The Middle East's fading frontiers

 · One of the Islamic State's first gestures after conquering a vast portion of the Syrian and Iraqi deserts was to bulldoze the sand berm delineating the official border between the two states. In ...

Stalled Out on the Road to Damascus, Syria | Dissident Voice

 · This clandestine, and obviously illegal, American invasion of Syria occurred no later than the end of 2015, but the record is still not clear due to official obfusion on the subject; indeed, most Americans are still not aware that the Obama administration invaded Syria in the first place, nor that, under the Trumpfollowing administration of Joe "Malarkey," a large .

Syrian Refugee Crisis

 · The facts: What you need to know about the Syria crisis. The Syrian conflict has created one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time. Since 2011, over half of Syria's prewar population of 22 million has been forced to flee their homes in search of safety and opportunity, many of them more than once. Families still living in Syria are ...

The best books on The Kurds

In Syria, under successive Arab Syrian regimes, the Kurds didn't even have citizenship. But since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the Kurds have run their own region and carried out a rather remarkable social revolution, based on gender equality and radical environmentalism. Each canton has male and coprime ministers and all legislative bodies are 50/50 male .

Ranked: world's most powerful passports 2022

 · Japan and Singapore jointly have the world's most powerful passports in 2022, granting easy access to 192 destinations. They are followed by Germany and South Korea in jointthird. The 10 most powerful passports are below. .

'Lines Drawn on an Empty Map': Iraq's Borders and the ...

Three moments in the early formation of Iraq's borders—specifically those with Syria, Najd (presentday Saudi Arabia), and Turkey—may help illustrate some of the ways in which the process worked. The British played significant roles, and so too did residents of Iraq, Syria, Najd, and Turkey. Iraq and Syria. The IraqSyria border was rather mobile from the end of the war .

War's timeline as Syrians mark 10 years since uprising began

 · BEIRUT (AP) — Syrians are marking 10 years since peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad's government erupted in March 2011, touching off a popular uprising that quickly turned into a fullblown civil war. Despite a decade of fighting and a broken country, Assad remains firmly in power. Syria is economically devastated and divided ...

Iraq's unique place in the SunniShia divide | Pew Research Center

 · Iran also has supported Bashar alAssad's government in Syria, where only 1520% of the Muslim population was Shia as of 2009. But the Syrian leadership is dominated by Alawites (an offshoot of Shia Islam). Under Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, which was dominated by Sunnis, the country clashed with Iran. The SunniShia divide is nearly 1,400 years old, dating .

Understanding Syria: From PreCivil War to PostAssad

 · Most urgent in the minds of the EU and the is the second justifiion for intervention: the Syrian government is charged with using illegal chemical weapons. This is a very serious charge ...

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 · Syria These data on asylum applicants in the EU are issued by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. They are complemented with a quarterly report and an infographic available on the Eurostat website. More than a third applied for asylum in Germany In 2015, the highest number of first time applicants was registered in Germany (with 441 800 first .

Northern Syrias most severe COVID19 outbreak overwhelms .

NORTHERN SYRIA/NEW YORK, OCTOBER 13, 2021— Northern Syria is experiencing its most severe wave of COVID19 as the needs rapidly outpace already limited oxygen supplies and health facilities begin to run out of testing kits, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.

How an assassin in 1914 spawned today's ultranationalists

 · Some, such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Iraq, were purely artificial hodgepodges of groups that had ancient rivalries. Arab states such as Jordan and Syria were essentially gifts to tribal ...

The city of Paris is looking to ban sand from its Seine beaches

 · Sand could be banned from ParisPlages — the popular, artificial beaches that pop up along the Seine during a sumng festival — over allegations the company delivering the sand "paid ...

Vanishing lines in the sand – Why a new map of the Middle East is .

Syrian mortars have landed in the Israelioccupied Golan Heights. The violence in Syria has frequently spilled over the 822km border with Turkey, across which insurgent groups advance and retreat at will. Turkey has absorbed 460,000 Syrian refugees since the beginning of the conflict; Jordan more than half a million.

Syria's Game

 · Indeed, many of the most ardent champions of liberalization and democratization within Syria are also the harshest critics of Syria's participation in the Gulf war and the Americansponsored peace ...

Russia: Always Look On The Bright Side of Strife

 · Russia also confirmed that promising ground forces officers were also sent to Syria for some combat experience and currently most of the commanders and chiefs of staff of units from battalion size up to the divisions, armies and military districts have had some experience in Syria. For the ground force officers the experience often meant going into action as advisors .

Syrian Arab News Agency – S A N A

Three killed, 11 injured in Ukrainian shelling, Donetsk republic says. 18 June، 2022. Donetsk, SANA Command of the People's Forces in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) announced Saturday ...

The Assad Regime: From Counterinsurgency To Civil War

The conflict in Syria transitioned from an insurgency to a civil war during the summer of 2012. For the first year of the conflict, Bashar alAssad relied on his father's counterinsurgency approach; however, Bashar alAssad's campaign failed to put down the 2011 revolution and accelerated the descent into civil war.

Syrian crisis | UNICEF

In 2021, a third of children in Syria showed signs of psychological distress including anxiety, sadness, fatigue, or frequent trouble sleeping. The war has also brought one of the largest eduion crises in recent history, with a whole generation of Syrian children paying the price of conflict. Eduion facilities are overstretched, and many ...

85 Most Popular Italian Last Names Or Surnames With .

 · 11. Caputo: Caputo has its origin in the Italian word 'capo', meaning headstrong and was given to people who were very determined and unwavering. 12. Carbone: A typical Italian surname, which means 'coal' or 'charcoal'. Carbone was a regular last name for coal miners, coal merchants or charcoal burners. 13.

Life in Za'atari, the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world

Jordan. Loed in northern Jordan, Za'atari refugee camp hosts around 80,000 Syrians who have been forced to flee the war in Syria. More than half of these refugees are children. Since 2012 the camp, divided into 12 districts, has grown from a collection of tents to a semipermanent city. At its peak, it housed around 150,000 Syrian refugees ...

Over 10,000 Islamic State fighters active in Iraq, Syria as attacks ...

 · UNITED NATIONS — More than 10,000 Islamic State fighters are estimated to remain active in Iraq and Syria two years after the militant group's defeat, and their attacks have significantly ...