------------------------------------------------- Etymology Main article: Name of Syria The name Syria is derived from the ancient Greek name for Syrians: Σύριοι‚ Sýrioi‚ or Σύροι‚ Sýroi‚ which the Greeks applied without distinction to theAssyrians.[16][17] A number of modern scholars argued that the Greek word related to the cognate Ἀσσυρία‚ Assyria‚ ultimately derived from the AkkadianAššur.[18] Others believed that it was derived from Siryon‚ the name that the Sidonians gave to Mount Hermon
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28‚ 1937 1) was President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. A rising star in the revolutionary Ba’ath Party‚ which espoused secular pan-Arabism‚ economic modernization‚ and socialism‚ Saddam (see 2 regarding names) played a key role in the bloodless 1968 coup that brought the party to power. As vice president under the frail and elderly General Ahmed Bakr‚ Saddam tightly controlled conflict between government departments and the armed forces at a time when many organizations were considered capable of overthrowing
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condominium governing arrangement) administered south Sudan and north Sudan as separate regions. At this time‚ the two areas were merged into a single administrative region as part of British strategy in the Middle East. After the February 1953 agreement by the United Kingdom and Egypt to grant independence to Sudan‚ the internal tensions over the nature of the relationship of north to south were heightened. Matters reached a head as the 1 January 1956 Independence Day approached
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their foreign policies and political interactions with outside countries. Prior to the war‚ the Soviet Union was in control of the Afghan government. It was when Afghanistan made themselves a constitutional monarchy in 1953 (Origins of Soviet-Afghan War 1). It also began from a coup d’état by Afghan communists called the “Saur Revolution in 1978 (Afghanistan War 1). This created tensions between the Soviet Union’s puppet government and Afghan people‚ because they resented being ruled by a foreign
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internecine war‚ but not necessarily a civil war. In modern geopolitics since 1945‚ "civil war" is also used in a loose sense to refer to any large scale military conflict within a single country‚ creating terminological overlap with insurgencies or coups d’état. Past civil wars Ancient and medieval Only civil wars involving popular or civil forces are listed here. Not covered are wars between clans‚ warlords or dynasties‚ wars of succession‚ etc. Such wars of succession are sometimes also described
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Islamic theocracy. The anti-western sentiments that coat these words had been percolating in Iranian society long before the Ayatollah had authored this text. Modern antipathy toward Western governments began in 1953 when an ill-conceived attempt to establish a Western friendly ruler in Iran by America and Great Britain‚ ended in general admonitions against potential Westernization. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi‚ the newly instated Iranian leader‚ did‚ upon reflection‚ serve up a lethal concoction
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and is comprised of 803‚940 sq. km. Pakistan is sandwiched mainly between India to the east and Afghanistan to the west with China sharing a small section of the north boarder and Iran sharing the southwest boarder. Pakistan also has 814 km of coastline from the Arabian Sea located along the southern boarder between Iran and India. The evolution of Pakistan began as a result of the reorganization in 1947 of British India into two different regions‚ East and West Pakistan. The third Pakistan war in
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British military bases. A further treaty‚ signed in 1930‚ provided for a 25-year alliance with Britain. In 1932 the British mandate was terminated and Iraq entered the League of Nations as an independent state. 1936 saw the first of seven military coups over the following five years‚ providing an indication of the future role of the military in Iraqi politics. In April 1941‚ Rashid Ali al-Gailani (leader of a radical nationalist anti-British movement) seized power from the pro-British government of
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The All-Union Communist Party was dated from 1917-1991‚ the party was also from Russia. The party arose from the Bolshevik side of the RSDWP. The Bolsheviks in 1903 were led by Vladimir Lenin. In 1917 the Bolsheviks broke away from the Menshevik side of the RSDWP. In 1918 the Bolsheviks became the ruling party of Russia so they changed their name to the All-Russian Communist Party. After the founding of the U.S.S.R. in 1925 they changed their name to The All-Union Communist Party. Then finally
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Before I get into this too deep I would first like to state that the term "fundamentalist" and "fundamentalism" are not widely accepted by members of al qaeda and extremists. Instead they usually prefer the term "Islamism" and or "islamist"( Islamism refers to a set of political ideologies derived from various religious views of Muslim fundamentalists‚ which hold that Islam is not only a religion‚ but also a political system that should govern the legal‚ economic and social imperatives of the state)
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