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Syria. سوريا. Syria, [a] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [b] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by 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 is located in West Asia, north of the Arabian Peninsula, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Lebanon and Israel to the west and southwest, Iraq to the east, and Jordan to the south. It consists of mountain ranges in the west and a steep area inland. In the east is the Syrian Desert and in ...
Syria (region) Syria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: 𔒂𔒠 Sura/i; Greek: Συρία; Classical Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ; Arabic: ٱلشَّام, romanized: Ash-Shām) is a historical region located east of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia, broadly synonymous with the Levant. [3] Other synonyms are Greater Syria or Syria-Palestine. [2]
The history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the present Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria.Throughout ancient times the territory of present Syrian Arab Republic was occupied and ruled by several empires, including the Sumerians, Mitanni, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Arameans, Amorites ...
The Islamic State (IS) had its core in Iraq and Syria from 2013 to 2017 and 2019 respectively, where the proto-state controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory, mainly in the Mesopotamian region. [14] Today the group controls scattered pockets of land in the area, as well as territory or insurgent cells [14][16] in ...
The modern history of Syria begins with the termination of Ottoman control of Syria by French forces and the establishment of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration during World War I. 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 ...
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors. In March 2011, popular discontent with the rule of Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region.
The Islamic State(IS),[b]also known asthe Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant(ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS) and by their Arabicacronym Daesh,[c]are a transnational Salafi jihadistgroup. Their origins were in the Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurahorganization founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadiin 2004.