories and methods?
Please write this essay with an introduction, a main part where you answer the questions above and an ending part in which you summarize your ideas and answer the question of the essay.
This is essay should include at least 5 or 6 secondary sources. From my university, I got the following instructions for the format:

Font: Times New Roman (font size 12 pt) or Arial (font size 11 pt)
• Line spacing: 1.5
• Margins: top 2.5 cm, bottom 2.0 cm, left 2.5 cm, right 4 cm (correction margin)

Quoting:

Direct quotations:
• Are highlighted with double quotation marks.
• If a quote itself also contains a quote, this is placed in single quotation marks.
• Verbatim quotations are reproduced completely and true to the original – including any written
errors, underlines or other printing forms, e.g. B. Italics.
• If a verbatim quotation is not completely copied, the text omission is square
Specify brackets and three dots “[…]”.
Example: “Sociology […] should mean: a science which aims to interpret social action and thereby explain its course and effects causally” (Weber 1980, p. 1).

Indirect quotes:

• Identification of indirect quotes at the end with details of the author and the year
and the page number. There is no emphasis in the quoted text.
• Example: When a system resonates, the system is stimulated by its environment (cf. Luhman1986, p. 51).

Works cited:
Books: Independent publications (monographs) must contain the following information: surname, first name of the author. Publishing year. Complete title and subtitle in italics, information on the edition (only if available). Place of publication: Publisher.

Internet articles:
Internet documents must contain the following information: surname, first name of the author. Year of publication (if this information is missing: no year). Full title. Url. Accessed: Date.