0
Syria
Syria is an Arabian country in the Middle East. Its capital is Damascus, also known as the oldest capital in human history.
1,185 Questions
What started the Syrian civil war?
The Arab Spring is the outcome of a number of repressive policies against Arab citizens from their own governments. This anger was fomenting in the Arab populaces (at different rates in different countries) pretty much since the Independence Movements secured the European Colonizers' retreat. The reason the Arab Spring did not happen earlier is that most Arabs did not believe that they had the power to overthrow their governments. The ouster of Zine Abidine ben Ali in Tunisia changed that view and encouraged Arabs in different states to revolt against their leadership.
Arab Spring Protesters had a variety of demands which a number of the Arab Leaders were not willing to concede. Some of these included, but were not limited to the following:
1) Democracy: Arabs want a hand in how their own governments create policy as opposed to the dictatorships in the Arab World that masquerade as republics when there are no elections. This is especially pertinent in countries like Syria or Bahrain where the unelected leadership represents the views of a minority religious group.
2) Economic Self-Sufficiency: Many Arabs see the current governments as having inadequately built up their economies both in terms of the governments' failure to create jobs and build internal infrastructure as well the governments' failure to make sure that grains like rice and corn remain affordable to the "average Dick and Jane Arab".
3) So-Called First Amendment Rights: Many Arabs, especially from unrepresented minorities (like Christians, Shiites*, Sunnis*, Baha'i, and Zoroastrians) want the ability to openly pray to their Gods in their proper context and to do so on equal footing with the predominant religion (either Shiite or Sunni Islam). Arabs also want to have the freedom to criticize their leaders and to protest freely against them if need be.
4) Citizenship over Race/Religion: A major trend in the Arab World has gone unrecognized by the authorities prior to the Arab Spring. Most people in Arab countries belong to a certain ethnic, religious, and tribal group that the state identifies and discriminates between. Many protesters in the Arab Spring would prefer official recognition that all people who live within the borders of a country are citizens regardless of race or religion and should have equal rights and privileges.
5) Transparency: Arab Regimes are notoriously corrupt. Nepotism, racism, and many other non-meritocratic means are used to promote people into positions of power and wealth. Arab Spring Protesters want a government that is accountable to its people and that functions based on meritocracy.
Yes, the Romans had complete control of present day Turkey by 129 BC and kept it for roughly another 300 years. However it was not called Turkey, its modern name. In Roman times it was part of the Roman province of Asia.
When did rome take over Syria?
Hyrcanus and Aristobulus, the two sons of the Jewish King Yannai (Johanan Hyrcanus, 1st century BCE), got the Romans involved in Judea when they asked the Romans to settle a dispute. At first the Romans were cordial; and they actually became party to a military treaty with Judea (Talmud, Avodah Zara 9a). A couple of decades later, however, they unilaterally abrogated the treaty, and placed Roman governors over the land who afflicted the Jews with crushing taxation (Talmud, Yoma 9a). In the first two centuries CE, things got worse, with the Romans destroying the Second Temple and temporarily outlawing Torah-observances, and the Jews attempting to revolt. The Romans destroyed large numbers of Jewish communities in the Holy Land, and they killed some of the leading Jewish sages.
(During those times that the Romans didn't interfere with the internal life of the Jews, the reason was because the Romans wanted to receive their taxes. That, and making sure none of their colonies planned rebellions, was usually the only thing that the Romans were really concerned about.)
Why did the Syrian civil war start?
Answer 1
Syria is having a war because the have one dictator which is a person who is in charge and it dosen't matter what anyone else decides he has the power. The people didn't want this because it was a unfair process and could be very dangerous if the leader made one wrong descision which people could advise and that descion could kill lots of people or something like that.
Answer 2
Western power structure create all terrorist group like Al Qaeda, Taliban and now Takfiries and Isis and they make lots of films and advertisment against Islam because they want to increase Islamophobia. Islamophobia (or anti-Muslim sentiment) is a term for prejudice against,hatred towards, or fear of the religion of Islam or Muslims.The term entered into common English usage in 1997 with the publication of a report by the Runnymede Trust condemning negative emotions such as fear, hatred, and dread directed at Islam or Muslims. While the term is now widely used, both the term itself and the underlying concept have been criticized.The causes and characteristics of Islamophobia are still debated.Some scholars have defined it as a type of racism. Some commentators have posited an increase in Islamophobia resulting from the September 11 attacks, while others have associated it with the increased presence of Muslims in secular nations
What issue caused conflict between Syrians and Jews?
Historically, the Jews and their Israelite Ancestors have had numerous problems with the Syrians.
Ancient and Biblical Times
Probably the earliest problems between them were regional. In the later period of the Divided Monarchy (Israel and Judea) one of the strongest enemies of the Israelite monarchies was the Kingdom of Aram, which was a Secondary Power just as the Israelite monarchies were. (The Primary Powers were Egypt and the Mesopotamian Kingdoms - Assyria and Babylon.) The Bible records the story of Naaman, an Aramean general, who is healed by the Prophet Elisha. While the Biblical story may not mean that this actually happened, the way that the King of Israel reacts to Naaman's peaceful entry into Israel reflects the enmity between the Israelite monarchies and the Arameans. Most of their disputes were territorial and dealt with the areas in the eastern Galilee and the Quneitra region. These territorial disputes were directly related to the amount of power that each could exert over smaller regional allies such as the Phoenician States in Lebanon or the transjordanian kingdoms.
