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Syria, [g] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [h] [16] 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 ...
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 ...
On December 8, 2024, Damascus fell to Syrian rebels. As Bashar al-Assad’s regime crumbled, the dictator’s 24-year-long reign came to an ignominious end when he fled to Moscow.
By RYAN GORMAN A series of satellite images from Syria have shown the devastating toll a prolonged civil war has had on the country. The pictures show the expansion of refugee camps, looting of ...
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 ...
In 2017, the head of the Syrian Commission for Family Affairs, Mohammad Akram al-Qash, said that the Syrian population was 28 million, of which, 21 million were living in Syria and that 7 million were refugees. [19] In 2018, the population was estimated to be 19,454,263 people. [11]
A viral image shared on X claims to show Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arriving in Damascus following a visit to Russia. Verdict: False The claim is false, as the image shows al-Assad visiting ...