Hafez al-Assad

The protest did not stop since then, and pro-democracy people made effort to make their president Bashar al-Assad step down out of dictatorship. Their protest failed every time as the President Bashar al-Assad crushed all those who opposed to his ruling. He sent tanks with trained men to kill the people who did not agree with him. President Obama tried his best to stop President Bashar al-Assad as he warned him in hopes to end his violence attack against his people and instead, embrace democracy…

people are living a nightmare, they can’t escape it. They had lives before and now they don’t.” – Maher, a Syrian refugee in Europe (Yassin-Kassab & Al-Shami, 2016, p. 147) This quote hit home with me while I was reading Chapter 7 “Dispossession and Exile” and Chapter 8 “Culture Revolutionized” in Burning Country by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami. Both chapters focused on the Syrian refugee crisis emerging from the constant protests and feuding stemming from the Syrian Revolution.…

11.3 million people have been displaced by the civil war in Syria and, despite a lack of coverage recently in the media, the number is only growing (World Vision). When asked, people guessed the number of refugees to be in the thousands and one even responded “is that still going on?” (Mason). We, as people of the world, should help out the refugees by all able-countries working together to assist diplomatically, socially, and economically. In addition, informing the masses about this ongoing…

the peaceful protest of thousands of Syrians against the wrongdoings of Syria 's President Bashar al- Assad and his authoritarian government. The protest quickly turned violent with hundreds of protesters killed and many more imprisoned. July of 2011 saw the creation of the Free Syrian Army, a rebel group made up of military defectors of Bashar al- Assads government with a goal to overthrow al- Assads government. This is what plummeted Syria into a civil war of regional and international…

Conflict Background The Syrian Civil War is a multi-sided armed conflict in Syria. The war started in 2011 after President Bashar al-Assad’s government violently restrained protestors requesting his removal. Many countries including the US have tried to intervene. Since then the Syrian government has refused efforts to negotiate with these “terrorist groups.” There were 90,000 casualties by June 2013 and 250,000 as of April 2015. This war isn’t just a battle between those for and against the…

became violent, with the sweeping Islam revolution. Syria watched how Libya unfolded and looked to other nations for assistance. In time many nations started to pay attention to Syria if only for their own personal agenda. Some countries backed the Assad Regime as other would back the government. This optimality lead to a difference of opinions, and lead to the outbreak of fighting. With major nations choosing side, there seem to be no visible end the conflict at hand. Upon over looking this…

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…