Essays on Syria

Terrorism is defined as the use of intimidation or violence to instill fear in a society in order to achieve a specific political goal. Terrorist acts by various terrorist organisations target locations of interest and may result in large casualties, primarily among civilians and terrorists themselves. Terrorist groups use various...

Conflicts in Syria have culminated in a seven-year-long civil war that has taken the lives of over a million civilians. The war is being waged between soldiers defending Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, and rebels who do not want the president to remain in office. The violence began in 2011 in...

As the world's highest political forces negotiate and debate the measures to be introduced in coping with Syria's political crisis...The citizens of that country continue to suffer the worst types of human rights abuses. According to Human Rights Watch's (HRW) 2017 report on the events of 2016 in Syria, 470,000...

During the Islamic rule that lasted between AD 711 and 1492, a prosperous selection of distinctive palaces, mosques, and fortresses were erected in Andalusia, which used to be then an important section of the Islamic lands known as the heartland of Al-Andalus. The distinguishing characteristic of the Omayyad architecture was...