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Syria, [h] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [i] [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.
Map of the Middle East between North Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and Southern Asia Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) [note 1] is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Syria's refugee crisis in numbers, Amnesty International, 4 September 2015; Jay Akbar: Revealed: How the five wealthiest Gulf Nations have so far refused to take a single Syrian refugee, Daily Mail, 4 September 2015; svg source: This file was derived from: Syrian refugees in the Middle East map.svg; Author: Furfur: Permission (Reusing this file)
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.
Syria, [a] also known as Greater Syria or Syria-Palestine, [2] is a historical region located east of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia, broadly synonymous with the Levant. [3] The region boundaries have changed throughout history. However, in modern times, the term "Syria" alone is used to refer to the Syrian Arab Republic.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Middle East Countries (2018) Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan), Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, North Cyprus *, Oman, Palestine *, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria (DFNS), Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen *Not a UN member This is a list of modern conflicts ensuing in the geographic ...
In the 2000s, Aleppo was one of the fastest-growing cities in Syria and the Middle East. [234] Many villagers and inhabitants of other Syrian districts are migrating to Aleppo in an effort to find better job opportunities, a fact that always increases population pressure, with a growing demand for new residential capacity.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's President Bashar Assad will head to China later this week in his first visit to Beijing since the start of his country's 12-year conflict during which China has ...