The next major conflict between the Syrians and the Jews was the Assyrian-Judean Wars in the 700s-600s BCE. In these wars, the Assyrians sent a large army to Judah with the intent to conquer the Judean territory and its people. According to both the Bible and Assyrian King Senacherib's Records, the Judean city of Lachish (the second largest Judean city after Jerusalem) was razed to the ground. Judean soldiers resisted, but they were no match for Assyrian numbers, strength, brutality, and strategy. According to the Bible, Judah was saved from defeat when a plague destroyed much of Assyrian army. According to King Senacherib's Records, there is no mention of what happened after the razing of Lachish or why the war terminated at all.
Syrian Jews as a Minority in Syria
Jews became part of the Syrian population during the Persian and Roman Period as some Jews en route to southern Levant from Mesopotamia ended up staying in Syria and when some Syrians converted to Judaism. The Syrian Jewish community survived and continued under the Byzantine Empire and the various Arab Caliphates with occasional pogroms, but no serious repression. The only major act of Syrian violence towards the Jews came from the Damascus Affair in 1840, when eight Damascus Jews were accused of ritualistic murder of a Syrian Christian Monk without any actual evidence. The Jews were imprisoned, tortured, and in one case, forcibly converted to Islam. While this was occurring, the hysterical Damascene population pillaged the Jewish neighborhood of Jobar, attacked Jews on the streets, and destroyed Torah scrolls in the local synagogue. This violence was motivated by the prevalence and accepted nature of Jewish Blood Libels. Unfortunately, there are still individuals in the Arab World who fault the Jews for the assassination of this Christian Monk.
As Arab Nationalism was becoming more prevalent in Syria, there was a divide in the Syrian Jewish community as to whether Jews could consider themselves "Syrian Arabs" or whether their Judaism made it impossible for them to be Arab. The Muslim Syrians also debated this question, but quickly came to the result that part of being an Arab in the cultural sense meant following Islamic customs. This exclusion of Jews from being a part of Syrian Arab entity only became stronger as Nazism began to exert a strong influence on the development of Arab Nationalism and injected it with a strong Anti-Semitic current. By the time of Syrian Independence in 1943, Anti-Semitic laws were passed. Jews suffered through disorganized pogroms, riots, and other generally Anti-Semitic measures. From 1948-1952 almost the entire population of Syrian Jews fled to France, Israel, or Lebanon, leaving Syria almost devoid of Jews.
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Syria was among the Arab States that went to war with Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973. In the 1948 War, Syria's mission was to prevent the Zionist State from existing. In that regard, it was an utter failure, with its army being pushed out of nearly every location near to the Syrian border, with the small exception of around five kilometers square on the eastern bank of the Sea of Galilee.
In the 1967 and 1973 Wars, conflicts between Israelis and Syrians have been over the Israeli-Syrian border and control of the Golan Heights.
What ancient Roman emperor renamed Judea to Syria Palestine?
Yes, Hadrian renamed Judea "Syria Palaestina." He did so after he suppressed the Bar Kokhba revolt (132-136) as a damnatio memoriae; that is, he wanted to erase the memory of the name Judea. He used Syria as part of the new name because Judea was a satellite province of the province of Syria. Palaestina was an Latin adaptation of the Greek word Palaistíne, which meant Philistia (land of the Philistines) and the surrounding region.
Is Syria a totalitarian state?
yes, Bashar
Assad is a totalitarian leader because he believes violence is the key to everything also he thinks killing people is right.
by:Shaille Erskine
What caused the jews to rebel against syrian rule?
The Syrian-Greeks (Seleucids), at the instigation of their Hellenizing (assimilated) Jewish lackeys, attempted to forcibly assimilate all of the Jews into Greek culture and separate them from their Torah-practices.
I know Kurdish are around 35 million or more in population but could you bring all this number together and get 5 million of them united, it never happened in the Kurdish history in the Middle East from 4,000 years ago until now. It's could be around 20 years only that the Kurd involve in civilization in their region, they used to live traditionally in villages and still they cannot participate in countries of surrounding area, not enough education and e.tc. We believe that Kurd will facing civil war again as they are not qualifying people (Not enough experience of power) to running what they have at the moment in the Iraq region.
Kurdish request in the region will motivating other country to persuade Kurd for freedom not to help but to use them to make trouble for the country they lives in and other Kurdish part.
The freedom that achieved in Northern Iraq (Kurdish area) are not strong as the Kurdish leader try to influence power on each other and saying that this achievement is our work no other political party which is similar to Dictator, so Kurdish people not happy of such idea and might not appreciating to have their own region running by themselves.
That what I heard about Kurds
Why the hell would we have a dictator?Ohh i see,you think we're like those other countries that kill gay people on sight,well you're wrong.
