Basis of international intervention to fight terrorism in Iraq and Syria from a Western point of view: a critical study

Abstract EN

During 2014, the upsurge of terrorism in Iraq and Syria posed a threat to the very survival of the Iraqi state.

at the behest of the Iraqi authorities, France intervened militarily in Iraq by the beginning of September 2014.

in the meantime, other states, such as the united states, followed suit in Iraq.

USA also intervened in Syria, though this country hadn’t requested this option.

the intervention in Syria started from September 2015, on the basis of collective self-defense of Iraq.

following the failed attacks in Paris on November 13 TH, 2015, which were considered as an aggressive act, France also invoked the right of individual self-defense as a pretext to intervene in Syria.

on April 14, 2018, France and its British and American allies carried out airstrikes on military targets in Syria, claiming that the latter had used chemical weapons in Douma city, without providing proof.