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Following the onset of the Northwestern Syria offensive, Syrian rebel forces in the south of the nation released a public announcement attributed to the "Revolutionaries and Free Men of the Eastern Region of Hauran", declaring plans to coordinate military activities with northern opposition groups.
This is a list of wars involving Syria since independence, including periods of the Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920), Mandatory Syrian Republic (1930–1946), Second Syrian Republic (1946–1958, 1961–1963), United Arab Republic (1958–1961), Ba'athist Syria (1963–2024), and Syria (2024–present).
Syria, [g] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [h] [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.
The Islamic Resistance of Iraq has claimed responsibility for multiple drone strikes on US bases in eastern Syria, notably al-Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate and al-Shaddadi in the Al-Hasakah Governorate on 24 October 2023, [49] Tal Baidar base in November 2023, [50] and Hemo base in northern Hasakah province on 10 January 2024. As a ...
17 September – At least seven people are killed in Syria during simultaneous explosions of pagers used primarily by Hezbollah members in Syria and Lebanon. [40] 22 September – Three children are killed and a fourth child from the same family is injured, when a land mine in a plastic bag explodes near a park in Manbij, Aleppo Governorate. [41]
[29] [30] [31] Iran and Syria are close strategic allies, as Iran sees the survival of the Assad government as being crucial to its regional interests. [31] [32] Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was reported to be vocally in favor of the Baathist government. [30] By December 2013, Iran was thought to have approximately 10,000 operatives in ...
Syria has been a diplomatic ally to Serbia on the Kosovo question. On 13 May 2009, Syria's ambassador to Serbia, Majed Shadoud, reported that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad told Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić that his country continues to oppose the recognition of the independence of Kosovo. [348]
24 August 2021 – 29 October 2023: Head for Covid-19 Response 8 April 2021 – present: Vice Chairman of the National Defense and Security Council 4 February 2016 – 31 January 2021: Member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party's Central Committee