Month: October 2015

Daesh Not ISIS

As some readers may have noticed, I have started to use the term Daesh instead of ISIS to refer to the new terror group that has risen in Syria throughout the past couple of years. To some it may be something insignificant, but after deep contemplation about the topic I have realized that calling them […]

USA Troops in Syria

On Friday October 30, 2015, President Barak Obama decided to deploy a few dozen toops into Syria to fight Daesh, ISIS. These 50 or less troops will be posted in Northern Syria to train, advise, and assist local rebel groups in the fight against Daesh. John Earnest, The White House spokesman, told reporters that the […]

Syrian Elections

Within the past couple of weeks Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry sat down and discussed the ways of organizing a political process between the Syrian government and its opponents. The goal of this sit down meeting was to try to solve the long lasting Syrian Revolutionary War through […]

Iran in Syria

Last week Tehran’s state media reported that one of the former bodyguards of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ha been killed in the Syrian city of Allepo. This bodyguard, Abdollah Baqeri Niyaraki, was also one of the members of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. The reason for his being in Syria was to serve as a […]

How to defeat ISIS

About a week ago I read an article on CNN written by Peter Bergen. The article talked about how the war between ISIS and Obama has been called a stalemate. It then follows by talking about how to defeat ISIS. Of course this whole article is subjective, but it still has many points within it that have much potential to defeat ISIS if done all […]

Refugee Numbers

I would like to take a step back and look at the total amount of refugees that have left Syria in the past years throughout the whole revolutionary war. Many people really do not realize how many people have left the war stricken county. It may seem insignificant because Syria is a small Arab country in the […]

Britain Bishops on Syria

Earlier this week I was scouring the internet reading article by article about Syria and just the world in general. It seems kind of weird, but at least you gain some knowledge about what is currently going on around the world and is better than wasting time watching TV. I was on Yahoo news at the time and […]

Muslim Reactions

Throughout the past couple weeks, Russia began its airstrike campaign on ISIS in Syria. Many different Muslims in Russia have been expressing their opinions against any intervening in Syria. RFERL.org surveyed people outside of the newly built mosque in Moscow and received many different opinions on the situation. Akhmad Bragimov, 79 was one of the […]

Russian Airstrikes

In the past couple of weeks, Russia began its airstrike campaign on ISIS in Syria. The only problem with all of this is that the first strike was on a group of innocent parents and children. The location of some of the airstrikes is Hama Syria, where a group of FSA (Free Syrian Army) forces are […]