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    Syria, [a] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [b] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. Cyprus lies to the west across the Mediterranean ...

    • Syrian Civil War

      e. The Syrian civil war ( Arabic: ٱلْحَرْبُ ٱلْأَهْلِيَّةُ...

    • Christianity in Syria

      Christians in Syria made up about 10% of the pre-war Syrian...

    • Damascus

      Damascus (/ d ə ˈ m æ s k ə s / də-MASK-əs, UK also / d ə ˈ...

    • Syria (Disambiguation)

      Geography and history. Syria (region) refers to a wider...

    • Syrian Turkmen

      The Zengid ruler Nur al-Din unified Syria after he took...

  2. The history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the present Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria.Throughout ancient times the territory of present Syrian Arab Republic was occupied and ruled by several empires, including the Sumerians, Mitanni, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Arameans, Amorites ...

  3. 4 days ago · Syria. After Syria gained its independence in 1946, political life in the country was highly unstable, owing in large measure to intense friction between the country’s social, religious, and political groups. In 1970 Syria came under the authoritarian rule of Pres. Hafez al-Assad, whose foremost goals included achieving national security and ...

  4. e. The Syrian civil war ( Arabic: ٱلْحَرْبُ ٱلْأَهْلِيَّةُ ٱلسُّورِيَّةُ, romanized : al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah al-sūrīyah) is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors. In March 2011, popular discontent with the rule of Bashar al-Assad triggered large ...

    • 15 March 2011 – present, (12 years and 7 months)
  5. The modern history of Syria begins with the termination of Ottoman control of Syria by French forces and the establishment of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration during World War I. The short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria emerged in 1920, which was however soon committed under the French Mandate, which produced the short-lived autonomous ...

  6. Demographics of Syria. Syria 's estimated pre– Syrian Civil War 2011 population was 22 ±.5 [1] million permanent inhabitants, which included 21,124,000 Syrians, [2] as well as 1.3 million Iraqi refugees [3] and over 500,000 Palestinian refugees. [3] The war makes an accurate count of the Syrian population difficult, as the numbers of Syrian ...

  7. Syria is a country in the Middle East, the west part of Asia. It borders (from south to north) on Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey. Its western part faces the Mediterranean Sea and it shares a maritime border with Cyprus. Its eastern and northern parts are mountainous .

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