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Syria had been on Reporters Without Borders' Enemy of the Internet list since 2006 when the list was established. [11] In 2009, the committee to Protect Journalists named Syria number three in a list of the ten worst countries in which to be a blogger, given the arrests, harassment, and restrictions which online writers in Syria faced. [12]
DeviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California. [1] DeviantArt had about 36 million visitors annually by 2008. [2] In 2010, DeviantArt users were submitting about 1.4 million favorites and about 1.5 million comments daily. [3] In 2011, it was the thirteenth largest social network with about 3.8 million weekly ...
History of mass media in Syria (1 C) This page was last edited on 18 January 2025, at 10:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
[12]: 37 On 1 September 1920, General Gouraud divided the French mandate territory of Syria into several smaller states as part of a French scheme to make Syria easier to control. The Kingdom, through its short and tumultuous existence, would become a subject of great inspiration to later Arab liberation movements.
1948 Arab–Israeli War: Syria was involved in the war. 1958: 1 February: The United Arab Republic (UAR) was formed by the union of Syria and Egypt. 1961: 28 September: Following a military coup Syria seceded from the UAR, reestablishing itself as the Syrian Arab Republic. 1967: 5 June: Six-Day War: A war with Israel began.
From 2006 to 2010, Syria experienced its worst drought in modern history. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The drought resulted in a mass migration from the Syrian countryside into urban centers, which notably strained existing infrastructure already burdened by the influx of some 1.5 million refugees from Iraq. [ 13 ]
See also the Atlas of Syria at the Wikimedia commons. It is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps of Syria . Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Syria .
Ba'athist Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), [a] was the Syrian state between 1963 and 2024 under the one-party rule of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. From 1971 until 2024, it was ruled by the Assad family, and was therefore commonly referred to as the Assad regime.