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6 How the Syrian War Empowered ISISFawaz A. Gerges
I know that it’s been too long since the Syrian civil war has started. It’s all water under the bridge now. No one discusses how we all ended up here. No one even remembers how they all started. That’s why I traveled down memory lane at the beginning of this piece, to the ex...
He was the reviled leader of a fractured state, but so rooted in place that even Europeans had been making overtures — via Jordan — in search of a solution to the Syrian refugee crisis. If not rehabilitation, it was at least resigned acceptance. More than a decade of civil war had fa...
The United Kingdom-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), said Syrian troops were withdrawing from positions in Quneitra, near the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Why did al-Assad fall so fast? Syria was struggling as its economy tanked, reportedly propped up largely by ...
In August, the Syrian government was accused of killing more than 1,000 people with chemical weapons. [Pictured: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta signs a document ending the ban on women participating in combat missions] 2014: Slashes to military budget Marine Corps Sgt. Aaron Hostutler // ...
I have been on several websites and the thing closest to a reason why the war began was that several Syrians were complaining that there were scarcely any jobs and that there was an uprising. The Syrian war has been going on for several years (began march 2011) and for no particular ...
The history of shooting squads is very long, though the practice is quickly becoming a relic of the past. If you're wondering "when did shooting squads start?" or "how did shooting squads start?", hold your horses, that information is coming, along with a number of other fascinati...