While accustomed to U.S. sanctions since 1979, Syria had never been simultaneously cut off from Europe, Turkey and the Arab world, while also facing the most determined popular uprising the Arab world has yet seen.
Edelman was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, "the largest, symbolically most important Jewish uprising" against the Nazis during World War II, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Waiting in the wings are Abdel Hakim Belhaj, commander of the Tripoli Brigade, which led the uprising in the capital, and Fawzi Bukatif, who commanded troops in the east.
Some deal with the spectacular military events of the war: the Ghetto Uprising of 1943, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
Some of the Zapotecs, though, were proud of their heritage and practising autonomy long before the Zapatista uprising in the neighbouring state of Chiapas in 1994.
On January 1, 2008, fourteen years after the start of the Zapatista uprising and the signing of NAFTA, the remaining tariffs on products including corn, beans, and milk were taken down, a move that may have benefited Mexican consumers looking for inexpensive groceries, but harmed small-plot farmers in places such as Chiapas.
Scott Goodson is the author of Uprising and the founder of StrawberryFrog.
The small group that was still alive at the time took an active part in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising as the 'ZOB Group.
Head 35km down the B-road, passing Batak (the site of a famous 19th-century uprising against the Ottomans), and continue deeper into the Rhodope Mountains towards Dospot.
Alleged crimes in the region stem from a brutal counter-insurgency campaign the Sudanese government conducted after rebels began an uprising in the Darfur region of western Sudan in 2003.
All the while, the Kennedy White House was confronted with an uprising in the South as African Americans took to the streets to demand that Washington live up to its rhetoric about the importance of freedom and liberty.
And he explains the group's name comes from history, from the Decembrists, Russian revolutionaries who led an unsuccessful uprising against the czar in 1825.
The negotiations in Havana are expected to focus initially on the issue of land reform in Colombia, as it was a major reason for the uprising that brought about the establishment of the Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) in the early 1960s.
BBC: Ivan Marquez (left) and fellow Farc negotiator. File photo
The violence in Darfur erupted in 2003 after rebels began an uprising against the Sudanese government.
Qatar has been mediating talks between the two sides in the Darfur conflict, which erupted in 2003 after rebels began an uprising against the Khartoum government.
In the early anarchic years of Zaire's independence, Mr Mobutu was the army commander and Mr Kabila was a leader of a regional uprising in the east.
Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator, ruled for more than a decade following his brutal suppression of an uprising in the country's south after the first Gulf war.
Now the barons of the web are UPRISING and taking the net dark.
The most recent uprising, by the M23 rebel group, began last year in eastern DR Congo, leading to some 800, 000 people fleeing their homes.
Demonstrations took place in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities to mark the second anniversary of the 25 January uprising that unseated the former president, Hosni Mubarak.
Cairo has seen its own share of clashes in recent days with events to mark the second anniversary of the start of the 25 January uprising that unseated the former president.
He found out that his great-great-grandfather fought in an uprising in Bulgaria called the "April Uprising, " and this discovery, amongst other April-related happenings, inspired the naming of the album.
Sudan's government says they bombed towns in Darfur to put down a regional uprising by the African rebels.
His first book, Uprising exploring the phenomena of movements will be published by McGraw Hill in 2012.
Along with Kid Icarus: Uprising and the bizarre, goofy, Code of Princess, my 3DS plate is quite full.
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Named for an 18th-century anti-tax uprising on the eve of the American Revolution, the Tea Party demands lower taxes and less government spending.
Catastrophe number four is a populist uprising against the coupon-clipping class.
That's why de Gaulle needed a people's uprising in the city.
"We firmly condemn the 12 April military uprising and demand the quick return of constitutional order, return of constitutional order, " Kumba Yala, the Social Renewal Party leader, was quoted as saying.
In my new book Uprising: the secret to movement marketing, I talked with Timo Lume of the IOC about the Gold Medal Champ of All Global Movements, the Olympic games.
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