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The war started in March when they attacked 15 school children that wrote graffiti on the wall in Syria. The government and president Assad didn’t approve and he captured them and held them hostage and tortured them. The people of Syria wanted to have peaceful protest and not fight however the government didn’t approved and killed people. Also when they were mourning the 4 people that had died the government killed one more person. This threw the country into chaos because they were upset and fed up that President Assad didn’t want to listen to them. They said that Assad was following Mubarak’s footsteps. Assad agreed to lift the state of emergency on the country, however 4 days after the Syrian regime sent thousands into Daraa. This is what created the start of the war in Syria.
People
The people included are Iran it is a very close allies to Syria, they have given them technical support, combat troops, and financial support as well. Their leader Ali Khamenei has also been in favor the Syrian government since 2011. The Iranians also provided them with countless military support and the also helped the while the Syrian war turned into a civil war. Iraq because they have sent Assad financial support from 2011 they also have a deal with Syria to provide them with diesel fuel. Russia because the have a naval base there called the Tartus naval base, which is the only navel base that is outside of the Soviet Union. They also further their involvement because they are helping to train Syrian soldiers. The Hezbollah is an ally of the Ba’ath party Led by Assad and his family. They help in fighting aginst the Syrian rebels. Nasrallah , sho is the leader of the Hezbollah claims thathey do not fight for the Syrian government, ...
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...violent. Also since the war has happed the government has become extremely more violent against the opposing team. They have shot and killed doctors trying to help the wounded, unarmed civilians, and raided mosques.
Roles
Russia has had a big role in the Syrian war since 2011. Russia has sold so many different armed weapons to Syria. In 2008 Syria purchased billions of dollars of Russian weapons and equipment, also as I mentioned one of Russia’s Naval bases is based in Tartus, Syria. The rebels also have a big role because they are the opposition. Bashar al- Assad is the cause of the Syrian war. He would not step down from his position, and he would also not listen to his people. They wanted him to peacefully resolve the situation when it first began, however he thought by involving force and weapons he would be enforcing his power however he made a mistake.
The initiation of the Syrian War was heavily influenced by the (what was supposed to be a peaceful) protest. As well as the many deaths of the Syrian citizens. These conflicts helped citizens realize all the issues that were going on at the time. There were many causes for the violence that went on during the Syrian Civil War. It can be inferred that the three main aspects that fueled the violence of the Syrian War were due to foreign influence, sectarian opposition, and conflicts between opposing groups.
SUMMARY: The Syrian Civil War between the Syrian government, and the insurgents, as well as the Free Syrian Army has been escalating since early 2011. The United States, and our allies have faced difficulty in sending aid to Syria, and continue to deal with obstacles in sending even basic medications to Syrian civilians. However, the United States and its allies have also contributed to the lack of organization and the disparity in Syria by sending aid and artillery to individuals based only on political connection, and ignoring organization, local alliances, and without a true understanding of the reality of the Syrian localities to best protect the Syrian protestors. The question addressed in this memo will be defining the viable options to be pursued in Syria, how to pursue them, and assessing the most beneficial path of least resistance when offering aid, funds, and artillery to specific groups in the country. The recommendation will be that although the best alternative action item would be to choose a Syrian group with the least oppositional values comparative to the United States to fund, supply with arms, and train; that the United States should do nothing for the time being. Given the physical and financial risk involved with the Syrian Civil War, it would be prudent for the United States to simply observe how the war progresses over the next several months, as well as complete some research to truly understand the state of affairs in local areas of Syria to determine the extent to which the United States could identify a group to provide aid to, as well as the extent to which the United States involvement would be within Syria.
A genocide is currently taking place in Syria. In early 2011, the Syrian president Bashar
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.
I believe that the Syrian government and the rebels are the most responsible for the civil war. The government was very controlling and may have pushed their people off the edge. The Syrian government killed people in a riot of and the rebels decided to do something. The rebels are also responsible because they started a war with the government, making things much worse for the people who lived there. There are also a few reasons that are not the fault of people that helped create the war. ISIS and other outside groups are responsible for making the war worse, but not responsible for starting it.
