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The CFR Women's Power Index states that since 1946, there have been 0 female heads of state, and that Syria's political parity score is ranked as 177th in the world. [37] The current president of Syria is a male.
Women have been involved in Syrian Kurdish Resistance fighting since as early as 2011, when the mixed-sex YXG was founded, later to be renamed YPG in 2012. [12] The YPJ was founded as a strictly women's organization on 4 April 2013 [ 12 ] with the first battalion formed in Jindires [ 13 ] and later expanded its activities towards the Kobane and ...
By 2014, the number of defecting officers had reached approximately 170,000, from different ranks. They formed the Free Syrian Army on 29 July 2011 (interview with Riad Al-Asaad - the founder and leader of the Free Syrian Army), and at the beginning of the conflict they depended on light weapons. The arming of the Free Syrian Army began in mid ...
The women went on to play a leading role in retaking the cities of Kobani and Raqqa from ISIS. They have attracted foreign fighters from Western countries, like Germany and England. And according ...
The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the culmination of years of civil war, has given way to a power vacuum with different factions protecting their own interests – and vying for power ...
How will the fall of the Assad regime reshape geopolitical dynamics worldwide?
Pakistan is the only country in the Islamic world to have women appointed in the high ranking assignments and the general officer ranks, [47] as well as performing their military duties in the hostile and combat military operations. [47] Women have been taking part in Pakistan military since 1947 after the establishment of Pakistan, currently a ...
If the American analysis proves true, it would represent a spectacularly fast fall from power for the Syrian dictator after a 14-year war, one that had been relatively stagnant until just last week.