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This is a timeline of Syrian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Syria and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Syria .
The history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria.Throughout ancient times the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic was occupied and ruled by several empires, including the Sumerians, Mitanni, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Arameans, Amorites, Persians, Greeks ...
Anti-Assad protests in Baniyas, 29 April 2011. Major unrest began on 15 March 2011, when protesters marched in Damascus and Aleppo, demanding democratic reforms and the release of political prisoners, triggered by the arrest of a teenage boy and his friends a few days earlier in the city of Daraa, for writing in graffiti, "It's your turn, doctor". [7]
Syria’s civil war is back in the spotlight after a new rebel coalition launched a surprise attack, capturing two major cities, shattering the stalemate of a war that never formally ended.. The ...
The Assad family ruled Syria for more than 50 years with an iron fist. Now that has come to an end. Bashar al-Assad became president after the death in 2000 of his father Hafez, who had ruled for ...
The modern history of Syria begins with the ... The Syrian government called the event a ... Syria was still facing a major economic crisis due to sanctions and other ...
Syria's civil war grew out of Assad's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. More than a decade later, ... and its major hostilities with Israel in Lebanon. Russia's war in Ukraine ...
This is a list of wars involving Syria since independence, including periods of the Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920), Mandatory Syrian Republic, Syrian Republic (1946–63), United Arab Republic (1958–61), Ba'athist Syria (1963–2024), and Syria (2024–present).