The Syrian Revolutionaries Front (جبهة ثوار سوريا, Jabhat Thowar Suriya, SRF, also translated Syrian Rebel Front) is, according to Lebanon&#;s Daily Star, an alliance of relatively moderate Islamist and some secular armed groups fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, formed in December , thus according to Arutz Sheva further sidelining the FSA and its leadership Supreme Military Council.

Zelimkhan Abdulmuslimovich Yandarbiyev (Яндарбин Абдулмуслиман-кIант Зелимхан Yandarbin Abdulmusliman-khant Zelimxan, Зелимхан Абдулмуслимович Яндарбиев, also spelled Yandarbiev) (September , – February , ) was a Chechen writer and a politician, who served as acting president of the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria between and .

was a turning point in political history because a wave of revolutions swept the Eastern Bloc in Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power sharing, coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, embracing the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December, and ending in December with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,, is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lack "the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the four Geneva Conventions signed in ." Specifically, the ruling says that Common Article of the Geneva Conventions was violated.