Syrian refugeesIn discussions about the connection between migration and the Arab uprisings, perhaps no expression has been more commonplace than "refugee crisis." Commentators have typically invoked this term to refer to Europe's struggle with large numbers of refugees and migrants reaching European ...
Evolution and Outlook of the Syrian Crisis The current shape of the Syrian crisis derives from three key developments witnessed in 2013. Two of them directly strengthened the Assad regime after a succession of military setbacks: first, the growing in- volvement of foreign Shia mi... T Pierret...
Following more than 13 years of civil war, Syria now faces a power vacuum caused by the fall of President Bashar al Assad's regime to rebel forces.Monday 9 December 2024 08:39, UK What are the impacts of Assad's fall? Sky News' security and defence editor Deborah Haynes looks at...
The Iran-Iraq War was a conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq under its dictator, Saddam Hussein. Hussein launched an invasion of Iran in an attempt to resolve longstanding border disputes, hoping to take advantage of domestic chaos caused by the 1979 Islamic Revolution. When ...
Syrian refugee crisis"We felt maybe it's our turn to die. But we didn't want to die. So we made up our minds to leave." - Sahar, Syrian refugee in Lebanon Most of history's refugees have been the direct or indirect products of war, said Global Citizen writer Phineas Rueckert...
Feb 23, 2025 ~ 'Syrian Arrested After Stabbing Near Berlin Holocaust Memorial' The "Syrian asylum seeker was also found with a Qur’an, a piece of paper with verses from the Islamic text, and a prayer rug in his backpack." Planned to kill Jews. The west continues to import Islamic Jiha...
The european response to the syrian refugee crisis - what next? MPC RR 2012/14, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, San Domenico di Fiesole (FI): European University Institute; 2012.Fargues, P. and Fandrich, C. (2012), The European Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis What Next?
change. To do so is a denial first of all of the agency of the Syrian people, and secondly, it is a dangerous disconnect from the tangled realities of the war. There is even denial of the presence of western journalists in Syria, no mention whatsoever of the hundreds of citizen ...
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“What we have seen is not only a military earthquake but a political one, for Syria and its regional allies. This was unthinkable a year ago. Regardless of what happens in the coming days, weeks and months, I doubt whether Assad could remain at the helm of the Syrian state. ...