Interventions in Iraq
Reasons
After Effects
Removal
Saddam Hussain
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Protection
The UK and US uses Human Rights Violations as a reason in the 15 months leading up to the invasion
Terror groups like Al Quaeda were present in Iraq
Flaws
Successes
In 2005 there was the first free democratic election in 50 years
A 2015 report by the human rights watch said that there were still violations of human rights towards the minority Sunni civilian’s by Shia forces
In 2015 Iraq was placed 161st out of 168 on the corruption scale
the life expectancy in 2019 was 70.6 which increased from 58.8 in 2000
As a result of the invasion ISI formed who would later become ISIS
3.2 million school aged children out of education
Salah al-Din and Diyala, where more than 90% of school-age children are left out of the education system
Almost half of all school-age displaced children, approximately 355,000 children are not in school
Oil output has increased from 2.8 to 3.6 million barrels a day
Before the war households received 16-24 hours of electricity a day this is now an average of 8 hours a day
syrian Civil War
After Effects
Events
Economic
Social
The Syrian GDP decreased from 2,032.62 USD in 2007 to 2,032.62 USD in 2007.
Education
UNICEF has a goal to educate 500,000 children in Syria
55% has been met
In neighbouring countries over half a million syrian refugee children have been educated.
6,000,000 Children in need of education.
0.5% of children have been supported with books and other classroom materials.
Life Expectancy
decreased by 0.4 years between 1990 and 2015.
hundred dead and millions wounded
72.7 years in 2019
Gender Equality
In 1973 Syria passed a law stating no equal rights for men and women
33rd on the gender inequality index
13% of parliamentary seats held by women
35% of adult women having received secondary level education.
Players
ISIS
Kurds
President Assad
Rebel Forces
The Free Syrian Army
In 2011 Syrian Forces defect to join the Free Syrian Army
Chemical Weapons use
August 2015 turkey bombs Kurds in Turkey and Syria
Turkey
Russia
NATO
August 2013 use of chemical weapons that killed more than 1,400 people
Spring 2017 Assad uses chemical weapons killing 80 people
Military Intervention
April 7, 2017, US forces fire a barrage of cruise missiles at Syria’s Shayrat airbase
The War On Terror
September 23, 2014, the US and Arab allies launch air raids in Syria against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) group
Washington deploys 2,000 soldiers, mostly special forces.
January 16, 2019, a suicide attack claimed by ISIL kills four US servicemen and 15 others at a restaurant in Syria’s northern city of Manbij.
April 14, 2018, the US – with the support of France and the UK – launches new retaliatory attacks after an alleged government chemical attack on the then rebel-held town of Douma, in which some 40 people were killed.
October 7th 2019 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirms that Turkish action against Kurdish fighters in Syria is imminent.
Trump says he will “obliterate” Turkey’s economy if Ankara does anything he considers “off-limits” in Syria.
Russian Intervention
Abuses of Human rights
To remove terror organisations from Syria but also to curb the influence of the US in the region
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and the Violations Documentation Centre (VDC) put the number higher, at over 2,000; SNHR's report stated that Russian attacks have killed more civilians than either the Islamic State or the Syrian Army. Weapons used included unguided bombs, cluster bombs, incendiaries similar to white phosphorus and thermobaric weapons
The UK-based pro-opposition] Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stated that between the initiation of the intervention in September 2015 and end of February 2016, Russian air strikes killed at least 1,700 civilians, including more than 200 children
By the end of September 2017, the SOHR stated that Russian airstrikes killed around 5,703 civilians, about a quarter of them children, along with 4,258 ISIL fighters and 3,893 militants from the al-Nusra Front and other rebel forces
Hezbollah