It's a free country/
.:When Dictatorship is Fact,Revolution is Right:.
The Abbasid's moved the capital from Damascus to?
The Abbassid Caliphate capital was moved to BAGHDAD, IRAQ, because Syria had an Umayyad power-base and Baghdad was much closer to Persia, which was the Abbassid power-base.
Why is Barack Obama bombing Syria?
He really doesn't, based on statements he has made. He has said that military force would be a last resort, if Syria's president refuses to stop using chemical weapons against his own people. The majority of the world community long ago agreed that the use of chemical weapons is forbidden, so President Obama said that since it was indisputable that Mr. Assad had used these chemical weapons, there had to be consequences. However, Mr. Obama repeatedly stated that he prefers a diplomatic solution, and if there is such a solution, there will be no military response. If no diplomatic solution can be reached, then he would be willing to consider a limited military action, directed against the places where these weapons are produced or stored.
It's difficult to say for certain, which is often the case in Civil wars such as this. Both sides, Qaddafi and the rebels, had their pros and cons. Qaddafi sent military troops to wipe out protesters, which is certainly something bad, but on the other hand, he did manage to keep the peace among the individual tribes and elders of Libya. The rebels, on the other hand, fought for democracy, and to oust a tyrant, which Qaddafi surely was. They do, however, have a daunting task ahead of them: rebuilding Libya.
I believe we'll need to wait and see how they do before we can truly classify them as 'good'. But, I suppose for the sake of the question, I would say that, compared to Qaddafi, yes, the rebels were good.
What is Syrian leader president Al-Asaad's religion?
Alawi, Alwai is a branch of Shia Muslims, they are often described as non Muslims by both branches of Islam Sunnies and Shias but Alwais them selves insist of being Muslims. Ali Sulayman al-Ahmad, chief judge of the Alawite state, replied "We are Alawi Muslims. Our book is the Quran. Our prophet is Muhammad. The Ka`ba is our qibla, and our religion is Islam."
What religion was the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani Sunni OR Shia?
Of Syrian father and Turkish mother Nizar Qabbani was a Muslim. A thought provoking poet, he was also a thorn in the side of the establishment. Follow the link
Can a you s citizen get married to a Syrian man?
American girls are free to marry whom they will. To marry a Syrian man, it would be necessary for the couple to be in the same place at the same time, so first you would have to decide where you both want to be. Given the current civil war in Syria, you are probably better off meeting in America and getting married there.
What is ISIL or ISIS - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria?
ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), known as ad-Dawla al-Eslamiyya al-3iraaq w'ash-Shaam - الدولة الإسلامية العراق والشام or the acronym Daa3esh - داعش in Arabic, is an extremist Sunni Islamist organization which used to have links to al-Qaeda before al-Qaeda condemned them for their barbarity. They are fighting to bring the Sunni majority into power, especially in Sunni majority regions of both Syria and Iraq, and impose a more fundamentalist view on politics. They consider themselves to be fighting the injustices and violence of the current Assad regime and the inequalities of the US-supported Government of Iraq. ISIL is primarily supported and armed by Saudi Arabia, but the US and UK have indirectly given ISIL millions of dollars and equipment since US and UK military vehicles and assets left to the Government of Iraq have fallen into ISIL hands (especially with the fall of Mosul).
ISIL controls significant amounts of land in Syria and Iraq and conquered much of its Iraqi territory in June 2014. Despite small gains by the Kurdish Peshmerga Army and the Republic of Iraq Army, most of these territories remain in ISIL control nearly a year later.
ISIL started as an offshoot of al-Qaeda Iraq, also called Jubhat al-Nusra (the al-Nusra Front). Their main disagreement with the majority of Jubhat al-Nusra, and which prompted their leaving the organization, was that al-Baghdadi (the founder of ISIL) and his supporters argued that the Islamic Caliphate should be formed today as opposed to the majority who wanted to only set up the building blocks for a future Caliphate. The split occurred only in 2012. Because ISIL wants to create an Islamic Caliphate immediately, they have been working at a feverish pace to achieve that goal.
In ISIL's conception, the failures of the Islamic World in terms of economy, morality, military power, and political acumen are directly the result of abandoning Islam as a religion and its principles. They hold that the Western ideals have pervaded the Islamic World, which distances them from following the words of the Qur'an literally to achieve salvation for all Muslims. Only by returning to an extreme literalist interpretation and the legal enforcement of those values can Muslims be the world leaders.
What was the population of Syria in 2000?
the economic resources and current state of affairs of Jordan
Who was the first president after Syria became an independent nation?
Shuri al-Quwatli (first president of independent Syria)
Subhi al-Khalidi (first president of French Syria)
Go look up in Wikipedia and see for yourself.
Was the Virgin Mary Syrian or Jewish?
Virgin Mary (Mariam) was Muslim in the universal sense of Islam religion that means full submission to God, the one and only one God without a partner or son or companion. Virgin Mary is the only woman mentioned explicitly by name in Quran. There a full chapter in Quran title by the name Mary (Mariam). She was mentioned in Quran that she is the lady of ladies of all worlds.
