Facing Factions Nearly five years of civil war in Syria has produced more than 300,000 war victims, and unleashed an exodus of Biblical proportions, with four million refugees converging on Europe and neighboring Middle Eastern countries and almost eight million displaced internally. Meanwhile, large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq have become ungovernable by the legal authorities and thus fertile terrain for terrorists such as Daesh (also known as ISIL, ISIS, IS) and al-Nusra Front (the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda), among a myriad of armed groups representing greater or lesser degrees of extremist ideologies. The world has …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
