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Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after ...
Rebels toppled the Assad regime in Syria after a brutal 13-year civil war. Once again, the region's power dynamics have been dramatically reshaped. And there are risks and opportunities for the US ...
As of 11 December 2024, leaders of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the military forces of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, were preparing for "negotiations that would create a broader-based Syrian government that is not under al-Julani's control".
[68] [69] Although Syria is not a major oil exporter by Middle Eastern standards, oil is a major pillar of the economy. According to the International Monetary Fund , oil sales for 2010 were projected to generate $3.2 billion for the Syrian government and account for 25.1% of the state's revenue.
Syria, [d] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [e] [15] 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.
Syria blames the crisis on Western sanctions and U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters who control the country’s largest oil fields in the east near the border with Iraq.
Syria participated in the Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid in October 1991. In 2004 and 2005 Israel and Syria engaged in private talks discussing an outline peace accord. These were successful at a technical level, but failed to gain adequate political support. [295]
Law enforcement in Syria, in Syria, is carried out by the Public Security Police, which is a force for general policing duties; internal security duties are carried out by different intelligence agencies and has been subsequential replaced by a successor agency named the General Security Forces under the new Syrian transitional government.