The Syrian Civil War - Statistics & facts The Syrian civil war is an on-going armed conflict, fought primarily between the Syrian government, led by the president Bashar al-Assad, and multiple opposing factions, including the Islamic State. Western countries have avoided being directly involved; ...
The Syrian Civil War has been the most deadly conflict of the 21st century, drawing in many different nations to fight over control of the Middle...
The Syrian crisis has now entered its eighth year, a period during which the Syrian people have suffered tremendously. Military muscle-flexing would only complicate the situation in Syria, and is very likely to push further away any hope of a peaceful end to the long-running civil war by pol...
These stylized facts run counter to much of the existing literature on multi-party civil wars, which has emphasized the influence of the balance of power on group dynamics. In this article we instead draw upon balance of threat theory, along with insights from the economics of industrial ...
Not long ago Syria was the biggest car market in the Levant region. Only 10 years ago, with a volume of 87,500 annual sales, the Syrian new market represented a relevant reality within the region. Unfortunately, in this decade the country was destroyed by the civil war and terrorism and ...
Ayrault said a punitive military response would help shift the balance in a 2 ½-year-old civil war - which was tipping in favor of Assad - and was the only way to convince the Syrian leader that he must go to the negotiating table. ...
Asked about Syria's denials, he said that "if the regime has nothing to hide, they should let the U.N. investigators in immediately so we can get to the bottom of this." Use of chemical weapons would bring a frightening wild-card element to Syria's 2-year-old civil war, which is...
and this part was stated in monotones. I can’t begin to share what I heard because I have no frame of reference. But the pain was palpable under the facts I couldn’t even imagine. Yet here they had made lives too and were prepared to go wherever they were sent...
Read CNN's Fast Facts on Syria's Civil War to learn about the on-going conflict, the escalating refugee crisis.
But that dynamic is changing with Turkey’s increased military footprint in the area, according to Omer Ozkizilcik, the editor-in-chief of Suriye Gundemi, a Turkish analysis center focused on the Syrian civil war, and an analyst of the pro-government think tank SETA. “HTS is no longer...