How is Syria contributing to further instability and volatility in the Middle East? How does Syria use terrorism in formulating the country’s foreign and defense policy with particular emphasis on Israel?

SYRIA , THE MIDDLE EAST AND TERRORISM

I . Introduction

Nowadays , the Middle East is informally considered an Islamic continent because of the pervading reality that the almost land-locked global territory is made up of nations which are primarily given to the Islamic faith . In our present century , countries all over the world [ even countries within the Middle Eastern territory ] also think of the Middle East as the source and center of global terrorism . Citizens of the world fear the possibility of the actualization of a prospective reality : the complete

Arab-isation ' of the world . This is a historically descriptive and empirical data study analysis of how the particular Arab country of Syria , contributes to the further instability and volatility of the socio-political condition of the Middle East

II . Background of the Problem

PRE-HISTORIC SYRIA In Arabia , the topography of the land determined the nature of human settlements . There are the areas of solid of solid ground nearer Syria and Iraq , known as the Hamad . North of the peninsula lies the fertile crescent of Syria and Iraq , whose terrain has dictated a different pattern of culture and made the region the bridge that linked the Western world with the East . Present -day Syria lies at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea . It is bed by Lebanon and Israel on the West , Turkey on the north , Iraq on the east , and Jordan on the south Historical- geographical Syria , lying between the Mediterranean and the middle Euphrates , has often functioned as the geographical keystone in the Middle East . Not only is its location near the regional heart is enhanced by patterns of landforms , climates , and travel routes . Damascus has played roles of distinction for 3 ,500 years and still does , and Syria 's cereal belt has served as a granary for empires during many centuries . Two major corridors cross Syria : the main one south of the Turkish mountain wall and north of the desert , a second one through the Palmyra Oasis . The routes were for thousands of years - indeed , until after World War I- the major east-west passageways through the region for the movement of people and goods . Western Syria has also served as a segment of the north-south land route between Yemen and the north-eastern Mediterranean and beyond into Asia Minor

With such a location , Syria has for millennia experienced migrating peoples , armies , and political influences . Syrians have thereby at different times have been given a varied cultural texture and a challenge to their capacity for unity and even survival . Periodically Syria has served as a major power base , reaching its summit during the Damascus-centered Umayyad Empire , 661-750 CAUSES OF THE DIVISION OF GREATER SYRIA

Throughout most of its history , Syria was considered to include all of present -day Syria , Lebanon , Jordan , and Israel and parts of southern Turkey and Iraq . This area was crossed by trade and military routes between the Nile river valley and Mesopotamia , an ancient region that was centered between the lower Tigris and lower...