The Syrian Civil War, commonly referred to as the Syrian Uprising, is more than just the Assad Regime against the Free Syrian Army. It is a complex war of uprising against the Bashar al-Assad government, sectarian conflict, and outside country involvement. Overthrowing the Assad Regime in Syria would create more problems than there already are. Sectarian conflict has been part of the Middle East since the passing of Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century. The Syrian Civil War has opened up the sectarian conflict within Syria. The growing sectarian conflict in Syria is causing even more problems to the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Sunni’s anger towards the Alawites is intense and powerful because of the Alawites being responsible for the number of carnages against them. In 1982 a Sunni revolt led by the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, confronted Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafiz al-Assad. Hafiz al-Assad responded with terminating entire neighborhoods, historic landmarks, and non-violent citizens. This did not just subdue the revolt, but led to generational revenge. The Alawites, an offshoot sect of Shia Islam, are headed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Alawite Assad family has controlled Syria for almost 50 years thanks to the loose minority alliance with Christians, Druze, and other various smaller ethnic groups. Syria’s population consists of Sunni Arab’s (around 60 percent); Alawites (about 10-12 percent); Christians (about 10-12 percent); Kurds (around 9 percent); Druze (around 6 percent); and other ethnic minorities. For the most part, the Sunni’s consist of the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian National Council. Captain Ayham al-Kurdi of the Free Syrian Army stated, “Ninety percent of Alawites are with the regime.” Captai... ... middle of paper ... ...nd helpless civilians and even remove an offending regime. On the other hand, Russia and China continue to validate the traditional state system embodied in the Peace of Westphalia, the series of seventeenth-century treaties that ended the Thirty Years War in Europe. The main principle of the treaty system is a general prevention against outside interference in the purely internal affairs of other countries. These conflicting views of the great powers could lead to a possibility of militarized action if any other country personally intervenes with Syria’s Civil War. This could create another Cold War or even a full scale war. The rivalry between the Assad Regime and the Free Syrian Army will continue to rise if the sectarian conflict and involvement of other countries progresses. If the Assad Regime were to be overthrown then more problems would begin to arise.
The initiation of the Syrian War was heavily influenced by the (what was supposed to be a peaceful) protest. As well as the many deaths of the Syrian citizens. These conflicts helped citizens realize all the issues that were going on at the time. There were many causes for the violence that went on during the Syrian Civil War. It can be inferred that the three main aspects that fueled the violence of the Syrian War were due to foreign influence, sectarian opposition, and conflicts between opposing groups.
The war in Syria has been going on for six years now, killing more than a quarter million people and forcing over 10 million people to leave their homes. It has started with a peaceful protest and is now a full on genocide of people dying. The protest was for the arrest and torturing of Syrian teens for the graffiti of their anti government on a wall. When people form other people that were tired of the government saw this, they wanted their president to make major reforms of their democracy. He didn't like that, so he responded with a violent reaction. He killed thousands of Syrians and more from starvation. As the war went on, more people came in to play a role in the war. These people were from many different places. It has gotten so bad that politicians don't know what to do to stop it.
Sixty-three percent of Iraq’s population is Shia Muslim, thirty-three percent is Sunni Muslim (Lunde, 2002). For the past five centuries the minority, Sunni Muslims, have held political power in Iraq. It was not until recently that the majority, the Shia Muslims, was able to experience political power. The tensions between Sunni and Shia in Iraq are not due to religious differences formed after Muhammad’s death 1,382 years ago and are not inevitable, as proven by the relationships between Sunni and Shia in other countries and in the past (Shuster, 2011). The state of unrest surrounding the Sunni and Shia Muslims of Iraq is due to politics, power, and privilege, caused by the change of attitude in Islamic leaders in government and the discrimination of the Shia by the Sunni minority. This has been partly due to the fact that early in their history Shias were not the majority and therefore lost political power. This unbalance and the differences between the two sects are most unstable and evident during times of political unrest (Hunter, n.d).
As some were killed in detention, protests spread throughout the countryside, after the government failed to punish the murderers. Then, in April of 2011, shots were fired at protestors, and a full-scale armed rebellion flared. By July of the same year, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was formed. The FSA was formed by independent local militias with the aim of toppling the Syrian government without any central control. When Jihadists joined in the FSA, the rebel militia lost what little control they had with the impulsive extremists. Another factor of Syrian disunion is due to the Jihadists separate agenda to the FSA, no one could be trusted. By 2013, the death toll of Syrians form the Civil War was over 100,000. Another factor of Syrian disunion was the threat of chemical warfare by Syrian President Al-Assad. With constant terror dominating society, and a miserable lifestyle, rid of hope, it is easy to see why there is such a large number of Syrians seeking
In the end a lot people don`t want to the Syrian civil war to end because several groups want to control the lands of Syria such as (Hassan Nasr Allah – Muslims brotherhood – and Iran), and we can`t do something about it, but I recommend that everybody learn from the countries that opposed their kings and presidents because who goes against their rulers in the end they will fall such as (Libya, Tunisia, Egypt), also our great messenger Muhammad Peace be upon him. He said “listen and obey it to them, they are on you “. So I recommend that we shouldn`t go against the kings or the presidents because there will be a chaos.
