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Born in 1947 in Thái Bình a province in northern Vietnam, Hương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when she was a student at Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Arts College, Dương Thu Hương volunteered to serve in a women’s youth brigade on the front lines of "The War Against the Americans".
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.
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 ...
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).
The following day, opposition forces swiftly advanced, taking control of numerous towns and villages while pro-government troops fell apart. They then pushed toward Hama in central Syria, ultimately capturing it on 5 December. [12] [13] By 6 December, the SDF had captured Deir ez-Zor in an offensive east of the Euphrates.
Renewed the authorisation for cross-border aid delivery in Syria until 10 January 2018. 2336: 31 December 2016 Unanimous Calls on all the parties to allow humanitarian agencies rapid, safe and unhindered access throughout Syria. 2401: 24 February 2018 Unanimous Calls for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria for 30 days starting from 24 February 2018 ...
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 ...