The first few years of the new country's existence, though, were wracked by one military coup after another until February 1958 when Syria merged with Egypt to create the United Arab Republic. In 1961, just three years later, Egypt and Syria went their separate ways once again, dissolving the United Arab Republic and the Syrian Arab Republic existed once again (Syria, 2012)
The first few years of the new country's existence, though, were wracked by one military coup after another until February 1958 when Syria merged with Egypt to create the United Arab Republic. In 1961, just three years later, Egypt and Syria went their separate ways once again, dissolving the United Arab Republic and the Syrian Arab Republic existed once again (Syria, 2012)
Although Arabic is the official language, Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, and Circassian are widely understood and French and English are somewhat understood. The country is nearly three-quarters (74%) Sunni Muslim and Islam is the official state religion, and other Muslim sects includes Alawite and Druze (16%), Christians of various denominations (10%), and small Jewish enclaves in Damascus, Al Qamishli, and Aleppo (Syrian people, 2012)
Although Arabic is the official language, Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, and Circassian are widely understood and French and English are somewhat understood. The country is nearly three-quarters (74%) Sunni Muslim and Islam is the official state religion, and other Muslim sects includes Alawite and Druze (16%), Christians of various denominations (10%), and small Jewish enclaves in Damascus, Al Qamishli, and Aleppo (Syrian people, 2012)
Although Arabic is the official language, Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, and Circassian are widely understood and French and English are somewhat understood. The country is nearly three-quarters (74%) Sunni Muslim and Islam is the official state religion, and other Muslim sects includes Alawite and Druze (16%), Christians of various denominations (10%), and small Jewish enclaves in Damascus, Al Qamishli, and Aleppo (Syrian people, 2012)
Even one activist recently quit in disgust, stating "they fight more than they work" (McFarquhar 2012). However, "the insurgents have been emboldened by increased funds and weapons from Arab gulf states" (Bloomfield & Sherlock 2012)
One problem with the opposition in Syria is its relatively disparate nature. It is made up of a loose coalition of "fractious collection of political groups, longtime exiles, grass-roots organizers and armed militants" (McFarquhar 2012)
Further, there is no public appetite for conflict in Syria. Polls show that Westerners are not particularly interested in military intervention in Syria (Dziadosz, 2013)
In addition to al-Qaeda, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is also known to be present in Syria, and Iran is believed to be financing Assad, as is Hezbollah. Both groups, and outside Sunni groups like al-Qaeda, are financed with outside money, outside fighters, and are using the Syrian conflict as a training ground (George, 2013)
They are installing totalitarian terrorist regimes that have replaced the Assad regimes in some Syrian provinces, to the detriment of the Syrian people. Locals describe these groups as "mostly foreigners coming to impose their ideologies upon us" (Sinjab, 2013)
We likewise eased our foreign debt problem by instituting bilateral scheduling with practically all our key creditors in Europe, except for the Soviet Union (BNEA). We acknowledge the challenges specifically our oil industry's decline in production because of technological problems and the depletion of oil reserves (Feld 2004)
Throughout history, it has been a great cross road for trade between the Mediterranean and the East, and is responsible for exporting the Alphabet to the West and has been linked to Religion from the Semitic Deities to the Monotheistic faiths (History pp). Syria today constitutes only a small portion of the ancient geographical Syria (McGowan Pp)
When the authoritarian regimes of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt were threatened by the revolutionary power of public protest, the State Department and other wings of the federal government offered indirect assistance and moral support to the dissenters. Although many international foreign policy experts agree with the prevailing assessment that "the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have diminished the United States' political will, military capability, and diplomatic credibility to conduct future humanitarian interventions" (Kurth 2005, 87), America's influence on the Egyptian and Libyan "Arab Springs" cannot be understated
While the tactical advantages of backing the Egyptian and Libyan uprisings were evidently clear at the time, American officials have been confronted with a far more complex dilemma as the Syrian conflict has ignited a full blown civil war. Many impartial observers have pointed out the increased risks for American foreign policy interests if intervention is eventually forced, with the prospect of a proxy war involving Iran and Russia, two traditional adversaries who continue to resupply Assad's forces with arms and munitions (Worth and Cooper, 2012)
They let the people live their lives and did not even interfere with their existing cultures. They did not exactly enslave the people of those nations; instead they were quite gracious and generous towards them which added to their success and popularity (Rata, 2006)
Although the Assyrians were largely deprived of any form of education, they did however lay a large amount of emphasis on the need to have polished skills for warfare which they focused on at a very young age. Their motive was to capture as much land as they possibly could because they associated their strength in these terms to their religion and how that would be a form of fulfillment (Yamada, 2000)
At present, Syria has become a multifractured state split between the government administration of President Assad, Kurdish forces who are a minority group seeking independence, and the ISIS. The constant battle and war between these parties has ravaged and destroyed Syria (Beauchamp, 2015)
They have taken up the risk of travelling and migrating to these expanses regardless of the uncertainty and fatality in the journey. As a result, many such war-ravaged fleeing Syrians have died on the way trying to enter the European nations through Turkey as also through the Mediterranean (Semple, 2014)
The Syrian people, for instance, have their view of their culture -- and the West has its own view and agenda, which as always is related to the business of pipelines (Escobar 2015). The Pope well knows that the "international community" is at the mercy of the "arms dealers" and death dealers who pervade the Middle East, supplying rebels and terrorist groups with weapons so that a proxy war can be fought between the West and Russia (Bernabe 2015)
. " and the crimes of complacency and chaos instigated by American actions under men like Rumsfeld, Bush, Obama, the neocons, the war hawks, and the MIC have "appealed to a native intellectual tradition that cannot recognize that freedoms exist only in so far as collectively willed force prevents their violation" (Boyle 2014:71)