Syrian Civil War: Aleppo A man holds the body of his son, who was killed in a suicide bombing in October 2012,... Manu Brabo—AP/Shutterstock.comVIEW MORE in these related Britannica articles: Media for: 1948 Arab-Israeli War Media for: Yom Kippur War Media for: Persian Gulf War ...
Syrian Civil War, armed conflict that began in 2011 with an uprising against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The conflict drew involvement from a number of international actors and helped precipitate the rise of ISIL (also called ISIS or
as well as the site’s iconic monumental arch. Conservationists and scholars with UNESCO and other international groups worked to protect and preserve the affected sites even as the battle lines in theSyrian Civil Warshifted, but they did so at great personal risk. Syrian scholar Khaled al-Asaad...
The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing violent conflict in Syria between pro-democratic insurgents and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s long-standing dynastic regime. The war has been a source of significant instability in the Middle East since 2011, and the resultant civilian displacement and ...
In 20th-century international relations: The Six-Day War The Syrian Baʿth Party, though socialist, resented Nasser’s assumption of Arab leadership and in 1961 took the country out of the United Arab Republic, which it had formed with Egypt in 1958. Likewise, the presence of 50,000 Egypt...
Lebanon - Civil War, Sectarianism, Conflict: The attempt to establish a centralized state bureaucracy, begun by Chehab and continued by Hélou, came to an end with the election of Suleiman Franjieh to the presidency in August 1970. Franjieh, a traditiona
In Syrian Civil War: Civil war …evident that majorities in the United States and the United Kingdom were opposed to military action. A motion in the British Parliament to authorize strikes in Syria failed on August 29, and a similar vote in the U.S. Congress was postponed on September 10...
In Syrian Civil War: Civil war >United Kingdom were opposed to military action. A motion in the British Parliament to authorize strikes in Syria failed on August 29, and a similar vote in the U.S. Congress was postponed on September 10. Meanwhile, diplomacy took centre stage, resulting in...
In late August,Cameronwas dealt a stunning blow by Parliament’s rejection of his proposed response to events in theSyrian Civil War. Amid reports that hundreds of Syrians had been killed earlier in the month in anallegedchemical attack by the regime of Syrian Pres.Bashar al-Assad, Cameron ...
while painting the United States and NATO as threats to global security. Two days later Russia became an active participant in theSyrian Civil War, when Russian aircraft struck targets near the cities ofHomsand Hama. Although Russian defense officials stated that the air strikes were intended to...