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1 sty 2018 · The brutal repression of peaceful anti-government protests pushed the country towards a civil war. The Syrian government, the opposition rebels, foreign powers and Islamic militants are all the...
Syrian civil war, putting forwar d a new framework for understanding conflict and cooperation between armed actors of different ideological strands in multiparty civil wars.
1 kwi 2016 · The Syrian crisis, which started in 2011 as an anti-government protest against President Bashar-al-Assad, transformed into a civil war in the first quarter of 2012.
This senior thesis is an in depth analysis of the historical causes of the Syrian civil war. I argue that the main components leading to the civil war under Bashar al-Asad were as follows; Sectarian division, French intervention and mandates, Israeli & Syrian conflict, Egypt & Syrian Union, and Hafiz al-Asad’s rise to power.
Our first monograph, The Syrian Civil War: A Military Strategic Assessment, was penned as an introduction to the Syrian battleground by shedding light on the essential factors and trends that either shaped or potentially capable of shaping the ongoing civil war’s trajectory.
Eight years on, the Syrian civil war is finally winding down. The government of Bashar al-Assad has largely won, but the cost has been steep. The economy is shattered, there are more than 5 million Syrian refugees abroad, and the government lacks the resources to rebuild.
This article analyze the war in Syria in geopolitical terms and as a humanitarian catastrophe. Its sig-nificance goes beyond merely its regional dimen-sion. There are many different causes of the Syrian conflict, including its colonial past, the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the American invasion of ...
