Syria

rampant violation of human rights in Syria especially by government forces that deliberately attack its civilians with military weapons. However, Ghouta attack of august 2013 demonstrated to the world how far the Assad regime was willing to go in an attempt to protect his hold of power. Opposition rebels were making advances into the suburbs of the Markaz Rif district and the government looked overwhelmed, with Damascus…

2015. The refugees who have arrived from Syria since 2012 have been placed in 130 towns and cities. They are mostly the most vulnerable people in the war, like single mothers and their children, religious minorities, or victims. Some of them have been placed in large cities like Houston. Most…

violence primarily due to 8 factors currently in play . More specifically, Sly argues that a massive war in Syria, as well as other factors in play are causing the greatest exodus since the last world war. She writes, “An upsurge in conflicts worldwide has fueled record levels of displacement worldwide in recent years.”(Sly 1) In this passage, Sly is suggesting that rising conflicts not only in Syria, but other countries as well, is causing record levels of refugees and people with residences…

There has been ongoing violence in Syria since 2011. This all started when peaceful protesters assembled in the Southern Syrian town of Daraa. They were protesting the arrest and torture of a group of teenagers whose sole crime was writing anti-government graffiti on a wall. The violence is still going on because of people and groups giving other groups and people a reasons to fight. The violence in Syria is ongoing because of President Assad, ethnic conflict and too much sides. Ethnic conflict…

When viewed from the lens of revolutionary movements, the superhero film Black Panther resembles the current Syrian civil war that originated from the uprising in 2011. The characters in the movie tie into the actors in Syria, like the government and the rebels, as well as Iran and Russia’s involvement. In the movie, T’Challa became the king of Wakanda after his father T’Chaka died. The first challenge that T’Challa faces is from the Jabari Tribe Leader named M’Baku. As T’Challa must defend his…

like Syria and Iraq to places in Central America and Africa, looking for an escape. Many of the refugees may apply for asylum outside their home country and are eligible for certain legal protections. In the last year, civil war has forced 15 million people to flee Syria and Iraq; 1.1 million people have been displaced in Yemen; more than 500,000 have fled South Sudan; 190,000 in Burundi; and 300,000 in Libya, according to U.N. Refugee Chief Antonio Guterres (Crane-newman, Molly). In Syria alone…

Syrians are fleeing Syria. They are fleeing to escape undesirable things. They are leaving to escape government, bombing, and bloodshed. They are leaving to escape the tragedies these things left in its wake. Approximately 5, 000 Syrians are fleeing everyday. In 2002 the population was estimated at 22, 530, 756. It dropped to 22, 457, 336 in 2012, while today it is 22, 085, 048. Syria recently was a quickly growing country, but is now dropping. These refugees are escaping to the neighboring…

The Plight of the Syrian Christian Christianity's roots run deep in Syria, but so do the memories of Islamic terrorism including kidnappings, suicide bombings, torture, and murder. It is estimated that 11 million Syrians have been displaced and few of them are going to be returning home. The brutality of Isis has ensured that even when they have been pushed back, few in opposition want to return to the region. The Assyrian Christian town on Tal Tamir and nearby villages were overtaken by…

“I don’t want to die in sea. I don’t want to die alone. I would rather die with my family. If I had known all the dangers I would face, I wouldn’t have left Syria, even with the death threats,” says Zizit Abdel Algabbar. Zizit Abdel Algabbar, is a Syrian doctor who fled Syria because she received death threats from the Islamic state, they accused her of helping the opposition because she treated the injured patients at her clinic. A smuggler in Athens agrees to take Zizit and her daughter Maya…

By definition, a refugee is “a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.” (“Refugee”). Immigrants have been coming to America for hundreds of years as refugees. Most recently, the Syrian refugees have been struggling to find safety here in America. Another case of many people immigrating to America due to times of crisis is during the Bosnian war. These two circumstances have many similarities, including why the two people…