Soviet war in Afghanistan

America has had many interferences with foreign nations, some good, most not so good. There was a “war” that included Russia, or the USSR, it’s also known as The Cold War. It was a basically a series of proxy wars in different countries to prove who’s government would fall first and who was the true global superpower. Next we transition to the 1940’s and the 1910’s with both World War I and World War II. To make it as simple as possible, WWI was America and Great Britain vs Germany, and WWII was…

harmed thousands around the world over the years but has also affected the natives living in the very areas they live in. For example, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan are just a few bases for terrorist groups located in the Middle East. Groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda have caused harm around the world, but America has put their say in this war against terrorism. Terrorism is relevant because these different groups affect the connections of countries including the ones they are centered in;…

Iraq/Afghanistan claim’s that the major news corporations accepted the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ story without critiquing the intelligence. Two years after the 9/11 attacks George W. Bush, President at the time, made 935 false statements about the national security threat posed by Iraq. The carefully planned campaign of untruths about Iraq’s alleged threat to US national security from its WMDs or links to al Qaeda (also specious) consolidated the public’s opinion and led the nation to war…

land, troops, money, and power due the instability in Syria after the outbreak of the civil war. Isis slowly began its rise in 2013 when it became the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. After establishing cells in Syria and beginning recruitment, it had its first major success when it freed 500 prisoners from Taji and Abu Ghraib. The prison raid in Abu Ghraib was especially alarming due to…

foreign affairs. This was when the Lend Lease was created. It declared that America would help Britain by supplying them with war materials. However, unlike in WWI where America was paid instantly, this time Britain would have a deferment and they would have to pay for every item that they bought from America (Lend-Lease and Military Aid to the Allies in the Early Years of World War II, n.d.). Even though America had lent out money to Britain, they didn’t see an attack that was coming close to…

accomplishment as President. In September 1978, Carter brought Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat together at Camp David, Maryland. After long arrangements, the Camp David Accords, which finished the condition of war among Israel and Egypt, were settled. Sadat and Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize for seeing through the…

primarily concerned with pursuing regional interests and imposing Sharia law in primarily Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. Al-Qaida’s connection to Algeria goes back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan, where many Algerian men travelled to fight with the mujahedeen under the leadership of Osama bin Laden against the Soviet Union. This connection surfaced again in 1994, when Osama bin Laden considered moving his operational base to Algeria but was rejected by local militant groups who…

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two great powers, creating a bipolar international stage. After the end of the war, the realist interpretation reigned dominant among other international relations theories. In the 1970’s, the middle of the cold war, realist theory expanded, creating structural realism (neorealism). Though realist theory cannot be applied to explain everything that happens in international politics, it can very well be used to explain…

SHIA & SUNNI MUSLIMS. Sunni Islam and Shia Islam are the two major denominations of Islam. Their division traces back to a Sunni–Shiaschism following the death of the Islamic prophetMuhammad in the year 632AD. A dispute over succession to Prophet Muhammed, as a caliph of the Islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the Battle of Jamal and Battle of Siffin. The dispute intensified greatly after the Battle of Karbala, in which Hussein ibn Ali and his household…

The migration route into the European Union for asylum hopefuls and migrants from Somalia, Afghanistan, or Syria utilizes the Western Balkans route intersecting Macedonia. Children, women, and men detainees endured “police violence and inhuman, degrading treatment and arbitrary detention in Macedonia” (Human Rights Watch, 2015), such as undocumented…