Syrian Crisis

By the second decade of 21st century, Syria has become one of the centers of attention in the Middle East zone. With this book, an academic and research material, we have tried to gather and compile the publicly available material, academic sources, research papers, news and media broadcasts, and other relevant information together, as they are originally published or broadcasted, in order for the researchers, scholars and other interested parties to have a single complete reference guide. The book contains reviews, researches, news and reports on Syrian Crisis between 15 March 2011 and 31 August 2013. Around 100 thousand people (by August 2013) have died in Syria since the beginning of the uprising in March 2011. As the conflict starts to gain a character of a civil war, according to experts on the Middle Eastern region, the international community has to be very careful to handle the situation properly. It may pose a threat not only to the shaky stability in the Middle East, with extremism involved, it may likely become a serious threat to the international security. The civil uprising was still active and the U.S. and its allies were on the edge of a punitive military attack when this book was published.