It is bordered by the Persian Gulf and the countries Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Kuwait. ... The country is broken up into four regions, the desert in the west and southwest, the rolling upland between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the highlands in the north and southeast, and the alluvial plain through which the Tigris and Euphrates flow. The desert region is part of the Syrian Desert. ...
Not a migrant crisis, for that would imply that the Syrians fleeing their bombed out, war-torn country are doing so because they'd like a change of scenery. ... Firstly, why are so many people fleeing Syria? ... Unfortunately Islamic State decided it was a good time to launch its attack on a Syria crippled by civil war. ... As such, they gained so much territory, they were able to call themselves ISIS, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ... So next time you hear someone complain about the refugees, just imagine them running across a desert with a gang of black-attired, sharp kukri-wielding ...
In pre-Islamic times the Arabian peninsula was a desert backwater, largely ignored by the rulers of the Sasanian empire. ... Driven by religious zeal and the desire for the spoils of war, they brought Muslim rule to Syria, Egypt, and what was left of the Sasanian Empire. ... Soon after this victory, Mu"awiya, a Syrian regional governor and cousin of Uthman, began a campaign against Ali to avenge Uthman's death. ... As the Empire grew to include more urbanized, cosmopolitan parts of the middle east such as Syria and Iraq, the Arabian peninsula came to be thought of as a desert was...
The section of the East that Hitti concentrated on includes Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Arabia, and Egypt. ... I had also thought that the East was all desert, I have the image of what Aladdin in my head as to what the East should look like. ...
" During this entire period of time around the founding of the jihadist organization, ISIS worked through Syria and Northern Iraq to spread their power to as much land as possible. ... In due course, it spilled over from Syria into Iraq, and it has issued threats against the American homeland (Straus)". ...
"Before the seventh century, the desert peninsula of Arabia was unimportant to world history"(Walker324).Yet today its a major religion, only second to Christianity in number of followers. ... The first Khalifas which were close companions of the prophet, Abu Bakr followed by Umar, conquered the great empire of Persia and the byzantine provinces of Syria and Palestine. ...
Wahhabism originated long before the existence of the modern day state "Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia".5 Originating from the Saudi Arabian heartland, Wahhabism is named after an eighteenth century preacher by the name of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792).6 Wahab initiated a movement in the remote desert region of Najd, advocating the cleansing of the faith specifically new innovations that stray away from the teachings of Prophet Muhammad(pbuh).7 Wahab formed a pact with local tribal leader Muhammad bin Saud who's decedents would later come to be the royal family of m...
