PS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Refugees Of The Syrian Civil War, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda

• School: App State
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 1200
• Professor: Curtis Ryan

Document Summary

The overall number of syrian refugees (4+ million)** Countries that have ended up with 1+ million syrian refugees each: lebanon, jordan, turkey** The arab spring: period of peaceful, pro-democracy movements in order to overthrow dictators: began in tunisia egypt libya yemen syria. Tunisia was an unlikely place for this to begin because it is such a small country. When it happened in egypt, it made a larger impact. The arab spring in libya, yemen, and syria resulted in civil wars in each of those countries. The regime and the rebels have foreign and regional support. Al-qaida: literally means the base (named after a base in the mountains in afghanistan) Al-qaida initially began fighting russia, not the u. s. (soviet invasion of afghanistan, 1980s). The u. s. backed some of the jihadist groups fighting the soviet union. After the russians withdrew from afghanistan, al-qaida jihadists went back to their countries and tried to conduct change, but they all failed.