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Women in Syria are active participants in social, economic and political factions of Syrian society. They constitute 49.9% of Syria's population. According to World Bank data from 2021, there are around 10.6 million women in Syria. [6] However, Syrian women and girls still experience challenges, especially since the outbreak of the civil war in ...
Syria, [d] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [e] [14] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.It borders 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.
Four states in the region of Syria have borne the name Syrian Republic, Republic of Syria, or Syrian Arab Republic: The flag of the First Syrian Republic, later used by the Second Syrian Republic. The Syrian transitional government also uses this, but uses a 2:3 ratio rather than a 1:2. First Syrian Republic, 1930–1950: Mandatory Syrian ...
"Education is a red line for the Syrian people, more important than food and water," Nazir Mohammad al-Qadri said in an interview from his office in Damascus. ... Syrian girls' right to schooling ...
The pictures show the expansion of refugee camps, looting of world heritage sites, people fleeing towns and Staggering satellite images show devastation Syrian civil war has had on country Skip to ...
The Syrian military defector codenamed Caesar, who smuggled out more than 53,000 haunting images showing tortured, emaciated corpses of Syrian detainees – evidence that led to landmark sanctions ...
Syrian civil war; Part of the First Arab Spring, the Arab Winter, the Second Arab Spring, the Iraqi civil war, the war against the Islamic State, the war on terror, the Kurdish–Turkish and Arab–Israeli conflicts; and the Iran–Turkey, Iran–Israel, Iran–Saudi, Qatar–Saudi and Russia–U.S. proxy wars
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 State of Aleppo, State of Damascus (later State of Syria), Alawite State and Jabal al-Druze (state); the autonomies were transformed into the Mandatory Syrian Republic in 1930. Syrian ...