History of Iraq

On October 31, 2017, a 29-year-old man, Sayfullo Saipov, ran over pedestrians and cyclists on a Manhattan bike path. He rented a pick-up truck from Home-Depot in New Jersey. Saipov later crashed into a school bus and jumped out of the truck with a pellet gun and a paintball gun and shouted in Arabic, “God is great.” Officials said that he was tied to ISIS because they found a handwritten note near the truck with a few lines of Arabic indicating allegiance to the Islamic State. 8 people were…

Many historians agree that the United States’ entrance into Iraq during the second Iraq war benefited oil companies and thus the US alike. After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein many oil companies, like Shell and ExxonMobil began attempts to move into Iraq. As these US companies benefited from the oil that was present, the US enjoyed cheaper oil prices. The price prior to the Iraq war and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein for a barrel of oil was $40 USD. However, after the war oil prices dropped to…

“Within the first five years of the Syrian civil war, an estimated 400,000 syrians were killed.” (CNN Wire) Many may wonder, what has commenced this catastrophe? Well, after the death of Hafiz al Assad, his son Bishar Assad became the President of Syria. Many Syrians were protesting against the government that took away their freedoms and ruined Syria’s economy. In response to these protests, Assad killed and imprisoned Syrians who were peacefully protesting. “In July 2011, the Syrian military…

Syrian 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…

A. Was Baghdad the center of the Islamic realm during 754 CE? 1. During this time, al-Mansur wanted to relocate his power away from Damascus to start a new emergence. After a lengthy search, caliph al-Mansur, found a perfect region to build his capital, precisely beside the city of Baghdad. 2. The caliph had rather exceptional reasoning, his site ‘’…lay between Mesopotamia’s two great rivers at the juncture of the canals that linked them.’’ (WTWA 319). B. Caliph al-Mansur did not simply…

York made me sand, how many innocent people lost their lives. What we have to do to stop those tragedies in the future. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was a new lesson for me how I can keep our tragedies called (Genocide Kurdish people in Iraq) in 1998. We have to keep all pictures for our generation. When I will go back to my country, I will work to keep Kurdish Genocide documents in the place like Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. Visiting the theater and the portrait was another…

The Earliest civilization in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East was Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is bordered on its sides by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamia, in fact, is Greek for “between the rivers.” The rise of Sumerian Civilization began when the first Sumerian cities began in the lower part of Mesopotamia, and Sumer became a great empire inside of Mesopotamia. The Indus River Valley Civilization is the first civilization in India. The Indus Valley is located in the…

Saddam was in complete power of Iraq between the years of 1979 – 2003. After escaping prison for trying to assassinate the president of Iraq. Saddam and his party (Ba’ath) rose to power. Saddam was vice president and eventually overthrew the president making him the president of Iraq. After killing his political foes. Saddam became stronger until he was running completely unopposed. Giving him dictatorial…

Dear Senator Pat Toomey, Hello, my name is Jessica Jung and I am from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. I attend Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School, where we are required to take American Studies as a class in ninth grade. Recently we have started discussing the Holocaust, along with genocide and its multitude of negative effects. Genocide is a process that is established in ten stages that are easy to foretell, but not inexorable. The first stage is classification where people are distinguished…

Saudi Arabia, the Key to Middle East Stability The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s role as the key to Middle East stability is becoming more important in the current world climate, more specifically the United States Central Command Area of Operations. General regional instability of the Middle East, religious conflicts, and Iranian hegemonic intentions add to obstacles for Saudi Arabia to overcome. These issues also undermine United States’ interests to bring peace to the region. Saudi…