With its abundant water resources and fertile land, the Bekaa Valley is known as the breadbasket of Lebanon. When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, tens of thousands of Syrian refugees fled to the valley. Nadia has been volunteering in refugee camps in the valley since the beginning o...
A rebel victory also creates a new potential threat to Israel. The Jewish State has generally limited itself to attacking Iranian targets in Syria. Indeed, ever since the beginning of the civil war, Jerusalem has tended to treat Assad as a known (if hostile) quantity, in preference...
Define Syrian Arab Republic. Syrian Arab Republic synonyms, Syrian Arab Republic pronunciation, Syrian Arab Republic translation, English dictionary definition of Syrian Arab Republic. Noun 1. Syrian Arab Republic - an Asian republic in the Middle East a
Although many peace events have been organised since the beginning of the civil war, the existing literature has paid little attention to the impact of international peace efforts in ending the Syrian war. The article aims to close this gap by assessing major peace efforts between 20...
From Basements in Belgravia to Shelters for Syrian Refugees; More Than Two Million People Have Fled Syria since Its Civil War Began. in the First of a Series of Articles This Week on the International Effort to Help Refugees, Martin Bentham Reports from Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on a British ...
We use a difference-in-differences approach, comparing the political outcomes in geographic areas with high and low intensity of refugee presence before and after the beginning of Syrian civil war. To address the endogeneity in refugees' location choices, we adopt an instrumental variables approach ...
We've been covering the civil war for 12 years. It began with an exodus of millions — at the time -- the greatest humanitarian catastrophe since World War II. This berm marks the border between Syria and Jordan. The refugees that we ran into were coming across...
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The Syrian uprising, also known as the Syrian civil war, is an ongoing, violent internal conflict in Syria. It is part of the wider Arab Spring, a wave of upheaval throughout the Arab world. Public demonstrations across Syria began on 26 January 2011 and developed into a nationwide uprising...
But in fact, it is much worse than that: the war has not only been for nothing, because none of the aims of the opposition have been achieved, but it brought Syria also decennia backward in development and caused irreparable losses and social damages. In the beginning of the conflict ...