years: 2014
- September 24, 2023
- 8:46 pm
Author(s): Peter H. Gleick
Language: English
Abstract / Review
The devastating civil war that began in Syria in March 2011 is the result of complex interrelated factors. The focus of the conflict is regime change, but the triggers include a broad set of religious and sociopolitical factors, the erosion of the economic health of the country, a wave of
- September 24, 2023
- 7:09 pm
Author(s): Michael M. Gunter
Language: English
Abstract / Review
In mid 2012 the previously almost forgotten Syrian Kurds suddenly emerged as a potential game-changer in the country’s civil war when in an attempt to consolidate its increasingly desperate position the Assad government abruptly withdrew its troops from the major Kurdish areas in Syria. The Kurds in Syria had suddenly