Bashar al-Assad

second source I used was an article featured in The Guardian named “Syria: Turkish forces prepare to support anti-Assad rebels in Idlib” authored by a combined effort of staff and agencies. The BBC Global News Podcast began the discussion on the conflict stirring near the Turkish-Syrian border by specifying that the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is launching a military

These negotiations must end with the transfer of power from Assad to a new Syrian leader. In order for progress to be made in Syria, Assad must step aside. But, we cannot use military force and remove him. We saw how that went with Iraq. And we cannot repeat our mistakes. We must use the power of our words instead of the power of our arms to bring

Today Al Nusra Front has established themselves as one of the largest and most effective influential power in Syria holding itself as a threat to anyone who opposes their ideologies. Successfully gaining strategic land in the North, West and Southern regions of Syria they have gain multiple attention being labeled as a foreign terrorist organization from the international community. Al-Nusra has establish a strong presence in locations like Idlib and Aleppo as well as controlling the Bab al-Hawa border

rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, torture, mutilation, deployment and forced recruitment of children and the harassment of ethnic and religious minorities, and the destruction of cultural property. ISIS Jihadists originated from Al-Qaeda and claim to be running a caliphate – an Islamic state ruled by one leader. They want to enforce their view of conservative Islamic traditions. The caliphate covers IS-controlled areas in northern Syria and North-Western Iraq. ISIS uses social

Introduction In what has quickly evolved into a post-Al Qaeda era in the Middle East, a new threat has emerged from the ashes of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and later in the 2011 war in Syria. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) has rapidly become the most pressing foreign policy concern in the Middle East for the United States. In the last four years, Daesh has gathered swaths of territory in both Iraq and Syria, although it has been driven back thanks to coalition efforts to

mass casualty of chemical attack is unleashed in the suburbs of Damascus and this influences the long and contentious debate on the possible United States intervention in Syria civil war. According to reports, forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar Al Assad attacked the opposition controlling areas within the suburb with chemical weapons, where hundreds of civilians included women and children killed. The Syrian government on their defense denied these claims and accused the opposition of the attacks

has been the location of a brutal, nationwide conflict. Governed for the last fifteen years by the Syrian dictator, President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian people began an armed rebellion against the oppressive regime during the spring of 2011. For four years, the bloody conflict has waged between pro-Assad forces, and various factions of rebel groups. In 2013, pro-Assad forces deployed rockets with chemical warheads into rebel controlled neighborhoods, killing many non-combatants indiscriminately

More than 60,000 people have been killed since Syria's uprising began in March 2011, the UN has said. A study commissioned by UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay collated data from seven different sources, and concluded that there had been 59,648 deaths until November 2012. Ms Pillay said the figure would now have risen above 60,000 and described the bloodshed as "truly shocking". Syrian opposition groups had previously estimated 45,000 people killed. The study was released hours after a

the use of chemical weapons by President Bashar Al-Assad on his own people. The Syrian civil war started in Spring of 2011 with the violent crackdown by the Syrian government. During the time from then, there have been multiple violent radical groups formed and the crisis has been called one of the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. About half of the Syrian population has been either killed or displaced from their homes. In 2013, President Bashar al-Assad was accused of using chemical weapons against

(Convention on the Prohibition of the Development..., Internet). 2.4 Bashar al-Assad Bashar al-Assad, born on September 11 1965, is the current President of Syria. Assad is also responsible for most of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, most notably the 2013 Ghouta chemical attack during the Syrian Civil War. An attack which he has since openly denied that