The Syrian Civil War is a good example of world leaders playing by the rules of realism. The civil war began in March of 2011 as part of the Arab Spring, and by July of 2012 17,000 have died and another 170,000 fled the country (Almond). The United Nations Security Council in February of 2012 had tried t...
To understand why Syria is in such bad shape, we have to understand what caused the civil war in the first place. What happened in Syria to motivate the citizens to rebel against their government? First we have to understand the makeup of Syria and its citizens.
As violence continues to shatter Syria, the international community has yet to find a way to resolve the civil war. The rebels want to liberate themselves from the forty year regime of the Assad family. With the help of Hezbollah and Iran, Assad has been able to stay in office and isn’t holding back when it comes to fighting off the rebels. The rebels continue to fight back and will not stop until they liberate themselves.
...alanced as the conflict has gone on however to form a civil war. It can also be seen that international state and non-state actors have had more involvement in the conflict since its inception in April 2011. This continually increasing involvement has turned the conflict into a proxy-civil war that does not appear to have any clear outcome. In its current climate, the Syrian conflict can be seen in a different light to sides involved: The Assad regime still sees the conflict as an insurgency. The rebel groups continue to see their conflict as a civil war and hope one day for a revolution, whereas the international community can quite clearly see the conflict is now a proxy conflict between many states, however, the key actors involved in this proxy conflict can be seen as US vs Russia and Iran, Saudi Arabia vs Hezbollah and Iran and Israel vs Syria and Hezbollah.
In conclusion, Lebanon civil war is a vary complex that last for all most 15 years. This war was a war of religion and sectors. The war had been through four major phases, first is the Sectarian violence and massacres, and second on was a continuing of the first phases and the begging of the third one. Third phases, was the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The fourth phase and the last one was the pace phase. In the end, Syria had a major role in Lebanon.
As you are aware, there have been many concerns with Syria. The issue involves Assad, President of Syria, and ISIS, a Syrian rebel group. This problem is advancing and developing into an international dilemma as the U.S we have to take control. Assad killed over 1,400 people, including children, with maybe the use of chemical weapons within the countries. This may or may not be reliable information because there are investigations in order to prove the theory. The problem with ISIS is that they have beheaded and slaughtered many innocent people to prove a point.
“The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way.” These words spoken by United States President Barack Obama reflect not only the sentiment of many nations around the world about the leadership of Syria’s president, but also the essence of Chapter eight: the difference between democracy and nondemocracy. Democracy is characterized by the connection between the government and its people in terms of input like the ideas and interests of the people, and output such as laws and policy. This differs from nondemocracy. Many elements contribute to a country being labeled nondemocratic. Ellen Grigsby asserts that nondemocratic governments are antipaticipatory, suppressive of some groups within society, diverse in terms of leadership, unclear in terms of succession, and productive of laws and policies that fail to reflect the interests of the citizens (182). Syrian history exemplifies these nondemocratic ideals and the 2011 Syrian uprising represents a contemporary issue of nondemocracy.
In this two weeks’ tutorial, we did the simulation activity which is about Syria conflict. On behalf of the role of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (following refer to as the PYD) and other delegates' representatives, I conducted negotiations on the Syrian civil war and gave four resolutions. And our group focusses on some questions which are related to the Syrian civil war. Therefore, these resolutions are ceasefire, sanctions, humanitarian relief and political transition. I will illustrate what one has learned from this simulation activity, analyse these four resolutions and give my response from four different aspects below as well.
As previously mentioned, intelligence and weapon systems also become more critical when fighting insurgencies, especially in population centers. Without the intelligence to target dissidents and the means to target them precisely without large-scale collateral damage Assad and his Syrian Army were forced to press the attack regardless. Syrian Airforce began large-scale bombing of cities to target the uprising and military ground forces began to enter population centers causing significant fighting in the street. As casualties mounted, Syrian Ground and Air Forces began additional systematic destruction of structures that were assessed as being utilized by dissidents in effort to protect its own force, leading to significant destruction and mounting civilian casualties. This type of warfare ultimately led to a refugee crisis that resulted in millions being displaced in the
...ad made Assad’s regime to be not at the same level as the rebel. Therefore, the mutual identity and goals are difficult to achieve as one group is more powerful than the other.