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    Oppression and Civil Uprising in Syria: The Assad Regime Syria is a country located in West Asia bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon to the west, Israel to the Southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. Syria has a mixed economy where there is restrictive private freedom, but the country remains highly controlled by the government. In this paper, I will address the overall state of Syrian, to include political influence, military and cultural demographics

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    A terrorist group in the Middle East mainly concentrated in Iraq and Syria Isis is killing everyone who does not believe in their radical views of Islam i. Why are people upset? Thesis: Isis grew in Syria because of the civil war in Syria, the government was unable to defend its people, and Isis had superior leadership, and superior organization Body 1 The civil war in Syria led to the rise of Isis because the war caused Syrians to use their ammunition and weapons, the people lost faith in the government

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    Many years ago ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) didn’t exist while the U.S was stationed in the country but that has drastically changed. Now ISIS is one of if not the most dominate transnational terrorist organizations in the Middle East coupled with sophisticated command, control, and logistical capabilities. But how did this come to be? Initially, Isis is the aftermath of a genocide that continued after the U.S left the territory. the result of 200,000 murdered Syrians and of millions more

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    it would seek military strikes for using chemical weapons on the syrian people . In the agreement between the united states and russia, the syrian government would surrender all its chemical weapons to international inspectors .Since the Agreement Syria has compiled and forty-one percent of their weapons have been destroyed (LEDERER ) .This paper examines whether the theories of realism ,liberalism and constructivism are consistent or inconsistent with the syrian government's decision to join the

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    government has been under the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. Throughout the country, there has been an intense conflict between the People of Syria and their government and as a result pro-democratic protests have emerged throughout the country as a way to end the reign and regime of the Assad Family who has been in power since 1971. The violence in Syria started in the southern City of Deraa when citizens were enraged by the arrest of 15 school-aged children who were tortured for tagging “revolutionary

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    1. Syria and the greater Fertile Crescent are often thought of as the birth of agricultural societies, some 12,00 years ago. Recently, however, this area has experience the worst 3 year drought on record. The drought conditions exacerbated existing political, water and agricultural insecurity and caused mass agricultural failure, livestock mortality, massive rural to urban human migrations. Kelley et al set out to understand how these effects were the product of vulnerability and hazard severity

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    Timothy Tenney Dr. Mohanty English Composition 1 1 December 2015 Daesh: A Global Enemy  The world is at war.  You ask with who?  Terrorism, to be more specific though they are called The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).  They have a few other names as well, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Daesh.  I will choose to call them Daesh in this piece because these terrorists find it insulting.  The reason for this is that Daesh an acronym for ISIS in Arabic.  This acronym

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    Syria has been the epicenter of wars and prosperity for many decades. Whether it’s the Syrian-Franco war that gave their independence, or the flood of Universities that entered in the 1950’s; it’s always been a mixed bag with Syria. Many people will look at the destabilize modern Syria and wonder “How did it get to this point?”, well in reality it was not one event rather a concurrency of events that all led up to Syria’s likely demise. To first understand why Syria is collapsing in the present

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    My research topic will explore the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as (ISIS). I chose this topic because it has been an ongoing issue recently along with being a hot and dangerous topic. Picking this topic will help me exploit my audience and grab their attention. Before choosing this topic, I didn’t know very much about it until I did some research and realized how dangerous this Islamic group really is. During my argument I will argue how ISIS has divided countries and have caused

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    regime. The main pressure on the government of Syria is coming from native Syrians due to the events of the Arab Spring. The Assad regime held an authoritarian position over its people. Many Syrians protested this authoritarian government, and the Assad regime responded with violent force. This has caused a large split within the nation and has created many rebel groups intent upon overthrowing the Assad regime and establishing a democracy in Syria. The main belligerents against the Assad regime

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