The United States and Russia in Syria and the Emergence of ISIS

The crisis in Syria led in Fall 2013 to the diplomatic intervention of two of the most powerful nations in the world, the United States and Russia, to address the problem. This article provides insight into why they entered the scene because Arabs could not resolve the problem among themselves. The Syrian Crisis has resulted in the realignment of foreign players, the preservation of the Assad government and in ISIS. Russia was willing to protect Syria as its political ally, The US condemned nuclear non-proliferation, protected its energy sources from the Arab region and chose at that time to avoid another Iraq-type war