Bashar al-Assad

South Sudan is the world’s newest country as they gained hard-fought independence in 2011. The team that worked together to gain this sovereignty soon became divided upon their success as president Salva Kiir accused his vice, Riek Machar, of planning to overthrow him. Machar then reacted by publicly calling for the overthrow of Kiir as he jailed several respected South Sudanese politicians for their supposed plan. In other words, a civil war emerged in December of 2015 and a clear ethnic divide…

Argumentative essay about refugees The brutal violence in Syria has forced 4.3 million people to flee their home country. Half of them are children, and many are difficult traumatized. The victims of the war have seen their homes destroyed by bombs, and witnessed their relatives getting killed. They’ve lost everything they own, and all they have left is hope. Hope for a better life. Many of the victims have chosen to travel overseas by boat in hope to fulfil this dream in the western world. This…

Refugees need the right to not be deported. Refugees come to the U.S to be in a safe, equal opportunity country with freedom of religion. Refugees come from unsafe countries and we deport them back, placing them in an unsafe environment. Syrians are living in extremely dangerous environments, many try to leave. According to newsdeeply.com people from Syria are fleeing from “shells and barrel bombs.” 4 million people from Syria have become refugees. 7.6 million others are trying to flee.…

The main reason for the western world turning on Gaddafi revolved around Gaddafi sending his own troop’s to attack protestor’s within the city of Benghazi. The United States condemned these attacks and stated that the government had lost all its legitimacy to function properly. Little did they know that Gaddafi played a pivotal role in rebuilding the nation of Libya. Gaddafi was able to overthrow the monarchy and declared the Jamahirya, (a republic of the masses in which political power was to…

President Bashar Assad Born 11 September 1965, is the President of Syria. He has served as President since 2000, when he succeeded his father, Hafez, his father, who led Syria for 30 years until his death. Assad graduated from the medical school of Damascus University in 1988, and started to work as a physician in the army. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel, who was being groomed to succeed his father, was killed in a car crash, Bashar returned to Syria from another college. Assad entered…

crisis. The Syrian crisis began at the Arab Spring uprising over the Authoritarian Regimes in the Middle East. To suppress the uprisings in Syria Bashar al-Assad used military force to attack the protesters. Obama spoke out about al-Assad’s treatment of the citizens and wanted change, however he didn’t believe that it was his responsibility to get involved. Assad then increased the use of military force, inflicting even more harm on the people of Syria. This caused president Obama to step…

socialistworker.org, “do you support dictatorship vs. democracy or Bashar Al Assad’s brutal regime?” Conformity is behavior in accordance with socially accepted standards. Although conformity seems like such a simple concept, it can sometimes create and cause a situation to be much more complicated. Both, the Syrian Revolution of 2011 and the Revolution of Animal farm, have been examples of conformity and how differences can affect one’s self or nation. Assad and Napoleon, both powerful…

violence in Syria is ongoing because of President Assad, ethnic conflict and too much sides. Ethnic conflict is the major reason of the violence in Syria. “Sunnis and Alawites increasingly hold one another collectively responsible for violations real and perceived.” (Document B) This explains the conflict with these two ethnicities, they blame each other for…

country reflects the role of a totalitarian government. Syria has become a divided country because the president, Bashar al-Assad, has done little to nothing to unify and help his people. There has been an emergence of an ethnical divide to overthrow the government because the majority of the country—Sunnis—wants a democracy, while the opposing side—Shiites—is staying loyal to Bashar and the government. The downfall of the country is not only affecting the people from within, but it has seeped…

Hafez Al-Assad father of present day Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad was born on October 6, 1930 ("Hafez Al-Assad"). He was born into a Alawite family and lived in Syria. As he grew older and was able to understand politics a little better he joined the Ba'ath Party in Syria as an activist. Furthermore, he enrolled in the Homs Military Academy and graduated as a pilot. In the conclusion of these amateur events he stepped his foot directly into the political field by forming a committee to…