The Political And Humanitarian Crisis

The Arabs took this opportunity to start an uprising. The fighting continued for twenty years until France, in 1936, agreed to let go of their political influence, but they would keep a military presence there and could benefit economically, which meant they controlled the oil. Four years later France fell to the Axis powers and consequently so did Syria. Since the, now Free French, troops needed support along with the British, they agreed to leave the region completely if they helped them win World War 2. After the Germans were defeated, the French, reluctantly, kept their word and left the region. This, however, did not subside the fighting; what was once a battle for freedom turned into an ideological battle between Shias and Sunnis. Eventually some stability was gained and a proper government was set up. In 1971 Hafez Al-Assad was elected president and the country went from being a democracy to a monarchy. He groomed his first son to take over the country once he died but his son passed away in a car accident before he did. Hafez’s second son, Bashar Al-Assad, took control of the country in 2000 and he has remained in power ever since. Prior to the Arab Spring, there were outbursts, but none significantly affected his regime. Once the Arab Spring began, however, the people of Syria, mainly Sunnis, revolted against Assad. At the same time, The United States pulled troops out of Iraq leaving them without any structure or

Syria is currently all over the news regarding what many have to come to see as a civil war. A term like civil war needs to identify the players and the reasons for the war. In this case the players are being identified as pro government or antigovernment with a Sunni or Shia overtone. Sunni and Shia are the two major sects of Islam and both have a historical based conflict going back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad and how Muslims should be governed. This conflict has caused tensions and violence to flare up throughout Islamic history. This conflict has carried into modern times and has becoming a rallying point for Muslim people calling for change with their government and across the Middle Eastern region. The

Syrian Sunni rebels have been trained by the U.S. military to attack northern Syria, and turned to U.S airstrikes. This is a semi alliance, and it is loose, so they do not actually work together; they just have a common goal. In this semi alliance, the US provides support, and trains Syrian rebels, to fight the war against northern Syria. This is a different kind of war than WWII. WWII was fought between countries and ended with a clear winner. In this scenario, Part of a country rebels against another part, but with another country aiding the rebels. Nadim Hassan, who is the leader of the 30th division, which is a not as extreme group of rebels, has been captured along with others. Syria became independent in 1946, and very shortly became and unstable nation with a lot of cases of rebellion and other things. In 2011, Syrians became inspired to rebel because of the Arab spring activists in Egypt and Tunisia. The Arab spring is a giant collection of protests, wars, and revolutions around the Middle East that started in December 17, 2010 in Tunisia. The consequences of the Syrian war also differ from the consequences of the nuclear bombs that were dropped and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The consequences resulting from the war in Syria include the deaths of over 10,000 people, and Syria is currently a nation in crisis. The Islamic religion is split into two branches, which are called Sunni and Shiite. Syria is considered an Islamic country, and the government in Syria is dominated with Shiites. This Sunni versus Shiite conflict is another reason along with the Arab spring for the war in Syria. The Sunnis are rebelling against the Shiite government, and this is similar to a civil war. Civil war is similar to another topic, revolution. Revolution is defined as: “A fundamental change in political organization; especially the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed.” The main

Land between Empires. Since early history, Syria experienced Colonization, invasion and occupations. The history dictated the path that took Syria from early 1900 to the present. Below is an outline of this paper

The war, which has engulfed Syria, continuously attracts the attention of journalists and diplomats. It has already taken lives of at least 76000 people (Gladstone and Ghannam 4). Moreover, this confrontation has turned millions of Syrian citizens into refugees who need to seek asylum in various countries. To some degree, this conflict illustrates the instability of countries located in the Middle East. One cannot easily identify a single underlying cause of this war. Instead, much attention should be paid to the combination of factors that are related to the political landscape of the country, its religious tensions, economic recession, and

World renowned terrorist organizations, such as ISIS, have risen from the turmoil in Syria. In recent news, tensions between the United States and Syria, along with Syrian ally Russia, have tightened to extreme levels due to the recent chemical attacks by Syrian President Assad. Reports of the attacks were graphically stated by witnesses, with one woman describing her experience of the explosion, which “… sent a yellow mushroom cloud into the air that stung her eyes … and ‘was like a winter fog.’”10 She took shelter in her home, but recalled that when people started arriving to help the wounded, "they inhaled the gas and died.” In response to these attacks, President Trump ordered an airstrike on a Syrian government facility of “fifty-nine Tomahawk cruise missiles … fired from two US Navy ships in the Mediterranean … at least six people are reported to have been killed.” These attacks have strained an already fragile relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a relationship President Trump finds vital in winning the war on terror. Terrorist groups are taking advantage of these countries fighting each other by conducting their own attacks on civilians, such as when “at least five IS suicide bombers blew themselves up outside and inside the camp at Rajm al-Salibi, south-east of the town of Shaddadi, at dawn on Tuesday [May 2 2017],” the Syrian Observatory, a

