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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.
Flag of the Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920) Flag of Syria under French mandate (1920-1922) Flag of the Syrian Federation, later State of Syria under French mandate (1922-1925 and 1925-1930) Flag of the Syrian Republic (1932-1958), and again from 1961 to 1963 Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958-1961) and again of the Arab Republic of Syria from 1980 to 2024 Flag of the Syrian Arab Republic 1963 ...
The location of Syria An enlargeable map of the Syrian Arab Republic. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Syria: . Syria – country in Western Asia, that borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest.
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On 30 November 2024, the Syrian Armed Forces implemented a significant military deployment to Daraa, a strategic city in southern Syria. Military leadership confirmed the deployment as part of ongoing national security operations, specifically aimed at addressing concerns related to militant organizations operating within southern Syrian ...
The following is a timeline of the Syrian civil war from November 2024. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found in casualties of the Syrian civil war.. On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian opposition groups called the Military Operations Command [1] led by Islamist Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a lightning offensive [2] against pro-government Syrian Arab Army (SAA ...
Population history of Syria. In 1200, the territories of modern-day Syria had an estimated population of 2.7 million. [12] This number sharply decreased due to the Plague epidemic in 1348–1353, which killed off an estimated third of the Levant's population. By 1937, the population reached an estimated 2,368,000, still considerably lower than ...
Southern Syria (Arabic: سوريا الجنوبية Sūriyā l-Janūbiyya) is a geographical term referring to the southern portion of either the Ottoman-period Vilayet of Syria, [1] or the modern-day Arab Republic of Syria.