• The 2004 Qamishli riots were an uprising by Syrian Kurds in the northeastern city of Qamishli in March 2004, which culminated in a massacre by the Syrian...
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  • Qamishli is a city in northeastern Syria on the Syria–Turkey border, adjoining the city of Nusaybin in Turkey. The Jaghjagh River flows through the city...
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    International No 499, 28 April 1995; Fida Nasrallah p. 20 Young, Michael. 7 February 2004. "Remembering the uprising of Feb. 6, 1984". The Daily Star. (Fisk, 609)...
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    including the Kurds rarely caused unrest with the exception of the 2004 Qamishli riots. The situation improved after the death of Hafez al-Assad and the...
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    (combined casualties 7,813) 1921 Jaffa riots – 95 killed 1929 Palestine riots – 251 killed. 1933 Palestine riots – 20 killed. Arab Revolt in Palestine...
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    for the Liberation of Palestine and the Lions' Den. Shatz, Adam (29 April 2004). "In Search of Hezbollah". The New York Review of Books. 51 (7). Archived...
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    most feared mobsters in Tehran were hired by the CIA to stage pro-shah riots on 19 August. Other men paid by the CIA were brought into Tehran in buses...
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    of its funding. A UN mission to the Israeli-occupied territories, where riots had resulted in Palestinian deaths, was vetoed by the US, making Iraq deeply...
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    I.B.Tauris, p. 140, ISBN 978-1-85043-077-3 Miller, Judith (12 November 2004). "Yasir Arafat, Palestinian Leader and Mideast Provocateur, Is Dead at 75"...
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    led to outbreaks of violence later that year, as the al-Husseini incited riots broke out in Jerusalem. Winston Churchill's 1922 White Paper tried to reassure...
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    street riots in Aden. After the Aden police lost control, British High Commissioner Sir Richard Turnbull deployed British troops to crush the riots. As soon...
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    deepened. Significant bouts violence happened during the 1920 Jerusalem Riots, as well as in 1921 and 1929. In addition to the emerging Palestinian Arab...
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    and from Ras al-Ayn to the Iraq-Syria border, but excluding the town of Qamishli, the Kurds' de facto capital. The buffer zone would be controlled jointly...
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    were arrested. Riots spread to nearby towns and in Cizre over 15,000 people, constituting about half the town's population took part in riots in which five...
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    Al-Aqsa. The first major riots against the Jewish population in Palestine were the Jaffa riots in 1921. As a result of the Jaffa riots, the Haganah was founded...
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    the PYD came under intensified persecution in the aftermath of the 2004 Qamishli riots. According to Human Rights Watch, the Syrian government saw the party...
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    The riots took the form, for the most part, of attacks by Arabs on Jews accompanied by destruction of Jewish property. During the week of riots, from...
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    21st century (section 2004)
    Maldives civil unrest Rose Revolution 2004 Venezuelan protests 2004 Qamishli riots 2004 unrest in Kosovo 2004 Dublin May Day protests Orange Revolution...
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    TV live from Qamishli in northeastern Syria Kurdish activists attempted to unify themselves following the 2004 Qamishli riots. The riots began as clashes...
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    Shia uprising in Iraq 2000s Iraq War Balochi insurgency in Iran 2004 Qamishli riots Houthi insurgency in Yemen Iran–Israel proxy conflict 2006 Lebanon...
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  • Yom Kippur War 1976 – 1982 Islamist uprising in Syria March 12, 2004 2004 Qamishli riots 6 September 2007 Operation Outside the Box 2011 – ongoing Syrian...
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    tactic of seizing soldiers from Israel as leverage for a prisoner exchange in 2004. In 2005, Syrian forces withdrew from Lebanon. In August 2006, in an article...
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    Brian McKerche, Power and Stability: British Foreign Policy, 1865–1965, 2004 p. 139 Ergün Aybars, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti tarihi I, Ege Üniversitesi Basımevi...
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    Nusaybin is the beginning of the serhildan, during the following days the riots initially widened to other cities of the province Mardin and to the neighboring...
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    continued to insult the millions of Egyptians living in poverty. The 1945 riots in Egypt and the 1946 student protests demonstrated the need for politicians...
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    killed in 2003, 23,984 killed from 2004 through 2009 (with the exceptions of May 2004 and March 2009), 652 killed in May 2004, 45 killed in March 2009, 676...
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    original on 25 June 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2012. Pollack, Kenneth M. (2004). "Iraq". Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991. Lincoln: University...
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    Shia uprising in Iraq 2000s Iraq War Balochi insurgency in Iran 2004 Qamishli riots Houthi insurgency in Yemen Iran–Israel proxy conflict 2006 Lebanon...
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    and 1,600 others were wounded. Heavy-handed police suppression of the riots were often justified by claims that the police were only putting down Egyptian...
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    Klausner, a Revisionist Maximalist activist who had played a key role in the riots of 1929, because of the likely negative consequences. † Ta'as and Rekhesh...
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