Neighboring Sunni regimes backed Sunni fighters and tribes, while Iran supported Shiite militias and the central Baghdad government.
They believe that only ill will come of the Arab Spring and predict that many countries will end up with extreme Islamist regimes backed by Saudi Arabia.
But the rage is also the result of the way too many Arab regimes, backed by America, have kept their young people without a voice or the tools to succeed in the modern world.
All the shah's horses and all the shah's men, couldn't put his regime back together again.
His film has been used as a political football by the regime back home in its struggles with the west.
A painter, she was also one of the East Germans who led the protest movement against the Communist regime back in 1989.
Will he decide that the rebels should take Damascus as well, pushing the regime and the Alawite religious group, which predominates within the regime, back toward the western coastland?
Writer gives brief history of her life before she came to the U.S.: her relationship with her father, her work in the medical corps during WWI, her arrest, under the Communist regime back in Russia, and her final departure from that country due to her dissident stance in 1929.
The Soviet Union invoked the treaty when it decided to move Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to bring the Czechoslovak regime back into the fold after it had begun lifting restraints on freedom of expression and had sought closer relations with the West.
That enraged Japan's neighbours, South Korea and China, as much as North Korea.But Japan's assertiveness very nearly came to grief by appearing not to want to give diplomacy a chance to bring the isolated regime back to the six-party talks involving America, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