In March of 2011, BBC News reported that Syrian authorities arrested and tortured teenagers for vandalising a school wall with revolutionary propaganda, which soon led to pro-democracy protests. These protests were interrupted by security forces that opened fire on the protesters and killed several. Soon the political unrest triggered demands for President Assad’s resignation. The government used force to stop the protests, but this only ensured more anger from the demonstrators. This was the beginning of the brutal war that is still occurring today. The violence escalated tremendously and has caused over 250,000 deaths as of August 2015 (Asare, Gritten, Offer, & Rodgers, 2015). Asare et al. (2015) reports that his number includes the deaths of more than 6000 civilians killed by barrel bombs alone. The battle is no longer

When Hafez al-Assad and his party The Ba'ath Party, seized power and he became the President of Syria, Hafez al-Assad started building a base for a disgusting dictatorship. Hafez al-Assad given power and high ranks in the military and the government to mostly the Alawites(A branch of Islam), he wanted to prevent people turning against him due to belief or becoming a mole as Alawites his people. All of that showed the favouritism in the Assad regime from the beginning, which later on his son Bashar al-Assad took over when his father died, but unfortunately nothing has changed. The long reigning Assad regime has destroyed Syria, because the regime is anti-western, anti-jew, and anti-human rights.

Syria is one the most infamous countries that was involved in the Arab Spring. Syrians protested against the repressive 17 year regime of President Bashar al Assad, and for the allowance of political parties, equal rights for kurds, freedom of speech, press, and assembly. In late January of 2011, peaceful protests began in response to uprisings in Tunisia. On April 11th, the government asserted the emergency law that allows the government to suspend constitutional rights. Security forces began to open fire on civilians and cities. Food and water supply were cut off and electricity was sequestered. This eventually led to the ongoing Syrian Civil War in which President Assad is continuing to hurt is people, most recently by spraying sarin

What began as anti-government protests and demonstrations soon escalated into a full-scale civil war. Protests broke out following the arrest and torture of a group of teenagers for painting anti-govern graffiti on the wall of a school building. The nation was so outraged they took to the streets in protest, demanding the resignation of the president for allowing such an injustice to happen. The government’s violent responses to the citizens’ protests escalated into a full-scale civil war, leaving many Syrian citizens with no other option but to flee their homes (Adhikari,

Syria’s official leader is dictator Bashar al-Assad who has committed many atrocities to his own people. Most of Syria’s current problems can be traced back to March 2011 when Assad ordered police to shoot at peaceful Arab demonstrators. In a few months the demonstrators start shooting back and Assad calls in military forces to deal with these people. This new branch of Syria’s military is named the Free Syrian Army and their aim is to serve Assad against rebels and protesters. That is when the previously

The war in Syria has displaced an average of 12.5 million people (Connor Key Facts). Some internationally displaced people in Syria have no humanitarian aid (i.e. food, water, medicine). About 100,000 have perished trying to flee the country by way of land or sea. The Syrian War began in 2011 when groups of Syrian students initiated revolts against the government because they did not agree with how the country was being run. Their frustrations with President Assad’s leadership triggered a massacre on the students. This horrific act pushed the country into civil war. Many nations, including the United States, called for Assad to relinquish his power, but he refused to step down from power. By the year 2013, the civil war had killed 90,000 people and this number would increase to 250,000 by 2015. The revolutionaries, Syrian citizens who want change, received support from the U.S. while Assad received support from Russia. During this dispute, other groups have joined the war causing even more terror and destruction, including the Islamic State (ISIS) (Thompson).

The modern nation of Syria did not exist until the 20th century, although the idea of Syria has been in existence since at least the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The name “Syria”, was first used by the Greeks, historically identifying the region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean lying between Egypt and Asia Minor. Greater Syria, the larger region (called this to distinguish it from the nation-state with the same name today), located at the crossroads of three continents, possesses a long and abounding history. It was an arena of conflict for centuries, serving as an invasion route for numerous

The bilateral relationship between Syria and Lebanon provides a great and unique analysis of the factors that influence relationships between Middle Eastern states because of their shared but complicated history. Both these countries used to be one in the same up until the early twentieth century and their relations have gone through various evolutionary stages that have had a greater political impact on the region altogether. In this paper I will examine the relationship between Syria and Lebanon and seek to explain the key factors that influence this relationship.

The conflict in Syria began in March 2011 in Deraa after multiple teenagers who painted revolution slogans on a school wall were apprehended and later tortured by the Syrian government. Pro-democracy protests broke out and security forces began shooting at protestors and multiple were killed, which truly sparked the beginning of the conflict. More protests went on throughout the nation calling for President Assad to step down and after he did not, by July 2011, there were hundreds of protestors taking the streets across the country demanding he resign. As more time passed and no change was made, the country eventually broke into a civil war as rebels were battling the government forces for control of land. The fighting expanded through out the country, reaching the capital Damascus as well as the important city of Aleppo. By August of 2015, over 250,000 were killed and that number has only increased by now. The United States and Russia are both involved in this issue, as the U.S is backing the rebel forces to try to remove Assad from power, but Russia is backing Assad and providing aid to his campaign.