...alanced as the conflict has gone on however to form a civil war. It can also be seen that international state and non-state actors have had more involvement in the conflict since its inception in April 2011. This continually increasing involvement has turned the conflict into a proxy-civil war that does not appear to have any clear outcome. In its current climate, the Syrian conflict can be seen in a different light to sides involved: The Assad regime still sees the conflict as an insurgency. The rebel groups continue to see their conflict as a civil war and hope one day for a revolution, whereas the international community can quite clearly see the conflict is now a proxy conflict between many states, however, the key actors involved in this proxy conflict can be seen as US vs Russia and Iran, Saudi Arabia vs Hezbollah and Iran and Israel vs Syria and Hezbollah.
While the term “civil war” seems to be the “preferred term for the ongoing violence in Syria” (Keating, Would You Know a Civil War When You Saw One?), it is evident that the war has seeped out of Syria’s borders as other countries have attempted to intervene. Herbert Wulf writes in his essay, The bumpy road to re-establish a monopoly of violence, that “A characteristic of recent wars is a disruption or loss of the state monopoly of violence, as it can neither be adequately exercised nor can the rule of law be maintained” (Wulf). As much as the violence seems to be contained w...
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 the Arab Spring enters its second year, major uprisings and revolts have occurred all over the Middle East, pushing for an end to the corrupt autocratic rule and an expansion of civil liberties and political rights. Most recently, images from Syria have emerged, depicting the government’s use of force to suppress the voice of its people. One might ask, “Is this the beginning of a revolution? Is the country on the path to democracy?” To assess this question and examine the future trends in the region, one must look back on the country’s somewhat tumultuous history, the relationship between the citizens and the state, and the political economy.
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The Syrian Civil war started in March of 2011. Over 220,000 people have died since then. The
The conflict in Syria has raged for 3 years and a month now. This civil conflict began on the 15th of March 2011. The main actors in this conflict are the supporters of totalitarian Ba’ath government and those who overthrow it. At first the demands of the protesters were democratic and economic reforms to be brought in by the Ba’ath government. Although after the military assaults on protesters across the country the protests evolved into an armed rebellion. Thousands massacred- women children, homes leveled to the ground. According to the United Nations, the death toll surpassed 100,000 in June 2013, and reached 120,000 by September 2013. More than four million Syrians have been displaced, more than three million Syrians fled the country and became refugees, and millions more were left in poor living conditions with shortage of food and drinking water.
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing conflict and has, to date, resulted in close to 500,000 casualties, consisting of both civilians and fighters. War has damages to every aspect of a country, in Syria for example, nearly two million children are without parents and life expectancy has been reduced by fifteen years. The people of Syria face constant threats, whether it be the well-known terror group ISIS or air strikes from Russia, chemical weapons or disease, bystanders are constantly in the line of fire.
The abrupt end of decade long dominating regime in three weeks had created a political vacuum, that is evident in shifting coalitions and divisions among religious groups, ethnic groups, regional groups and even classes (Barnett et al. 2003, 25). US did not realize, moreover, the depth of the hostility between Kurds and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites, and the members of different tribes and local religious groups. Furthermore, to deal with destruction in Iraq new plan was decided by the US. The plan was to pull out all troops and hand over the responsi...
The war encouraged militants and gave them an excuse to fight and attack western nations, especially those politically and ideologically aligned with the United States. The war bred violent insurgent cells, some of which who intended to join the fight against the United States and some who brought the fight back to their countries. “Gen. Mansour al-Turki, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry spokesman, once told me that Saudi militants "wanted to spread their war against the United States and found that doing this was easier in their own country. The invasion of Iraq enabled them to convince others in the country to share their goals. For that reason, the invasion was very important to them."” (Brinkley). The unintentional encouragement of terrorism by the Iraq War led huge rise of fatal terrorist bombings in Iraq and outside Iraq in the Middle East. More and more American soldiers and Iraqi civilians were being targeted and killed. The death toll attributed to terrorist attacks in Iraq doubled in 2008 in comparison to 2007. The fall of the Saddam regime left a power vacuum that radical fundamentalist groups sought to fill with their stone age ideologies. “The Iraq War has provided an anti-Western motivational focus and consolidated preexisting grievances, which encourage Muslims worldwide to join terrorist groups…Iraq became