The Syrian Civil War, commonly referred to as the Syrian Uprising, is more than just the Assad Regime against the Free Syrian Army. It is a complex war of uprising against the Bashar al-Assad government, sectarian conflict, and outside country involvement. Overthrowing the Assad Regime in Syria would create more problems than there already are. Sectarian conflict has been part of the Middle East since the passing of Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century. The Syrian Civil War has opened up the sectarian conflict within Syria. The growing sectarian conflict in Syria is causing even more problems to the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Sunni’s anger towards the Alawites is intense and powerful because of the Alawites being responsible for the number of carnages against them. In 1982 a Sunni revolt led by the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, confronted Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafiz al-Assad. Hafiz al-Assad responded with terminating entire neighborhoods, historic landmarks, and non-violent citizens. This did not just subdue the revolt, but led to generational revenge. The Alawites, an offshoot sect of Shia Islam, are headed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Alawite Assad family has controlled Syria for almost 50 years thanks to the loose minority alliance with Christians, Druze, and other various smaller ethnic groups. Syria’s population consists of Sunni Arab’s (around 60 percent); Alawites (about 10-12 percent); Christians (about 10-12 percent); Kurds (around 9 percent); Druze (around 6 percent); and other ethnic minorities. For the most part, the Sunni’s consist of the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian National Council. Captain Ayham al-Kurdi of the Free Syrian Army stated, “Ninety percent of Alawites are with the regime.” Captai... ... middle of paper ... ...nd helpless civilians and even remove an offending regime. On the other hand, Russia and China continue to validate the traditional state system embodied in the Peace of Westphalia, the series of seventeenth-century treaties that ended the Thirty Years War in Europe. The main principle of the treaty system is a general prevention against outside interference in the purely internal affairs of other countries. These conflicting views of the great powers could lead to a possibility of militarized action if any other country personally intervenes with Syria’s Civil War. This could create another Cold War or even a full scale war. The rivalry between the Assad Regime and the Free Syrian Army will continue to rise if the sectarian conflict and involvement of other countries progresses. If the Assad Regime were to be overthrown then more problems would begin to arise.
The war in Syria has been going on for six years now, killing more than a quarter million people and forcing over 10 million people to leave their homes. It has started with a peaceful protest and is now a full on genocide of people dying. The protest was for the arrest and torturing of Syrian teens for the graffiti of their anti government on a wall. When people form other people that were tired of the government saw this, they wanted their president to make major reforms of their democracy. He didn't like that, so he responded with a violent reaction. He killed thousands of Syrians and more from starvation. As the war went on, more people came in to play a role in the war. These people were from many different places. It has gotten so bad that politicians don't know what to do to stop it.
Sixty-three percent of Iraq’s population is Shia Muslim, thirty-three percent is Sunni Muslim (Lunde, 2002). For the past five centuries the minority, Sunni Muslims, have held political power in Iraq. It was not until recently that the majority, the Shia Muslims, was able to experience political power. The tensions between Sunni and Shia in Iraq are not due to religious differences formed after Muhammad’s death 1,382 years ago and are not inevitable, as proven by the relationships between Sunni and Shia in other countries and in the past (Shuster, 2011). The state of unrest surrounding the Sunni and Shia Muslims of Iraq is due to politics, power, and privilege, caused by the change of attitude in Islamic leaders in government and the discrimination of the Shia by the Sunni minority. This has been partly due to the fact that early in their history Shias were not the majority and therefore lost political power. This unbalance and the differences between the two sects are most unstable and evident during times of political unrest (Hunter, n.d).
As some were killed in detention, protests spread throughout the countryside, after the government failed to punish the murderers. Then, in April of 2011, shots were fired at protestors, and a full-scale armed rebellion flared. By July of the same year, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was formed. The FSA was formed by independent local militias with the aim of toppling the Syrian government without any central control. When Jihadists joined in the FSA, the rebel militia lost what little control they had with the impulsive extremists. Another factor of Syrian disunion is due to the Jihadists separate agenda to the FSA, no one could be trusted. By 2013, the death toll of Syrians form the Civil War was over 100,000. Another factor of Syrian disunion was the threat of chemical warfare by Syrian President Al-Assad. With constant terror dominating society, and a miserable lifestyle, rid of hope, it is easy to see why there is such a large number of Syrians seeking
To understand why Syria is in such bad shape, we have to understand what caused the civil war in the first place. What happened in Syria to motivate the citizens to rebel against their government? First we have to understand the makeup of Syria and its citizens.
In the end a lot people don`t want to the Syrian civil war to end because several groups want to control the lands of Syria such as (Hassan Nasr Allah – Muslims brotherhood – and Iran), and we can`t do something about it, but I recommend that everybody learn from the countries that opposed their kings and presidents because who goes against their rulers in the end they will fall such as (Libya, Tunisia, Egypt), also our great messenger Muhammad Peace be upon him. He said “listen and obey it to them, they are on you “. So I recommend that we shouldn`t go against the kings or the presidents because there will be a chaos.
