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Urban And Rural Militia Organizations In Syria’s Less Governed Spaces

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Abstract: The decline in Bashar al-Assad’s governing authority throughout Syria since 2011 and the concomitant accretion of increasingly complex inter and intra action between and within militia organizations suggests a future of Islamist Anarchy across the Syrian space. Observers may have an interest in the qualitative patterns of militia development and interactions across Syria’s rural and urban geographies

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SyriaHezbollahIranRevolutionary GuardShi’a MilitiaSunni MilitiaIraqIslamic StateSyrian Civil War
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 6 Issue: 3
  • Page/Article: 35-61
  • DOI: 10.15664/jtr.1123
  • Submitted on 24 Apr 2015
  • Published on 29 Sep 2015
  • Peer Reviewed