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International military intervention against the Islamic State infobox; Part of the war on terror, the Second Libyan Civil War, the War in Iraq (2013–2017), the Syrian civil war and its spillover, the Sinai insurgency, the Boko Haram insurgency, the insurgency in the North Caucasus, the Moro conflict, the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, the Qandala campaign and the Sahel War
Damascus Community School is an unlicensed American school founded by the former US secretary of state John Foster Dulles in 1957 in Damascus, Syria. [1] The school was built to promote American ideals and culture and to help steer Syria away from becoming a Soviet satellite. Since 2012, due to the situation in Syria, the school has been ...
Damascus still contains a sizeable proportion of Christians, with some churches all over the city, but particularly in the district of Bab Touma (The Gate of Thomas in Aramaic and Arabic). Masses are held every Sunday and civil servants are given Sunday mornings off to allow them to attend church, even though Sunday is a working day in Syria ...
Free Syrian Army; الجيش السوري الحر: Founding leader: Riad al-Asaad [1]: Leaders: Unified Leadership (2011–2015) . Riad al-Asaad (29 July 2011 – 8 December 2012); Salim Idris (8 December 2012 – 16 February 2014)
The Damascus Protocol was a document given to Faisal bin Hussein on 23 May 1915 by the Arab secret societies al-Fatat and al-'Ahd [1] on his second visit to Damascus during a mission to consult Turkish officials in Constantinople.
The French Delegate General Plenipotentiary for the Levant, Paul Beynet, was in an increasingly combative mood as a result of the violence and believed that in order to restore order across the country the 'Damascus abscess must be lanced'. [11] On Beynet's command, General Oliva-Roget ordered his troops to begin shelling Damascus on May 29.
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