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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Western countries, including US allies in Western Asia, intervened militarily to defeat ISIS (Watson Institute For International and Public Affairs , 2018). The impulsive outbreak quickly accelerated the Syrian Civil War,

      how did western involvement accelerate the civil war

    2. The crisis in Syria commenced more than a decade ago, triggered by a wave of popular uprisings that spread across the Arab world, commonly referred to as the Arab Spring. Pro-democracy supporters sought an end to Bashar al-Assad’s regime’s authoritarian practises in March 2011, creating an unprecedented challenge to his rule. To put down protests, the Syrian government employed paramilitary, military, and police forces.

      direct cause of syrian refugee crisis

    3. It places unfair stresses on countries like Greece and Italy that are located near the EU’s

      boarder countries bare more weight so may be more picky with imagration

  2. Feb 2026
    1. cultural elite (writers, intellectuals, artists), sometimes it is an economic elite (big business, ‘the rich’), sometimes it is a media elite (journalists), but most often the accusations are directed at a political elite

      the definition of who is elite radically changes the problematic potential.