An attack on the Syrian state would fall within the boundaries of the international concept of the responsibility to protect. The crisis in Syria has escalated by protests in March 2011 calling for the release of all political prisoners. National security forces responded to widespread peaceful demonstrations with the use of brutal violence. The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad refused to stop attacks and allow for implementation of the reforms requested by the demonstrators. By July 2011, firsthand accounts emerged from witnesses, victims, and the media that government forces had subjected innocent civilians to detention, torture, and the use of heavy weaponry. The Syrian people were also subjected to the Shabiha, a largely armed state sponsored militia fighting with security forces. Al-Assad continually denied responsibility to these crimes and placed blame on the armed groups and terrorists for these actions.
The Syrian Uprising is an ongoing armed conflict in Syria between forces loyal to the Ba'ath government and those seeking to oust its regime. The conflict has many complex entities with factions present that are seeking their own foothold in the country’s struggle over power. However, this was not always the case and an examination will take place into weather the conflict can be defined as either a civil war, an insurgency or a proxy conflict. The definition of the type of conflict is relevant as it is critical to whether or not intervention is necessary and how states may go about it, for instance, the laws of war are different from the laws of armed protests. In the case of Syria, it is vital for the UN to understand the progression of the conflict to legitimise what aid is to be given, if any, and to legally intervene in the conflict. The UN would need to use the type of conflict to draw aims of any intervention, looking beyond deposing Assad for his alleged war crimes of chemical weapon use.
As violence continues to shatter Syria, the international community has yet to find a way to resolve the civil war. The rebels want to liberate themselves from the forty year regime of the Assad family. With the help of Hezbollah and Iran, Assad has been able to stay in office and isn’t holding back when it comes to fighting off the rebels. The rebels continue to fight back and will not stop until they liberate themselves.
Since March 2011, Syria had no longer experienced a situation called peace and harmony. Syrian’s daily life is filled with the events of killing, bombing and torturing of their brothers and sisters. This unresolved conflict began with a revolution to against the government for brook the promise to have betterment in political system (citation). However the government had responded by harsh action. Starting from this point, Syria had slide into Civil War. Based on the brief description about situation in Syria, I strongly believe that the best International Relation theory to describe this situation is constructivism. This is because the Civil War in Syria is socially constructed by some factors which will be discussed deeply in the next paragraph. In this essay, I will emphasize on the two factors that lead to Syria Civil War which are identity conflict in a state and the absence of shared norms of sovereignty; and provide a solution from constructivism perspective which is diplomacy negotiation and limitation to it.
The Syrian Civil War is a good example of world leaders playing by the rules of realism. The civil war began in March of 2011 as part of the Arab Spring, and by July of 2012 17,000 have died and another 170,000 fled the country (Almond). The United Nations Security Council in February of 2012 had tried t...
In this two weeks’ tutorial, we did the simulation activity which is about Syria conflict. On behalf of the role of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (following refer to as the PYD) and other delegates' representatives, I conducted negotiations on the Syrian civil war and gave four resolutions. And our group focusses on some questions which are related to the Syrian civil war. Therefore, these resolutions are ceasefire, sanctions, humanitarian relief and political transition. I will illustrate what one has learned from this simulation activity, analyse these four resolutions and give my response from four different aspects below as well.
As you are aware, there have been many concerns with Syria. The issue involves Assad, President of Syria, and ISIS, a Syrian rebel group. This problem is advancing and developing into an international dilemma as the U.S we have to take control. Assad killed over 1,400 people, including children, with maybe the use of chemical weapons within the countries. This may or may not be reliable information because there are investigations in order to prove the theory. The problem with ISIS is that they have beheaded and slaughtered many innocent people to prove a point.
As previously mentioned, intelligence and weapon systems also become more critical when fighting insurgencies, especially in population centers. Without the intelligence to target dissidents and the means to target them precisely without large-scale collateral damage Assad and his Syrian Army were forced to press the attack regardless. Syrian Airforce began large-scale bombing of cities to target the uprising and military ground forces began to enter population centers causing significant fighting in the street. As casualties mounted, Syrian Ground and Air Forces began additional systematic destruction of structures that were assessed as being utilized by dissidents in effort to protect its own force, leading to significant destruction and mounting civilian casualties. This type of warfare ultimately led to a refugee crisis that resulted in millions being displaced in the
“The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way.” These words spoken by United States President Barack Obama reflect not only the sentiment of many nations around the world about the leadership of Syria’s president, but also the essence of Chapter eight: the difference between democracy and nondemocracy. Democracy is characterized by the connection between the government and its people in terms of input like the ideas and interests of the people, and output such as laws and policy. This differs from nondemocracy. Many elements contribute to a country being labeled nondemocratic. Ellen Grigsby asserts that nondemocratic governments are antipaticipatory, suppressive of some groups within society, diverse in terms of leadership, unclear in terms of succession, and productive of laws and policies that fail to reflect the interests of the citizens (182). Syrian history exemplifies these nondemocratic ideals and the 2011 Syrian uprising represents a contemporary issue of nondemocracy.
In conclusion, Lebanon civil war is a vary complex that last for all most 15 years. This war was a war of religion and sectors. The war had been through four major phases, first is the Sectarian violence and massacres, and second on was a continuing of the first phases and the begging of the third one. Third phases, was the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The fourth phase and the last one was the pace phase. In the end, Syria had a major role in Lebanon.